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- Comment on Eye Bleach 1 week ago:
It most probably is the juice from the berry.
- Comment on Gosuki: a cloudless, real time, multi-browser, extension-free bookmark manager with multi-device sync 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for responding, and for introducing me to Floccus.
- Comment on Gosuki: a cloudless, real time, multi-browser, extension-free bookmark manager with multi-device sync 2 weeks ago:
After reading the README and watching the videos therein, this feels like a nice piece of software and well thought out. Thank you for developing it. I am going to try it out tomorrow.
In the meantime, what are your thoughts on tackling bookmarks on mobile?
Asking since many bookmark-worthy links are often shared via phone chats, at least in my experience. I would love to manage, or at put those with the rest of my bookmarks on other machines.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 2 weeks ago:
While moving to the current generation, I did give Xbox Series X an honest consideration. But the games catalogue made me choose PS5 over it once again.
In hindsight, especially after owning a Steam Deck, I am glad I stuck with PlayStation.
Its almost as bad as playing on the wrong invert y setting.
Yikes! Never thought about controller layouts in this way.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 2 weeks ago:
I have never used Xbox controllers so I can’t speak for their ergonomics or ease of use.
But I definitely find the DualSense controller to be more aesthetically appealing, partly due to its symmetry, and I have to admit that it was the second most important factor when purchasing PS4 Pro a decade ago.
The first most important factor being the games catalogue.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 2 weeks ago:
Every time I read any Xbox news, I immediately remember the email that Phil Spencer sent to Satya Nadella when PS5 was announced. The email gets funnier as the days go by, and as additional context gets added in the form of news like the OP.
Inserting the part of the email thread that I like the most below:
Even as I type this I know I shouldn’t but I can’t help myself.
We’ve all lived with 7 years of starting off a generation with a price and performance (and messaging)disadvantage to PS4 with Xbox One. I have to admit this morning when I woke up knowing the PS5 reveal was today that the stress level was higher than normal. Now after almost 12 hours of soaking in their unveil, taking apart their specs and looking at the community responses I just wanted to say that I’m proud of our team.
We have a better product than Sony does, not just on hardware but equally important on the software platform and services on top of the hardware. We have the ingredients of a winning plan. I felt the feedback from the BoD discussion on being too confident and maybe this will just reinforce that perception, I get the need to be humbly confident but today was a good day for us.
We haven’t won anything. And I know we have hard discussion about pricing, P&L, investments etc. This mail isn’t trying to scoop any of that, those discussions really matter. But we can take confidence in our product truth hereand I do believe any conversation needs to start with believing in that. This was a good day for Xbox.
Thanks for indulging me.
Phil
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 weeks ago:
I feel like the only true possibility of an alternative is like such a place, a single project that is consistent everywhere and lets people have their entire work, so that it looks centralized, even if it’s not.
I agree. Version control might be the ideal domain to pull this off in, or at least it has the most potential.
- Comment on Fediverse Report – #128 - this week's fediverse news 2 weeks ago:
Thank you. I anm aware of Tesseract but didn’t know this it was its logo.
Can you also share more context behind your original comment?
There have been multiple alternative front ends for Lemmy especially since the Reddit API exodus.
- Comment on Fediverse Report – #128 - this week's fediverse news 3 weeks ago:
Ummm… What is that logo?
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 3 weeks ago:
That may be a good idea. However, people have had around two or more decades of familiarity with all things centralised and the conveniences associated with it.
It will take a great amount of time and effort to build a equivalently convenient decentralised alternative and to overcome the inertia to migrate to it.
The latter I believe is only possible when something enormously drastic happens. We had a good number of drastic events happen in the last decade (Twitter poisoning, Meta privacy breaches, Reddit shenanigans), but none enough to convince people to move to alternatives.
Another possibility is for regulations and/or governments to support the alternatives, but that may have unintended side effects of its own.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 3 weeks ago:
Call it the network effect, or the momentum of becoming a staple in the tech community, or whatever; GitHub is here to stay for a while, and the leaders in charge of it are well aware of this.
GitHub has gained enough attention that it is almost impossible to ignore. Projects on GitHub tend to attract a level of engagement (code contributions, issue reports, and feedback) that other code forges do not enjoy.
One unfortunate consequence of this, which I have experienced firsthand very recently, is when recruiters ask for links to my past work or open-source contributions but refuse to accept links to relevant repositories on GitLab. The number of companies where this occurred was significant enough for me to set up mirror repositories on GitHub.
Another frustrating but silly consequence was when I was questioned during one of the interviews why my activity graph on GitHub was empty. I had simply not enabled it.
- Comment on selfh.st: improper etiquette by 2010 standards? (trackers, no RSS) Thoughts? 3 weeks ago:
I just pulled the feed for the first time after reading your post, and the content is like you describe. A pity as I liked what I saw on the website.
I may try the workaround and see if it helps.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
I am more curious about what it actually is.
