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I ain't got no brain or no sane. I'm insane in the membrane.

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  • Exactly this, it's basically GTA5 private servers with fully customised game mechanics and strict rules around conduct where you're playing a character in a realistic setting, like an actor of sorts. It's big money for the people who run these servers too, especially NoPixel which is the most popular streamer server and difficult to get whitelisted on.

    Rule breaks, for example not fearing for your life and acting appropriately when in a dangerous situation are potentially risking a ban. There is a full set of laws and police, judges, lawyers and a whole court and prison system modded into to deal with criminals with players roleplaying all of these roles. There's a hospital, ambulances, doctors and you have to get someone else to call 911 to have a paramedic drive out and rescue you if you die.

    It's honestly impressive how much and well modders have modded GTA5 over the years. If you wanna try it yourself download the FiveM client and there are hundreds of servers you can join and play on.

    Be warned though, just like older games with private servers (like old Battlefield/CS ect games) you are ultimately at the mercy of whoever the admins who run them are and sometimes these can be interesting individuals. Rockstar recently bought out the FiveM platform but they have no real control over what these private individuals do short of banning the whole server from the platform which rarely happens.

  • Most people have to try really hard it fit into the world, even those who don't have Autism. What you see especially online is their highlight reel, what they don't show you is all the stress and effort it takes them to fit in and keep up with everybody else.

    The good part is that once you're aware of the above it's easier to just do your own thing instead of trying to fit whatever you perceive as supposedly normal.

  • That kid is now known as the kid who got Roblox banned among their group of friends, not a nice thing to known for. This will be seen as a punishment by them regardless of how you frame it especially once the other kids at their school become aware of it.

    Ouch. Good luck navigating this one as your kids get older.

  • Seems inefficient, one should just integrate ChatGPT into Bash to automatically check these things.

    You said 'ls' but did you really mean 'ls -la'? Imma go ahead and just give you the output from 'cat /dev/urandom' anyway.

  • Several local (but national chain brand) furniture stores.

    So many reasons. One had better quality furniture on display than what they sold by a long way. Another tried to give me not one but two firm mattresses instead of medium and lie to me about them. Yet another got caught out blatantly lieing to my face about delivery times and procedures.

    All of them had great customer service right until the point that they had our money and then completely treated us like garbage afterwards.

  • If you had super powers you probably wouldn't have to steal anything or commit crimes to be rich. You'd just make money the same way people like the Kardashians do or worst case sign up to some sporting team and absolutely trounce everybody else then sign endorsements.

  • You can actually by making the families cost of living and housing needs affordable on one parents income. One off baby bonus bribes and stuff that governments do will never actually work when both parents have to work themselves Into dust just to make ends meet.

  • This is much more hassle. Apart from having to actually set up and configure such a device, every time you want to use it you've got to switch it on, switch your TV input and use a different remote to control it. This is far inferior to just using the TV remote to open Plex and navigate with the same remote. That's without considering that Plex is more polished and has an overall better UI as well.

  • Plex is easier to set up and has more features that are more polished than what Jellyfin has. It's also a more well known name and been available a lot longer and it's app is available on a lot more devices including TVs themselves.

    Jellyfin will one day be the superior option though once it's more polished and caught up in these areas.

  • It's the tobacco industry that screwed themselves over with these. They opened so many stores near high schools you'd swear it was a drug cartel front of it wasn't for all the kids coming and going from them. Irresponsible greed backfired on the tobacco industry spectacularly here.

  • Thunder App @lemmy.world
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    MP4 or Imgur videos not supported?

    Posts to videos on Imgur just show up as weird sweaty soccer balls in the app, rather than showing a preview of the video itself.

    For example.

    Dank Memes @lemmy.world
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    Scooby Doo Be Doo

    Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Umm I think I'll just delete you instead

    Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    My ancestry.com experience in a nutshell

    I don't know if I'm just doing something wrong but I built my family tree and the website seems to have barely any information about my family at all. I found out more just checking out our national archives then what I found on this website. It's maybe worth noting that I'm not in the US and it does appear to be somewhat US-centric.

