Unless I’m not aware of anything deeper, Apple makes all their privacy settings available under the Settings app > Privacy & Security. There are a lot of menus to go through in here, but for max privacy, you’ll want to disable nearly everything available in here ranging from location services to apps getting access to the local network and other apps as well as access to hardware.

macOS is similar to Windows in that a lot of apps will request permission on first launch or when you do something specific in them that will trigger a permission change and you’ll enter your password/TouchID/Apple Watch to confirm you want to grant access or not. But you can proactively block access here and also supposedly block Apple from some of these as well.

Beyond that will likely be up to you as to what you want in terms of privacy. Some people may go as far as airgapping it from the internet while others are okay with an app or two having access to the local network.

You’re right about that. This was meant for walls so probably would get nasty and gunky quick when on the floor since it wasn’t designed for that.

It makes me wonder if someone developed a special putty for this purpose though. Somehow public places like banks and government buildings keep these down and don’t had to deal with stubborn corners!

I’ve heard some people doing the water + cup method where you damp the corner with water and then leave a cup on it and it will reposition the corner to stay down. But that is only when the corner has actually come up and you want to fix it and it sounds like you want to be proactive and prevent it from coming up in the first place?

Perhaps there is some other type of adhesive you can use to keep it down but bring up when needed? My mom used to use this blue gum like substance that would hold things to the walls in her classroom. It didn’t leave residue and would come off with little ease on your part but keep things held onto the wall. That may work here? She used to get it from office supplies stores and it legit looks like gum. Can’t remember the exact name of it.

Immersion for me is when you cross NPCs engaged in something that has either no relation or no involuntary relation to the playable character.

I think of games like Elder Scrolls or Cyberpunk or Read Dead Redemption 1 & 2 where you can be walking somewhere and come across something in progress. Most immersive is when you can ignore the situation entirely if you choose to. Even more would be ignoring it and you never seeing it mentioned again in your playthrough. I’m not sure I can name any game that does this, in my experience. But I would love to play a game like that where I am on my way to something/somewhere and something interesting is happening and I have to make a choice to either experience this now before I never can ever again in this playthrough or keep going where I’m going. Kind of like real life and you see something crazy on the street going to work. If you don’t stop and look at that now, you will never see it again in your life unless it was recorded. You get a consequence of either missing out on work but seeing something crazy cool or the consequence of missing out on something crazy cool but making it on time for work.

I also find myself most immersed when the devs create a world that feels lived in and with things that don’t have official explanations. I think RDR1 & 2 have done this so well. I’m a player who likes to go off the beaten path and explore anything and everything. Coming across a random hatch in the middle of a grassy meadow but is never explained in game is so fascinating to me and I’ll spend many minutes trying to find any clues about what this is in the area. Very much like the real world and walking through an alley and finding a burned out car or something that just doesn’t get seen often but gets you wondering about the backstory and checking the nearby area for clues to see what may explain how this got here.

Same here. I’m sick of seeing people say stuff like “just pay for Premium bro”. Stfu. That’s like paying the mafia for “protection” from them. YouTube created these problems and now I have to pay them to fix it? Fuck no.

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A bunch of vehicles are doing that and it’s so dumb. Even EV motorcycle manufacturer Zero has been doing it with stuff like heated grips.

You build it into the vehicle…but the customer can’t use it unless they pay monthly for the hardware that is already there…?

The worst of it all for the motorcycle space was a vest that is an airbag and has a subscription. So if you don’t pay your monthly subscription and crash, your airbag wouldn’t deploy. Utterly evil.

I view it as a backup in case I ever get banned or locked out of my account from Steam or Steam has a major outage. At least I have Epic as a backup. It costs me nothing except opening it once every week and adding it to my library.

I wouldn’t be that upset if anything happened to my Epic account though. I have zero attachment to them.

I got NFS Unbound and NFS Heat this past winter when they were on sale for around $7 each.

Heat has been surprisingly fun. I haven’t played an NFS game since the second Most Wanted and it turned me right the fuck off to the series and back to the OG Most Wanted.

Unbound was utter garbage through and through. Cringey acting and stupid characters, annoying dialogue while driving, terrible design choices, cartoony and realistic at the same time in weird places, customization was lacking, driving and races were not fun, felt like one of those games trying to be edgy while being safe about it in typical corpo fashion… I hated it. I didn’t care that I spent less than a Starbucks coffee for it. I asked for a refund and uninstalled it on my own.

I haven’t done a refund like that in a few years. Other refunds were for performance reasons like this VR surgeon game that had awkward controls.

I did something like this a few years ago. Not saving someone’s life, but not reading messages and deleting my Facebook account.

