Zedstrian
Moved over from Reddit after the API debacle. Primary account history:
@Zedstrian@kbin.social (2023) @Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com (2023–26) @Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz (2026–)
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- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztopolitics @lemmy.world•Lindsey Graham’s sister to finish his Senate termEnglish16·1 day ago
“Today, under the law, it’s my duty to — and honor — to name someone to serve in the place of this irresistible man, this irreplaceable man, this extraordinary man for the remainder of his term,” McMaster said at his announcement.
It’s pretty easy to resist Lindsey Graham.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztoGames@lemmy.world•Magical Girl ER is a Japanese horror medical sim where you triage and treat magical girls injured in kaiju attacksEnglish10·1 day ago
Clearly Ubisoft is missing an opportunity to do an LLM-powered Chessmaster remake. /s
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztopolitics @lemmy.world•Blocking a closed Strait but claiming it's open - for 20% extortion fee.English31·1 day ago
Better to link to the original source than a news portal like MSN.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Parental controls on Stremio?English3·2 days ago
While the Stremio app doesn’t have a settings lock feature, if you’re using Android, per this Reddit thread you can at least disable access to community add-ons by switching the device type in the Stremio settings to FireOS.
Per this page on the Stremio GitHub, apparently the default Stremio content search plugin, Cinemeta, is configurable from the web client to restrict what appears in searches based on age ratings. As the other comment pointed out, they seem to restrict the option to paid users, so as an alternative per this documentation, AIOMetadata is a third-party alternative to Cinemeta with its own parental control feature. The associated AIOStreams plugin apparently also incorporates parental control functionality.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•What happens when plugin websites like Torrentio disappear?English7·2 days ago
Per this Reddit thread, indexing services like Torrentio cost money to run and will stop functioning if their servers go down. Thankfully there are alternatives to Torrentio—such as the free Jackettio plugin and the paid Debridio plugin—to ensure continued functionality should anything happen to Torrentio.
Torrentio already becomes unstable under heavy load, so I would recommend using another service in conjunction with it as a backup.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztopolitics @lemmy.world•Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’English4·2 days ago
Fritz Hollings, a conservative Democrat (and therefore not far off from being a Republican), was a senator of South Carolina until 2005.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztopolitics @lemmy.world•Gay Republican Sues Members of His Own Party Over Homophobic SlursEnglish23·4 days ago
This just isn’t the Wyoming I knew or thought I knew. The state needs to come to terms with the hate and ignorance that’s fueled death threats and violence against me, all because of my sexuality.
The Republican Party is filled with homophobia; any gay person who can’t see that is kidding themselves.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztopolitics @lemmy.world•One student enrolled in WVU Washington Center after GOP lawmakers mandate creation of program • West Virginia WatchEnglish1·5 days ago
West Virginia is already filled to the brim with xenophobic fascists; there’s no need for the state to waste money it doesn’t have indoctrinating students who deserve a real education.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztopolitics @lemmy.world•Idaho mother who claimed her toddler twins died after being vaccinated now faces murder chargesEnglish9·7 days ago
It frustrates me whenever a YouTube channel takes a sponsorship from Ground News, because they treat ideological bias as something that’s evenly balanced and equally problematic from both sides, when in reality the overton window of what counts as left-wing keeps getting dragged further and further to the right with the resurgence of fascism around the world.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztoGames@lemmy.world•A chart of how Xbox Games Studios became the largest publisher in the gaming space.English2·8 days ago
All the money being poured into Star Citizen makes me wish Microsoft realized the demand for games in the genre and gave Freelancer a proper AAA remaster (and sequel if successful), but the fan-made Freelancer HD Edition does at least modernize the game somewhat.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztoGames@lemmy.world•A chart of how Xbox Games Studios became the largest publisher in the gaming space.English2·8 days ago
It’s missing Digital Anvil, the developer of the space trading game Freelancer.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztopolitics @lemmy.world•Democrats vow to investigate Trump's America 250 bash | Fox News VideoEnglish8·8 days ago
Here’s a proper article discussing the accusation against Trump; Fox News of course flips things around and accuses the Democrats of trying to politicize the event.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.world•Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrested over alleged ties to infamous extortion groupEnglish72·9 days ago
Of course, this raises questions over just how granular and potentially invasive Microsoft’s telemetry can be. In this case, it was used to arrest an alleged hacker, but what if someone else, someone with malign intentions, were to get access to all this data instead?
Microsoft already has access to it.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztoGames@lemmy.world•Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective.English4·9 days ago
They will still become worthless once Nintendo shuts down the Switch 2 servers, making piracy the only viable form of game preservation at that point beyond whichever means Nintendo will have to get people to buy the games a second time on a new platform.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztoGames@lemmy.world•Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective.English121·9 days ago
The $60 → $70 price increase was just Nintendo being greedy, so the metaphorical “carrot” in this context is raising the price of physical copies to $80 to make the digital price seem like a good deal in comparison (diminishing physical sales further as an excuse to get rid of them entirely), while the “stick” is the game key cards that take any meaning away from owning physical media in the first place.
In any case, disagreement is no reason to insult the intelligence of other users.
- Zedstrian@sopuli.xyztoGames@lemmy.world•Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective.English29·9 days ago
They could have used the carrot, but pure greed means they’re now opting for the stick.
By raising the prices for all their games, raising them again for physical copies, and allowing the use of game key cards, Nintendo decided the carrot or stick alone just wasn’t profitable enough, and thus chose both.
It’s still the only place in the entire state without fascists in charge.