"New app. Preload will go live tomorrow or Tuesday" -ljdawson
Nobody's scared of Sync because it's closed-source. People like open source software for dozens of reasons, including auditing, but this really isn't the main reason people are asking for an open-source Sync app.
For me and many other FOSS advocates, it's just a nice thing to have as a power-user. See something broken? No problem -- fix it and send it. The project gets free labor and the user gets a better experience. Many projects retain absolute control over their UX while still keeping the source open for optimizations & fixes -- it's not an issue of creative control.
There's exactly one good reason for broadly used software to be closed source: to make money. It's simply harder to sell an app if people can compile & sideload it for free. FWIW: I think that reason alone is already a perfectly good justification for ljdawson keeping the app closed-source if that's what he chooses to do.
They were entering a phase of what you might call “fiction-debt” where the past choices in the story were beginning to slow down the story and make it less intriguing. [...] It can also be argued that this “fiction-debt” is why they had to go into the past and do a pre-sequel with Half-Life: Alyx.
That's an interesting idea. I agree... though, I think that the choice to switch lead characters was more instrumental than the choice to go with a prequel. I wonder if Valve internally ever seriously considered ditching Gordon when they were making HL2? It's funny to imagine what the fan reception to that might have looked like!
For real. OP needs to give up on this ridiculous notion of tabbed whitespace and learn to use real, monospaced indentation. How wide is a tab? OP couldn't tell you because tabs are inherently dishonest -- a lie concocted by big keyboard to poison the unwashed programmer masses.
Yes, we're the biggest anime community currently on the Fediverse... but 3K subscribers is still a far cry from 7M+. Admittedly, that's an apples-to-oranges comparison since the subreddit has 10+ years of accumulated dead users boosting their stats, but 3 orders of magnitude is nevertheless a stark gap.
More importantly: there's a decently large group of individuals who can be found participating in almost every single /r/anime discussion thread -- people who go back years in the community -- such as LeonKevlar and ShimmeringSky. If you frequented the subreddit, you've probably talked to them at some point and recognize their presence. IMO: without converting pillars like them, this place cannot claim to be the direct successor to /r/anime.
FWIW: we don't need to be successors. Even if the subreddit dwarfs us, we're still a top-50 Lemmy community in terms of subscribers (source). We're big enough to have good discussion threads and those will be the engine of our long-term success. Everything else will come with time if we can just keep people coming back to talk about the things that they love watching.
It doesn't really matter if the subreddit joins us or ignores us, because the subreddit never held a monopoly on anime discussion in the first place (e.g.: AnimeCorner Community, MAL Forums).
I use Anilist because it has the best API. The best API means that it has first-class support across every single app in my anime "stack":
- AL-Chan (Android client)
- MAL-Sync (Webextension)
- Miru (Desktop anime viewer)
- Saikou (Android anime viewer)
- Saikou TV (AndroidTV anime viewer)
- Tachiyomi (Android manga viewer)
If your computer can theoretically do something, you can probably make that happen using Python. Most people don't use Python to make their own software, though. Rather, they use it to automate tasks by gluing together software made by other people.
If automating stuff sounds useful or appealing to you, then yeah, learn you a Python. If that sounds like a waste of time... well, why learn something you won't use? There's certainly a joy to be had to the learning itself and there's plenty to be said about how it may broaden your own thinking, but these are intrinsic rewards you can only discover for yourself.
Why not keep it simple? Use the classic Lemmy logo but with question marks for eyes.
Huh! I appear to have fallen victim to misinformation. I stand corrected and I apologize for not properly confirm such a strong claim before repeating it like that.
I suppose a more accurate way to put it is that yay has been slower to adopt new features (e.g.: yay#336 vs paru#260), but otherwise remains a current and well-maintained piece of software.
Unfortunately, kbin instances are unavailable via Lemmy right now due to hosting problems on kbin's side of the equation (see Kbin Codeberg #101). This will probably be fixed soon, so keep an eye on that issue for progress.
Even if it were working, however, there's actually something of a required ritual that you'll need to go through when subscribing to an external community which your instance is not already federated to (i.e.: communities where nobody on SDF is currently subscribed). Here are the steps you'll need to follow:
- In the community search, paste in the following pattern:
!community@instance.domain(e.g.:!technology@beehaw.org) - Press [Enter], wait for the search to finish (it's normal to see no results)
- Wait a few minutes
- Refresh the search page and search for the common name this time (e.g.: "Technology")
- The community should appear and be available for subscription now
FWIW: There are plans to improve this unintuitive workflow in the future (see Lemmy Backend Github #2951).
If these steps don't work, it's possible that the community may simply be too new. You'll sometimes need to wait an hour or so after a community has been created for it to start being available on external instances.
Fixed link which points to your own home instance: !youshouldknow@lemmy.world
Template format for those interested: [!youshouldknow@lemmy.world](/c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world)
FYI: yay is no longer maintainedUse Consider paru insteadparu as an alternative option; it's written in Rust and has better version tracking for *-git packages (won't miss upgrades if the AUR version isn't tracked, won't do pointless upgrades if the AUR version changes but HEAD remains unchanged)
As an AMD user on Wayland who primarily uses Steam/Proton, I haven't had any Wayland-related issues with gaming at all. This isn't surprising, since the compositor used by Steam Deck (Gamescope) is also Wayland-based.
FYI: If you ever do have compositor-related issues (X11 OR Wayland), you can almost always fix the issue by running the game in a nested Gamescope instance by editing the game's launch command.
It's been a thing for some time now. From what I understand, Reddit flags certain keywords in subreddit names that they don't like (such as "lemmy"). Flagged subreddits are blocked in mobile browsers, which is their way of steering casual users away from content they don't want getting extra attention.