As the question states. I have the skiils and know how to setup a new instsnce and from looking through the documentation its relatively straight forward. Im just wondering would it actually help the fediverse and lemmy as a whole? There seems to already be plenty of instances to choose from. What are your guys thoughts?
If you’re happy to pay whatever it costs to host then there’s no other disadvantage to this.
The only thing I can think of is if you somehow end up at odds with an admin of a big instance and they defederate your instance. Or perhaps in the future major instances decide to only federate with instances of a certain size, for some as of now unpredictable reason
For all the newcomers that aren’t aware, I just stumbled upon this insane drama. Apparently lemmy.ml is the result of a reddit sub ban of a bunch of pro-china bots who vigorously defend the Chinese government, and the two top admins are also the top devs of the Lemmy source software. Pretty terrible stuff!...
America IS making a lot of mistakes and im more in danger from the American government than the Chinese government and truthfully at this point more of the world is at threat of America than from China.
also the fact y’all think the chinese government abd the American government are at odds and never work together is very funny. the intelligence agencies across the world are bros my friend
I’ve just been scrolling through your collection, and thanks again for sharing, it was a real treat to see it all. So much great stuff, plus the odd nice surprise when I found something I have too (great to see Into the Valley by The Skids there!)
Was especially impressed by your collection of James Brown singles, that’s very cool. And I love that you have Radio Free Europe by R.E.M., plus all those early LPs - I have Document, but nothing earlier than that.
Fabulous stuff, really enjoyed seeing such a wonderful collection. Here’s to your next 1000! :-)
These days I mostly do emulation on my steam deck, so I use it's attached controller. It is a bit odd playing a game with playstation button prompts on it though.
With wii emulation it's nice that you can control the Wii cursor with the touchpad by setting it as a mouse.
I am your average 37-year-old woman. I game, I read, and I have cats. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon Azariah Kyras’ glorious speech about the Blood God Khorne, and I started quoting him at least once every day when my boyfriend and I were talking about random everyday things. He suggested I look into the Warhammer Universe....
I’m glad you’re liking it! If you haven’t already I really recommend checking out the audiobook books. They’ve helped me a lot with the odd pronunciations but the narrative atmosphere is awesome too!
Commercial availability specifically. Thanks to archivers and the such, there are usually options to play most things. While I personally don’t care about commercially buying most of these classics, I do find it odd how little ip owners seem to want to make some of these older titles available
Over reliance on algorithms has degraded the user experience to the point that the average user is drowning in ragebait and extremist politics, because they drive up engagement. Just like a toddler, algorithms don’t discriminate between good and bad attention, so everything that gets clicks is thrust forward. Now, you could...
Meta makes friends with everyone because they are playing the long con. They act nice to start, play by the rules, etc. nobody thinks they are nefarious.
Meta develops features that users want on top of the existing framework. These features are things everyone actually wants, not what meta wants because meta is hooking people -give them what they want so they use it, then walk it back later, perhaps silently as a “bug” that just never gets “fixed”- perhaps they suppress aspects of the platform, like make the community/individual finding hide the instance it’s on to make it feel more like centralized social media, perhaps they release entirely new features that enhance the experience. Either way, they make small changes because they can, which lowers the experience of those who interact with it because it’s intentionally buggy with FOSS versions. They likely have FOSS versions running so they can test compatibility to make sure they provide a slightly better experience (why wouldn’t they?)
Users join the meta instance for the enhanced features because they don’t actually care about how the fediverse works, they want a seamless experience (which currently the fediverse does not really offer, none of us can say otherwise)
Meta becomes the biggest instances of activity pub, but with enhancements that make other instances super buggy.
Nobody wants to be on the buggy instances so they switch to meta if they don’t care about privacy.
Meta pulls plug. Fediverse dies (they hope) or at least goes back to only being used by the small subset of the population that would never consider the giants to be options. They pulled all the people they could from what already existed.
Now whether or not that’s actually an issue for a platform that actively wants to be “counterculture” (which fedi absolutely does) is yet to be seen… but we already know what meta wants, which is money, and FOSS and money aren’t really compatible. Just on principle. So what meta wants and what they are doing are at odds currently, and I think it’s only a matter of time before they show the hand they have to play.
