Most F-Droid stuff AFAIK should be pretty plug and play. It’ll download an APK which you then just open in order to install the app. You may need a file browser app if your phone OS doesn’t come with one. You may also need to allow installs from third party somewhere in the settings. But android isn’t like iOS and won’t generally restrict your ability to install whatever you want, outside of an options popup to make sure you know what you’re doing.

I don’t use LibreTube personally and can’t speak on that specifically though, if it does something other than just download you an APK file.

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Once every year or two I’ll pull up the song that I attempted suicide to and cry my eyes out for a while. It’s good to flex your emotions in a controlled space. Helps keep you well rounded, IMO.

For anyone curious, since I’m sure someone will be - 3 Doors Down - Away From the Sun

If bomb defusal isn’t already being done remotely by drone then someone needs to be fired immediately

If you zoom in on it they look like little shoulder pads that might be some form of eyespots. The pattern on the back even looks like teeth like it’s pretending to be a snake or something

I think the book you’re referring to is The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. That book make me sick to read, and yes, it is based on a true story. One of very few books I’ve ever finished with a sense of profound disgust and vowed never to return to - not because it’s a bad book, on the contrary Ketchum manages to capture the wrongness of it all in compelling detail - but the subject of its story was just completely unpalatable. I was too young for that story when I read it and that was my first real taste of the sort of horrible fucked up shit that humans can do to each other. And God, there was an awful lot of horrible fucked up shit in that story. Sylvia Likens (the real life poor dead girl the book is based on) deserves to have her story told to the world but part of me wishes I didn’t read it.

Never accused them of being smart…

We have. You can buy cheap-ass smartphones at Walmart, etc with ads baked into the OS. Lots of my folks are pretty broke living down in Louisiana and have them. If you need a phone cheap, say for example you can’t afford a real phone and you’re planning to sell some drugs, they’re some of the cheapest usable phones you can get.

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While this is good advice in theory the unfortunate truth is if you block all the memes and news you’re going to get like 1 new post a day. Lemmy is mostly memes and politics and Linux right now. We just don’t have the population density such that the 28 English-speaking turtle breeders in the world can find each other in a community (or whatever else your hobby is). We’re already struggling to fill content for relatively popular video games, for example, I’ve been subbed to the Deep Rock Galactic communities since day one but I’ve only ever seen like, two posts in those communities, ever, and both of them were within the past week. (I am well aware of the irony of myself, who has never posted content a day in his life, complaining about a lack of content - I’m more of a comments kind of guy, always have been. I won’t go against my nature to post trash memes to communities that I want to see flourish. But I will vote up your trash memes if you want to post some.)

Point being, long story short, et al, etc. - Lemmy needs more users interested in posting more things than just memes and politics and Linux if we want to have an environment containing more than memes and politics and Linux. The future starts with YOU - and if not you then the next guy down the line, and so on until we run out of people with anything to say.

Anyway, I am quite stoned and must be on my way; my people need me. Adiós, amigo, until next time.

I recently put together a small discord server (maybe a dozen or so people) with some internet friends I met on IRC and Slack back in the day. It’s been lovely getting the gang back together after most of a decade of silence, I’m enjoying catching up with everyone very very much. Highly recommend, it’s been great for my recent mental health, and reportedly so for a couple other folks in the group as well.

I agree. I hope that makes it into the feature list for the future. It seems like an obvious next step to make that part easier and less painful for users.

This is why I threw in with the Star Trek fans. I’m only moderately familiar with Trek but I know these nerds will be nice to everyone.

The only instance that I’ll usually immediately give a side-eye to is Hexbear, and only them because a significant percentage of those folks have a certain… style and culture that gets on my nerves. But an individual can still be a cool person and it’s not like I’m about to come in the comments and dunk on you or preemptively block you based on your home instance. I block users because they’re assholes, or annoying, or argue in bad faith, not based on where their account is hosted. And I would expect that’s probably consistent across most lemmings. You won’t get a bad rap only for being affiliated with ml. Now if you say something stupid somebody might use it as a bludgeon to talk bad about ml as a whole, or vice versa, but that’s going to happen any time you have something approaching “team sports” like this.

In general, don’t stress this too much. In specific, keep up with what’s happening on your home instance and if they’re doing something you don’t like, pack up and move elsewhere. That’s a core function of the way the fediverse is constructed. If it sucks, hit the bricks. You can just leave, and set up shop in another instance, or host your own, and you aren’t beholden to anyone. But if you don’t care then you don’t have to.

Having a couple communities on a subject does not make your instance [subject]-oriented. That’s like saying my home instance, startrek.website, is politics-oriented or Linux-oriented because those communities exist. It’s not, it’s mostly about Trek.

And I heavily pressure all my friends and family with iphones to switch to android, all the time. Doesn’t mean any of them do it.

The DLC’s aren’t going to fix the problems with that game. But in true Bethesda fashion, mods might.

I’m sorry to say you definitely did but it wasn’t through any real fault of your own. We got real bamboozled by Overwatch, it was incredibly disappointing.

Fromsoft generally teaches you things by killing you with it. That’s a style decision that I personally enjoy (usually…) but it’s not for everyone. Then once you master the thing, they hit you with another new thing and kill you with it, so on and so forth until the end of the game.

Doom (and don’t take this as a complaint, I loved the game), is a game that wants you to beat it. It gives you tools and information up front and generally speaking, presents you a path of least resistance that you can take for optimal slaying. The Doomslayer isn’t intended to die, he is an engine of destruction. Elden Ring and by extension earlier Souls games, don’t do that. Those games want you to die and learn from it. The Tarnished, the Chosen Undead, all of them, canonically in lore die over and over and over in pursuit of their goals, and you as the player are expected to act that out. It’s a fundamentally different approach to gameplay style and intent. Elden Ring provides you the tools to succeed, but they aren’t laid out in front of you. You’ll have to explore and experiment and die a few times to understand what you’re working with.

Sekiro in particular was a little bit of a departure from this with its popup explanations for tutorials, and that was taken into Elden Ring to get even as much explanation as we got in that game. It’s still cryptic, more so than Sekiro I think, but cryptic is Fromsoft’s style, for better or worse, and this is the refinement of that.

I do, genuinely, recommend the game. It takes some getting used to and has a learning curve, but if you understand the language the game is speaking to you it becomes a little less frustrating. I’ve learned to love that language from as far back as Dark Souls 1, but if you learn to love Elden Ring first it will translate well backward in time if you’d like to try the earlier games.

Oh yeah chief, I was agreeing with you. Didn’t mean to put you on the defensive. Ernest is overwhelmingly “just some dude” who happens to be very pleasant to interact with and is building one of my favorite projects on the internet. It’s a stark contrast to some others I could name. I wasn’t implying calling him ordinary was some insult, I was just adding my voice to the chorus.