Nicole noticed me once, that’s the only time in my life I ever felt special.

I’ll admit I also had to do a double take at the thought someone would think Philadelphia wasn’t American, but you’re right in that a lot of products borrow foreign-sounding names because they sound trendy. Something that you are always exposed to us easy to overlook where it actually comes from. No one should hold that against you.

Not to mention the number of companies that used to be headquartered in one country but moved or were bought out by a foreign one. 7-11 comes to mind as an iconically American convenience store, and they were American, but are now based in Japan and have a much stronger association as a Japanese brand.

I was interested in PieFed and plan to give it a try at some point, but still have only used Lemmy. The other formats just aren’t as interesting to me. I don’t care about specific people, so Mastodon isn’t my bag. I care more about the conversations with friendly internet strangers. I don’t even have profile pictures enabled on Lemmy, I’d prefer everyone to just dissolve into a sea of unrecognition.

Here I was going to join this thread to share the controversial opinion of “The hamburger menu is fine,” because I thought the general trend was shifting away from using them.

Admittedly the hamburger menu is often misused. It’s like the junk drawer for developers who don’t know how to logically streamline the navigation modes within their app, so they just throw everything in there. But when it’s used well, to me at least, it’s a better option than some of the alternatives. I prefer to have views that I almost never use just kept out of the way in a menu I can manifest at will instead of occupying permanent space on a navigation bar.

Does have me wondering what the ratio looks like when applied to isolated (maybe mildly inbred) communities.

As in, there’s a lot of genetic variety for humans as a whole, but maybe less so for communities that, uhh, don’t get out much.

The full text of this act (translated to English) is available here: https://www.jftc.go.jp/file/MSCA_Guidelines_tentative_translation.pdf

I haven’t read through the full text, but it does seem to specifically apply to only smartphones. The Switch is a mobile device but I think it’d be a hard case to make it count as a phone and a general computing platform like iPhone/Android.

Hmmm, I’m having a hard time choosing between the Seerup and Puxoca Coun. Does either come with a free side of Sseeiiqers by any chance?

The site was started by people who wanted to make a convenient image host for Reddit back when Reddit did not directly host any media, but it’s a separate venture and Reddit later added their own image hosting capabilities.

Most other “indie” games are not indie under that definition, too.

The indie renaissance that occurred in the late 00’s/early 10’s was mostly indie developers obtaining good publisher deals. Some indie developers still self-publish, but the majority don’t. There are even publishers that specialize in indie game publishing.

This is the same use case that people are currently up in arms against Larian for

Getting help with Windows now: support forums owned by Microsoft filled with users telling they have the same issue, and AI agents hallucinating solutions.

I feel this to my core.

My work PC uses Windows, and sometimes I have to Google something that is acting up, which takes me to these sorts of threads. It’s always:

OP: I’m having trouble with this app, it doesn’t recognize my default audio device. I’ve tried X, Y, and Z, which did not work.

Jimothy, Certified Windows Expert: Greetings, OP! My name is Jimothy, a Certified Windows Expert and fellow Windows enthusiast! I am sorry to hear about the issues you’ve been having. But don’t worry, I am here to assist. 3 paragraphs later You should try going to the user settings and make sure that “Use default audio device” is checked on. Did this fix your issue?

OP: I don’t see any setting labeled “Use default audio device.”

15 posts follow from other users who are experiencing the same issue, also confirming there is no such setting.

Jimothy, Certified Windows Expert: Greetings again, OP! I am sorry to hear that did not answer your question. According to the app specifications, use of the default audio device is not a supported feature at this time. If you would like to make a suggestion to include this feature in a future release, you may submit a request through the Microsoft Feedback Portal. I will now close this topic to further replies. Thank you!

Might be more a question for OP. 20 years ago was 2005, so I suppose they’re the ones making that claim.

And especially when faced with the difficulty of trying to sue a company in a different country.

It’s…aight. Not as good as VI yet.

It hasn’t received any significant gameplay changing DLC yet, and usually Civ games don’t really come into their own until then.

Going lower to drum up interest for the new one I’m guessing?