Make a report at protondb if you didn’t already!

I read that the versions of Dragon Age 1 and 2 that are currently on Steam are pretty bad for Linux users, very crashy. $3, though …

How does AI actually improve their financial position? Who pays them to use AI?

I probably would, if the organizational structure and its spending focus(es) weren’t so fucked up. They have been spending insane amounts of money on bullshit like AI instead of core browser features, and their leadership has extremely high wages for something that should be a non-profit open source organization. And it has been like this for years at this point.

Most porn sites do run ads!

And I did support a probably independent creator of erotic audio on Patreon once.

If we compare humanity to other species on earth, the year-round horniness without any specific mating seasons is fairly uncommon. There’s not really a good reason to assume that a sentient alien species works the same way.

For masturbation, mostly.

Humanity is relatively unique compared to earth’s other animals in that the species’ females can conceive all year (minus the time when they have their period) without any kind of mating season, and while it’s very hard to study this, it doesn’t seem like sex is particularly fun in most species, especially for females. This does help humans somewhat with forging long-lasting social bonds, which is definitely something that’s core to the human species, but it’s by no means the only way that a species can be instinctually inclined to form long-lasting social bonds. So to a hypothetical alien civilization, humans probably seem to spend a lot of energy on sex.

Feels like an eternity that I last used single-letter drive names …

The main dev is also an admin on lemmy.ml. There would probably be more instances that defederate lemmy.ml if it weren’t for that, and the way that account-level blocking is implemented isn’t really that great.

Servers cost money to run, many lemmy servers have set up a way to donate for server costs.

You can try to post about lemmy on other platforms, but be aware that that carries a risk of getting banned.

Normally I’d also recommend supporting the devs, but fuck tankies. I plan to switch to Piefed because of that, since it’s obviously hypocritical to keep using a standard Lemmy server when you dislike the devs so much.

If you click on the link to “Hominini” in the Wiktionary article, it says “Hominini - A taxonomic tribe within the family Hominidae – humans; or the chimpanzees and humans.”

Granted, that’s different from what I said, as it’s only the chimpanzees that might be included, but according to Wiktionary it just isn’t clear cut.

According to your link and the linked Wikipedia article, that word includes the non-human great apes, which seems rather unfair. It’s only the genus homo within the family of hominids who discovered fire. “Human” is probably fine, depending on the exact definition used it can definitely include our direct ancestor species while excluding chimpanzees. But it can definitely also be understood to mean specifically homo sapiens, so there’s a lot of potential for misunderstandings.

I had to replace mine every couple of years because they break (i.e. start leaking).

I always build my own PC. It’s only relatively easy if you’re used to the process, and even then it’s still substantially more difficult than gaming, because mistakes actually have consequences and many parts can’t just be sent back after you tried installing them.

TBF there’s quite a lot of time that goes into researching the right parts and the right shops to buy from, which depending on the person might be considerably less enjoyable than gaming and also requires more mental presence than many games.

A lot of disco was great. Listen to some Chic!

No, it’s GRRM.

Gif is just an image format. It supports still images, too, and many if not most other image formats also support animations.

But it is true that with most displays, images are never truly still.

It also helps that they have really wide streets compared to some other popular tourist destinations. Some of those old european towns have really narrow streets.

I’ve been to Barcelona, didn’t seem like a particularly cramped city. When I lived in a cramped, touristy city, my university was one of the attractions and right in the middle of the city center.