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Cake day: May 13th, 2025

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  • Same reason as many other responses here, I came here because of the Reddit API situation. The Reddit app was garbage at the time (likely still is) and losing 3rd party apps with all of their features was frustrating. The API pricing scheme was obviously set high to push out most other applications.

    What really pushed me over the edge was the way that Steve Huffman acted towards the Apollo dev (Christian Selig). The Reddit CEO lied about Apollo “blackmailing” them. Luckily Christian had recorded their conversation and could prove what was actually said, even then Steve doubled down.

    https://www.reveddit.com/v/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

    In the fediverse I started on Lemmy.ml, but then I saw how the Admins treated those with opposing views. I switched to Lemmy.world and stuck with it for a while. Then PieFed came out with all of its additional features. I quickly switched over and felt much more comfortable donating to their development costs.


  • The Lazarus facilities in Star Citizen have a constant irradiated electromagnetic storm around them. If you fly too deep (past the facility), your ship will be disabled and you’ll crash. You can take a tram deeper into the storm and you’ll start to receive radiation damage. So you’ll either want a special protective suit, or take refuge inside of facility buildings every now and then.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OzfPaUWYpY

    On this particular planet, your ship can also get hit by stray bolts of lightning (a rare occurence) while flying around any storm . It will shut your ship down for a short time.

    On some parts of planets, the weather is cold enough to freeze you (if you’re not wearing the right protection).

    Some planets are very hot and will kill you if you stay too long outside without protection.

    There’s an underground prison on a hot moon that you can escape from. If you don’t get to a vehicle in time, you’ll die from the heat (or lack of oxygen).


  • I actually had the opposite experience.

    It was the perfect device for going through university for me. I mostly used it for note taking and homework with OneNote. For something like proving my work with matrices I could just copy the last matrix, paste it, then replace the one column/row that I was working on and repeat. In that case, work that took other students an hour or more would only take me a few minutes.

    Additionally, since it wasn’t just a tablet, I could run whatever software I needed on it for completing projects.

    Of course a somewhat recent update from Windows bricked the device, and I haven’t gotten around to switching it over to Linux (like I have with my other devices). It does look like there’s a great group helping to support that transition though: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface




  • Out of curiousity, can anyone else see this image? I tried through PieFed and Lemmy, as well as an attempt through the Voyager app, but it doesn’t seem to be showing up.


    Edit: And I tried through Mastodon as well. MBin actually shows a link with the accessibility text. Looking again with PieFed showed the accessibility text for a bit, but then it disappeared with a refresh.

    The accessibility text:

    Person holding a “Steam Deck Compatibility: Verified” tag and saying “Woah. This is worthless!”