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ono,

I’ve also noticed fewer corporate apologists and shills here than on reddit. Let’s hope it lasts.

ono,

Maybe they’re frustrated by Geralt’s controls.

ono,

I started replacing my food storage containers with glass a few years ago. It’s not only safer, but also nicer looking and easier to clean.

I didn’t want my old plastic to go in the waste stream, so I use it for overflow dry goods, hardware storage, and household cleaning tasks.

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Yes, glass and stainless steel containers with air-tight lids exist. Some use a silicone or natural rubber gasket for the seal.

If you can’t find those, canning jars (Ball, Mason, etc.) have been around for ages, and you can always wash and reuse empty jars that once held food from the market. You can avoid food contact with the lid coating by keeping the jar upright.

When I need a microwave-safe lid, I find that a damp paper towel or upside down plate works well.

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replacements for my dobie scrubber

Non-abrasive scouring pads made of coconut or agave fiber are becoming more common. They look like Scotch-Brite pads, but are brown/beige instead of green/yellow. (Note that plastic lookalikes exist, so it’s worth checking the label.)

microfiber dusting cloths

I find that a slightly damp cotton washcloth picks up dust pretty well. If you have lots of dust, it’s easy enough to rinse, wring, and repeat.

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Pro tip for stainless steel: Bar Keepers Friend is an inexpensive, mildly acidic cleanser that makes short work of even the toughest cooked oils stuck to pans. Just be sure to wash & rinse afterward, so residue doesn’t end up in your food.

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Sadly true. I’ve been known to warm those meals up just enough to transfer them to a plate or bowl, and then finish their heating. It doesn’t undo the plastic contact that happened when the food was prepared and packaged, nor does it help the with plastic waste problem, but it’s better than nothing. Meanwhile, I look for frozens that come in paper fiber trays instead of plastic.

When I find a packaged food that I like enough to buy again, I’ll sometimes email the company to let them know I would buy more if they replaced their packaging with something less toxic. My voice alone won’t make much difference, but if they hear it from multiple customers, perhaps they’ll put it on their roadmap. (This seems like a marketing opportunity, especially now that microplastics and other forever chemicals are getting attention in the news.)

Also, there’s always the option of cooking/buying a big batch of food and freezing it in single-serving glass/stainless containers. No plastic at all this way, and the food is often better. :)

ono,

Ok… but what about the plastic in the microwave that’s part of the microwave?

I think a glass and steel microwave oven could look pretty damn cool, but until we have those, I simply try not to cook my food on the microwave’s surfaces. :)

ono,

Do you ever buy things that come in glass jars, like pasta sauce or jam?

Do you have a thrift shop nearby?

ono,

Slow and steady wins the race. :)

ono, (edited )

This is a good question, already covered in the other comments.

I will add here that exploding food has been much less common since I figured out how to choose a reduced power level on my microwave. (But I still cover the food anyway.)

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Compact: Fido jar, wide mouth Ball/Mason/canning jar, emptied sauce jar.

Large: Saucepan, dutch oven, stock pot. (These are cheap at thrift shops.)

Stackable: Mixing bowls with bamboo lids, steel lunch containers with clamp-on steel lids.

In a pinch: Any bowl with a plate on top.

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Other than making the web tedious to use, my biggest CAPTCHA complaint is that it puts the main providers in a position to monitor everyone’s web use. The blog post doesn’t address that, but it does say this:

No third-party services

Perhaps they mean it’s self-hosted? That would be very welcome. It might require open source code to catch on, since many site owners are uncomfortable running mystery code on our servers. That would be very welcome, too.

Here’s hoping it’s good.

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The Node package manager is used in some web applications and has a very trusting distribution model, but it’s not particularly relevant to what I wrote (red herring fallacy), and GP’s phrasing alone is enough to identify them as a heckler. Please don’t feed the trolls.

ono,

I hope we’ll see more of this as USB type C DisplayPort Alt Mode catches on.

ono,

This one is excellent: freemyip.com

ono,

Their native group VoIP calling looks to have a solid topology that could easily replace Jitsi in the near term, and eventually compete with larger scale conferencing services like Zoom. That’s kind of exciting for those of us who care about open systems and privacy.

ono,

Electronic Frontier Foundation response:

eff.org/…/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-…

ono,

I felt the same when the current-gen CPUs were announced, but when I looked closer at AMD’s chips, I learned that they come with controls for greatly reducing the power use with very little performance loss. Some people even report a performance gain from using these controls, because their custom power limits avoid thermal throttling.

It seems like the extreme heat and power draw shown in the marketing materials are more like competitive grandstanding than a requirement, and those same chips can instead be tuned for pretty good efficiency.

