Started reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. I really like the style of writing, so much detail into the main character's mind.
It is also impressive just how relevant the topics are today, for a book written back in 1993 (climate change, wealth disparity, etc.). It's really fascinating (scary?) to see what the author thought the U.S. would look like in 2024 and onwards.
Ventoy is awesome, love being able to load a ton of different boot images on a single USB drive! The only issue I've run into is the occasional image that won't boot. Not sure if this is expected, or you need to sometimes tweak settings to get it working?
It isn't how it works today. I'm talking about sometime in the distant (or near) future. Surely at some point AI will have the capabilities on par with at least a low level hacker.
Or, if you still think that's a stretch, just imagine all the ways perfectly legitimate software can cost companies money. Not through malicious design, but just by mistakes.
It was definitely ahead of its time! Not really sure why it faded away, I guess pressure from Steam (pun intended), and games moving to private in-game server browsers? Along with many other options for voice chat.
For those that didn't use it, Xfire was basically a combination of messenger, voice chat, and a server browser for games back in the day.
As far as I know, it was also one of the earliest ways to stream your gameplay for others to watch. I remember trying it out years before Twitch was around.
I finally read it not long ago, and it was really interesting! Especially given how long ago it was written, seems like it established a lot of the themes you see in modern post apocalyptic media.
That would only really work well if you had an equal number / frequency of posts coming in on your 'Everything' and 'Subscription' feeds. Otherwise the posts from your subscriptions could pretty easily get 'overwhelmed'.
I think the idea is, see almost everything you are subscribed to, but also don't miss any very popular posts. Ideally I'd love to be able to specify the ratio even. Something like "show me 5 posts from my subscriptions, followed by 1 post from another feed (e.g. Everything)".
Thanks for your work on converting Sync to use Lemmy! I've tried just about every App for Lemmy, and Sync seems to certainly be the most feature-filled one so far.
As far as pricing goes, I don't see a problem with experimenting on price and seeing what people are willing to pay. To the people saying $20 is too much... we are talking about removing the main source of revenue in the app, forever. That's a pretty tough thing to figure out the 'right' price for, and might take some experimentation. If I was the developer, you can bet I'd start the price high though, rather than too low.
ArmoredCavalry @ ArmoredCavalry @lemmy.world Posts 16Comments 86Joined 2 yr. ago
Started reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. I really like the style of writing, so much detail into the main character's mind.
It is also impressive just how relevant the topics are today, for a book written back in 1993 (climate change, wealth disparity, etc.). It's really fascinating (scary?) to see what the author thought the U.S. would look like in 2024 and onwards.