Make sure to hit up Noah on pixiv or bluesky if the art appeals to you, and you use those platforms.

I really wish more artists made their way to the fediverse.

Smol Miku

I was hoping for more.

There’s a chance they still pull out a win through updates, but with Remedy I was reallt expecting a strong showing from the start.

What I’m really shook by is the apparent lack of remedyverse lore, in favor of marvel-quipping voiceover.

My main source of interest was to play an instance of “friendslop” with some narrative substance, since that is Remedys bread and butter.

Well, I’d start with physical buttons. Forget stuff like face ID. A button that scans your fingerprint is a lot simpler to “get”. Same goes for volume keys.

Automatic screen brightness is pretty good, but if it weren’t a thing, buttons would work there. That’s how laptops do it.

I’d add a feature that makes certain settings reset to “default” after a configurable amount of time (or never). Airplane mode or mute could turn off over night, so grandma can never “disable” her phone and become unreachable, or unable to reach anyone. (Except by turning it off, a concept almost no-one has to be taught)

Give me the ability to disable quick settings in the notifications shade, grandma doesn’t need to toggle nfc, wifi, her data connection, or start screen recording (I literally tried to remove all the quick settings, but there’s a minimum!). Hell, get rid of the notification shade completely and make it a physical button that just opens your messages from whatsapp, sms and email, all in one list.

I don’t think we need to dumb down everything a phone can do. And I think we can assume an elderly person can get help with changing settings or setting it up to begin with. As such, what I wish fir, is for the simple stuff to be even simpler, and for the complicated stuff to be hidden away and essentially have configurable child locks, so they can’t be touched, except by someone who knows what the stuff does.

It should be possibly to put a device in a mode where it is “senile-proof”. But it isn’t. My grandmother can, and has, put her devices in a state where they do not work, simply by turning on airplane mode without realizing. And our current solution is to use Life 360, so we can check that her phone is still “online” and have someone visit her to fix it, if it isn’t.

Mongaga: “and that’s how I got radicalized, and became a class traitor”

I’ve done it over phone many times. I have a system.

I have them read whatever is on screen until I figure out what they’re looking at.

Then I use one of my own devices to follow along, so I have an idea of what they’re seeing, so I can give extremely specific instructions.

Probably the tiniest Little My I’ve ever seen.

Moomin fanart hits different. It’s so rare though.

Sounds ok.

But limiting. My grandma is still able to learn and think.

She currently uses a tablet and a phone. Android, set up by me, and locked down as much as possible.

One home screen, with the apps she wants on one half of the screen, and a widget that shows notifications on the other half. (Limited only to notifications from apps like whatsapp, etc., she doesn’t need see that the phone updated the OS during the night etc.)

This way, all I had to do, was tell her how the home button works, and how the back button works. No explaining quick settings or the notification shade.

From there, she’s slowly learned each app, always safe in knowing she can hit home/back if confused, and take it from the beginning.

The notification widget has been especially good, as it is always there showing her her messages, and she can tap them to go straight to replying.

It’s infuriating to me that all modern devices require extra steps, just to see messages you’ve received. The way a message would be shown on the lock screen and then be “gone” upon unlocking the screen was infinitely confusing to her.

I’ve never lost patience with my grandma like that. She’s old, a sweet person (most of the time) and perfectly intelligent if you let her be.

In fact when guiding her with tech, I hate the way she calls herself stupid and slow when she makes mistakes.

We just don’t make tech for old people the way we should. There are “accessible” phones but the ones I’ve had experience with are atrocious hackjobs with deal-breaking quirks, when the whole point is to be simple.

Oda menacingly hinting at exactly how many arcs he has left to tell.

It’s why I only got into youtube and reddit.

There, in the smaller more niche corners, you can still find genuine interactions. Less and less on reddit, but youtube seems to be going back towards small creators actually being discoverable.

I recently stumbled into a vtuber on youtube with just a couple dozen viewers (1500 subscribers). Clearly doing it for fun, and with a chat slow enough to have a conversation about the game being played, both with her and the other viewers.

Here on the fediverse, it is even smaller and more niche. Sometimes that means there’s no-one around. But when people are around, it’s people who are a lot more invested in conversing. On popular social media, people are there to turn their brains off, not on.

Others already pointed out that all the problems exist here, too. But I believe that the nature of instances and communities, mean that the small corners that only get found by those who are interested, will always exist. No matter how big the fediverse one day gets.

You can use VLC if you get the stream url via a web browser, first. MPV can do the same.

The problem is VLC/MPV don’t have a built-in way to browse and pick what you want to play.

Originally, a series of bullet-hell shmups set in Gensokyo. A world separate from our own inhabited by every kind of supernatural creature mentioned in japanese folklore, and more.

Aside from the entries in the main series (of which there are many) Touhou consists of a litany of fan-made additional media, which is how it has ballooned into something that is really hard to explain.

The original solo creator, “ZUN” places almost no restrictions on others using the characters and settings.

Generally, you can think of it as bunch of fun characters that a bunch of people have used for their stories and games.

This is gonna catalyze the appearance of so much more fanart.

Completely missed the point. Less “general public” is the entire idea of offroading in remote locations with no cell service or anything else. It takes actual skills to get up there, and the more-skilled people tend to be more respectful of the lands. But I digress.

Exactly.

I’m pointing out that your low volume scenario has literally zero equivalence with high volume transit, and you shouldn’t have brought it up.

Damn. Pretty.

Might have to look for stuff from the game for [email protected]

Shinobus chompers always demand upvotes.

And headpats.

Possibly?

Depends on why exactly it didn’t land for you. The story is nearly one to one, so the only difference would be the pacing and art, and of course a lack of music, voices and animation.

He still doesn’t seem to be judging them even in the next one.

Just wising up to the realities of homelessness (which the Moomins aren’t, really, they could head home in their boat anytime).