It's called programmer humor for a reason: we're just using established libraries instead of inventing a bicycle from scratch.

Man, this whole API thing really makes me think of how much of a shithole the web is, still after all those years.

I basically have to buy a keyboardless laptop with an awkward resolution if I have to buy a smartphone, all because the software for it is less than optimized crap that mostly just spies on you for the sake of ad revenue, and then leaves garbage all over the system it barely ever cleans up. A wonderful package for a multi-core, multi-threaded CPU paired with at least 3 GB RAM (if that's even enough today) that you almost certainly can't use with any comfort to browse the web because almost no one who pays big money to their devs cares that these devs build a proper mobile version of the website - which is part of nearly every webdev interview anyway, and for what, just to make me download the app anyway? What a fucking joke, honestly.

Web on desktop is just as much of a disgrace for all the bloat.

I don't want to sound like an elitist, but I guess I will regardless: the most important number of people simply don't care.

I think it's safe to say that the people who will be affected by the new API pricing and other decisions, as well as the people who want to protest at least some of it at least somehow (be it boycotting for a few days or migrating to fediverse in any capacity) are simply not the demographic that the Reddit board really cares about. Not necessarily because they're evil, anti-privacy, Machiavellian moneybags (they still are), but because Reddit is a business, a big one, and big businesses care about money more than anything else.

I'm not really optimistic about the boycott and any other aftermath. I think the best we'll see is influx of users on lemmy and other instances, which is good, but that's about it, and I'm fine with it.

Nothing, really. I've been daily driving Linux for years, couldn't be happier. ;)

I still agree that Linux and FOSS in general is political, honestly. Not because I want to say "what isn't political?", but because a lot of things about Linux and FOSS stand for privacy, freedom, transparency, responsibility, accountability, voluntary effort that benefits others (it can benefit you as well, though), etc. - all of these things seem to me like a piece of political discussion at least to some degree.

The most important point about this, though, is the fact that being political does not necessarily mean that Linux or FOSS has to enforce some kind of opinion among its users or community or around its discussion. You're right in saying it's just a technology, but it doesn't mean that using Linux or FOSS isn't a political decision - even (or especially) if your sole reason to run Linux is money.

I used to get really pissed at people who considered everything to be political, but these days, I think I agree, because everything you like or don't like about your life (including the tech you use) is influenced by politics, so you do discuss it one way or the other in most conversations. Especially tech, though.

I'd love it. I don't hate the UI as it currently is, but I'd definitely appreciate some features, like the hotkeys RES has, or a tighter UI in general, with less padding and space between elements.

To be fair, tweaking the UI is surely in my power and skillset, but UI is surely my least favorite part of development as a whole.

Something similar drove me off 4chan'd /b/ back in the day. At some point, it became absolutely not random, but simply dedicated to various porn - porn that surely had their own board, which made me even more confused as to why post it in a place that is specifically made for basically uncategorised content that shouldn't fit anywhere else.

Not to mention that the discussion is almost guaranteed to consist of similarly short (or even shorter) witty one-liners. Twitter format is just horrible, and its restrictions promote equally horrible behavior where you have to look for ways to convey ideas and feeling in a short manner, which almost never results in more polite and sophisticated conversations.

Never used Twitter for anything more serious than some announcements from the game devs I follow. Anything else is just plain stupid, which makes me really surprised over the wide-spread adoption of Twitter by officials and ministries and the like.

And raising the character limit is going to be even more absurd, because then it's going to be reminiscent of an actual forum, just less structured and sensible.

Twitter, as a format, is the worst option between messengers like Matrix and proper forums of any kind.

Exactly! Screens are so big now, they should pack so much real estate, but they just don't most of the time, and it's not even because of human eyesight limitations.

I don't know when they introduced it, but at some point, in some servers, I noticed a new channel type: forum. The fact that this is a thing is the greatest proof that Discord is not the end all, be all solution to communication.

Nothing is, really. One thing I really enjoyed about the 00s web was its diversity, because different things had different places and different formats, and the ever-lasting stakeholder grasp wasn't as successful at trying to put people in one place to show them ads and drive engagement to please the statistics gazers.

Same engine doesn't necessarily meant the same problems. Game engines aren't a monolith solution - Source, for example, the engine that used to be famous for its physics back in the day, uses another engine to handle said physics.

