djdarren

Ah, I'm mostly joking. Victory is a really cool museum, almost as cool as the wreck of the Mary Rose that's displayed in a building next to her.

She's too beautiful. So beautiful in fact, that I am now banned from Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

I would say that the US is a very weird place, but then I remembered that this

is the flagship of the ~~British Navy~~ First British Sea Lord. She hasn't floated for literally 100 years.

So mostly I guess it's just that militaries are weird.

It was watching The Bear that made me finally appreciate that fine dining isn't about filling yer belleh, and more about the art of food; how the senses meld together.

I'm too poor to eat at places that offer that kind of experience, but at least I now understand the point of it and appreciate why it can be so expensive.

I use Voyager to access Lemmy, which is heavily based on Apollo for Reddit. And one of the very best things they kept in Voyager is the "New Account Highlightenator", which adds a baby emoji next to a username, with how many days the account has been active. This disappears after a month (I think it is), but it's really, really handy for quickly highlighting whether it's worth paying attention to the shitty opinions being spouted.

Chances are, if it's a bot or a troll, they'll be using a new account. If I see shitty opinion + baby emoji, I'll block and move on.

Other than that, I personally don't really give a shit how long someone's been on here. This is my third account on a third server since I first discovered Lemmy a couple of years ago, and I've only had this one for a couple of months.

When cucumbers are so cheap, and re-usable.

Yeah, I have Steam installed on an SSD in my Kubuntu machine, but it's kinda small, so I have the library pointing to an internal 2Gb HDD. It runs RDR2 flawlessly.

This makes me wonder whether indie devs will aim for SteamDeck/Machines as their reference, in much the same way that devs build for PlayStation/Xbox/Switch, making the majority of games run perfectly, and having the effect of kinda leveling out the power arms race for a short while. I mean, if Steam is where the majority of developers sell their games, then it makes sense to target the hardware that's built for Steam.

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ouch!

Also, ACAB.

As a recovering Apple user, the hardware really is very, very good.

I have an M2 MacBook Air that is, quite frankly, the fastest computer I've ever used. Running Window in a VM within it gave me the fastest Windows computer I've ever used. I've had it two years and still get all day out of the battery. It can export a two hour AIFF recording of my radio show from Reaper in around 10 seconds. In the two years I've had it there have been perhaps three occasions where I wished I'd opted for a Pro instead.

I also have an iPad mini which is a ridiculously useful little tablet, when used in conjunction with my MacBook.

However, over the past year I've been drawing further away from their ecosystem, to the point that I mostly only use the MacBook to present my radio show because it's fanless so doesn't cause any noise issues when my mic's open. And that's as a direct result of Apple being a trash company run by corporate fuckheads who would sooner capitulate to fascists than actually fucking stand for something.

So yeah, very few of us do actually support them.