    The best it could find was a couple of enrollment records for voting and a single immigrant notification in an old newspaper. It didn't find these either by itself, I had to manually go though the search system to find it. The OCR didn't even get the spelling of the name correct.

    I'm not sure what I expected but it was definitely better than this, especially for all the pay walls they throw up.

    Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Images in Lemmy RSS Feeds?

    I'm not getting images previews nor images themselves when I browse Lemmy using the RSS feed functionality. Other websites work fine, it just seems I'm having a problem with Lemmy. Instead, I just get a link and I can click that to be taken directly to the image on pictrs. It makes browsing Lemmy using an RSS client a sub-optimal experience sadly.

    Does Lemmy support images or preview images in it's RSS feeds and if so what is the magic to enable it in my RSS client?

    Australia @aussie.zone
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    Australia just took opioid addiction treatments off the Medicare covered treatments list

    I have a loved one recovering from opioid addiction currently and they went to their appointment today only to be informed going forward it'll be $380 per session (used to be free). This applies to everyone except health care card holders.

    It appears that they've privatised the pharmacy system behind it. Before, the medications for the treatment were dispensed by the hospital. Now they are dispensed by the nearby chemist to whom you directly pay your money.

    Some people need this treatment as frequently as weekly. I guess it's back to the drugs again for most of them or more likely even more people choking up the emergency rooms and mental health system when they can't afford to be treated. Absolutely shocked that this has flown so far under the radar.

    Edit: Did some more digging, looks like it might be the federal government cutting funding. Rip NSW too. Up to 17 addiction treatment centers are at risk of closing their doors too.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/opioid-treat

    Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Recommend me an RSS feed reader

    You might not be aware but Lemmy has RSS built into it. I just noticed myself so I wanted to check out the current state of RSS clients and well, nothing seems to be quite what I'm after.

    What RSS clients out there are worth looking at? I notice several have self-hosted server solutions which is interesting. I don't care if it's free, open source, paid or whatever though, I just want a good experience.

    Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    Is the Lemmyverse currently getting slammed right now or are third party apps all bugged?

    Having a hard time posting and commenting on Lemmy at the moment. Not just here but on other instances too. The problem is mostly happening with third party apps all of which keep giving me timeout messages constantly when making new submissions. Sometimes things go though but more often than not they don't.

    I'm using the website directly at the moment and hoping to heck this post even makes it though.

    Reddit @lemmy.world
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    Brand-new Reddit Detox Method Discovered - Probably

    Good news, medical science has discovered this great hack technique to ween yourself off Reddit successfully!

    So far it's had 100% success rate in all patients (me) who've had the treatment and you can do it easily in your own home too. The treatment is based on the Ludovico Technique where if you try to interact with Reddit in any way your body and mind will completely reject it.

    The steps are as follows:

    1. Uninstall Reddit Enhancement Suite from your browser
    2. Set Reddit to Light mode if it isn't already

    That's it!

    The blinding white interface will readily induce extreme nausea and quickly train your eyes and brain to reject Reddit from your life. Furthermore, the lack of decent functionality and the tags you've given to obvious trolls and shills will make you want to jump out of the nearest window. It's fantastic.

    Also, if you decide after a few days you can push though the pain: don't worry. After the detox period, the post quality between Lemmy and Reddit becomes sel

    Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Is the out-of-the-box quality of desktop-focused Linux distros declining recently?

    I seem to be noticing a little bit of a trend lately that the out-of-box experience and overall quality of "mostly should just work" desktop-focused Linux distributions has declined. Usually, you could grab an .iso of distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro etc, install it and have a decent enough platform out of the box to tweak how you liked it. There might be some hardware you need to mess with to get working, or some small configuration changes to do, but these were mostly about personal preference as opposed to having to do them just to have a basically functioning system.

    I recently built a new computer for work and naturally wanted to install a Linux distribution on it. I thought I'd try out a few desktop-focused ones to reduce the need to manually configure stuff like you'd do with an Arch install. The more curated and heavily moderated package systems are exactly what I wanted on this PC as stability/reliability was more important than bleeding edge for me. However, instead of

    Australia @aussie.zone
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    Saw this today, kinda felt bad.