I think it’s normal to not be into stuff.

Hating stuff that you have the option to not interact with seems like extra work.

by that metric basically any war since globalisation is a proxy war

I would argue that practically every war since globalization is a proxy war.

What does Chenoweth consider is violent?

Where’s the line where she would classify your movement as violent (and therefore likely to fail)?

I use Caesium for image compression.

Not shilling, since both seem to be free and open-source image compressors.

How’s MAZANOKE different?

Which is better: Junk Store or Heroic?

I’d have skimmed a transcript, but I noped out of Instagram reel.

For people in the future who find this post, I found a video that I can think explores this question really well: Who Can Write Whose Story?

Like a middle school Wikipedia book report, I’ve picked out some of his sources as being particularly accessible/helpful:

• Alexander Chee’s How to Unlearn Everything
• Who Can Write About What? A Conversation With Roxane Gay and Jay Caspian Kang. (NYT paywalled) (transcript on rentry)
• Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward (book, so no link, but you can find it online)

On one hand, consumption of pirate IPTV services in Sweden has dropped two points, from 16% of all households in 2024 to 14% in 2025. On the other, 30% of over 15-year-olds consume content illegally every month, a figure that rises to over 50% among men under 35.

I hate when they just throw statistics at you like this.

30% of all Swedish people over 15.
50% of all Swedish men under 35.
14% of all Swedish households.

… I think? Does IPTV = all pirated content?

Edit: formatting

Hopefully not a dumb question: If Vulkan runs on anything, assuming their game isn’t a Windows (Xbox?) exclusive, why don’t more people program their games to use Vulkan instead?

What does proton do?

I only vaguely understand it as “thing that makes game playable on other thing.”

(And also I have six versions installed on my steam deck whydoIneedsixofthese?)

I upvote you making stuff.

I said “why not make a newsletter,” not “why not make a side hustle”.

Lemmy (and the threadiverse in general) is a link aggregation platform.

A newsletter seems like a better format for long text posts like this one.

Well there’s your other problem.

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Next, you’re going tell me a billionaire’s involved somehow!

Well there’s your problem.

If you’re going to keep doing these, why not make a newsletter?

Where’s the graphic from?

Soulseek is nice. Community of people sharing their music libraries with each other.

If you set your Steam Deck to desktop mode, the process is the same as on Windows.

Click on “Games” in the top menu bar, then click “Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library.”

• It’s DRM-free.
• It’s (one of?) the only platforms that cares about preserving old games.

If you prefer the Steam launcher (I do), you can always buy with GOG and launch with Steam.