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early_riser

@ early_riser @lemmy.world

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  • To Lemmy people who came from reddit: Have you guys tried other fedi software like mastodon or sharkey?

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  • Ah I didn't realize it went beyond the devs being tankies. Yeah if they won't take feedback that will just cause things to stagnate. Maybe I should check out Piefed.

    EDIT: as a non developer what's the deal with rust and those who use it?

  • To Lemmy people who came from reddit: Have you guys tried other fedi software like mastodon or sharkey?

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  • Personally I don't care what the devs think as long as it doesn't trickle down into the software itself. If they somehow hardcoded censorship of things critical of China and Russia then I'd be worried. But I can see your point. Commie devs attract more Commies which leads to a Commie echo chamber where non Commies don't feel welcome.

  • To Lemmy people who came from reddit: Have you guys tried other fedi software like mastodon or sharkey?

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  • I know I've said this multiple times but a fanatic is someone who won't change their mind and won't change the subject, and there are a lot of fanatics here. To me, there is inherent value in attempting to create a neutral space where people who otherwise may be on opposite sides of the political spectrum can talk about shared interests.

    To drag out my tired example, say Alice is a gun nut and Bob wants to seize the means of production. But both of them like vintage computers. They talk on the vintage computers community about their mutual love of vintage computers, and they realize that the "other side" is also a human being with hobbies and interests and thoughts and feelings. Alice may not put on the hammer and sickle and bob might not go out and buy an AR-15, but they both realize that the other isn't a monster. Surely there's value in that.

  • To Lemmy people who came from reddit: Have you guys tried other fedi software like mastodon or sharkey?

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  • The concept of twitter was never appealing to me, so I naturally won't like platforms that ape it. I joined Reddit at the time because the Minecraft sub seemed like it was getting more attention from Mojang vs the forums. I stayed because the entire IT industry is on Reddit. I left because of the API nonsense in 2023.

    Honestly the two big problems I see with the fediverse are the political stridency of the userbase and the friction of picking an instance when you don't know what that even means. The first problem, as I've said elsewhere, is somewhat a result of fedi users self selecting (again I include myself in here) and might resolve on its own if mainstream platforms enshittify to the point that even the normies can't take it anymore and we figure out a way to onboard people better. These problems are probably why I don't try other fedi platforms.

    But I'm rambling again. I haven't slept well in days.

  • What mediocre game, show, or movie has an incredible soundtrack?

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  • Tim Follin albums always came with a free game inside, that was pretty nice of him.

    A YouTube comment under the Pictionary video

  • Are advent wreaths a thing outside of Germany?

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  • Advent wreathes are a thing in the US, but mostly a religious thing. Traditionally the 3rd candle is supposed to be pink and the others purple

  • What is your "great I am an old person now" complaint?

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  • You’re a grownup when you groan when you get up.

  • What is your "great I am an old person now" complaint?

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  • "I used to be 'with it', then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it', and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me"---Abe Simpson

    I've always been an old soul, and unfortunately an old body as well. I had shingles when I was 10, developed cataracts at 30 and arthritis at 35.

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    I think it was 12 not 10 that I had shingles. I also had shingles again a few years ago.

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • Perhaps related, but when communicating over the radio (including via digital printing modes like RTTY) you have to declare that you're done transmitting and yield the frequency to the other party. This is because your signal may fade, appearing to the other person like you stopped transmitting. This is the purpose of the ubiquitous "over" seen in movies and TV, though in ham circles you use the more casual "go ahead" or "back to you".

    I imagine a period sends the same message, but because you don't have to manage turn-taking with texts the way you do on the radio the period can be seen as redundant because they already know you're done speaking. So sending a period may seem like you're emphasizing the finality of your message.

    In radio, you signal the end of a contact (QSO) with "out", but again, in ham circles you just say "73".

    Is any of this relevant? I have no idea I've been up since 1 AM this morning.

  • What hero does America need right now?

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  • Florida man

  • What mediocre game, show, or movie has an incredible soundtrack?

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  • It won a Grammy.

    IIRC it was the first song from a video game to do so.

