sj_zero @ sj_zero @lotide.fbxl.net

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I notice that hexbear is defederated from exploding-heads.

Let's just say "similar reasons manifested differently"

Its reddit, so what you really mean is "karma requirements pretty much just force you express opinions the botfarms and terminally online agree with for a while"

I could deal with the doxxing and such by just routinely deleting my account to maintain opsec (deleted a bunch of high karma accounts). The reason I finally left reddit was the downvote brigades for any opinions that weren't specifically aligned with the zeitgeist.

What's even the point? If I want my opinions artificially implanted in me, I'll just go watch cable news.

I still don't understand why they thought Neelix would be the breakout character when every breakout character has been something like a Vulcan or an android who looks in on humanity from the outside and acts to comment on the human condition from the point of view of someone with a completely different way of being.

Oh and look at that! The breakout character in Voyager ended up being a former Borg struggling to deal with humanity and individuality! (People go "hot girl in catsuit" but there were plenty of hot girls in Voyager)

I guess it just goes to show that by this era the people running trek didn't really understand it.

You're free to disagree and think it's a perfect sequel that has everything you ever wanted out of a chrono trigger sequel. Lots of people like it. I just don't feel that it's a real sequel.

As I recall it's the time devourer which is lavos after merging with part of schala, but it takes more than a final boss to make something a real sequel to another thing.

Matrix is a standard, so you don't need to use synapse or element. I'm shocked at how well matrix Conduit works on trivial hardware.

Nothing surpasses chronotrigger even after all these years.

Two contemporaries of chronotrigger that were much different but still quite good are terranigma and seiken detensu 3.

Two games that claimed to be trying to do something similar mechanically that are RPGs are septerra core and anachronox. Both are for PC and should run on a potato these days.

The legacy of Kain series and in particular the soul reaver offshoot has a great story and time travel elements, but they're more action puzzle games.

Really good final fantasy of the era, but not a real sequel to Chrono trigger.

The biggest thing you can do about it is self-host or purchase hosting from a third party that isn't likely to sell or use your data.

chkdsk in dos never had the ability to scan the disk surface for defects, ndd did that, and then magically scandisk showed up and looked awfully similar to ndd.

But I agree, some really great tools. And sysinfo was our de facto "how fast is this thing?" for years.

And as I recall, Norton had all the tools long before MS-DOS included them by default. It was sort of a dick move by Microsoft, the sort of thing they're famous for now.

I remember there was one program that claimed it would update the microcode on your CPU to allow you to basically update your CPU for free to a newer type of processor, for example making your 486 operate like a pentium pro.

Entirely fake, but given the miracles of the time it seemed plausible.

"I don't remember a performance penalty, because everything was so slow it didn't matter"

This was a double edged sword. For a while I wanted to play with Windows 95, and my hard drive wasn't large enough. So what I did is I'd run drivespace on dos 6.22 which would double the size of the drive reported and let me install windows 95.

Big problem is that this is prior to journaling filesystems, and Windows 95 was buggy as hell. So windows 95 would crash, it would damage the File Allocation Table, the drivespace file would get corrupted, and you'd have to reinstall windows from scratch all over again.

Really frustrating era of computing, but on the other hand, something like drivespace made the impossible possible even if it was flawed, and many such technologies were coming out that were like that. Video game console emulation in the late 90s was another such thing that was like "What? This shouldn't be possible....should it?", as well as stuff like downloading video or audio, or even voice chat over a modem which is sort of insane when you think about it.

So a lot of stuff was frustrating and broken, but also miraculous and impressive. Really interesting time to be in love with computers as a hobby.

I'm a millennial. First computer was a TRS-80 CoCo 2 with extended color basic. Then a C64 (which was sort of disappointing since extended color basic was way better than anything on the commodore, but the games were much better), and then I started with an 8088 with a herc monochrome monitor and no hard drive and only went up from there.

I'm not referring to that as much, as just a lot of people stopped posting altogether. Communities that were somewhat active just stopped.

I mean... I already use ubuntu, so...

A "Tankie" is someone who approves of authoritarian communist regimes. This is a reference to the use of tanks by such regimes against anti-communist protests. They had a powerful presence on lemmy before any reddit migrations occurred.

In terms of some communities that seem decent...

mander.xyz has some really decent science communities and generally they don't head off into politics land.

slrpnk.net has some decent communities regarding green energy and the like. They naturally have some more political posts, but it isn't too insufferable.

I've been pretty happy with the posts I see from lemmy.sdf.org, still computer stuff but they seem pretty decent.

@realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city has a good habit of posting a lot of either neutral or non-political content over on narwhal.city in various communities. I think he's also over on kbin.projectsegfau.lt, but I don't know too much about that server.

cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social has been reasonably decent with lots of cyberpunk stuff

It seems like a lot of communities dropped off a cliff about a week ago.

I think it's bots because of just how quickly a post gets nuked. Like, there's no way that many people even read the post and suddenly you've got 50 downvotes. There's just no way that many people read what I said, processed it, and decided it was so terrible it needed to be downvoted.

One of the reasons I'm happy to be back on lotide, I don't even see the votes for anything but posts.

People hated exploding-heads and wolfballs for expressing the wrong opinions on lemmy, but the thing that shut down those sites ultimately wasn't defederation per se, but the fact that lemmy's architecture inherently lends itself to authoritarian digital feudalism. Now that community is over on nostr where the authoritarian centralized censorship isn't baked into the architecture.