I just got overloaded on it all and was going through a breakup at the time and didn’t want to keep talking to anyone. Nothing personal against anyone, I was just over it all and wanted out of Facebook, out of the addiction I felt to constantly check, and out of the privacy concerns of Facebook.

Could be a similar reason?

Also, was this Facebook or something else? Because if it was Facebook, it’s possible a privacy setting prevented the message from successfully going through.

There was this girl who was the daughter of a popular figure I knew many years ago and we lost contact over the years. I tried reaching out to her once on there and she never read the message. She was very social so I know she would have read it if she got it. But there is or was a privacy setting that could hide messages depending on how Facebook viewed a message and relationship of the two accounts. In our case, we had no mutual friends and no contact before on that account of mine and no other commonalities so Facebook hides the message in some deep place most people don’t check because it’s treated like spam or an unwanted stalker. I found some messages from random people there a few times on my account too. So maybe that happened here too?

Of course this is all assuming this is Facebook and they still have these measures in place all these years later.

Was going to say the same. I’ve had a few of these over the years (they’re cheap plastic and break). But they are amazing.

I have a moth problem right now but they are no match for this. The salt gets sprayed like a shotgun blast and will get them as long as you shot in their general area.

I also use it on spiders. Every summer I have black widows around the house and this thing works wonders on them.

Just try not to drop them or keep the salt loaded in them too long. Those two things seem to be what has killed my previous ones more often.

I really enjoyed playing coop in Shards of Darkness. I hope they bring it back in this one.

FOMO is a hell of a drug.

Some people just have a “well what if they’re right? I might be missing out on $1 million!”

Oh man that is a throwback for me. I remember my dad had one just like the penguin but I think it was a duck head instead. I don’t remember the tripod feet, but that is such a good idea for an umbrella and cute with birds.

Lem.ee was relatively easy to join and IIRC, didn’t require approval like some others require, at least the 2 times I made accounts there. Where you sign up and wait for an acceptance if they accept you.

Because of that is why a lot of shit came through and I imagine that was something he didn’t want to change. It was probably a dealbreaker, either his instance has this or it doesn’t exist. But because of that, you’re going to get more spammers and bad actors, unfortunately.

It was also on the front page of Lemmy for a while, so that probably attracted more people for that reason alone. I know because it was the first instance I joined with because I didn’t know there were other instances to join.

Start by recognizing the three states: passive, assertive, and aggressive and learn how to maintain that balance in being assertive.

You don’t want to be aggressive, which is when you are on the offensive and is overtly rude/disrespectful and hostile.

You also don’t want to be passive, which is when you let people run you over and railroad everything you do. You let people disrespect you.

You want to be assertive. You are honest and upfront about your wants/needs in a respectful and calm manner. You make compromises when appropriate and necessary. You aren’t railroading others nor allowing others to railroad you. You understand that others exist and ensure others remember that you exist as well.

The difficulty, at least for me, is that assertive can sometimes come off as aggressive. But standing up for yourself in a reasonable manner is not, no matter what people may think or say. Sometimes someone may think that because you speak up for yourself, that’s aggressive behavior, but it’s really not. Simply telling someone else, “That hurt my feelings and I’d like for you not to do that again” on its own is not an aggressive reaction but assertive.

I find enjoyment in some of them, but not all. I can’t find entertainment in watching someone else play a game. I often wonder if a lot of the people doing this on sites like Twitch are the “younger siblings” who always watched someone else play and now that’s their thing?

I do find enjoyment in watching a musician listen to music I like, but more so for their commentary like picking up on things I never paid attention to or explaining something and how it compares to other music. Or seeing how they react and if they have the same reactions I do to my favorite parts of a song. I don’t know why, but I get a kick out of seeing reactions like that.

And on the reaction video side, a very rare time I can see it is like watching some old person watch GTA gameplay and seeing their reaction to it. Even then, it’s going to be for the most extreme of reactions like them really going all out crazy over it and having a hilarious response.

This was prior to the RAM rising, but Valve stated that the Steam Frame would be cheaper than the Index which was at $999 USD.

That could change now after RAM pricing, but nothing has been said yet.

I guess it depends on what you’re talking about.

Most of my conversations are about computers and technology, so shortening to 25 from 2025 is obvious since 1925, 1825, etc. didn’t have technology involving an iPhone, Linux, etc.

But if we’re talking something like cars, you probably need to be specific. You won’t be able to say something like “I bought a ‘20 Ford” because that could be at least two different years.

Not this one either, sadly. Thanks for the suggestion.

It’s crazy knowing what it’s not but not knowing what it is lol.