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De-Google Your Life - Part 1 - YouTube LTT
  • I used AI to summarize the different Google products and services listed in the video along with their suggested alternatives and timestamps. AI is pretty cool sometimes.

    Google Product/Service Recommended Alternatives Timestamp
    Google Chrome Firefox, Brave, Arc, Ungoogled Chromium 94-326
    Google Search Startpage, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Kagi 328-493
    Gmail Tutanota, ProtonMail 534-671
    Google Photos Ente, Stingle 674-794
    Google DNS Quad9, NextDNS, Cloudflare 827-1074
    Google Analytics Not covered in this video, to be discussed in part 2 N/A
    Google Maps To be covered in part 2 N/A
    Google Ad Services To be covered in part 2 N/A
    Google Drive To be covered in part 2 N/A
    YouTube To be covered in part 2 N/A
  • Choose your side carefully ☯️
  • TIL you can make links to settings by long-pressing them. That's actually awesome as hell.

  • Evaporative Humidifier
  • I went through a lot of humidifiers for this exact issue until I landed on this guy. https://a.co/d/d9KsgV5

    It's not perfect, but it fit nearly all of my needs (which you listed above). It uses Tyua, so it's not local UNLESS you set it up with LocalTyua like I did. The only major downside is, it beeps every time you have it do something via home assistant. If you're crafty, you could probably remove the speaker, but I haven't bothered (yet).

  • Can you stop lemmy from automatically updating the feed?
  • My understanding is that at the moment, no. It's an artifact of when lemmy was unpopulated. I've heard rumblings that this is going to be changed in the near future though.

  • Electronic Arts didn't cancel Titanfall 3, Respawn did—and it didn't even tell EA for six months
  • Boy, that's a tough pill to swallow. Titanfall 2 was one of my absolute favorite single player FPSs. It's a bit shocking to think the studio that made it decided it wasn't worth continuing.

  • BREAKING: Microsoft has been temporarily restrained from buying Activision Blizzard, a judge rules.
  • Good. They are two of the world's biggest gaming companies. Merging them would be a huge blow for competition in the market.

  • What are y'all's all time favourite game OSTs?
  • Man, this list gave me a rush of nostalgia. I played all of these (except Mabinogi and LaTale) growing up, and their soundtracks are still deep inside me, especially Maple Story.

  • What are y'all's all time favourite game OSTs?
  • Far too many to list, but Final Fantasy IX's soundtrack is a tremendous work of art, and a perfect final bow for Nobuo Uematsu from the series. It's always stuck with me among nearly ever other soundtrack.

    Notable Mentions (in no order):

    • Sonic 2 and 3&K
    • Hotline Miami 1 & 2
    • Street Fighter 2
    • Nier Automata
    • Castlevania (Whole Damn Series)
    • Donkey Kong Country & 2
    • Doom I & II
    • Undertale
    • Freedom Planet
    • Golden Sun 1 & 2
    • Hollow Knight
    • Skyrim
    • Kirby Series
    • Mario Series
    • MegaMan 2 & 3 (Shout-out to The Megas)
    • Super Meat Boy

    And so many others, but I'll be here all day if I keep going.

  • How are you enjoying Season of the Deep so far?

    For me it's feeling a bit better than Season of the Plunder. Solid story beats, but the activity gets a bit boring quick. How about you?

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    Willow has strong opinions about Reddit's API Changes
  • She has been known to ramble on, when hands are visible but not actively petting her.

  • Business Cat
  • That is the face of a cat who knows you have you not met your petting quotas.