OP, can you share the real context around the image?
- Comment on Blue Razz 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t notice it until you mentioned it. For me, it was the shrieking frog at the bottom.
- Comment on I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena 3 weeks ago:
I used to think of it as bacteria on top of my eyeballs. Then my sibling put in the fear that the bacteria is inside the eyeballs, which made sense since washing my eyes didn’t really remove it. I eventually stopped giving it any thought.
Thank you for resolving it.
- Comment on "A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing. 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for the book recommendation. I have added it to my reading list.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
approaching it as a game is more likely to hurt your experience of it than help it
That is well put. Thinking of it as a game with objectives to compete and making progress towards the end, is somewhat detrimental to the experience. Akin to watching a movie to complete it rather than experience it.
post about whatever I’m playing pretty much weekly both here on !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works and on !gaming@beehaw.org in the weekly threads
Noted. Thank you.
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 4 weeks ago:
Thank you. I did read some of the news. Just wanted to know if I missed something.
Unfortunately, I can already see the term “NSFW” being abused to fit whatever narrative the governments.
Moreover, it is setting a dangerous precedent for rest of the world, especially countries already leaning towards fascism.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Disco Elysium is my favourite game from the last decade (maybe even beyond, but I have soft spot for old games).
To me, it is a case study of how well games work as a storytelling medium if done with the right mindset and people. Everything including the art style, music, game mechanics worked for the story, and it was a joy to experience that.
It is a shame what took place behind the scenes, and I wish there is a better way to show my support to the original developers.
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 4 weeks ago:
OOTL here. What brings this realisation?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
I wasn’t aware about the similarities with Dark Souls, and about the designer’s previous interests.
I guess what I needed was a strong recommendation. Just purchased the game on Steam after checking for its compatibility on ProtonDB (it is platinum).
Thank you for the recommending the game, and for taking away the chore of deciding what to play this weekend.
Again, I am really glad we had this conversation.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks again for the recommendations. Blue Prince looks refreshingly good and different. I did hear quite a bit about Clair Obscur, but turn based gameplay never appealed to me. I did not play Baldur’s Gate 3 for the same reasons, in spite of it being so well received.
I agree with your criticisms about Ghosts of Tsushima, and have made similar observations as well. However, Ghost of Tsushima and Spider-Man are my comfort games where I just soak in their music and atmosphere while I do something else like talk with someone.
- Comment on Tesla Reports Drop in Self-Driving Safety After Introducing “End-to-End Neural Networks” 4 weeks ago:
This is taking “testing in production” to a whole new level. How did this get past the regulations?
On second thoughts, does any country have concrete regulations for self driving vehicles? I am curious what they would be, and how they would quantify the thresholds since no self driving solution would be 100% accident-free.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
I also have felt that in my older age I’m gravitating more towards medium-length games with a proper story that you can finish and put away, as opposed to the endless MMOs and grindy ARPGs I enjoyed in my youth.
You could not have captured it better.
I am glad we had this conversation. Please do recommend me some more games. if you do not mind.
I was on a long break from gaming (almost a year) due to life, and plan to resume weekend gaming soon. For the same reason, I have been scouting these communities and threads for recommendations.
As of now, I zeroed down on the Mass Effect trilogy on the Steam Deck but I am also considering a second play through of Ghosts of Tsushima. I would prefer a light(er) game which is easy to get into and allow me to take breaks as I don’t think I will be able to pull off hour long sessions initially.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
I like when a game isn’t deliberately wasting your time.
Well said.
Also, PoE is a game that I have not visited in almost a decade. How is it now? When I played it last, it felt like Diablo 2 but with very little explicit story to experience (it had lore that one could discover). I gave up on the game after a few days since without a proper story, the grind got boring very quickly.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
I agree with all of your points about Blasphemous, good and bad. I knew the games (both Blasphemous 1 and 2) received mediocre reviews, but I still purchased both together during a sale because I really liked its art and setting.
However, when I played Blasphemous early last year, I had just got back into the platformers genre after around a long break. I had just finished Hollow Knight (just the first ending or two, I didn’t have the time or the patience to finish the other endings).
The wonderful art and interesting story did not alleviate the pains of the gameplay. Its contrast with Hollow Knight only made it worse. It was clunky, and the game seemed to (unintentionally) work against the player.
I did complete the first ending, as well as the first ending for the sequel. The mechanics of the sequel are a bit more forgiving, thankfully.
I still would not recommend the games, unless one really likes the art and setting of the games.
Also, thank you for introducing me to Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree. I have bookmarked it, and hope to play it soon.
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- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 5 weeks ago:
Having read the entire thread, I can only assume this to be sarcasm.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Fascinating. But isn’t this akin to stripes on a tiger or zebra, just visibly in a different electromagnetic spectrum?
Whereas bioluminescence involves producing/emitting of light like fireflies.