Ok, but hear me out. If someone was going to make up a name of a fake AI app to rant against, I propose “Floot or some shit” is pretty close to what they’d come up with. 😛

We’ll just have to keep them powered up somehow!

Anyone remember the thinking cap from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie? Maybe not so crazy… 😛

Comedian James Acaster offers “crizzos” in one special. That’s got some zip to it.

The DLC is good, but it’s different. Quite different.

And without spoiling anything, let me say that during the beginning and middle it feels even more different than it ends up being, which is a bit jarring to some fans of the original.

I like it, I’m glad I played through it, but I understand people that are grumpy with it or don’t gel with it.

I think the flaw it has, by nature of being DLC, is that it has a bit less surface area than the main game. In the main game if you get stuck there are a hundred other areas to explore and learn stuff that may help get through the stuck parts, or even just give you a break so you can prevent frustration. But in EotE if you get stuck in, like, 3 places it sorta locks you up, because those are the only 3 threads you have available to you at that time. So it’s not bad, but is more prone to frustration and feeling stuck than the original.

But if you relax, and push through, and in some cases have “faith” that the designers have way through in mind, I think it’s good and scratches a similar but different itch.

I get what you’re going for, 100% things have shifted. Absolutely true.

But I’m not taking steroids, and I’m not spending 4 hours a day at the gym, and I basically have the same arms as that guy. At least in this photo. Maybe he’s more jacked than he looks in the rest of the movie, I haven’t seen it in a while, and I don’t have shredded abs or anything. I’m not impressively fit. But I have arms that look kinda like that.

I think you’ve taken the steroids thing, which again is a legit thing, and maybe swung fully in the other direction and decided any muscle at all is a modern creation? Some dudes have arms. Just, attached to their shoulders.

I think for a lot of people these days, it’s more like watching a game of chess, or a hand of poker, or someone solve a Sudoku.

They go “ah, hmm. I wouldn’t have thought of that. That’s clever”. I doubt anyone is laughing out loud.

It bugs me that the thumbnail isn’t a picture of Doug Ford. Not because I like looking at the guy, but it just seems like if the headline is going to be a quote from a guy, it would make sense if he was the guy in the picture…

I’m a seeker. When I’m on mobile and I double tap and instead of going back a few seconds it pauses and unpauses, or changes from full screen or something, or worst of all “likes” the video, I have literally left websites before and been like “I’ll find this somewhere else”. I cannot stand having to wing it with a tiny scrub bar under my thumb.

A button that skips back is fine, but often this comes without a skip forward which is sometimes annoying.

When my phone is in portrait for browsing, and then I hit full-screen on a landscape video, I expect it to rotate for me, rather than showing the video the same size it already was but with huge black bars above and below. Some sites do it, it’s not technically impossible, figure it out.

And then never use TikTok 😛

Those look similar to, but not the same as Canadian Macaroons (not to be confused with French Macarons. “roons”)

Coconut, Chocolate, Balls! Though often macaroons are little “heap” shapes.

I just have it split by Movies and Shows.

But for discoverability I sometimes go to Movies, sort by “random” and then scroll from the top. This makes sure I’m not just seeing the 10 same movies all the time.

From there you can also filter by played status or genre or whatever you’re feeling like at the time, because in my opinion having everything together and filtering is more useful than pre-categorizing based on what I think I’ll want later, and being stuck with it.

Yeah, I dunno, I like variety. And it’s not like the Acts are all one style, there’s quite a bit of variety within. I think the colours just felt… soulless? I didn’t hate them, I just listened all the way through and not a single track sparked anything in me. Again, it was okay, it didn’t offend me, but there just wasn’t anything there for me.

But that’s okay! I’m glad you dug it, and maybe I’ll give it another shot someday and realize I was wrong all this time!

Honestly, I was kinda “meh” on the colours 😅

At first I thought it was maybe a “I like their earlier work” sorta thing, that can sometimes happen with bands, but when I looked up the release dates I was surprised to discover the spectrum came out between III and IV, but I like III and love IV and V, so I guess it’s not that!

I guess maybe the identity of the Acts is just enough that they have something colours lack for me? I don’t know what, but they’ve never grabbed me. Oh well, such is taste!

They’re not that popular compared to Pink Floyd or David Bowie, but there’s a band called The Dear Hunter that have 5 albums called Act I through Act V that are one continuous story of a guy’s life.

So in that sense every song on those albums are a sequel and prequel to every other, but some of the musical themes and motifs are more obviously reintroduced, referenced, and re-applied in new contexts as the albums go on.

They have albums that aren’t those 5, which are not in the canon, by the way.

Welllllllll, Taler is actually exactly the wrong suggestion for this usecase, because Taler requires all spends to be redeemed from Vendor to Issuer non-anonymously, which gives the Issuer 100% control and say which vendors are allowed, which is exactly the thing Visa and Mastercard are using to exert control.

If there were competing Taler networks and Steam supported all of them, that might be okay because one of them might happen to not be dicks, but if there’s just one or two then Taler is designed from the ground-up specifically to enable this bad outcome. It’s actually one of their features!

