ElectroVagrant
@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
Another traveler of the wireways.
- Comment on Wheeling wheels in a wheelbarrow is weally wonderful. 2 days ago:
RIP, take my wheels away, I wiped out on the wheelie!
- Comment on Wheeling wheels in a wheelbarrow is weally wonderful. 2 days ago:
It weally was, I can’t believe I whiffed that wheelie
- Submitted 2 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Whiplash from bouncing between shows 3 days ago:
Honestly that’s one of my favorite parts of anthology/episodic shows. You get a loose theme of what to expect but each episode can pleasantly surprise you.
- Submitted 3 days ago to anime@ani.social | 10 comments
- Comment on is there a community for asking specific questions such as “is this user a troll”, “why do people act this way,” “what should I do”, etc.? 1 week ago:
I don’t think so. The largest ask communities, according to their own descriptions, say they’re for more open-ended questions, for AskLemmy@lemmy.ml seems to be more lax about it (and it seems like maybe AskLemmy@lemmy.world has kinda relaxed on it too).
There’s the newer !ask@lemm.ee that doesn’t have the open-ended part to their description, so might be a good fit.
- Comment on Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Personally not much into short form video, but thought I’d keep people in the loop on new entrants to the field. From the sounds of it this is still very early in development given the various missing features mentioned at the end.
- Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 8 comments
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 2 weeks ago:
Ubisoft cannot complain when gamers “pirate” their games then.
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t theft and all that.
- Comment on YSK: If the frontpage constantly looks like the same 5 - 8 posts, try sorting by "Hot". 2 weeks ago:
Also if you don’t want to manually switch it all the time, go into your account settings and change the sort type to whatever you prefer. Similar should apply in apps, with a bonus: some apps will let you change default comment sort setting as well.
- Comment on Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions 2 weeks ago:
Oh, at the time of writing I wasn’t sure if the thread title would display in their notifications with the mention, so I wrote that just in case.
- Comment on Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions 2 weeks ago:
Meant to comment this earlier. On your last point so far as I’m aware there’s currently no way to create a link post (direct URL lemmy link as you say) from Mastodon/microblog to Lemmy. The reason your test post is linking back to the Mastodon instance is because of the image attachment, because you can create image posts between the two.
If you drop the image attachment, while it won’t look as nice, you can get the separate title, link, and body text without it looking too bad. Unfortunately it will lose the visual draw in the process, but that seems to be the workaround for the time being.
- Comment on Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions 2 weeks ago:
The main ones would be @nutomic@lemmy.ml and @dessalines@lemmy.ml, which I just mentioned so should be no need to mention again I think.
Btw for their benefit, adding the context: post with feedback and questions on Lemmy-Mastodon interoperation.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 3 weeks ago:
It may not do much depending on the mods/admins, but it never hurts to report and downvote comments or posts like that.
Emphasis on reporting there, as I think sometimes that stuff lingers around because people have made a habit of only downvoting and blocking those doing that regularly. I realize in your examples it’s more likely bias or bigotry respectively, but still.
Report first, then downvote and block. Doing only the latter only makes your experience a little better, the former may help the community.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
Remember: $80 from the big companies is only the starting price given the various editions and other monetization schemes they may push.
Also the scale and technical demands of their games, and thus their cost, have in large part been pushed by them, despite their attempts to turn it around and say it’s all organic consumer demand.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
For those that may only vote and otherwise lurk, there’s a decent amount.
The inability to create multi-communities/reddits (or feeds as Piefed calls them), the absence of post-folding/deduplication for when someone posts the same article to multiple communities (sometimes similar, sometimes distinct), the absence of keyword filtering to automatically filter out stuff from local/all feeds one’s uninterested in, and these are just a few from the top of my head for those that mostly lurk.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos. 3 weeks ago:
In other words, vibe coders are today’s technologically accelerated script kiddie.
That’s arguably worse as the produced scripts may largely work and come with even less demand for understanding than a script kid’s cobbling together of code may have demanded.
- Comment on A digital desktop toy shredder/incinerator for writing out and promptly destroying one's thoughts would be nice some days 5 weeks ago:
Huh, that’s cool! Thanks!
p.s. I meant a digital widget/thing, but it’s cool to know this tool exists!
- Comment on Looking for simple self-hosted image editor / resizer app 5 weeks ago:
Was thinking the same and you can.
Minimal fucking around needed too, just pkg install imagemagick then navigate filesystem to images ya want to adjust and magick however desired to reduce the file size.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on I have a bunch of questions: Whats the best way to get this platform's feed to compete with reddit? 5 weeks ago:
No, sorry. To put it in your terms Lemmy would be a “platform” like how you describe Mastodon/Pixelfed.
The reason I suggested mentioning feddit.org instead is because it’s what you’re using and where someone else could sign up and join easily.
Mentioning Lemmy (or Mastodon/Pixelfed) doesn’t tell people any site to sign up on, just what tech they’re built with.
- Comment on I have a bunch of questions: Whats the best way to get this platform's feed to compete with reddit? 5 weeks ago:
Focus on making posts you want to discuss or would want to see in communities that interest you and you want to see active.
While I’d argue it’s better to shake off the platform thinking, the simple way to put it would be that you simply refer to the site you’re using, feddit.org, when mentioning it to others. The umbrella term for these connected sites is either fediverse or the open social web, whichever you prefer. Each site like this connects with one another, but given formatting differences (Pixelfed is more image-focused, Mastodon is microblogging), posts shared between them try to display in ways fitting one another’s format which can sometimes look rough.
You may see content from these other sites when browsing the main feed/front page set to All, which displays content from elsewhere that others on your site (feddit.org) have subscribed to.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 5 weeks ago:
May want to cross-post this to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml.
- Comment on What about AT protocol? 1 month ago:
There’s also this:
frontpage.fyiNot sure which of the two has been around longer, but looks like frontpage is also pretty slow going.
- Comment on Two Point Museum just launched as Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam 1 month ago:
Unfortunately this has Denuvo to restrict your use of your purchase. Was hoping after their first title getting criticized for this they may have changed course on that, but appears not.
Would recommend waiting till that’s removed, maybe in a GOG release.
- Comment on Best thing you can do for genuinely free stuff is share it with others and talk it up 1 month ago:
Pretty much, yeah. Buried by marketing and mostly kept that way by it dominating conversations.
Been occasionally posting creative commons music and some fully free games to try to be the change I want to see.
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Your ignorance means it was shiny and new to you, and that’s okay!
- Comment on Creating an artificial sense of touch. 1 month ago:
Great steps! Non-invasive methods may be preferable, but restoration of sensation is restoration.