Russia’s been running a massive propaganda campaign in Europe and the US for more than a decade. Including slandering the LGBT and trying to associate them with illegal activities, promoting Christian orthodoxy over atheism, depicting Europe as degenerate and failing, demonizing immigrants and trying to frame them as criminals etc.

The people who move to Russia thinking they are upgrading their lives are few according to this article, but I’m still surprised by how these people completely ignored how authoritarian and destitute that country is. Germans moving to Russia thinking it’s the better place to be is a huge propaganda victory for the latter.

Some anti-cheat software can be run through Steam e.g. Easy anti-cheat.

What alternatives would you suggest?

wtf is a socmed

Afaik these add-ons only count the dislikes from other people who use the add-on. It’s a half-measure and doesn’t reveal real dislike count.

Guess I’m a Catholic now

Turns out voting for conservatives has consequences.

Tubular was right, then. You do follow around and harass people.

Spiritually Russian guy tells us not to move to the US. Yeah, I’ll pass.

Best response by far. Very human-like.

I like Lemmy because it’s, by design, shielded against government surveillance through mandatory police ID checks. The government cannot target Lemmy because it’s decentralized/federated.

It was a very nasty setup, they practically tried to present Zelensky as a thug of sorts.

It’s like the US administration is made of amateurs who are just now discovering that Russia is untrustworthy and is playing US presidents to further its goals, like they faked friendship with Bush in the 2000s when they were weaker.

With that being said, the US is still helping Ukraine defend itself, but it’s much more transactional now.

1980: TVs will fry your brain

1990: Videogames will fry your brain

2000: Computers will fry your brain

2010: Smartphones will fry your brain

2020: AI will fry your brain

Any takes for the 2030s?

First time I hear of this. What alternatives would you suggest? I have brave on my PC because it’s pre-configured and comes with a Tor addon

I may be high on hopium but is XBOX doing a comeback in terms of user friendliness and popularity?

What’s wrong with Brave?

They did. If you remove it, Chrome detects that the folder is missing and it downloads it again. Just don’t use Chrome.

Christian fundamentalists would prefer to ban a lot of things for everyone. Since they cannot do that, they resort to the next best thing, which is to ban them for their own crowd. But the main objective is to have every device be like that. If this phone network establishes itself in the long run, it will be a big L for all of us.

Defender with Malwarebytes as already mentioned should be enough. What false positives do you get exactly?

Personally I have a Linux distro on my PC and don’t need AV software at the moment.

These people are called “tankies”. It’s communists who like militarism and imperialism, as long as it’s of their own flavor. The internet has many such “bunkers” where these people congregate. They unironically support the countries you mention, and they do not represent the entire left-wing community.

I’d argue that they aren’t the result of capitalist policies being shitty. Such communities have existed on the internet since the early 00s. It’s just their ideology.

Why are they on lemmy? My guess is that Reddit banned some of their communities for posting violent content (threats of violence etc.) so they moved to lemmy, which does not censor people to the degree Reddit does.

The .ml for lemmy.ml supposedly stands for “marxism leninism”.