Chobbes @ Chobbes @lemmy.world

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I was kind of disappointed with all of the planets after leaving Anachronox and I kind of just stopped playing at some point. I kind of want to pick it up again but I’m not super into the combat system either.

I liked the lore, but the game was a bit of a slog for me. Just kind of sick of that kind of open world game, I guess! I don’t think it’s a bad game at all, but I can imagine others might feel similarly. Also I guess I really wasn’t invested much in what was happening story wise in the present in that game and the side quests are just aggressively mediocre and I kind of regretted bothering with any of them.

Are you aware of ctl + shift + t to reopen a closed tab? You can hit it multiple times too. Totally fine if you prefer this solution, but this is a useful tip regardless!

For sure, but I don’t think the average non-technical person messes with that at all. Privacy is technically a concern with wifi and Bluetooth on because your phone basically acts as a beacon, but there are some mitigations in place to switch mac addresses and stuff fairly regularly.

Is something local like org / org-roam (maybe in a git repo for sync) out of the question? If you’re messing with IMAP for this I can’t imagine a git repo with text files (optionally gpg encrypted, well supported by org) would be off the table.

Eh… I’m not sure it has anything to do with AirTags and the find my network. They weren’t a thing until a couple of years after the 3.5mm jack was removed. It’s probably a benefit now, but I suspect most people don’t bother turning off Bluetooth anyway.

I'm not sure if RSS usage has really fallen. Most websites still have RSS / Atom feeds, and I hear about a lot more people getting into it these days. I'm sure the proportion of people using the internet who use RSS feeds has gone down a lot, but in absolute terms there might be as many users as ever? Maybe it's not quite at the heights it was when everybody was using Google Reader, I'm sure quite a few people gave up when that died. Though, if you count podcasts as RSS then it probably more than makes up for it!

You would need an RSS reader, and then you subscribe to the RSS feeds in the reader and it will automatically fetch and aggregate articles / posts / videos / whatever content that gets published. There are browser plugins to do it, separate applications, and even websites like feedly and bazqux that do it. If you're inclined you can even host your own RSS service with something like tt-rss or FreshRSS. Having a hosted service like feedly or bazqux or your own can be nice if you want access to your feeds on multiple device, with synchronization about which things you have already read / seen. I personally host my own FreshRSS instance and have connected to it with Reeder / Unread / NetNewsWire / Newsflash / the web interface.

An RSS feed is really just a simple file hosted on a website that basically just lists new content. RSS feed readers basically just automatically check these lists for updates. It's pretty simple, but it's really nice for subscribing to things you actually care about.

I feel like we’re still working on this lol. The amount of people who don’t properly wash their hands is really nasty.

Most distros really aren’t too different fundamentally, so if you’re happy where you are there isn’t much reason to switch. It can be fun to swap just to see what’s different (and learn what differences are really just skin deep), but you don’t have to. Some distros have more big ideas behind them which can be interesting (like nixos) but mostly they all feel pretty similar.

I dunno, overall Rosetta 2 seems to be incredibly successful. It seems like most people were able to transition without worrying too much about whether their software would work at all or not, which I think is undoubtedly the smoothest an architecture transition like this has ever been.

I mean… On Linux you’re going to be running a bunch of open source applications that have been compiled for ARM specifically. A huge problem with Windows on ARM is going to be running legacy x86 / x86_64 applications. You’re probably not contending with this problem at all on Linux, and I suspect if you were you would be similarly unimpressed (you can get Linux to transparently execute executables for different platforms using binfmt_misc and qemu but it’s slooooooow).

Honestly the better question might be why the Mac transition to Apple silicon has been so smooth. Part of this is that Apple cares a lot less about keeping legacy software working and companies will make native versions of their software ASAP. But Apple also has a good translation layer with Rosetta for this, and has custom silicon (which Microsoft does not) and I would not be surprised if part of this custom silicon involves extended instructions which make running x86 applications more feasible, but I don’t know the details and this is just speculation on my part.

Right, but that doesn't mean your precautions were worthless. Even if you are eventually going to catch it, delaying the infection reduces how much it can spread and means fewer people get it at the same time (reducing the impact). Some of these precautions will also reduce the severity of the illness, which is a huge win for you personally! Of course none of these precautions are perfect, but they're still helpful and limit the damage caused by the pandemic.

