Kaldo @ Kaldo @beehaw.org

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The genie is out of the bottle and discord is unfortunately here to stay for the foreseeable future. What we need are good reliable tools to export all this data to an external service / knowledge base. At least that way they could be picked up by web search and be accessible without a discord account one day down the line when discord goes to shit.

I guess the point I have an issue with here is 'ability to do things not specifically trained on'. LLMs are still doing just that, and often incorrectly - they basically just try to guess the next words based on a huge dataset they trained on. You can't actually teach it anything new, or to put it better it can't actually derive conclusions by itself and improve in such way - it is not actually intelligent, it's just freakishly good at guessing.

You're bunding all of it together. I don't want EA to run their marketing campaign or mastodon (although why not - it'd add legitimacy to the platform and I can easily block/not follow them), but I do want smaller youtubers posting there, I want artists to share news or boost other artists. I want developers to post announcements about what they are working on or when an update drops for their game. I want developers to have their personal accounts there and share stories about the development too.

All of this i get on twitter. I haven't gotten any of it on mastodon because none of these people have moved off twitter, and never will because mastodon doesn't want to give them a platform on which they can reach the same audience.

The moment you get actual content creators to move off twitter and provide their content on mastodon, I'm deleting it too. Until then I don't really see mastodon being a proper replacement, if anything it looks like bsky is taking the lead in that area unfortunately. Besides, half of mastodon community is seemingly against the idea of becoming mainstream anyway... so I dunno if it's ever going to work out that way.

Riftbreaker has a much more "hands on" action approach rather than being an RTS but you might like it, it's a good game.

Im also waiting for Diplomacy is not an option to leave early access, seems like a promising title although it's kinda simple.

Would you say Age of Darkness is worth buying now or should I wait until it's completed? It looked interesting but reviews are mixed when it comes to bugs, technical performance and content overall.

What? 😥 I was/am so hyped for TWAU2, the first one was awesome. Why is that studio so cursed...

Ty for this, just did it. Like hell im going to trust some summary from a glorified autocomplete algorithm, ive seen them get it completely wrong and interpret it in biased ways.

I used thunderbird as a mail client for a while but eventually just gave up and switched to the web UIs, it was simpler and good enough. I didn't know the calendar was that good, I should give it a try, thanks. Are there any specific features or use cases that make it stand above other (mail) calendars?

Nextcloud seems like maybe too much for what I need and kinda loses its point if it's just local for one user, no? I tried to install it at one point locally with docker to try it out and honestly, seeing all the required configuration or a simple local setup asking me to understand and use reverse proxies and stuff like that put me off the whole idea. Maybe some people enjoy that process but it is way over-engineered for me.

I do like 4x and GSG titles for their complexity but I miss the strategy games where you see the actual units moving around. Even better if you are one of those units! Real time action also always ends up being reflex /speed / micro oriented rather than depend on slow strategy so I'm not sure if this is one of those cursed problems and they can't coexist...

Are you following a lot of hashtags? To me that was just a recipe to disaster, my feed almost became as deranged and unhinged as the "federated" feed which at times made twitter look tame. I mostly just follow a few people now that seemed like they are posting interesting stuff, hoping their boosts or favorites would lead to other like-minded people (it didn't).

The more LLM stuff gets banned the better. I'm really tired of seeing those "AI summaries of articles" that are completely unreliable since they change the tone, miss important bits, show bias or sometimes add completely new made up sentences to it. If you want to make a summary write it yourself instead of relying on a glorified auto complete tool to do it for you...

Yep, without actual big content creators the platform is just randos talking about their private life. That's not inherently a bad thing but Mastodon often feels to me more like Facebook for software developers than something like Twitter where'd if actually find interesting new people to follow or art/music/games to enjoy.

Lack of proper discovery tools and algorithm is also a big issue.

That's a tough question and my answer usually depends on the mood but I think mad max fury road has got to be up there near the top of the list. It's just a perfect movie. Interesting hook and story, amazing action scenes and visuals, chilling music, amazing performances of everyone involved... Every few years I just get the urge to re-watch it and it's always fun.

Funny you'd bring FFXIV up, I guess you haven't been around for EW's release? :D

I use Fluent Reader but I have to admit it's a bit janky in terms of UX. It also doesn't have built in feed discovery like inoreader but at least its (ad)free. It does its job well enough.

Jerboa has been logging me out constantly to the point I'm considering trying some other app. Even kbin PWA has been working better for me in this regard.

It definitely feels like they have in the past decade. When I last used Linux everyone would just dump Ubuntu on you, give you a nice pat on the head and wish you good luck. PopOS got big at one point but I think there were some issues when LTT tried it that gave it a bad rep. I haven't even heard of 90% of distros in this thread.

If I were doing it on some spare PC maybe I'd find it fun too but I rely too much on my main workstation to just constantly reinstall stuff on it, and dual booting looks like a risk/hassle too. I am prepared for the inevitable day I take the plunge into linux for good, hopefully the number of distros doesn't triple by then ^^

I really should have known better than to expect a consensus in a topic like this 😁 Ask 10 linuxheads which disto is the best and you'll get 12 different answers