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Cake day: April 9th, 2024

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  • These are all good points but the biggest reason I HATE gift cards is because they offer ZERO protection.

    Buy something with a credit card and you often get double warranty protection included. That something gets damaged or stolen? Also protected.

    Gift cards offer none of that. Neither does cash but at least I can use cash to pay off the credit card.

    I get that a gift card is more personable and it earmarks the funds for a particular store. If you like gift cards, then cheers and go about your merry way.

    I’ve emphatically told my loved ones that I never want a gift card. You want me to use the money somewhere specific? Just say so and I’ll do it.

    But don’t give me a script that I can only use in one place and might lose.









  • This right here. I know lemmy is all “LINUX IS FOR EVERYONE!” But it isn’t.

    I know this would go against Google’s self interest but they are best poised to make Linux mainstream. Chrome OS can play android games natively. But it’s all close source.

    It wouldn’t take much to make the ecosystem for general Linux. I don’t know if the other android-based OSes are working on this but anything we can do to push gaming into Linux would help it to become a better everyday OS






  • I actually really liked the book over the movie. I felt like the book did a much better job of describing the dystopian world and how the MC (can’t remember his name and too lazy to look it up) and the world at large more or less dealt with it.

    Iirc the movie doesn’t even go into the history of the digital world and why the MC was obsessed with it. I get that movies and books are different but it seemed like the movie was “inspired” by the book and not based on it.