Exactly this, it’s basically GTA5 private servers with fully customised game mechanics and strict rules around conduct where you’re playing a character in a realistic setting, like an actor of sorts. It’s big money for the people who run these servers too, especially NoPixel which is the most popular streamer server and difficult to get whitelisted on.

Rule breaks, for example not fearing for your life and acting appropriately when in a dangerous situation are potentially risking a ban. There is a full set of laws and police, judges, lawyers and a whole court and prison system modded into to deal with criminals with players roleplaying all of these roles. There’s a hospital, ambulances, doctors and you have to get someone else to call 911 to have a paramedic drive out and rescue you if you die.

It’s honestly impressive how much and well modders have modded GTA5 over the years. If you wanna try it yourself download the FiveM client and there are hundreds of servers you can join and play on.

Be warned though, just like older games with private servers (like old Battlefield/CS ect games) you are ultimately at the mercy of whoever the admins who run them are and sometimes these can be interesting individuals. Rockstar recently bought out the FiveM platform but they have no real control over what these private individuals do short of banning the whole server from the platform which rarely happens.

Australia is a live example of the fact that they’re not. The state and federal governments have privatised a crap load of services and all they do is continue to hike our bills while providing less and less service. Electricity, water supply, employment services and more are now an absolute joke here.

Meat for the meat grinder.

Sounds like the Taiwanese police were under some pressure to make a big bust so they pulled out a box of cheap cables they acquired from the local markets and made up some public service maths to look good.

W L comes from the W community on Twitch who watch streamers like Kai Cenat. They spam it into the chat.

More info.

You can actually by making the families cost of living and housing needs affordable on one parents income. One off baby bonus bribes and stuff that governments do will never actually work when both parents have to work themselves Into dust just to make ends meet.

Plex is easier to set up and has more features that are more polished than what Jellyfin has. It’s also a more well known name and been available a lot longer and it’s app is available on a lot more devices including TVs themselves.

Jellyfin will one day be the superior option though once it’s more polished.

Wish I had the money to even be able to drive one of these nightmare cars in the first place. Yay for being poor I guess!

Nope they are taking the piss too.

Just visit the specific subreddits with content that your after using bookmarks while you also use Lemmy. There’s no sides to this stuff that you have to choose between.

A Big Mac where I am is basically just a cheeseburger with lettuce, more bread and different sauce. The circumference is exactly the same and it’s using the same patties too.

Latest release is a touch old (2022) and it’s not the most active repo ever. Hopefully its not dying.

Am pretty lazy.

There’s not a good alternative to Discord for it’s usecases. Sorry Matrix and XMPP, despite many attempts at clients to mimic Discord on these protocols they just never cut it.

You should be using the best tool for the job, even when it comes to operating systems and software. If your development workflow is this heavily dependent on Linux then I’m not surprised you find it Windows more painful compared to just running Linux itself.

For myself, mostly doing enterprise and backend development in C#, Python and a bit of Go, Windows gets out of my way and let’s me get to work far more efficiently than Linux ever does for this work.

A lot of younger people don’t know who Hitler was or just assume he’s a funny meme these days. It’s not their fault, this stuff is simply not taught in schools and I fear we’re destined to make the same mistakes all over again.

Lost my virginity thanks to IRC.

That 5GB cloud storage is a bit stingy though on their standard plan.

If I could just blow the os away and chuck Linux on one of these devices I’d buy one in a heartbeat.

I know they support Linux apps these days but it’s not quite the same and I do not want a device that isn’t receiving updates or support.

Do free or ad-free users get new features that aren’t cloud or service related?