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  Guess The Game (#018) [stumped!] The games will vary in obscurity, but I promise each would have had a North American release. Please refrain from using reverse image search. Provide the full title if you would like credit ! I’ll provide an answer if unsolved in 8 hours. Can you guess the game ?

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  Source Skin Rendering The years go by and I still find myself booting up Left 4 Dead 2 now and again. When I do I catch myself saying over and over again: wow these character models still look damn good. Is it just me or is there something to the Source engines skin modeling ? It still to me looks convincing. Especially in comparison to other games actual in gameplay characters ? Edit: and the lighting water effects also still pretty fantastic…

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  Guess The Game (#015) [Solved - see comments] The games will vary in obscurity, but I promise each would have had a North American release. Please refrain from using reverse image search. Provide the full title if you would like credit ! I’ll provide an answer if unsolved in 8 hours. Can you guess the game ?

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  Privacy Calorie Counter App (IOS) Looking for a privacy focused Calorie counter App. I’ve tried Calorie & Fuel Calories but both apps lack in the foods in DB and entering in data for Fuel is a particular pain. Any suggestions? I’ve looked into OpenNutriTracker but the IOS version looks like it actually tracks a lot of data

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  Most people who work for these companies aren’t evil laughing as they break the toes of kittens for their corporate over lords. As many others have said most people go in with the best intentions. Do their best to help companies achieve goals but ensure their products do what customers want. It’s the upper management that comes in and enforces less than desirable programs and enforces eshitification. It’s a challenging balance and sometimes you just outright lose. People work for these compani...

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  Irregular ? Like my bowel movements ?

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  If it’s an office job i doubt there will be a pants requirement. Just having clothes on …

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  So long as it’s entirely consensual for all who’s involved and every one is of adult age I don’t see the problem …

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  As the saying goes if it seems to be good to be true it is. But I wanted to be hopeful maybe just once more that maybe something could be great. Encrypted email with an unlimited sized inbox ?!!? Yes please !!! Welp sadly it seems it’s once again to good to be true. I made an account just to see how it was. I was immediately greeted with link to buy their premium for a year, using my initial email I selected. When I finally figured out how to say no I was able to use my “backup option” for f...

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  In order to curb dissatisfaction the Discord CTO released a blog post. In it a lot of c-suite speak and empty words. They claim 90 percent of users won’t be affected. And with caveats I believe them. Most people’s experience probably won’t change. And they will carry on with their spied on lives. Where I get upset is this claim that these age verification steps won’t at all infringe on privacy or identity. That Discord won’t read messages and won’t track things. I know this is a flat out lie....

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  For some of us sadly proton and Linux still isn’t a viable option for daily gaming on PC. While that means you’re stuck on Windows it doesn’t mean your experience truly has to suck. I went down the rabbit hole of Windows Debloating and to me the most viable option was Atlas OS. Not technically a new OS but rather an (overall) easy to use tool that will automatically remove and disable windows worst features. This is my honest opinion on it after using for 3 months ! Installation honestly wa...

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  I hear it’s the first browser in a long while to come with a new engine. Completely independent and no revenue model. To me that would work well for privacy but I see no mention of privacy as any benefit. In fact I don’t see a privacy policy anywhere ! Is a goal of the browser to be telemetry free ? Should I as a person who cares about privacy be showing any interest?

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  There is no truer adage to me than nothings is perfect. And when it comes to anything related to Discord it’s no different. Discord itself to me has been an issue for years. Its use of data collection, the obsession of companies trying to buy it all were concerning. For me the latest age verification just further reinforces my beliefs. That being said the majority of users who ignored all this and kept going, really nothing would change. Most people I know use Discord lightly and aren’t in lar...

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  At points it looks promising. Then I see the AI features and get very hesitant to try it.