But I think that’s what the “defederate immediately” group is hoping to prevent. We all joined because we are sick of the hostile takeovers (even if the media companies technically have every right to do so with their own product) and to prevent being beholden to one of the major players. If everyone defederates immediately, meta won’t be able to actually embrace, because they aren’t being embraced back. At that point all they can really do is fork the software, but they would probably scrap it. It’s not exactly a great platform for a company that has their own.
Importantly, why else would they adopt it? What value does free and largely unmonotizeable software actually have for meta? If they wanted to for themselves, they could easily build a Twitter clone. They didn’t. They adopted a free open source platform. Why? What value does that hold for them over just making their own, if they don’t feel threatened by the alternative?
Lemmy decided to go with SHA256 for TOTP seed. This is a very odd move since many 2FA apps don’t support SHA256. I actually had to write a quick python script to spit out my 2FA code since Bitwarden doesn’t support it. Hopefully either Lemmy will change to SHA-1 or Bitwarden will start to support SHA256 seeds.
Yes, the paid version (in use here) can create those bibisco2 files, though only the auto-save backups are by default. As you said, by default, the work is in a type of database format with a gibberish GUID-like naming convention.
It’s the auto-save files we’re after.
I’m getting setup with an external drive large enough to write recovered files to, but I don’t like my odds at discerning how to add custom formats based on headers. I’ll watch some tutorials and see what I make of it.
Seems odd that if you win by 0.001% that’s treated the same as if you win by 50%. “You barely won, here’s the same mandate as someone who won soundly”...
Everyone got logged out after the recent site hack. For me, when I tried logging in once things were back up, it would tell me I logged in, but I’d actually stay logged out....
That was more my point. This is a fascinating thing to study! It’s new and from very far away and observations around it are odd! That’s all exciting! But that’s all exciting without having to force in, “ALIENS CONFIRMED???” into the conversation around it.
-There are other plot holes too. For example, when Jill is kidnapped Clive and Joshua just say “oh it’s cool, we still feel Shiva so we know she’s alive.” If that’s the case, why did Jill and Cid not feel the Phoenix the entire time Joshua was thought to be dead? The game also makes a big deal about how turning into Shiva is harming Jill’s body and Cid is shown to be turning to stone because he primed Ramuh too many times. Yet when you see Jill naked, her body is totally pristine for some reason. Joshua spent years gathering info on Ultima yet has no further info to give once he joins up with Clive. Early-game Joshua also conveniently wears the same hooded outfit as Ultima for some reason that’s never explained.
-Overall, the story relies on too many overdone anime tropes instead of going for something original. A lot of the plot can be guessed before it happened (e.g., Cid dying and the hideout being destroyed in that one mission were not shockers at all). Plot points like Barnabas being too powerful make no sense because Clive just goes and beats him the third time despite not really being that much more powerful (yes, he got access to Shiva but the game doesn’t really communicate this being a big power level increase, certainly not to the point where he can completely turn the odds in his favor).
-The ending falls flat too. It’s basically a rehash of the ending to Mass Effect 3.
-The characters are pretty badly written. Cid is retroactively made into a master inventor in the latter half of the game despite it never being mentioned before. Jill doesn’t really do anything noteworthy either. Even the part where she is trying to prove herself, her only purpose ends up being making an ice arena for Clive to fight in. Any characterization doesn’t come until side quests that are literally right before the last boss.
Game Systems:
-I struggle to think of any system in the game that actually worked well. Too much of it felt very half-baked.
-Side quests were almost all terrible and killed the pacing of the game. I recall one moment where Clive says “wow we really need to hurry” (I think this was to save Jill) right as the game opens up like 10 new side quests for Clive to complete. SqEnix already established that some quests are considered urgent quests where you aren’t allowed to free roam, why wasn’t this one? The same issue happens right before the last mission where the game dumps a bunch of side quests on you, sort of killing the momentum of the game. Now, granted, some of those endgame side quests were much better than the early game ones because they actually took the time to characterize the people Clive’s been interacting with the entire game. I just can’t help but feel that they needed to be spaced out better.
