Bushnell aside, the US military is fucking ridiculous with this shit. (I say that as a veteran myself, unfortunately. Dumb decisions as a kid.)
Wearing your uniform to engage in imperialism and murder around the globe? APPROVED, GOOD JOB SOLDIER
Wearing your uniform to say maybe let's not kill people? TOO POLITICAL
Hexbear in particular has been annoying in the past with nonsense comments from users there, and so many unhelpful replies that are just a tiny animated image and nothing else. I'm not even sure they actually are leftist as much as just trolls a lot of times, so I've blocked the instance in general so that serious leftist conversations aren't being drowned out by that nonsense.
If it looks like someone from hexbear (such as yourself here) is making a real contribution then I'll reveal that comment and engage. It's a shame there are so many goofballs on that instance, apparently. Maybe their moderation has improved though?
The game series Thief is the defining experience of satisfying gameplay for me, and there are not enough games like that. Stealth as a core mechanic, with the expectation and ability to entirely avoid combat and detection, a first person perspective for immersion, and a fascinating fantasy setting and story.
The closest to a spiritual successor is the Styx series, but it's been a while since the last one was released, so I wish for another game like that.
I honestly do not understand when people complain about Lemmy being too empty. That's not my experience at all, not even close! My subscribed feed is pretty tame (intentionally), but if I switch to all, I can scroll and scroll until I'm like "maybe I should take a break" and I'm still only seeing posts from like 3h back. There is so much going on here, how are people going around saying it's dead?
I've been using Mailspring for both personal and business email, it seems like a decent UI so far, and it functions as you'd expect: runs at login, sits in the tray, notifies when new email comes in, etc. It's open source and free, unless you need their "pro" features.
Possibly some people will be annoyed that it's an Electron app, but it launches and runs more responsively than Thunderbird ever has on my machines, so I don't find that to be a problem. I would rather a Gnome native app, but I'm not aware of any that function well, as OP laments.
Connect has instance filters, which you can use to block entire servers like you mentioned. I have actually used it to block hexbear, myself.
I don't understand; how would a potential mugger or murderer know ahead of time that you don't have a banking app installed on your phone?
no more Amazon, Tesla, Space X, etc...
Oh no! Anyway, so how can we make this happen, like, yesterday?
I'm new to Godot, so I can't help you, but I just wanted to say how cool your approach sounds. I'm looking forward to knowing how to do that kind of thing, it sounds like you're mixing 2D and 3D in a clever way!
I read somewhere that proper emojis are more accessible for screen readers, so I've avoided using the old style smiley versions and textmojis ever since.
I'm not convinced that those deletion tools work on Reddit either; there's nothing stopping Reddit (or whatever site you're trying to scrub) from restoring your edits (which they've done to lots of people recently) or even just viewing the older version of your comment that is still present in their database without publicly showing that text.
Just because you've used some script that claims to scrub your data doesn't mean it did so. At most you may have toggled an is_deleted=true flag, or added another edit entry to the table your original comment was stored in, but that doesn't mean nobody has your data anymore.
The only way to be sure nobody can ever see your post history is to never make posts in the first place.
Ah yes, it's always everyone else's fault for not buying enough shit, and not wage stagnation and market saturation with pointless product offerings driven by the soulless demand for ever increasing growth by the wealthy under capitalism.
Never the system at fault, always the exploited not being obedient enough market consumers.
KDE Connect should fit the bill; despite the name, you don't need to be using KDE (or Linux even) since there are clients for every major OS, even mobile.
Among many other cool features, it lets you easily and simply just send a file from one device directly to another on your local network. I use it all the time to send photos from my phone to my desktop without plugging anything in, for example.