The dangerous thing with speech is the ability to radicalize people. I mostly agree with your comment but it's a more complex topic than "until you don't do something bad you're fine".

Nope, it also recommends streams based on what other people watch from the channels you're following, it's not only based on your viewing data. Other aggregates like generally what's popular might get thrown into the mix as well.

To test this create a fresh account, follow Asmongold & let his streams run for a while, after some time the recommendations are going to be full of booby streams.

It's kind of a running joke at this point that if you watch him you're going to get booby stream recommendations because his viewers are degens.

Except if you're an employer in a very small company.

Source: my boss did this at the first company I worked at.

I've learned excel in middle and high school in my native language, I absolutely fucking hate the translations... excel-translator.de coming in clutch.

The answer to your question is the indie market. Lots of unique ideas, ton of games that are a product of passion and not profit chasing.

My personal recommendation because I don't see it mentioned a lot is Pathologic 2. Product of decades of work and one of my favorite RPGs where every single choice you make does matter. It's a pretty bleak and heavy game that has about a 30 hour runtime and it's really stressful so it's not for everyone but I personally loved it.

This is fake (like all of these conversation screenshot posts, welcome to the internet, where have you been) and what makes it funny is the fact that it's fake. If a man posted it as "I've got harassed by X and this is my story" the majority would react similarly to you (some ppl would still be haha funny as we can see from actual sh/sa posts and those people can go fuck themselves). But it isn't, we all know it's fake, we all laugh about the absurdity of it and that's it.

A friend of mine was an arch user and was constantly throwing shit at me for using zorin os, but at the same time was always complaining about something not working like he wants it to and spending too much time tinkering. He recently switched to Fedora.

Who's laughing now Tom

The underlying problem is the same, it just became more accessible to copy code you don't understand (you don't even need to come up with a search query that leads you to some kind of answer, chatpgt will interpret your words and come up with something). Proper use of chatgpt can boost productivity, but people (both critics of chatgpt and people who don't actually know how to code) misuse it, look at it as a "magic solution box" instead of a tool that can assist development and lead you to solutions.

Search results have gone to shit since everyone and their mothers started doing this SEO-optimization bullcrap. Google obviously has no reason to fix this situation because it makes them more money when people spend more time looking for something. site:reddit.com was one of the mitigators for this problem...

I'd gladly ditch search altogether and use ChatGPT + browsing support, but that's similarly dogshit because it's working off of SEO-optimized bullcrap results too.

I noticed a massive drop of quality after the api changes (though it's been declining for a couple years now) and after a while I just realized there is no point, so I mostly only kept subreddits related to my country. The balance of repost bots/trolls/idiots/people who think saying the same joke a million times is funny vs. people you actually can converse with really started outweighing the latter ever since covid hit and Reddit got even more popular (it was on a slow decline regardless). The api changes just made everything even worse.

I'd like to think things here will be better, and to be honest I'm really liking Lemmy so far.

Can vouch for Brother. My parents kept buying inkjet printers every few years, the last one was a more expensive HP one but they were always a constant source of complaint. Bought them a Brother a few years ago, they literally didn't have a single issue with it since.

I really hate all these programming memes that revolve around typos. Makes me feel like they aren't made by/for programmers.