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taladar, 7 months ago

It is almost as if the entire concept of owning a vehicle for the 2-3 trips a day most people take is not a very efficient concept.

Veraxus, 8 months ago

Spent a few hours trying to fix the broken ultrawide support. Eventually, the good old hex edit fix for aspect ratios on the EXE did the trick. After that, the FOV was messed up, but the game doesn't have an FOV slider (or HDR, or DLSS)... so eventually I managed to fix that with a custom ini.

The next few hours was spent shooting pirates like I was playing Far Cry in Space, and struggling with the game's horrifically designed UI, menus, and inventory. So far, I am feeling very angry about the game. Like we were flat-out lied to about what the game was. There is no exploration. There's barely even "space". You just teleport from map to map shooting pirates... with a little scanning creatures and mining rocks mixed in. I don't understand how anyone is okay with this.

Atemu, 9 months ago

Btw, if you ever need to compare GPUs on Linux, use openbenchmarking.org/vs/Graphics/

openbenchmarking.org/…/AMD+Radeon+RX+64,NVIDIA+Ge…

TeaHands, 10 months ago

There are actually already a few sites to help people find new communities but probably the best one is lemmyverse.net/communities.

Otome-chan, 10 months ago

On kbin, everything is sorted by magazine. users don't have a personal "microblog", every time you make a microblog post here on kbin you're forced to pick a magazine (you can pick /m/random if you don't want to pick).

Like, I can't understand a use case where it wouldn't be preferable to just use articles.

That's because you're looking at it from the kbin perspective. You need to understand that the microblog posts came first, and are there because of platforms like mastodon that work to recreate the twitter style experience where you follow users and see their posts, and posts aren't sorted per "subreddit" or "topic" but rather by user, and searchable with hashtags.

Lemmy then came along and created this threadded reddit-style interface, forcing every post into a "community". These are basically the exact same thing as the older microblog posts, but with an added community to categorize it.

Kbin came out after that, adding support for lemmy-style threads, and mastodon-style microblog posts. To handle mastodon stuff, each one is automatically assigned a magazine to help categorize it into the familiar magazine/community setup; even though they aren't sorted like that to mastodon users.

As kbin users we can choose whether we want to create a thread or to create a microblog posts. They have a difference nuance to them. Threads have this expectation of being a part of a magazine/community, like a subreddit, with the expectation that people in that group will see it. microblogs have the expectation that only the people following the person who posted it will see it, not everyone subscribed to a particular topic. this means microblog posts are often a lot more personal, more informal, less "professional", and not directed at a community.

If you create threads like you'd use reddit, and microblog posts like you'd use twitter, then you've got the right gist I think.

Do Twitter or Mastodon have some analogous feature where one can have a named microblog independent of one's personal microblog?

No. To mastodon users they don't see our magazines at all, whatsoever. They just see it as if someone tweeted out the thing without any actual categorization.

ernest, 10 months ago

I appreciate the concern, and it seems to me that kbin is no longer just one person ;) Currently, kbin is a team of wonderful people who handle development work, devops, project management, and more. Additionally, Piotr helps me with administering kbin.social. There will be significant changes here soon, things are happening quickly. But to be honest, I wasn't fully prepared for such substantial growth, and it will probably take some time before everything stabilizes. But... this is just the beginning ;) What's important is that the snowball starts rolling, regardless of whether kbin, Lemmy, or Mastodon gains the most users. We all win in this situation.