[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 21 points 1 week ago

Tinder was a paradigm shift. It's success around 2015 started to flip public perception of online dating. Suddenly it was for all kinds of young people that were looking for the convenience of profile matching. A rising tide lifts all boats so legacy platforms shared in the popularity, also getting runoff from the non-target audience of the newer apps. The change in perception of online dating allowed people to appreciate its pragmatism. We're in an age of busy people optimizing their lives. The structure and accessibility of online dating just fits with those kinds of people.

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 22 points 4 months ago

We would need to ignore how destitute the rest of the world would need to be for a superpower to full-on collapse in its entirety. I'm also assuming you mean that there's zero semblance of order or organized society.

The military would get recalled and leave American bases, strategic territory, and other occupied areas undefended and open to capture. Economies that rely heavily on trade with the US would need to find new trading partners to prevent potential economic collapse and it might not even save them if they can't get similar enough agreements or pricing. There are countries that also rely heavily on straight US aid, either monetarily or goods, that would collapse themselves or force them to align with whichever country would give them new aid. Global healthcare would dip without the drugs manufactured by the US. No American commodities like oil or food makes prices of those commodities go up everywhere else.

People around the world would be afraid. Whatever you may think of the American government and US politics, the average US citizen/resident is quite removed from the goings on of the federal government. The states on their own have a lot of independence and some would likely survive a collapse in federal leadership, but if federal, state, and local government all collapsed together it would be something serious enough to warrant attention from other countries with similar structure to the US.

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 28 points 5 months ago

Today was day one of Citizencon and CIG revealed a lot of stuff that shows they're still working to give players the game they want. Most of it was actually tech to answer the scalability problem for everyone wondering how they're going to get to 100 star systems when they still only have 1

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 28 points 6 months ago

As bug ridden and feature incomplete as Star Citizen is right now, I really can't deny how beautifully detailed the ships and cities are. It is actually quite difficult to ignore.

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 21 points 8 months ago

More evidence of a poorly regulated industry being detrimental to the people that work in it

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 26 points 10 months ago

Users who don't want redundant dependencies will probably prefer AUR packages. It can also be nice to manage all the packages with just the helper app. I try to install the binaries of apps from the AUR if they're available to avoid the long build times.

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 14 points 11 months ago

It's probably unusual. I hope that's what your friend meant. If something you do is unusual, it doesn't automatically mean you need to stop doing it.

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 27 points 11 months ago

This brings a smile to my face

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OP posts complaining about all the wellactually's

Immediately gets wellactually'd

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[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 19 points 1 year ago

The desktop app should have maximum encoding compatibility so you direct play. It's not guaranteed with browsers e.g. I believe Firefox doesn't and will never support HEVC.

My gripe with the desktop app is lack of ability to easily refresh like with a browser. The UI bugs out sometimes and I end up having to close and reopen the app.

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 22 points 1 year ago

People don't even know what people want. Gabe knows people expect HL3 to be some godly game and he knows what they make will in all likelihood not live up to that image. Why bother if it will just bring disappointment to everyone? Just save the effort and enjoy the memes.

[-] limitedduck@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think I prefer the jokes over what I've experienced on Lemmy. So far a lot of it has been smartasses that seeming only care about broadcasting their opinion with little to no interest in actual discussion. Kind of like Twitter actually

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