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christian, 5 months ago

It’s irrelevant to you, but a community doesn’t have to be massive for it to be important to it’s users, it just has to be big enough for people to get something out of it regularly to keep the existing userbase engaged. Lemmy pre-migration is a great example. But if enough people leave in a short timespan it’s really hard to keep the remaining userbase engaged after that drop-off. XMPP is a good example of this actually happening, I had a bunch of friends on there for years. When google pulled the rug, a lot of users lost a lot of their reasons for sticking around. It’s a shell of itself now.

christian, 5 months ago

One of mine likes chewing on wires to electrical devices. He used to do it only occasionally, but at some point he got the hint that I’m shooing him away when he does it and now he’ll start whenever I’m at the computer and he’s upset I’m not giving him adequate attention. He stops by and stands up against the chair to let me know he wants attention, and if I explain to him that I’m working on something and you’ll need to wait, he’ll immediately move to chewing at the wires.

This along with the fact that he’s more interested in me the second I start talking on my phone means I have to leave the room absolutely any time I want to answer or make a phone call.

I love him and he might have the happiest disposition of any cat I’ve met, but he’s really an asshole sometimes. He pounces me when I’m sleeping sometimes too which can really hurt if his nails get me.

christian, 5 months ago

There are a lot of awful things here but to focus on just one, holy shit monthly rent could go over the asset cap in a few years.

christian, 5 months ago

Not a fun fact, but their roster just has a lot more talent than ours straight-up. This game was personal.

christian, 5 months ago

I know I’m not making a helpful contribution here, but I’ve been wondering about this stuff for a while myself and this thread has some great answers. Thanks for asking this OP.

christian, 5 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

This is kind of tangential, but I don’t think I ever would have known that “poof” was an anti-gay slur in Britain if I hadn’t played Pokemon White. I wanted to.use that as a nickname and had to look up online why the game was preventing me.

christian, 5 months ago

Their first two albums are my favorites, just amazing music.

christian, 5 months ago

Just their early stuff - self-titled debut, Velvet Darkness They Fear, A Rose for the Dead, Aegis. The stuff afterwards isn’t bad, but it’s not the same genre.

christian, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Eastward? I actually learned about this game on lemmy a year or two ago.

I thought the pixel graphics were incredible, gave the game such a beautifully creepy atmosphere when it needed it. Even though I was really disappointed that the game just ended without tying any of the story together, I did think the story was great before I finished it. At times the game was unsettling and eerie and at other times it was heartwarming, and the dialogue throughout seemed very well-written.

christian, 5 months ago

Lemmy turned into another reddit overnight when reddit killed third-party apps. On the one hand it makes it easier to ditch reddit entirely, but I do really miss what the community was in the years before that happened.

christian, 6 months ago

Around this time of year one of my best conversation starters is “What’s your least favorite Christmas song?”. Everyone (at least here in the US) has at least one Christmas song that annoys the shit out of them, but you’ll get tons of different answers.

christian, 6 months ago

I switched like ten years ago because I wanted to learn the details, but in all honesty I still feel like I barely understand anything. Not sure how normal this is, maybe I’m unusually dumb, but I feel like what I’ve really learned is how to troubleshoot and solve issues by reading documentation and tinkering, rather than understanding what I’m actually doing. I’ve had a stable system for years but I kind of feel like if a typical arch forum poster looked my system configuration for five minutes they’d be like wtf are you doing.

christian, 6 months ago

Fun game. Did I miss anything interesting in the first? I just saw it was 0-0 at the start of the second.

christian, 6 months ago

Hi! I feel overwhelmed with getting started and would like a pointer on a resource I can use as a jumping off point. I’ve made efforts in the past using wikibooks or reading written Spanish media then running through a translator, but I never really made significant progress beyond learning a tiny bit of vocabulary.

I imagine that once I get even just good enough to read and string together basic sentences it will be a lot easier to make progress, it’s the baby steps I’ve had trouble with.

christian, 6 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/83f095fb-723e-4d2e-9fe8-acf955a7f1b5.jpeg

(found here)

christian, 6 months ago

I’ve been paying one euro per month for posteo for almost a decade now.

christian, 6 months ago

This is the last year and we won’t be able to move it without giving up something, why not just eat it?

christian, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Idiot here. When I use the command pacman -Syu jdk-openjdk, I still get the error:

<span style="color:#323232;">error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
</span><span style="color:#323232;">error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">:: jdk-openjdk and jre-openjdk are in conflict
</span>

It’s identical to the error when I just do pacman -Syu normally. What am I doing wrong?

Edit: I just removed the jre-openjdk package then updated normally and everything seems fine.

christian, 6 months ago

Guy’s had one of the best careers in the franchise’s history. His number needs to be retired the second his retirement becomes official. (Also 12 should have been done years ago, but that’s unrelated to Backstrom.)

christian, 6 months ago

Eh, Lemmy turned into another reddit months ago when reddit banned third-party apps. Any changes since then are insignificant in comparison.

christian, 7 months ago

I use geany for coding in LaTeX, and occasionally teaching myself some programming stuff when I have free time. I’m aware it’s not a great choice for experienced programmers, but I don’t really need something feature-rich and extensive, so I appreciate the simplicity.

christian, 7 months ago

I think we had the basics covered early. Too early maybe.

I basically had my sex ed delayed a year or two from the other students because as a fourth grader I would mostly just tune out when the teacher started talking.

christian, 7 months ago

Our shooting percentage has got to be very close to bottom of the league. Even the games where we’ve played well almost nothing is going in for us.