-Similarly to the above, being able to teleport to the hideout at almost any point really kills the immersion of story missions. Oh, you’re running into the windstorm to fight Garuda? That’s ok, take some time to teleport across the world to buy more potions.
-The maps themselves are pretty boring too. Sometimes quest objectives are 2 feet away from the quest start point. At some point, I ran through the desert map for like 30 seconds straight without encountering an enemy. The second part of Ash is just an empty field with no points of interest.
-Dungeons are almost all just straight hallways connected to giant rooms where you know the next batch of enemies will spawn. There is minimal opportunity for exploration.
-Stats don’t matter. The game only has 4 stats: damage, stagger, defense, and HP. It’s not clear how much of a practical upgrade a 225 damage weapon is over a 215 damage weapon in terms of killing speed so upgrades don’t even seem that impactful.
-Because of the lack of stats, the gear doesn’t matter because the stat upgrades they provide are so minor. There aren’t a ton of options to the point that I crafted some gear from a quest fairly early on and didn’t find an upgrade until like 10 hours later. Most of the accessories are pitifully weak (e.g., 10% damage to 1/6 of your skills that has a high cooldown).
-Related to the above, the loot also doesn’t matter. Most loot is crafting materials but there is almost nothing to craft so they just end up sitting there. The rest of the loot is stuff like 10 gil when I’m sitting on 400k or potions when I’m at full stock + full HP. Very rarely do you actually find a piece of gear in the wild and when you do, chances are that you already crafted something stronger if you’ve been keeping up with your side quests.
-Party members don’t matter. They don’t do much damage, they don’t have health bars to micromanage, they can’t be equipped with gear, often times they don’t even talk. I couldn’t tell you how many times I forgot that Jill wasn’t following me on a quest. I don’t even know why you have the option to control Torgal because nothing he does feels impactful (for example, compare this to Astral Chain where your pet is an integral part of your combat). I’d rather they just let me add more items in the quick slots that Torgal takes up so that I don’t have to pause the game to use a Stoneskin Potion.
-Trash mobs don’t matter because you can just spam square to get through these fights without taking damage. Often times, I would just use the Phoenix ultimate skill and put down my controller while one-shotting the entire encounter. They give very little in terms of exp/skill points so you can just skip most of these. I ignored basically all open-world mobs and ended my playthrough at level 49 anyway.
-Elite/boss combat really boils down to spamming your Eikon abilities off cooldown because they do so much more damage than your auto attack combos (of which there are almost none). However, since these abilities have long cooldowns, you have very low lows between the high peaks while you wait for your abilities to come back. Most of these encounters play out the same way where you try to stagger the enemy as often as possible and then wail on them while they just sit there.
-Loadout diversity is poor too. Ramuh and Bahamut specials really don’t feel like they belong in an action game, meaning that Phoenix/Garuda/Titan is the optimal combination until you are well into the endgame. The game is also very stingy with skill points and there is not much to upgrade so you can ignore these for most of the game. Mastering abilities doesn’t matter when you don’t really have any other Eikons to mix/match to. By the time you have enough skill points to experiment with mixing up skills, you’re about 90-95% through the game. And at that point, you realize that most skills are just bad anyway so there’s no point in using them.
-Speaking of skills, there’s so much hidden info about them that makes it hard for players to actually make informed decisions. What does 3 star damage mean? What is the cooldown of skills? If I upgrade a skill to “increase the number of hits,” how many more hits am I getting? How many did I get at the base level?
-Overall, the game was just way too easy too. I don’t know why the hard mode is locked behind finishing the game once. Though to be honest, I thought it was such a slog that I probably wouldn’t have finished the game if I had to endure it on a harder difficulty. I think the combat needs a lot more depth to be engaging enough, no matter the difficulty.
Anyway, it’s a competent game, just very lazily put together and poorly thought out. Not sure if their development was rushed or what.
