Refurbished Refurbisher

No, this is Patrick.

They gotta see that line go up somehow.

Goddamn. I’ll have to try it out. The story is by far the most important part of any JRPG for me, though.

This is the real shit right here. The problem is that social media companies’ data show that negativity and hate keep people on their website for longer, which means that they view more advertisement compared to positivity.

It is human nature to engage with disagreeable topics moreso than agreeable topics, and social media companies are exploiting that for profit.

We need to regulate algorithms and force them to be open source, so that anybody can audit them. They will try to hide behind “AI” and “trade secret” excuses, but lawmakers have to see above that bullshit.

Unfortunately, US lawmakers are both stupid and corrupt, so it’s unlikely that we’ll see proper change, and more likely that we’ll see shit like “banning all social media from foreign adversaries” when the US-based social media companies are largely the cause of all these problems. I’m sure the US intelligence agencies don’t want them to change either, since those companies provide large swaths of personal data to them.

This is one of the most obvious potential cases of purposeful sabatoge. They were probably bribed by other big businesses to destroy their reputation so people would stop using the site.

There’s nothing businesses hate more than their workers having negotiating power, and wage transparency gives them more power than they had before. There’s a reason why it’s considered “rude” in the US to discuss wages with co-workers; I always make a point to discuss my wage with all of my co-workers, since it’s illegal for businesses to prevent that discussion.

In most other countries, it’s the norm to openly discuss your wages; unions are also more common in other countries. It’s just standard toxic workplace cultures trying to prevent people from getting paid what they’re worth, or god forbid, forming a union.

Block all politics communities.

OMORI is incredible. The gameplay is okay (typical JRPG stuff), the music is okay (I’ve heard better in other games), but the storytelling is some of the best in all of video games, up there with Silent Hill 2 and 3.

The Binding of Isaac is an incredibly addicting game. It’s basically rougelike 2D Zelda dungeons, and upgrades stack on top of each other. It’s the game that I have the most hours in on Steam (specifically the much better-programmed remake, Rebirth). The DLC is great as well, adding a ton of content. Its replayability is damn near unmatched.

Super Meat Boy is just a really fun, fast paced 2D platformer, that is challenging, but fair. The controls are some of the best of any 2D platformer out there, beating out both Super Mario World and Yoshi’s Island IMO.

Tied with Chrono Trigger? That’s some insanely high praise. Why do you say that, exactly? I’ve never played Chained Echoes, so just curious. Chrono Trigger is my favorite game of all time.

I only played the first one, and it just dodn’t have as much of an impact on me as I was hoping for. OMORI on the other hand…

Because once we start doing socialism for kids, people will start asking for socialism for everyone, and the ultra rich wants to keep that under control.

You can use adb to do it. First, install a third party launcher, then run these commands after connecting to adb over network or USB:

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.tvrecommendations

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.tvlauncher

If you run these commands before installing a third party launcher, you will just get a black screen, and will have to install the launcher over adb.

You can also uninstall other bloatware using the same command, but replacing the package name with whatever you want. If it breaks something, or if you just want the package installed again, you can re-enable it with adb shell cmd package install-existing com.name.of.package

I’d recommend LeanbackOnFire for a third party launcher.

“Enshitification”

The singular version of James is Jame.

Why should I believe you? You’re HITLER!

South Park had a great episode about this.

No. Chop Suey was invented when someone grabbed a brush and put a little makeup.

Vivaldi is a proprietary rebranding of Chromium. Can’t say I’d recommend it over (or in addition to) Firefox.

We need less forks of Chromium. Any one company (Google in this case) having total control over browser engines is dangerous, and is a big reason why the whole Apple/Safari/Webkit situation is such a big deal to begin with.