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Why do most people stay in centralized social media platforms when the Fediverse exists?

I asked someone on bluesky i follow what is mastodon lacking that they ultimately chose bluesky, and they said something along the lines "basic ease of use. The way it works is probably perfectly sensible to fediverse people, but I had an awful time there"

They do indeed have (abandoned) mastodon account with posts, so they did try. I don't know what they meant by it lacking basic ease of use, and I didn't feel entitled to ask stranger for more explanation. But it wasn't picking instance, since they already had an account on one of them.

The only thing I personally noticed is off is following people on other instances if you're not looking at them via your instance website Identity not being perfectly transferrable on mastodon. You can post a special "follow me there instead" post, but what if your instance went tyrant and wouldn't let you post it? Or just went offline? I think cryptographic identity would be more robust for that, but it would also mean user having to store private key somewhere, which would be even less user-friendly

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What was/is the most annoying thing about Windows when you were/are using it?

Ctrl+c not copying on rare occasions. Even if it's my keyboard's fault, it could be avoided with some visual feedback to confirm to me that ctrl+c was registered ans clipboard was updated, so that I'd immediately know that it didn't work after pressing ctrl+c, rather than later when i switched to a different window/tab and pasted the wrong thing

The fact that i can't route audio between apps (without 3rd party closed-source apps). Why is something so basic not included into the system?

Registry

As a c++ dev: winapi. Right away you are greeted by windows.h adding loads of macros with common identifiers without any prefix to your preprocessor. That's a sign of things to come for anyone who has to use it. Maybe that explains lack of open-source audio routing apps: nobody wants to deal with windows driver development for hobby - and if that's the case i sure can't blame nobody for that.

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What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?

axiom verge 1 and 2 - good in different ways. i liked to put first on for long coding sessions, and the second expanded in interesting directions
transistor & pyre & hades - all scored by Darren Korb, but different genres. from first moment, transistor has such vibe in big part thanks to it's soundtrack, and is among my all time top games
Nier automata - won awards for it's soundtrack, clear to hear why
crypt of the necrodancer - rhythm game should have a good soundtrack, and it does
witcher 3 - the battle themes - like "silver for monsters" are unique style of action-y folk, very rare to find anything else that scratches that itch.
dusk - awesome and dynamic metal
risk of rain 1&2 - first game itself didn't click with me, but, oh man, that solo in "Monsoon" get me every time, and "Coalescence" is poignantly melancholic in a similar way to "song of the ancients" from nier - which is (a very high praise and) much more expected from nier's type of game than a "risk of rain"'s. "face of the deep" from ror2 from second is head-spinning in a good way
no man's sky - it introduced me to 65dos, for which i'm very grateful. that soundtrack is still probably my favourite album of theirs noita - low-key psychedelic, very vibes
unreal tournament 99 - and i think it's not just nostalgia, because one of my favourites - "mechanism 8" - is from the map i almost never played
"Ultrakill" - good soundtrack, and yet cyber grind tracks from guest composers are still my favourites. "The cyber grind" in particular is just exhilarating

individual tracks i overheard from games i haven't played:

old "touhou project" games - their soundtrack is full of gems, even if it's not my genre of game
system shock 2's "Med Sci 1" and "Engineering" - very nice, i want more of that and can't find
"Clair Obscur: Expedition 33"'s "Lumière" - made me wishlist the game just for having it
"Final Fantasy IX"'s "You're not alone" - very nice melody i like to whistle sometimes. considering playing it just for having it
original "Castlevania"'s "Vampire killer" rocks

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So much potential!

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Wish spell: (1) Duplicated a spell of 8th level or lower? No stress. (2) Did anything else with wish? Stress. #DnD

So the other things, such as making a valuable thing of up to 25000gp or undoing some effects of "deck of many things" and thing in the post, that are explicitly stated as something a wish can do are still stressfull. I guess they are listed because that should work without monkey-paw-ing, not because it's not stressful. Damn.

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Can Valve save VR gaming with the Steam Frame?

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And the fragmentation certainly doesn't help The market is already small, and yet locked to single store exclusives still come out all the god damn time

Given how it probably undercuts growth of vr, I can only guess why would companies do that. Facebook in particular probably thinks it could be a monopoly, and doesn't want to settle for just a slice of the pie even if the pie could be bigger.

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wait, i remembered more:

"Trine 2"
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Pinball space cadet
"Ar Tonelico III" - "EXEC_COSMOFLIPS/. "
"Rama": Main theme
"Dishonored 2": Main theme
Super hexagon
"Red alert 2": namely Hell march 2, In deep

now, following games used existing albums, which feels like cheating... but they are games with good soundtracks so:
"Capsized" used edited "Solar Fields - Movements"
"Neurovoider" used "Dan Ternimus - Wrath of code"

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Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!

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For that matter, aren't borders kinda inhumane and barbaric in the first place? They declare some people as second-rate. They trap people in poor dictatorships, but are oh so permeable for conflict minerals or products of sweatshops

Could your point be that generally more ways to become citizen is a better than less?

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Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly

On GC With no virtual memory, memory fragmentation is a possibility on wasm targets It's funny that for memory management you either have to deal with fragmentation like it's a microcontroller (or 90s) or a fully blown garbage collection.

I mean, don't get me wrong, having GC is perfectly reasonable. Every other language was gonna (and currently does) implement it anyway - so might as well lower it into native code.

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