So, the fact that Starfield is going to use the same engine (I don't know if it does, actually, I don't care) is not a reason to panic or be upset. For all we know, they may have updated many of its components in one way or another, including swapping some for better alternatives.

Having seen the entire Starfield Direct, I honestly do believe it's an upgraded version of the engine - it really looks like it doesn't behave in the same way. And, well, the new tech the devs can leverage allows them to work on some older engine limitations as well, resulting in a smoother experience overall, especially knowing what they were going for in this game.

Eh, I liked the fact that Reddit has boilerplate rules for everyone to follow, basically. I know a lot of that is ignored, but it's not a bad idea.

The coolest thing about having all that federated is the non-monolithic approach. Different instances can kinda be seen like different backups, especially during the first waves of power users happily self-hosting instances. Everybody wins when there's a healthy balance between what kind of power the everymen and the more powerful ones have. Not that there's some looming overseer for Lemmy, but the point remains.

Lassmich Tötenmeister?

Typical Crimson Fleet geezer right here.

I'm on the same page as you are, though.

@[email protected] you should probably do the same if the price tag is too much for you. If you really do feel wrong about it, you could first get the game, keep playing it all you want, and then just pay later; or, if the experience turns out to be disappointing, never pay for it as a result.

Either is better than pre-ordering. Even if Starfield is worth every penny on launch, i.e. no bugs, no issues that cannot justify the price tag, not a single argument against the very practice of pre-ordering games, giving companies money before they deliver anything at all is giving them much more than just the money - it's giving them an idea that it's okay to ask for money before any of the paying customers ever get anything, and this kind of appeasement has to stop.

"We're right, you're wrong, cope and cry about, thanks for coming" type of AMA incoming, along with the fan favorite nothing burger with lame ass excuses on the side

Holy shit, I thought I was alone in the big gaming world!

The reason I never played it is because at the time the game was out, my PC couldn't handle it, so I gave up after my sad attempts to sit through the unplayable frames. And by the time I upgraded, there were simply too many games to steal my attention entirely - that's how it been ever since.

I want to play it, though. I never considered it boring - I liked it even when I wasn't that interested in fantasy, and now I'm gravitating even more towards it. Hope to get my hands down to it one day, but with Starfield (hopefully) coming out this year, and with The Outer Worlds to beat before that happens, I think I'm not slaying any dragons any time soon.

Skyrim is probably one of those games you either can't put down or can't start. No in-betweens.

Can anyone explain to me, a dumbass, what it means for my current save file? I haven't beaten the main quest yet because I've been doing everything else for over 120 hours (finally got all the gigs and NCPD scanners, at least), but I still don't see how an overhaul of that caliber is going to play well with the current balance of things. Judging by that one update that reset my skill and perk points, I think we can expect some resets again.

I think Phantom Liberty is my incentive to finally finish the game and then start a completely new playthrough, preferably with a consistent build and playstyle this time from start to finish. So much to choose from!

As a builder, would you say there's a somewhat budget pre-built option that's decent that lazy and curious people like me can look at?

I'm not having a lot of trouble with my body with the regular keyboards, but they do force.me into specific positions when I have to do actual work, because I need both sides of it rather than just the gaming one when I play.

You don't have to sign up for every instance you want to.

I can see that you're currently signed in to your lemmy.ml instance, for example, and if you go there and search for a community in another instance, like [email protected], you'll be able to view and interact with that community without ever leaving your instance.

So it is already linked in a way. Go ahead and try it out with some communities you've seen in other instances.

I'm sure this kind of concerns is one of the prime reasons that seems to "slow down" the support. I don't want to whitewash anyone, but I'll give credit when credit is due - the officials in the western(-oriented) countries do realize that they're a temporary asset in their position, with a goal to contribute to the society that enables their entire lifestyle. While some may not be a proper fit for the position of such power, today many, if not everyone, realize that they're going to have to step down sooner rather than later, and if they want to enjoy the benefits, they better make the electorate happy - today, this surely includes making sure that none of the electorate has to go die because Putin wanted some landgrab out of some pissy revenge and power-hunger.

We all want this war to end as soon as possible. Even Putin wants to, undoubtedly, but he's too stupid and arrogant to withdraw and admit he made a mistake.