Feel free to try, though I don’t trust the LLMs enough to detect other LLMs.

No Man’s Sky is the other extreme, I actually feel kinda embarrassed that I get so much new content without paying for it.

Like, other companies would make it into 20 DLCs already. And even the non-shitty companies would make at least 2 DLCs out of the content.

I think they redeemed the shitty start many times over, they should really charge for some DLC.

You can use https://schedule.lemmings.world/ to automate the posts. Or, given the community we’re in, you can selfhost it!

This week I’ve been doing some work on my GOG Downloader to finally back up all my GOG stuff when I buy new disks, that’s pretty much it for my selfhost/homeserver stuff this week.

Well, apparently not what gamers want given that not even a million of the EU ones signed the petition to force EU to look at it.

Well, it’s still a hack, not something officially supported, I wouldn’t really consider them DRM-free when you still need Steam to run the game officially.

I’m not ruling out Steam either, they’ve done a lot of good for gaming and I buy games there if I really want them and there’s close to no chance they’re coming to GOG (like the recent Dragon Age), but more and more often I decide that I don’t actually want that game that much.

Indeed, there are many tools to do that, one of them of my own making: https://github.com/RikudouSage/GogDownloader

But even if you don’t back them up, at least you signal that DRM-free is important to you by buying there.

For games, always buy from GOG if you can. Unless it’s a game I really want I only buy from GOG.

I mean, it’s the same, except you don’t get a total number across all your posts.

The hive mind is here as well.

Sure, sure, old man. Everything was better when you were young.

There never was a majority of people who were into computers. It was always a minority. And I’d argue that nowadays there’s more developers because there’s simply more people with access to computers.

Some of them won’t like them, some will be neutral and some will be “geeking around”.

And having seen some code from people both older and younger, the younger ones are better (note that it’s my anecdotal evidence). And you at least can train the younger ones, while the “experienced” will argue with you and take energy out of your day.

I’m so tired of the stupid “when I was young, everything was better”. You know what else was exactly the same? The previous generation telling you how everything was better when they were young. Congrats, you’re them now.

That was just rules to make it work on the technical side - you’re not helping the user experience if you have to wait half a day until someone manually approves your registration.

The rest would need to be discussed and actually thought out (and agreed upon with Lemmy devs, who own the join-lemmy domain).

I haven’t given it much thought because I see no point if it never gets implemented.

My proposal have been a little more complicated, but IMO works well for a BFU:

• create some set of rules for “default instances” - every instance that wants to be in the list must follow them and will be periodically checked
  • I don’t have any particular rules in mind, but some examples might include active moderation team, obviously registrations being open and if you really want to make it easy, either no application question or having it automatically approved by an automod of some kind
• on join-lemmy, present a registration form that will create an account on a randomly selected instance from the pool and redirect there afterwards
• there should be a link somewhere for “experts” where you could link to the current wizard

I’m willing to work on this if we can sit down and agree on the criteria for the pool. I can also ask my UX guy to help a little.

Feel free to text me here or on Matrix if this is something you think is worth pursuing. I’d also appreciate if you let me know it’s not the direction you want to go in.

That doesn’t help at all, I’d say. Most people won’t ever create communities.

Read only instance would put them off too. The best solution, IMO:

• create a pool of instances that will act as the default ones
• when creating an account, create it on one of the instances, redirect the user there
• add an option to migrate an account to a different instance in case the user wants to choose a different one after a month or so

What did you use? I usually use Syncthing to get my files onto/from the Deck. I also use it to sync my mods, that way I have the same experience whether I turn on the PC or the Deck.

Well, not what I was pointing at. It’s pretty much an American thing to just use the preinstalled messaging app and pretend there are no others, that’s why the whole blue bubble / green bubble drama is pretty much exclusive to the US.

Any chance you’re American?

What a fucking idiot. I’m itching to refund it just for this statement alone.

Loved that browser, it was so amazing compared to all the half-assed default browsers. Good old days of J2ME.

I also used its bigger brother on Symbian because it rendered the web better, but it was way too memory-hungry.

Not 3 for me, but I really love 5. 3 has way too outdated graphics for my tastes.

I only ever used SSH, so I don’t know.