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[–] OpenTTD@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago

ChimeraOS. If you have a non-steam gamerdeck, I recommend backing up the Windows 11 install and replacing it with this outright. It's based on the Steam Deck OS and makes the process of selecting a game much faster because Windows 11 is bloated as shit.

[–] OpenTTD@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

That doesn't change the fact that you're both not taking the real issue into account; the biggest, wealthiest shareholders are demanding a sustained 25% RoI. That is inherently unsustainable and by design. They want companies to die because monopolies are profitable and the market was booming (until they decided to milk everything dry) so there is money to be made IF you don't value human civilization.

I fucking hate the rich.

[–] OpenTTD@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

Neurodivergent, my ass. I literally have been diagnosed with Aspergers'/Autism Spectrum Disorder/whatever since I was 8, that was 25 years ago, and knew it had to be the "privacy" "partner" CEO that had data broker connections. This is either lack of knowledge (reddit was easy to use and then turned evil) or lack of brain cells, but to be fair... That grammar is implausibly awful, like someone was trying to punish Mozilla...

[–] OpenTTD@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 months ago

Yeah, this is hella sketchy. I don't plan on ever using Google's services again, but now I legit have to worry about all centralized websites in the US? I've been impressed with Biden at many points and screw Trump, but this is not a good look for the Biden Administration.

[–] OpenTTD@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

Am at an Edo's as I type this, can confirm it reminds me of stacked California Rolls. Can also confirm there is no real reason that the YouTube logo should remind me of sushi.

[–] OpenTTD@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

That seems to be the actual case, yes.

The idea that each person had their own name for Africa is interesting to learn, thank you!

[–] OpenTTD@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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You're right. My fault, I looked it up and don't know where that came from but the evidence doesn't seem to exist at all and I'm not sure why I remembered that as being a thing.

[–] OpenTTD@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It might not be a mere country by a long shot but the one thing I find most interesting about Africa (IIRC) is that despite the linguistic variation and the number of nations being no less than any other continent has ever had, every precolonial culture in "Africa" referred to it as Alkebulan (I think that's the romanized pronunciation) with the possible (partial?) exception of Egypt.

That said, my memory about that feels sketchy. Can anyone confirm or dispute if Alkebulan is the actual name used by the local languages? Claiming I'm sure about this without actually checking feels disrespectful, but I no longer trust DuckDuckGo or Startpage because their use of Google's algorithm means NewPipe is censored from all search engines except Bing and Ecosia and search results have been uninspiring since ~2017 thanks to enshittification.

Hold on, checking Wikipedia...

Edit: No trace of the word itself on wp, but it did bring up the Akebu language when I searched it. Anyone know how much I was wrong? Or is this just survivorship bias due to me only knowing how to speak/read English?

[–] OpenTTD@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Surprisingly it's not the only one. Dubai is honestly the center of (what remains of) the hub-and-spoke air travel network because it's the closest point to every other landmass on Earth. Middle Earth was supposed to be Tolkien's locale for a hypothetical creation myth of modern (well, then-modern) Britain. Alkebulan (the native name for Africa) is the cradle of humanity and the only continent where everyone there agreed what said continent was called for all of recorded/known history. I'd say being in a geopolitically central location, even if that's really just dumb luck, is something cultures have taken pride in for a very long time.

[–] OpenTTD@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tell that in respect to (ha) Southern Ontario and Montreal to a British Columbian, Albertan, Saskatchewanian, Manitoban, Yukonite, any First Nations Canadian or any resident of Atlantic Canada or the Northwest Territory, and see if they think differently about Ontario-Quebec than most Americans think about the Republican party.

Oh, did you know 90% of Canadians are well-to-do or upper-middle class residents of Southern Ontario or Montreal who produce less than 10% of Canada's GDP and vote for anything that lets them continue to take advantage of the rest of the country? Yeah, our population density is horrifyingly low AND yet we have a profit-off-of-artificial-scarcity-induced housing shortage? Fuck you for supporting tyranny by majority, it's still possible for the majority to all be in with the rich pricks, whether the minority is 49% or <10%.

[–] OpenTTD@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

City planning and de-car-ification videos. This may be the c/OpenTTD mod account, but it's not solely because of the game; I'm just fascinated by transit and have realized car-centric infrastructure is almost always extremely inefficient.

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