You take an arrow to the knee, and you're not an adventurer anymore.
Years later you still limp, but the arrow? Long gone. It did its work in an instant.
This is #LongCovid. You no longer test positive for the virus, but you're not an adventurer anymore.
"Long COVID" does not mean "having COVID for a long time."
It means the virus disabled you.
Yes, that's a thing viruses can do. Don't give this one the chance.
I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
Oh for fuck's sake!
My estate agent has been pestering me to comply with new fascist requirements to prove you're a UK citizen in order to continue renting a place to live, and I can't even do it in Firefox.
What is this, 1998? This is why it's bad that Chrome has been allowed to dominate the browser "market"
"real name" policies are evidence that there are people in charge who have never moved to another country
you wanna know what my real name is? according to whomst, exactly? hell in the US various federal orgs couldn't even agree on what my name was supposed to be. no, scratch that, even the social security administration, internally, couldn't agree on what my name was and changed it like 4 times over a 6 year stay
windows 12 is just gonna be linux running microsoft edge, a bullshit ai assistant, and nothing else. all legacy apps will run in a sketchy online “classic windows emulator” and the entire UI will be web based.
following the backlash, windows 13 will be CLI only, and the cycle will begin anew.
meanwhile, mac os xi will have only one feature: displaying a pretty photograph of a mountain, rendered so inefficiently and in so much detail it takes the whole capacity of a top-of-the-line GPU. all apps will no longer be supported. hardware will be supported for 5 years of new photos every month before you have to buy a new macbook for $100,000.
before reaching 7.0, the linux kernel will split into 20 completely separate lineages, each with 10 total developers who are themselves their only users. GNOME only supports one of them. KDE is mostly buttons.
straight people are fucking crazy i just overheard someone saying “having a girl best friend while having a girlfriend is dangerous” ??????????? do they all have like severe trust issues ??? thas not how attraction works LMA
people have laughed (laughed!!) when I've suggested that privacy and security practices were important for activists and organisers, dismissing it as overkill in a relatively ~chill~ country like Australia.
but protest is *increasingly* being criminalised here and our right to protest is under threat. while obviously we can and should fight this, people can *also* do digital security community care and implement practical anti-surveillance organising tactics
Valve have started offering refunds for CS:GO prime (not any of the microtransactions) if you played mostly on a Mac, or if you bought prime on a low-end Windows machine* between the CS2 beta and CS2 release https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/73EF-08A3-0935-6369
make sure to get your refunds in if you were affected!
a delight to read this kind of stuff. Mario Wonder had no deadline for the whole prototype phase. https://www.wired.com/story/super-mario-bros-wonder-nintendo-switch-mouri-tezuka-interview/