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- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 10 hours ago:
There is a series of tabletop games called MicroMacro that are sort of the same idea with a similar art style if you are into that. You have to solve various mysteries by tracing sequences of events. Good fun either solo or with friends.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 1 week ago:
I’ve been waiting forever for this to get a real price cut but instead it just got 50% more expensive. I guess I will just have to be patient for another decade.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Nice, now just another year to go while they fix it to run well on the Steamdeck.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favourite city builders? 5 months ago:
Anno 1800
I’ve been eyeing the boardgame version which is also highly regarded. I guess will have to look into the original too. Always fun when hobbies intersect.
- Comment on Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me. 6 months ago:
If you have an email workflow that you like then something like rss2email might be an option. You simply feed your incoming rss into your email. You’ll want to auto-tag (or otherwise organize) these emails to keep them separate from regular emails.
I’ve been using such a setup for the past 15 years.
- Comment on Games that still need more patience: what games released a year ago (or older) are you waiting for a sale on? Or that need another patch? 6 months ago:
With Fez I feel I may have forever missed the window when I could have picked it up. It used to go on sale for $1.99 with an all time low of $0.99. Now it never gets under $4.99.
In a vacuum I’d probably just pick it up for 4.99 but knowing the pricing history I just can’t do it.
- Comment on My opinion on Bone conduction earphones 6 months ago:
I’ve done many of hours of phonecalls on mine. Mic quality is acceptable, slightly mushy. Wind is an issue for example when riding a bike at higher speeds. Wearing a hoodie over them can block the mic too.
- Comment on My opinion on Bone conduction earphones 6 months ago:
I’ve been using various Aftershokz/Shokz models for many years and well over a thousand hours. They are a great option for speech-focused contents like podcasts, audiobooks and that’s what I use them for. I almost never use them for music, the lack of bass (even with earplugs) just doesn’t do it for me. But I don’t find any earbuds satisfactory for music either so maybe I am more picky than most.
I agree with OP about the controls. They are workable but could be much better even considering the limited inputs. I particularly hate the choice of triple-click for backwards-seek and I mess up the timing half the time. Another pet-peeve is the loud beep on play/pause that cannot be turned off. Using the phone/computer controls instead of the on-device ones avoid these issues.
As far as models I originally got the Aeropex and later on “downgraded” to the OpenMove. The audio quality is comparable between both, the only thing you are missing with the lower end model is comfort - but that is highly subjective! I actually prefer the way the OpenMove feels.
I really wish that there was more competition in this space. The Shokz products are a bit overpriced and slow to evolve and the rest of the options I’ve seen seems lower quality and worse form factor. Would love to hear if anybody has found a different brand that they prefer of the Shokz models.
- Comment on Which microblogging platform should i ideally host? 10 months ago:
gotosocial might we worth checking out. It provides Mastodon-compatible APIs (so you can run Mastodon clients and UIs against it) but it’s less resource hungry and easier to deploy (in my experience). The caveat is that it’s less mature.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 10 months ago:
They federate because it’s the most efficient way to scrape fediverse instances and build profiles on fediverse users.
That’s not true. Quietly scraping is much easier to implement than integrating AP into your platform.
- Comment on @PostWatchBot - notify new comments on a post 11 months ago:
Subscribe to a post: just mention the bot in the comments.
I am not a huge fan of the noise this adds the threads. Would be nice if Lemmy frontends could provide better ways to interact with bots. For example custom buttons that would PM the bot with the appropriate message to trigger the action
- Comment on Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates 11 months ago:
And keeping the v2 (or v3+WebRequest) support in the browser is not enough, they’d also have to start running their own extension store since presumably the Chrome one will no longer carry such extensions.
- Comment on What inspired you to pursue a career or hobby in programming? 11 months ago:
After typing in a bunch of programs on my 1KB Sinclair ZX-81 I wanted to understand how they worked and wanted to make some of my own.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Gentoo is great if you know how you want things to work and know Linux well enough to make it happen. Gentoo gives you flexibility, transparency and great tooling to help you get there.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I am sorry but this is just completely wrong. Look at the live feed of mastodon.social which will give you an actual sampling of what people talk about and tell me how many Linux related comments do you see among the first 100 or so. I got 2 on my first try and 0 on the second.
I happen to be a long time Linux user but I don’t seek out Linux stuff on Mastodon. My feed is mostly boardgame related stuff, which is what I am here for and what I follow. There is no algorithm so what you get entirely depends on what you follow.
- Comment on Threads third-party app support could become a reality 1 year ago:
At the moment you can’t even use the web UI without installing the official app so I am skeptical.
- Comment on Fedi on Fire! - Streams fediverse posts in realtime 1 year ago:
Looking at the code it seems to be getting the feed from the
mastodon.socialinstance’s federated timeline. So it’s definitely doesn’t stream “the fediverse” but a decent chunk of it. - Comment on The fastest ever human-made object keeps breaking its own speed record 1 year ago:
My butt is orbiting the center of our galaxy at around 500K mph so that thing still has some ways to go.
- Comment on What is your favorite software stack for full-stack web development? 1 year ago:
Go with the frontend kept as simple as possible. No frameworks, only libraries.
- Comment on Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Raise $1B to Design the 'iPhone of AI' 1 year ago:
I am pretty sure that giving you more control over your device is not what they have in mind.
- Comment on What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels? 1 year ago:
Personally I am comfortable with that as long as there is a public git repo. An issue tracker is the one thing I’d miss the most. I think how well this goes down will greatly depend on the project’s target audience.
notmuch is a project that I follow closely and very occasionally contribute to that works this way. - Comment on What would it take for you to move away from Github? 1 year ago:
Already moved in the sense that I am not creating any new projects on GH. I am rehosting old projects opportunistically. No plans to get rid of the account unless GH does something really messed up.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’d really like to see some client-API consolidation. A common API that could efficiently handle both “microblog” style and threaded discussions (lemmy etc) and leave the door open to other discussion formats too. This would allow for clients/frontends to flourish even more and backends could compete on features and efficiency. The backend specific features could be expressed through an extension mechanism of the common API.