For what it’s worth, I’ve been using an 8bitdo controller for years. I have one that was destroyed by my kids, and my other has been experiencing some odd issues with using rechargeable batteries draining even when it’s turned off. I’m not sure what has caused the battery issues, but this is after probably 3 years of constant use so I’ve gotten my money’s worth. I’m considering a new one but I have so many controllers as is it’s just not worth it.
I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason....
I understand that these devices are from years ago and things may have changed since then, but I have friends who still run into odd OS glitches on their new Pixel phones
Apologies if I came across as rude, but there has been several posters that are “interested” but couldn’t live without Auto or payment. It’s like of all the millions of features phones have, and the majority of dissenters here need the exact combination that GrapheneOS doesn’t support. I find that really odd. If you are one of the few that needs that, point taken and maybe it isn’t for you, but until today I hadn’t heard of Auto’s and now it’s critical and something that cannot be lived without.
Suggest me a distro
I have already tried out Linux Mint. But I want to try out other distros....
Would there be any benifit to host another instance?
As the question states. I have the skiils and know how to setup a new instsnce and from looking through the documentation its relatively straight forward. Im just wondering would it actually help the fediverse and lemmy as a whole? There seems to already be plenty of instances to choose from. What are your guys thoughts?
Kbin may be the odd stepchild, but it's part of the family! (feddit.de)
Kbin may be the odd stepchild, but it's part of the family! (feddit.de)
Manny Coto Dies: Emmy-Winning ’24’ EP Who Created AI Drama ‘Next’ & Worked On ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’, ‘American Horror Story’ & ‘Dexter’ Was 62 (deadline.com)
TIL lemmy.ml is a pro-authoritarian CCP shill instance (lemmy.ml)
For all the newcomers that aren’t aware, I just stumbled upon this insane drama. Apparently lemmy.ml is the result of a reddit sub ban of a bunch of pro-china bots who vigorously defend the Chinese government, and the two top admins are also the top devs of the Lemmy source software. Pretty terrible stuff!...
[OC] My record collection as of now. A labor of love for over 7 years. (lemmy.world)
Comment below if you want to talk about music, as I make sure to dig into music of the past.
Hey, you, what controller do you use for emulation?
I use a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. It does the job for all of the systems I have on Retroarch....
HyperX Quadcast S mic is preventing my system from sleeping. What's the best way to debug and submit a bug report?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1313651...
The Horus Heresy
I am your average 37-year-old woman. I game, I read, and I have cats. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon Azariah Kyras’ glorious speech about the Blood God Khorne, and I started quoting him at least once every day when my boyfriend and I were talking about random everyday things. He suggested I look into the Warhammer Universe....
87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games (gamehistory.org)
YSK: Use RSS feeds to curate your online experience
Over reliance on algorithms has degraded the user experience to the point that the average user is drowning in ragebait and extremist politics, because they drive up engagement. Just like a toddler, algorithms don’t discriminate between good and bad attention, so everything that gets clicks is thrust forward. Now, you could...
We have 2-3 months to compile a Threads block list (www.timothychambers.net)
It is expected to be 2-3 months before Threads is ready to federate (see link). There will, inevitably, be five different reactions from instances:...
10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000 (lemmy.world)
Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:...
Lemmy just had its first major hack. What happens next:
Hi all,...
[Solved] Data recovery of unique file type(s)
-=See edit at bottom=-...
What if the length of a term was proportional to the amount you won by in the election?
Seems odd that if you win by 0.001% that’s treated the same as if you win by 50%. “You barely won, here’s the same mandate as someone who won soundly”...
YSK if you can't log in, clearing your site data should help
Everyone got logged out after the recent site hack. For me, when I tried logging in once things were back up, it would tell me I logged in, but I’d actually stay logged out....
Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he's found fragments of alien technology (abc11.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/359905...
[Full spoilers] I'd like to discuss Final Fantasy XVI in full
Full spoilers for the entirety of the game follows....
Give me Reasons Why I Should Get the Gulikit KingKong 2 over the 8bitdo Ultimate
After some research I’ve narrowed down my options into these two controllers....
Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?
I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason....
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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x04 "Among the Lotus Eaters"
Written by Kirsten Beyer & Davy Perez...