Quake 3 Arena is quick fun and is available for free: https://archive.org/details/quake-3-arena

Same here, Fairphone 5

Yeah, scrounging gaming websites to find the right patch files could be a real pain in the ass, especially before Google.

Maybe it’s different where you live, but over here many restaurants did have their own delivery service before Just Eat etc. entered the market. In the beginning, they made things cheaper and easier for the restaurants. But recently, I read a lot about how they increased the fees for the restaurants, who would encourage customers to go back to using their own website instead. Enshittification as always.

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Yeah, it’s basically at high school level, so most of the adult population should be able to understand it without much issue.

Yeah, it’s easy:

• eat less
• no fast food
• no sugary shit
• eat less
• lots of fruit and vegetables
• lots of water
• eat less

That’s basically all there is to it if you’re not trying to get a six pack. It takes some time to get used to, but then your body will start figuring out things by itself (like '“I need more vitamins” and “I hate feeling bloated because of empty calories”).

And platforms like Webtoons and Tapas! I hate having to scour social media for new comics of my favorite artists, so I hope those platforms gain more users and creators.

I think sabers stuck around the longest because they were used by cavalry(-adjacent) units. That’s because the curved edge makes it easy to slash a lightly armored enemy while you’re riding past. Cavalry was used up to WW2 in some armies, when infantry had long replaced melee weapons with gunpowder weapons.

For dueling against an unarmored opponent, I think rapier-like swords would be best because they have range and speed. Against armor, you need a heavier weapon, like a medieval longsword.

Edit: personally, when doing medieval re-enactment battles, I prefer spears over swords because it’s hard to beat an extra meter in length. The heavier weight isn’t much of an issue if you’re used to it.

Historically, many people used staffs and spears for self defence because they’re more readily available than swords, easier to use and more effective outside of rather specific circumstances.

Yeah, we can just go back to the restaurant hiring their own delivery people.

You don’t need a subscription to download tabs from UG only to see the tabs made by the editors. (Maybe you need a free account though.)

Tux Guitar is a free replacement for Guitar Pro. It’s not as good, but it works fine if you just want to view tabs and it has a neat training mode for playback.

In the Netherlands there are plenty of online retailers like Coolblue who are doing well by competing on quality and customer service, despite prices being a bit higher (ironically). Next working day delivery is standard, so that isn’t an issue.

Bol.com is also really successful and much like Amazon, including its problems.

I assume this is because of a first mover advantage; for a long time, Amazon was only available in the UK, Germany and France*, so that created a major disadvantage. I’m guessing this might apply to a lot of smaller European countries.

*maybe other countries too, but at any rate not in the Benelux.

Considering busywork, many online texts are unnecessarily long in order to fit as many ads in between as possible. I’ve encountered texts (even about academic subjects) that are practically unreadable if you don’t skim them, because they’re not meant to be read closely.

Everyone knows what it’s like to look up information on the internet nowadays: most of your time is spent on scrolling or clicking past ads and scanning webpages until you’ve found a source that’s actually useful.

I think a lot of people have been trained to skim online texts because they’re designed explicitly to waste your time.

There’s a difference between simplifying a message and writing at a lower reading comprehension level. I think a lot of accidental incomprehension might just be caused by the reader not being very good at reading English.

In my country (and I think the whole EU), government agencies have to write at a B1 level to make sure official publications and letters are accessible to all citizens. I think that’s a good rule of thumb for online conversations as well. (However, writing pleasant prose at B1 level is a whole different beast. Generally, they’re not very good at it.)

Maybe we should ask spez to come over and help generate engagement :P

You can open a csv in Excel and edit it like a regular spreadsheet.

It’s why I’ve gone back to reading an old school newspaper. The format naturally limits the amount of bad news they can fit in a day, and it has regular sections on art, culture, philosophy, nature etc.

Watering can. Hoses use too much water.

You can use lewy.world to make an NSFW account.

https://social.overheid.nl/

There were software tutorials before Youtube, and there will be after.

Personally, I hate having to watch a video to learn something because reading a text is just so much faster.