Sorry.

Honestly, I struggle with this myself. On the one hand I like the diversity of clients; it feels like a sign of strength of the community and protocol that there are many options that have different values. But the cost of this diversity is that it makes things more complicated to coordinate, and different people with different values have different opinions on what a chat client should even want for features.

Something like Slack or Discord can roll out a server feature and client feature to all their clients all at the same time and have a unified experience. But the whole benefit of FLOSS is that anyone can fork the client to make changes, and the whole point of an open protocol is that multiple independent clients can interoperate, and so there’s a kind of irony in me wanting those things, but those things producing a fractured output.

So I think XMPP, as a protocol, does the best compromise. These differences between clients and servers aren’t just random changes in behaviour or undocumented features, they’re named, numbered, alterations that live somewhere and are advertised in the built-in “discovery” protocols. The protocol format itself is extensible, so unexpected content can be passed alongside known content in a message or a server response and the clients all know to ignore anything they don’t understand, and virtually all of the XEPs are designed with some kind of backwards compatibility in mind for how this feature might degrade when sent to a non-supported client.

It isn’t perfect, but I think perfection is impossible here. A single server and client that everyone uses and keeps up to date religiously with forced upgrades is best for cohesiveness, but worst for “freedom”, and a free-for-all where people just make random individual changes and everything is always broken isn’t really a community, and XMPP sits in the middle and has a menu of documented deviations for clients to advertise and choose.

As for security, that can be mostly solved with libraries, independent of the rest of the client or server implementation. Like, most clients used libsignal for their crypto, so that could in theory be audited and bug-fixed and all clients would benefit. Again, not perfect, there’s always room at the interface between the client code and the library code that’s unique, but it’s not as bad as rolling your own crypto.

That’s great! It’s what’s been holding me back from other self hosted solutions, is that they seemed to want a full two-way sync. Maybe it’s time to make the switch!

If you have a lot of photos, does immich require they all be downloaded locally, or does it fetch them from the server as needed?

By “this date” do you mean a notification thing that surfaces photos from this time years ago, etc?

The tailscale clients are, I believe, open source. It’s just the server that’s not, and you can run the unofficial but well supported “headscale” as a server if you want. But this requires you to run this somewhere publicly accessible, like a VPS, for coordination and NAT-punching purposes.

But! I’m pretty sure as the business operates right now, that tailscale doesn’t have access to the actual data connections or anything, it’s all encrypted, they’re basically just there for simplicity and coordination. And their business model is to offer simple things for free, like small numbers of devices, with the hope that you like the service and convince your business to pay for the fancy version for money. So I don’t think it’s quite as bad as the typical “free because I’m harvesting your data” models.

That all having been said, I run headscale 😛

On the contrary, as a dude with many friends, none of us put in “tons of effort”. Each of my friendships are casual and relaxed, we “see each other when we see each other”, and that works well for all of us. We have lots of mutual respect, and an intent to have a friendship, but friendship just means different things to different people.

Some people, like it seems maybe yourself and OP, have the energy of a drowning person who will take any person who tries to help them down with them. And also a sense of… justice?.. that’s highly attuned to amplify small slights. I’ve seen it before in some second hand reports of like “I sent him a photo that I really liked and he didn’t respond within 24 hours, and when he did it was just with a 😛. Can you imagine the gall!”, when actually there’s no indignity, he just doesn’t look at his phone much… or he was busy. But it’s a problem when the sender isn’t busy, and is in fact just sitting there fuming for 24h because they have way more energy invested into this.

I want to check in real quick here, none of my tone here is intended to be angry or even mocking. I’ve got a lot of privilege for sure, and it helps combat this. A person suffering with food scarcity is going to react differently to a backyard BBQ than a person without food scarcity, and I’m willing to bet a person suffering from social scarcity would do the same.

My only purpose for writing this is because I’ve met people who feel “desperate”, and people who have a sense of “principles of friendship” that are iron clad, but also not mutual and are inflexible and cause them to push everyone away for not respecting them, meanwhile all the people they pushed away seem to get by just fine. And often it’s easiest to just let these people go because they’re, perhaps through no fault of their own, toxic to non-manic casual friends and friend groups. And I figured I’d give a more “average” perspective of what the other side of this might actually look or feel like.

And I already feel like I’m going to regret it 😛

Also, since we talked about expressing intent upfront, let me say that I’m going to post this and then get out of bed, and I probably won’t look at Lemmy again the rest of the day. I have some errands to run and I’m going to a BBQ with some friends later, and I have notifications turned off because I don’t want Lemmy stuff being a force of push in my life, only pull, so I probably won’t see any replies until maybe tonight when I go to bed, maybe tomorrow morning if I do something else tonight? So I can’t guarantee I’ll want to respond to any replies, but if I haven’t replied in 24h, that isn’t actually emotionally meaningful. I’m not ignoring you, I’m just doing other stuff and literally not thinking about you. 😉