You're probably already well aware of this, of course! I've just seen a bunch of people saying things like "well I did X and I still got sick, so we shouldn't do X", which I don't think is the right conclusion for something that impacts the entire population. There's billions of dice rolls in this equation, and you got some bad luck (I'm sorry you got sick :( ), but I think you still gave yourself better odds and improved the odds for everybody else as well, which is great!

Maybe some? I’ve never been able to convince a “normal” person to install an ad blocker and it baffles me. Click the install button, please, I’m begging you T_T.

It’s harder than a beginner would expect, but also not as bad as everybody says. It’s doable and we shouldn’t discourage everybody from trying it (but don’t use it for anything important until you’re sure it works). Just make sure you set up SPF / DKIM / DMARC and rDNS properly and you’ll most likely be fine. If you’re scared or frustrated you can use a relay for send. Receiving is easy.

Yeah, these are some good points. I don't mean to say that GitHub is a trivially implemented frontend to git, or that it provides no value at all to be clear! All of these features are great and really useful, and it would be sad to suddenly use them were GitHub to explode... But in the grand scheme of things projects can still migrate relatively easily to other services or self hosted ones, and my impression is that most of these features (excluding GitHub pages, which are super popular) are fairly underutilized -- at least in my experience I mostly just interact with GitHub to do PRs and issues, and I don't think I'm alone in that. The disappearance of these bonus features would certainly impact some projects a lot, and suddenly losing issues and CI would SUCK, but it's not unrecoverable, and they're (arguably) a little bit tangential to the core product.

I also think that the free CI is a bit of an aside in the discussion of a federated GitHub like platform -- recreating GitHub as a fediverse thing would not suddenly make it so you can afford to foot the bill for CI, unfortunately (maybe you could have a pool of trusted volunteers to run it or something, but that's kind of tricky)... In terms of free CI resources, I don't think there's much of a way out of depending on big corporations like Microsoft to supply it to keep you on their platform. You're either going to depend on them, or you're going to have to pay for it yourself or accept donations somehow, right?

The free CI is really awesome, though... I've unfortunately hit the limits with my projects, but being able to just add the free GitHub CI is a huge win, especially when you can't convince your boss l organization to shell out for CI, so I definitely feel you there :(.

It seems less ergonomic for sure. I think all of these things can be quite manageable... But e-mail certainly feels noisy, especially if you're naively getting everything sent to your inbox directly and you can't silently edit things or withdraw / close them without making noise for a lot of other people. That said... Sometimes it seems like it'd be kind of nice to just use e-mail for this stuff.

Sure, I guess that's fair.

For me... By and large it still sounds like the most valuable thing is that you don't need to make multiple accounts, which is why I bring up single sign on. The interface for PRs or whatever doesn't make much difference to me, and I worry a bit about having different clients for PRs and issues because they might support different features or display things differently (everybody has their own markdown already, for instance...). It'd probably be fine, but it seems like it'd be about as annoying as having to log into separate gitlab / gitea instances with single sign on to me anyway.

It could be cool, though, and I'd be happy to see somebody build it. Don't let me poo-poo it.

Yeah, exactly. Almost all of a devs interactions with git don’t actually involve GitHub. It’s nice for reviewing PRs and posting issues… but the bulk of what we do is with git itself. It’s easy to move git repos between services… git is already a distributed version control system. It would be a pain if GitHub exploded, but it’s very much not an insurmountable problem, especially since every dev for a project will have a local copy of the code.

In some sense GitHub really doesn’t offer much. Like, the main thing is that it’s a nice interface for PRs and issues. If you’re just a dev working on stuff you mostly interact with git itself. Git repos themselves are distributed and very easy to move between platforms. So, like… losing GitHub would suck (you’d lose all of the issues and PRs), but it’d be fairly easy to just put the code base on another platform like gitlab or gitea or gogs or whatever. I’m not really that worried about GitHub exploding because of this.

That said it’s really pretty annoying when a project uses its own gitlab instance or something and you have to make an account to contribute or post an issue… it’s a relatively small barrier, but it’s enough of one that I won’t bother often.

I honestly don’t know what people want from a federated GitHub like service… do you just want like single sign on with OpenID? Because that’s basically the only benefit I can imagine, but maybe I have a shitty imagination.