Embrace, extend, extinguish

A lot of posts in here complaining about shitty commercial radio. Do you all not have local radio stations? I love my local stations.

Lol everyone should go read the couple of posts on the community / magazine with the same name. Hilarious seeing people so triggered by people pointing out that the name is a bit problematic.

This is basically the unix philosophy. Build a bunch of separate apps that can be hooked together (via pipes).

Seconded! I had one gifted to me ages ago. Finally took it out of my car and into the kitchen. Love slicing up potatoes to make hash browns with it.

Godot can run on fairly low end stuff, just use the opengl based renderer. The official Godot docs are actually pretty dang good nowadays. Join a game jam asap https://godotwildjam.com/ you'll probably find a team willing to take a newbie. You'll learn a lot. Good luck!

Yes! My time has come!

No boiling, but I bought a filter after listening to a story about PFAS.

On Android (maybe iOS)? You can hold down on the space key and drag left and right to move the text cursor. Very useful.

Isn't choosing a platform not driven by capital basically fighting enshitification?

My last phone bit the dust because I made the mistake of taking it apart to repair it. It became a gluey piece of garbage. If I want it be waterproof I'll stick it in a sandwich bag. Or maybe the manufacturer can use the novel tech of gaskets.

It's going to be a lot smaller since it doesn't bundle a version of chromium in every build. Instead it uses the systems native web view. This does pose the problem of vendor specific rendering issues.. How snappy it feels is down to how the front-end programmed. It can still be a mess of bloated JavaScript 🙂

Creating a silly sig (signature) for a web forum (gimptalk?). I think they had a specific sub forum for sig critique.

Oh I feel silly now. I guess I'll go back to drinking from the tap.

Seeing some comments claiming that families can be financially devastated by a dead car is awful. We shouldn't need to own a car. There should be equitable transportation options to get around..

Try out Godot. It uses a really simple language (gdscript), has excellent learning material, and you can make games!

Glad I didn't have to scroll to see Aphex Twin mentioned. 🙂

I played both one and two when I was pretty young. My parents found gba games to be a lot cheaper on eBay. Turns out they were bootleg copies. Because of this the character transfer didn't work from one to two. I was pretty bummed about it. Still a fun series! Ragnarok!

Kingdom come deliverance. It was a rollercoaster. One of the first games I played after building a new computer. I progressed far enough and finally found that the combat was jank and the story was pretty garbage. Still have fond memories of the game though. Almost like the first time playing Oblivion 🙂.

Not 100% sure how this works, but dam and river usually means environmental consequences.

I was really disappointed with this one. I tried it out per a friend's recommendation after they heard I was playing a freeware space flight simulator (Orbiter, which I do actually recommend).

What are the big compromises? I've only been here for a day or two.

It truly is life changing. A roommate received one as a gift in college. We soon fitted the other bathroom with a bidet as well because it was too good.

Depends if you want a managed service or not. As stated by others, any Linux vm can do it: Aws ec2, Azure, Digital ocean, etc. Cost won't spiral because you pay a fixed fee for the vm you choose (can be like 5 dollars a month).

The options that can spiral if for some reason your app started being used a lot. But likely these will be pretty much free:

A lot of cloud platforms have some sort of managed container service. Wrap your app in a docker container and pay per 10K API calls for example.

Another option is to use a managed service that handles the runtime for you (AWS Lambda, Google cloud app engine, etc.) These options should have the option for a dotnet core runtime. They can also be really cheap if your app isn't used much.

What's the advantage of running this server side?

The trend towards subscription services for basic features is garbage and replacing controls which should be easily accessible with a touchscreen is stupid if not outright dangerous.

Also isn't a Tesla kind of a "premium" vehicle? For mass adoption they should be affordable without all the silly add-ons that will be woefully our of date in 5 years.

I don't want to own a car that could cost 1k+ dollars to replace the headlights.

After you explained it a bit further in another comment it was pretty obvious you didn't mean cryrocurrencies. I really did latch onto "crypto" as cryptocurrency, unfortunately the case for a lot of people.

Hell yeah

Don't join the biggest instance.

Get a can of black beans and some rice. Make the rice, put the beans on top. Black beans and rice.

I used a hammy down s5 for a few years. Just had to replace the battery and it was good to go. It eventually degraded and became really really slow. Good phone.

One of the goals of neovim was to introduce tools to build a GUI around vim. Imo the terminal is by far the best option, but there are some fun options. Neovide is an interesting one. Mostly because it doesn't do too much -- just eye candy.

My experience may be dated, but I've always had issues with controllers on Windows and Linux. Less so with Linux these days because my controllers are dated and the drivers are in the mainline kernel.

The biggest issue was solved with steam and it's controller interface / community layouts.

Nintendo controllers 😬

Music for Nine Postcards. Ambient / minimalist music inspired by "the movements of clouds, the shade of a tree in summertime, the sound of rain, the snow in a town." It's a cozy little record 🙂

The CLI and probably other more advanced guis are going to give you the option to:

• bisect: very useful for debugging. Like definitely check it out.
• rebase: excellent for clean commits. I use it all the time to squash commits together
• diff arbitrary branches and commits. Super useful for debugging.
• cherry pick: useful to apply a commit from a different branch or remote
• Apply: I use it to pass around patches for things for testing / debugging.

That's just off the top of my head and also stuff that you can learn on the job. Good to know it exists though. I still use a "gui" (fugitive for vim) for simple tasks, like staging files 🙂

Yeah, there probably won't be a great search experience that includes results from every lemmy instance. It'd be a neat problem to work on.

Seconded. I daily drove a yoga for some time (really a flex). It worked pretty well. Definitely check the compatibility of whatever laptop you choose before though. I had to manually install a driver to get the touchpad to work everytime I updated the kernel until it was finally merged into mainline. 😬

Sounds like you want to contribute to something for the sake of contributing (hopefully that's not true). You're skill is worth something.

Going to spew some jaded bs: Don't pick a project that makes you sign some bullshit release, pick something that some rando started and released with no intention of monetizing. Volunteer to work on a passion project that you're also passionate about. Not something that will be used by some 9-5 300k a year tech bro. That's just my opinion though. "Open source" has been used by big companies to generate free labor (looking at you Adobe, etc).

Off the top of my head, the SignalK project is something I've wanted to volunteer for. They make some software that lets marine sensors (depth sounders, Windex, speed paddles, temp sensors, etc.) Communicate in one standard format. They built a web app with node and react as a proof of concept. It could for sure be improved. It'd be neat if it caught on because vendor lock-in is huge in marine hardware / software.

Sort of a dumb reason, but imo, flying a spaceship is not really what the game is about and that's all I wanted to do. For example, I wanted something where I had to use orbital mechanics to dock with a station, but the powerful SciFi boosters in Elite Dangerous take all that fun away.