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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • This is absolutely normal when you first buy the place. I bought my place in 2017 and was super anxious over the first year because I suddenly had basically no savings and all my equity was in this building. I didn’t know anything about home repair and couldn’t afford to hire someone who did.

    The thought of something going wrong enough that it would ruin the place gave me an anxiety attack more than once.

    Then, after a couple years and a few things needing fixed, I realized that things don’t go wrong that often and most of the time if they do, they are easy to fix.



  • Godort@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlConfusing warning
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    1 month ago

    I honestly prefer Valve’s method. You as a consumer should be reading what you’re buying before you purchase anyway, and you can still use their refund system if you somehow missed the warning.

    Removing unfinished games from the storefront just increases the amount of lost media out there. These projects should be available for as long as possible simply for archival reasons.


  • don’t give a non-answer to someone’s question. Ex. if someone asks how to do X, don’t answer with, “Why are you trying to do X? You shouldn’t want to do X. Do Y instead.” Instead, explain what it would take to do X, and then offer Y as a possible alternative and why it may be a better option. But assume they already know about Y, and it doesn’t fit their use-case.

    I can get behind the spirit of this, but often times this is caused by people taking the wrong first steps to solve an issue and then getting lost in the weeds while asking for the solution to where they’re stuck, rather than asking about the original problem. In this case, usually both X and Y are bad answers, and asking why they aren’t doing Y can elucidate more about the whole situation.


  • Godort@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlThe good witch says...
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    2 months ago

    Mostly it’s their attitude to controversy.

    Brave has had several major issues over the past few years and they didn’t reverse course until press got bad enough for them to make a statement and try for damage control. This includes:

    • Replacing ads on websites with their own, and collecting that revenue

    • Inserting their own referral codes into auto complete when users navigate to Binance

    • Installing an extra VPN service on Windows machines without user consent

    • Sending DNS requests to the local ISP when in TOR mode effectively removing protection against spying

    On top of all that, it’s based on Chromium, which means that Google is in control of their upstream source code.