Mongostein

Honestly, I feel like games have been getting too big. The ends of RPGs always feel like a slog these days.

Maybe it’s because every game thinks it needs a 3 act denouement. Maybe it’s because there’s 100x the games coming out now compared to when I was young and the feeling of wanting to get to the next one is rushing me. Or maybe I’m just plain getting old.

In any case, I’m ok with shorter games.

Cool. Now do Meta and Twitter.

Mac user here. I never use the App Store.

I thought the San Andreas fault would get em, but I was wrong.

It’s not just comments and I’m not talking just about me.

You and I and Mel Brooks all know that the common person is a moron.

Algorithms push misinformation. Bots push information. Are we limiting free speech by saying “you can’t use algorithms and bots to spread lies”?

Does lying count as free speech?

For example: I used to like Facebook for seeing what my friends are up to. It’s not that any more. I would be rid of it but I’m a freelancer and a lot of my clients insist on using it.

Now it’s a constant feed of shit I didn’t subscribe to designed to stoke the culture war. Even the shit I did follow way back when I still used it a lot now shows me posts designed to make people argue. It’s like 5 posts I didn’t ask for to every one that did. I’m smart enough to see it, but is everyone?

Ok, now I argue that the constant bombardment of misinformation and hate speech we face online and through the media clearly affects people’s ability to live their lives, and is no different than the guy talking my ear off at work.

I’m not saying they can’t express themselves. I’m just saying that we don’t have to listen, but with the current state of things we’re being forced to listen.

I mean, sure, but does that mean people get to express themselves everywhere all the time?

I go to work and there’s always a couple fuckers who bring up their hateful opinions in a “I’m not racist but,” way.

It affects my productivity when I have to hear that bullshit all day while trying to get them to stop in a diplomatic way.

I can’t say it so directly, but it’s not censorship to say “shut up and let me work”

Oh is this why my camera got fucked up after a long motorcycle trip?

From what I understand this is a problem with FAT32 formatted drives specifically since it doesn’t use the Linux file system. Reformatting is not an option at the moment.

What this does is give my user ownership when you plug in a usb device, which allows rw.

I have it set up to mount on startup, but it mounts to root ownership. Now, I remount it and the owner becomes my user.

I honestly can’t remember what I did to make it happen, but it always mounts to /mnt/drivename

I’m using this for a Jellyfin server. Before I added this rule, I couldn’t add folders past the drive itself as a library, so I see this as progress. I just want to edit meta data now.

Edit: I do have it in my fstab file listed by device ID with these settings:

LABEL=drivename /mnt/drivename/ auto rw,user,exec,nofail,x-gvfs-show,dev,auto 0 0

I don’t know what HLL is.

I don’t play a lot of multiplayer games tbh, and the ones I do tend to be cooperative.

I agree. It keeps them out of games I enjoy.

Carry on, COD

You mean like how the entire western internet is banned in China?