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  • I thought for a sec you were talking about the game and not the movie. I'm not into fighting games or gore for the sake of gore but the game is a cultural landmark.

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  • Depending on who you ask, Tron: Legacy.

    The movie was OK, but I vastly prefer the original. It has a certain 80s "Gee whiz aren't these newfangled computers the greatest" feeling that you just can't recapture.

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  • Waterworld for the SNES

    Silver Surfer on the NES

    Plok (SNES) The boss theme in particular.

    I forget the guy's name but he did both OSTs for the above two games and he has a reputation for giving bad games amazing soundtracks.

    Mechanicus Not a bad game by any means but the music and sound design punch way above their weight for a game of this scope.

    Tunic (Also very good but probably very niche)

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    Void War Probably not bad but self-admittedly very derivative of both its inspirations (FTL and Warhammer 40K)

  • GREETINGS CAVE-DWELLING MORTALS! I AM PROMETHEUS. I HAVE STOLEN FIRE FROM THE GODS TO GIVE TO YOU

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  • *chuckles* YEAH IT'LL DO THAT.

  • What was a time when you drank the kool aid?

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  • Now I just need to figure out what I want to try next.

    I've tried homelabbing, ham radio, fountain pens, DIY electronics, Python...

    Some stuff is more expensive then others. amateur radio is stupidly expensive in every conceivable way. It starts out with a cheap RTL-SDR dongle. You set it up and start scanning around VHF and UHF to see what's out there. Some stuff catches your attention and soon enough you want to transmit as well as receive. You buy the license manual and get your ticket (honestly not hard if you've passed high school science class) and you buy a cheap questionably legal Baofeng walkie-talkie. So far the 'feng, the SDR dongle, and the license manual and FCC testing fee set you back maybe $80 all in. Not bad for a few weeks or months of entertainment.

    Then you look at what a "real" rig costs, thinking that the absolute pinnacle must be maybe $2000, like a good gaming PC. Nope, turns out the cheapest radio you can buy that's considered 'good enough', the venerable Icom IC 7300, is $1000, and it swiftly climbs from there. Then you need an antenna. Surely an inert hunk of aluminum is cheap? Nope, also hundreds of dollars. If you want to cut your own you'll need an SWR meter, and those are also hundreds of dollars. Now you need coax to connect that antenna to the radio, a way to get that coax from the inside of your house to the outside, etc. It's all $$$.

    That's not getting into the non monetary expenses like space for your shack and antennas and time to actually use the radio when the ionosphere is cooperating and people are actually on the air.

    Compare that to my other major pastime, conlanging and worldbuilding. You already have everything you need, just something to write with and time to daydream. Maybe that's why this is the one thing I've stuck with for 25 years now.

  • GREETINGS CAVE-DWELLING MORTALS! I AM PROMETHEUS. I HAVE STOLEN FIRE FROM THE GODS TO GIVE TO YOU

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  • NO NO, IT IS NOT FOR TOUCHING. IT IS FOR LIGHTING YOUR HOMES AND COOKING YOUR FOOD.

  • What is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?

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  • You might find LXD more straightforward. I think docker was first and foremost a development platform, not meant for deploying production appliances. That's why there's this nonsense about persistent volumes. If it were designed from the ground up to be a turnkey appliance platform you wouldn't need to mess around with that stuff because of course you want your filesystem to be persistent between reboots in a production environment.

  • What was a time when you drank the kool aid?

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  • Not sure I got sucked into anything like conspiracy theories, but as far as "I swear this is my life now" I have quite a few. I have ADHD and with it comes the usual fleeting obsession with hobbies. It gets expensive and I always end up abandoning it for something else. Then I feel sad because I spent a ton of money that ultimately didn't result in anything permanent.

    When I was going hard with ham radio I dug a huge trench in my backyard and installed a grounding system connected to the house ground, now I barely use my radios. Same with the KX3 I bought. It's an eye-wateringly expensive portable radio. My excuse was it was a reward for passing a difficult certification exam and I would use it all the time in the park near my house. That turned out not to be the case.