I use sync too; though I’m running it through proton VPN (largely due to my govs increasingly authoritarian stance on internet freedoms, but that’s neither here nor there), which has built in ad and tracker blocking, so I don’t see any of the ads in sync.
This is what it looks like behind an ad blocker:
Me, fighting with using an am5 chipset & nvidia graphics card for Wayland based distros because damn it, who needs a working machine anyway: “Heh, guess I’m not a clown”
Amulet of speak with the dead - cursed. Once attuned the user can speak with the dead, but can only interpret chat with the living as wailing, any attempts to speak with the living will sound like wailing to the other entity. Removing the item does not break the curse.
Ah mate what a game. I think I own It about 4 times over. Steam, Xbox, switch, and gog (gotta have the drm free version ofc). Would strongly recommend getting both the main dlcs too. War of the chosen adds a significant amount of depth to the gameplay and shens last gift provides the option for robot armies, they don’t necessarily trump operatives in terms of usability. But damn if it isnt fun to drop 6 10ft droids into combat and watch the aliens get shredded.
Alien hunters is quite a good dlc too; and provides the player with some OP weaponry early on. Those battle axes for the ranger are a must have.
“Poh-tah-toes… Boil em, fuck em, put em in a stew?”
Potato wedges are also a thing in the UK. They’re distinct from chips in their shape; chips tend to be thick and rectangular, without skin. I tried googling steak fries, but it just kept coming back with pictures of wedges, and briefly considered we might actually be referring to different things when we each say wedges, so I promptly shut that can of worms, as we don’t need more transatlantic dissension over potato based snacks.
No problem, all I did was click the link to check, I’m not affiliated with the blog or flathub etc; so I might be wrong on how many times 30+ apps have been released in a quarter.
But as you say… Seems arbitrary to fixate on the number; the ‘again’ seems to be related to their blog posts, as it was a succession of 2 consecutive quarters with 30+ releases… I don’t think it was meant to be any deeper than ‘this title is practically the same as the last title’
My takeaway from the blog, is that the author is trying to convey an increase in development for Linux mobile apps, which with the recent side loading restriction nonsense from Google; wouldn’t be all that surprising. It will be interesting to see if the trend continues.
More than thirty in how long?
In a calendar quarter, (IE: 3 months) as denoted by ‘Q3’.
Is this the second (or more) time? When was the last time? Why is 30 significant?
It is the second, the last time was the previous quarter Q2/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, JSON API hence the ‘again’ in this title. The number of apps added is significant because it’s a blog tracking the number of app additions to flathub for Linux phones.
Friendly reminder that gog ship the suitable version of fallout 4 goty, as well as the folon mod. No need to run any downgraders or manually pull files from steam repos; just download the base game, then the folon mod; run it, and you’re good to go.
The fact that you’ll own the content rather than a license for it is a nice bonus too.
Elder scrolls fans:
She’s the Ukrainian woman that fled the Russian invasion in Ukraine to the US and was then stabbed to death in a random attack on a train, with onlookers ignoring her pleas for help.
Edit: her name is Iryna Zarutska
Wouldn’t surprise me that it’s a rehashed comic book idea. It has all the markings of one. I found this which was apparently published in a playboy magazine of all places, not sure if it’s a retelling of the comic book or another rehash of the same idea, but it definitely seems like something that inspired the film.
Whilst an average film overall, the movie ‘In Time’ has an interesting concept for currency set in a near future sci fi dystopia.
Humanity has cured aging, and everyone stops aging at 25. Then their clock starts; indicated by a tattoo like digital clock on their forearm. Everything is paid for with time taken off their clock, once it reaches 0, they immediately die. Jobs pay employees a time salary etc, and the rich horde and manipulate the time markets to concentrate their wealth, and keep the poor from achieving the immortality they horde.
I enjoyed it, and I’m sure plenty others did, but there’s no denying that a rather large suspension of belief is required.
You think oxygen is your ally, but you merely adopted the oxygen. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see carbon dioxide until I was already a man!
I think the best thing to hope for at this stage is a shift towards greens support from those poised to support Your Party. Polanski seems to be clued up on what’s important to socialist minded voters, and has a stable party not sullied by constant infighting amongst it’s leaders. Whilst he doesn’t have the following Corbyn does, this fallout makes a mockery of ‘your party’ before it’s started, surely even the most devout of followers will begin to question whether it’s worth pursuing.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still be watching the developments of this party with bated breath; I haven’t sought refunds either as I believe ZS will be truthful in keeping the income for the party for its intended purposes, I just feel this fracture has all but killed any chance of wider adoption of the party.
Glad to hear we’re not the only country with an imperial hangover! Our experience is pretty much the same. Bathroom scales, gym weights etc all have both kg and lb on them. Over time society here does seem to be shifting more toward metric; most people tend to know their height in both these days, whereas 20 years ago it would have been predominantly ft rather than cm.
Do you think lbs change depending on what we’re measuring? A lb is a lb here too…
I’d argue a comprehension of both metric and imperial is superior, as well as provides insight into which the inferior measurement is, but you do you mate.
Actually we use both. For example, body weight is (traditionally) stone and lbs, but parcel weight is usually kg.
The same is true for length; height in feet, but stuff like room measurements in cm.
I think the only area where we’re actually consistent is traveling distance? All signs and gauges are in Mph rather than Km/h. In fact the only time I can think of someone talking about distance in kilometres, is to do with sports (IE a 5k/10k running event).
Yeah I’m aware of syncs controversy; the app hasn’t seen any updates in a year or so. But using an adblock to circumvent the ads isn’t supporting the dev, and it works well enough for my needs. I definitely wouldn’t pay for a premium account; feels very anti-fediverse in nature.
I did start to use voyager on my Linux phone, though it doesn’t seem to connect to my home instance. Admittedly that’s via the web app, so perhaps there’s some issues with connectivity there rather than voyager in general; but that experience sort of solidified me on sync on my android. I setup a second account on db0 and it worked with voyager, but I’m generally pretty happy where I am.
Feddit.uk have setup a blorp frontend which I may just convert to a web app for use, but I just haven’t got around to it.