I’m guessing it’s not a Samsung.

There might not be GamePass exclusives yet, but Amazon’s Luna has exclusives such as the Batman: Caped Crusadar Chronicles game.

I sure as hell am never going to give him up.

Same, I prefer to use a VPN everywhere. It would be nice to get away from straw polls and use polls directly from the Fediverse. PieFed and Mastodon allow for polls like this, but Lemmy still doesn’t support it just yet: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/787

I’ve played a few of them, but I loved playing Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri (SMAC) the most. My favorite was playing as Gaia’s Stepdaughters since you could quickly get control of the planet’s “mind worms” which were units that would never go obsolete.

Sounds like layoffs are incoming.

Instead of recommending OpenStreetMap.org, I would suggest Cartes.app as the Google maps replacement (uses OSM data). It contains most features that Google Maps users are used to and will feel familiar to them. OpenStreetMap is more of the backend for mapping apps rather than a direct replacement for Google Maps.

Cartes for most features (satellite view, reviews, shareable links that work for anyone, etc.) and CoMaps for offline/driving directions.

This is happening on the mobile version of Edge where users are being offered a referral scheme. If you can get a friend to switch to Edge via a referral link, you’ll receive 500 Microsoft Rewards points (with the ability to accumulate up to 7,500 points per month if you’re feeling ambitious).

You can redeem a $5 gift card for Microsoft for 5,500 points, or a $5 gift card for Amazon for 6,500 points.

So basically they’re giving you $0.39 - $0.45 per referral with a maximum of $5.77 - $6.81 per month.

Same thing for castles/forts in Portugal.

There’s no point acting all surprised about it. The plans and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning office in Alpha Centauri for over 50 of your Earth years. If you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout.

Lemmy might not support this, but PieFed does (without the need for a browser extension). There are some instructions here on setting it up:
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs/09_Theming_Guide.md

The custom CSS/JS/Jinja needs to be submitted and approved first, but then a moderator could add it to the community as the official theme.

On the play store, it’s usually possible to download old apps even long after they’re no longer offered.

In the play store:
Click on your User icon -> manage apps & device -> manage
Then change the “This Device” selection to “Not Installed” and scroll to whatever app you had installed at one point.

PieFed supports this, it would be great to see Lemmy support it natively as well.

Interesting, but I don’t think this allows mods to customize a community’s HTML in the way that I have seen done on reddit (custom backgrounds, upvote/downvote icons, etc).

It should be just as easy as following this account here: @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy

I’m having some issues with my account (likely an issue with requiring users to have a profile picture uploaded before following). I can at least see one other PieFed.zip user who was able to get it working successfully.

Most other users have hit the important points already. Modlogs over here are public and it usually makes calling out powertripping mods a lot easier. The community for that is usually here: !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet is that most everything you do here is very public including how you vote. Even if Lemmy hides it from your user interface, other instances can easily see that information.

There are a few communities that will ban users if they consistently downvote every post in a community. So if there’s any community with content that you don’t care for, just block it to hide the posts from showing up in your feed.

You’ll start to recognize the larger instances after a bit. The domain/instance name sometimes has a hint as to what kind of platform it is.

Lemmy gets along well with “Threadiverse” (Reddit-like) instances: Lemmy, PieFed, and Mbin. Searching for Communities (subreddits) will automatically fetch the community list from the other platforms and you can join/subscribe like you would on Reddit. So, it should be easy for you to access those.

If you’re on PieFed, they take it a little further and allow you to combine similar communities across platforms into a single “Feed”. A few 3rd party apps for Lemmy allow you to do something similar. Just keep in mind that different instances will usually have slightly different rules/mods for similar communities.

Lemmy doesn’t interact too well with Mastodon (Twitter-like) instances. But those users can see our activity and comment on posts at will. You can reply to them just like any other user once they’ve commented on a post that you can see.

Mbin instances support a little bit of peeking into the Mastodon side, and PieFed supports it a bit more. For instance, following users will pull their posts into a catch-all “Microblogs” community that other users on the threadiverse can interact with. Ex:
!microblogs@piefed.social

There are even some “bridge” accounts that have the potential to link up Mastodon and BlueSky users… But as far as I’ve seen on the threadiverse side, only PieFed users have recently been able to take advantage of that.

You likely won’t see too many users from Threads. A decent number of instances block Meta and any Threads user would also need to enable something in their account settings to see outside of their bubble.

I’m out of the loop on this. Got a source?

Would Firejail fall for the same/similar sandbox vulnerabilities that Docker containers do?

Here’s a quick list of recently released and upcoming games developed/published by them:

• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
• Exploding Kittens VR
• A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead
• MudRunner VR
• Tomb Raider IV–VI Remastered
• RoadCraft
• World War Z VR
• The Knightling
• Docked
• John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando
• Bus Bound
• Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival
• Road Kings
• Hitman Classic Trilogy Remastered
• Jurassic Park Survival
• Rails of Fury: Train Defence
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake
• Untitled Avatar: The Last Airbender title
• Turok: Origins
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3
• Rideshare “Stimulator”
• Stuntman: Hollywood
• Untitled John Wick title

For the full list: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Saber_Interactive_games