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You should surrender your rights because…

  • Communism
  • Terrorism
  • Child Abuse <– You Are Here

Indeed, mass media influence toward giving up your rights is very common, especially in democracies. (Ironically, these are often the same rights that are necessary for a healthy democracy.) It has been going on since long before I was born. See also: propaganda, engineering of consent.

ono,

Not to worry. I think this qualifies as a “cold day in Hell” situation.

ono,

I wonder if Thursday’s patch will help with any of that.

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Did owners of the unfinished edition have to pay more for the Definitive Edition?

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They don’t need to backdoor end-to-end encryption when they can instead snoop at the endpoints (e.g. the apps).

Governments can force service providers to either do that or no longer operate in their jurisdiction.

This won’t stop especially knowledgeable people (including criminals) from using encrypted comms, but it will make it much harder to access for everyone else, thereby robbing the general population of an essential safety tool, among other things. It’s terrible for democracy and dangerous to vulnerable populations. The article is worth reading.

whats your unconcious sign that you really really like the game you are playing

So i just noticed that when i really like the game at some point i will at once play the game and watch the stream/youtube wideo of the game( usualy speedrun or aome hardcore challenge). I noticed it recently with anno 1800 but now that i think about it i did that with tales of arise, eu4 ,kings bounty,total war,hades and...

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Avoiding main quest line advancements in order to make the game last as long as possible.

After overcoming a challenge, reverting my progress so I can try it another way, and then another.

Getting through real-life tasks as quickly as possible because I want to get back to the game.

Contemplating game characters and their motivations when I’m supposed to be trying to sleep.

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It doesn’t surprise me at all that people have become less willing to contribute to wikis, now that the likes of Fandom/Wikia and Fextralife are the dominant wiki hosts. Who wants to give away their free labour and time to profit corporations, and have their work mired in cesspools of obnoxious advertising, awkward javascript interfaces, and web tracking?

I think what we need are independent wiki hosts. For example, have a look at bg3.wiki

ono, (edited )

Perhaps there’s an opportunity here for a nonprofit organization, accepting donations like wikimedia does, to offer hosting to gaming communities?

Edit:

This would not only benefit gamers directly, but also help with cultural preservation, which is increasingly problematic as games disappear from store fronts.

Also, a wiki run by a funded organization is less likely to vanish than one operated by a single person, whose circumstances might change.

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I expect you mean terraria.wiki.gg, rather than terraria.fandom.com (which was the first result in my web search). I don’t love the fact that it has a google tracker, but otherwise, it looks nice.

Looks like Pokémon also has an independent (but not tracker-free) wiki: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net

ono,

I wonder if this could be mitigated (or even nullified) by a cooperative game developer, through DMCA takedown notices sent to Fandom. There is a lot of art on these wikis, after all, and I imagine the copyright holder has some say in who is allowed to distribute it.

ono,

I like this idea in principle, but in practice, I suspect the same companies that often abandon games (and even whole platforms) would also discontinue their wikis. I would like information about the games I buy today to still be around when I play them again in ten or twenty years.

ono,

Blep.

ono,

The point of CSAM scanners is not to protect children, but to circumvent due process by expanding warrantless surveillance. That is antithetical to FOSS.

So, in a word, no.

ono,

openwrt.org/supported_devices

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Most of us over at !baldurs_gate_3 seem to agree that the author is either trolling or picked the wrong dump stat for an aspiring game critic.

I wrote a more detailed response over there.

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Is it? If your phone’s OS comes from Apple or Google, it kind of reinforces what he’s talking about.

Or it could just be a bug in Piped. :) I’ve replaced the link and added a plain mp4 audio file.

ono,

I’m glad to see Yahtzee is still doing actual critical reviews. There’s a shortage of that these days.

ono,

I look forward to the incoming crop of games made with Godot.

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Is it just me or is it really fuckin’ easy to not connect your TV to the internet?

I prefer not to reward corporations by buying equipment with built-in spyware.

(Also, “easy to not connect” depends on whether the TV nags you, or disables features, or uses any open wi-fi it finds, or includes a cellular or mesh modem.)

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You’re just giving the same companies even more money when you buy their much more expensive “dumb” digital signage products.

No, I am not.

(And even if I was, it wouldn’t boost the sales numbers of spyware products, encouraging more of the same.)

Nobody’s been able to show me

If you don’t want to believe it’s a problem, I don’t expect anyone wants to waste their time trying to change your mind.

(Jay did report seeing examples in the wild, though.)

ono,

So telling people any TV they buy at Costco does this is just spreading FUD.

Nobody has said that.

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