self-promotion caveat: I’m building my sudoku game to be offline and fully accessible: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=digital.cyberpuffin.sudoku

The only thing that might constitute an “ad” is a button on the main menu that leads to a promotion page for my print-on-demand book.

Not sure if I’m doing something wrong, have an incorrect setting, or if this is expected behavior, but the thing that’s been driving me nuts is when I go to share a link it always copies the source of the post for the lemmy link.

If, for example, I’m browsing on lemmy.ml and I want to share a post from lemmy.world, I’d like to be able to copy the lemmy.ml version of the lemmy.world post.

It doesn’t make as much sense with public instances, but when you’re using a private instance and you want to share with friends and family it can be kind of a hassle to retrieve the URL for said private instance.

In for a penny…

That’s awesome, I wasted so much time on the web browser before playing over ssh and wasting even more time. Shame the drops didn’t seem to speed up.

You make valid points, however, I’d like to point out that most games on the play store don’t cost a lot because the real costly transactions are in-app purchases. It’s common, in my experience, for the popular free apps to have IAPs upwards of $100 for in-game currency.

There’s also that matter of the no-cost version of the app. It seems perfectly usable, making the ad-removal an optional purchase.

Considering the smaller user-base and the finite economic value of life-time purchases I’d say $20 is fair. But that’s my stated opinion and I have yet to put my money where my mouth is.

Sync FTW

I still use windirstat because I hadn’t heard of WizTree. How doe Winget compare to chocolatey (https://community.chocolatey.org/)?

Another really good write-up about why the Meta fediverse integration is dangerous: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

A million dollars in bitcoin, I’d walk away with a cool $100 after selling it all.

In truth, being in a central Florida town at 7 in the morning, I’d go on a shopping spree at some of the bigger box stores and stock up on electronics and building supplies, before I blew the rest on tools.

There is a page, albeit buried, dedicated to “why?”: https://fedipact.online/why

I don’t know that it’s much of a punishment for adopting open standards. The open standard is there to be used, the engineering work crowdsourced for the benefit of all. Meta gets the used of the standard and access to a not-insignificant portion of the federated services that don’t bother blocking them.

It will likely be one of the columns when the inevitable Lemmy Instance comparison charts are created: registration type, country, bans illegal content, blacklists meta services, etc …