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harmonicarichard

@harmonicarichard@techhub.social

On the web since 1996. I am currently playing with PHP. I also play with Harmonicas but I can't play songs yet.

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atomicpoet, to random
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To me, what gets me about these “limited run” physical editions for Nintendo Switch is that most of these games aren’t even exclusive to the Switch.

Most of them were released on PC first—where they are sold for cheap.

“Oh, but this is physical while the PC versions are digital!”

All games are digital, and if I want my own “physical” copy, I can just store it on a hard drive or USB stick.

“But the art!”

Well, print out your own poster or sticker. It will have more sentimental value, and it will be less expensive.

Let’s just be honest. The reason most of these folks collect Switch games is because it looks pretty on their shelf.

harmonicarichard,
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@atomicpoet There is the other side of the topic, for the children of the 80s and 90s. Every CD, every game, every DVD, every VHS, every minidisc was physical. We would buy the disc, rip it, and then listen on an MP3 player, minidisc or other.

By being able to buy digital copies we skip the need for plastic disks that had to be transported on ships, trucks, trains, and we cut out the trip to the physical shops.

Nostalgia is rational, but if we want digital copies then it makes sense to get digital copies. When a digital copy of a Switch game is reduced the carbon footprint isn't amplified.

When we were children we were so worried that our materialism would have a huge environmental impact, but by switching to digital the impact is much smaller. Less to recycle. Less space in our homes.

I still buy physical game media, when it's cheaper than the digital version, and when I might pass the physical game media to a niece or nephew.

The last thing I passed was a fidget spinner.

atomicpoet, to random
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I can’t watch these Nintendo Switch collections on YouTube anymore. It’s just too infuriating.

Many of these games I bought on Steam for C$1.00. For example, Super Meat Boy.

Yet, a CIB copy of Super Meat Boy on Switch averages around $42 because it had a limited run.

People tell me that PC gaming is expensive. Well, if you’re running Super Meat Boy, it isn’t. That game will run on a potato.

You can probably buy a laptop for the same price as the Nintendo Switch port of Super Meat Boy—and play that game on the laptop. I’m not kidding.

harmonicarichard,
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@atomicpoet i don't think they have "potato Pi" yet. Maybe one day.

clive, to random
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As I behold "Crush!", the new Apple ad for their Ipad Pro ...

... I fluctuate, with heisenbergian indeterminacy, between "they are clearly trolling us" and "they are totally earnest and have no idea how completely sociopathic they appear"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

harmonicarichard,
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@clive @crutlefish My visceral reaction was to the final cut camera app. I really like Final Cut X and use it professionaly. The issue with FCP X is that with an old device you stop getting new features.
With the Final Cut Camera app you need to buy an expensive ipad to play with it. 2000 CHF for a fragile video mixer. It undercuts professional makers.

I have had a low opinion of Apple innovation for half a decade or more. I replaced a 2016 MBP with a Pi5.

Apple charges professional prices. It gives amateur products.

I am happy I fell out of love with apple products. It's cheaper this way.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/final-cut-pro-transforms-video-creation-with-live-multicam-on-ipad-and-new-ai-features-on-mac/

atomicpoet, to random
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I’ve been writing a novel and I think I might just chuck it all out.

My problem is that I always start with a simple premise. And then things get more and more fantastical until the whole thing gets weighed down by the bizarre plot line.

For example, in my current novel, what starts off as a simple connection between two people turns into a metaphysical journey into the transcendence of ecstasy.

I can’t just let my characters be happy. I have to launch them into an entirely new plane of existence where their minds become subsumed by a universal consciousness.

I’ve gone overboard. Again.

harmonicarichard,
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@atomicpoet Don't throw it away, just archive it. In a few years you might enjoy reading it, and have enough distance to edit it.

atomicpoet, to random
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Does anyone remember Tia Carrere? You may recall her from her role as Cassandra Wong in Wayne’s World.

She’s a Grammy-nominated singer of Hawaiian songs. And deservedly so.

Tia definitely has the voice of an angel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjC15aK53ig

harmonicarichard,
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I remember her by name, more than by films. I watched the film two or three times.

atomicpoet, to random
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We need to bring back this era of tech marketing.

https://youtu.be/NfpYrem94q0

harmonicarichard,
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@atomicpoet I don't know if I accidentally have MS-DOS 5 diskettes. I probably used it but I don't remember version numbers except for windows 3.1 etc.

michael, to AWS
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What on earth?! Amazon S3 charges you for unauthorised requests to S3?!

That's just absolutely insane! I better check my AWS account and delete any unused buckets I have in there …

https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

harmonicarichard,
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@michael When experimenting with AWS, Azure, and more I always pull down anything after I have completed a tutorial. I don't trust cloud service providers not to charge for something that should not be charged for.

atomicpoet, to random
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It’s not a conspiracy theory to say that certain people on the Fediverse, who have a long track record of harassing developers, got kicked off other social platforms for toxic behaviour. In fact, I know this to be the case because some of them have told me.

No, I’m not linking to them because I’m not amplifying them—or to their problematic servers either.

However, it is a conspiracy theory to say I’m working for Elon Musk for acknowledging this is a problem.

How does it even help Elon Musk to say harassment of Fediverse developers is a problem? Wouldn’t more harassment mean less developers working for the Fediverse—which inevitably helps him?

RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/6c71418e-9a2e-4958-a2c8-646def8e8765

harmonicarichard,
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@atomicpoet that’s why i take long breaks from the fediverse. I love the idea of the fediverse but i see toxicity. I hope that it will eventually end. (The toxicity, not the fediverse). I want the fediverse to be filled with friends of friends. I still see too much trolling.

harmonicarichard,
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@atomicpoet For a long time "big social" was a network of friends of friends, so the community held people to account. I want to go back to smaller, healthier communities on social networks.

kcarruthers, to random
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The good folks I liked from twitter are pretty evenly split between blue sky and mastodon. A tiny handful are on threads and I never see them anymore. Some are still on twitter and that is just sad.

harmonicarichard,
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@kcarruthers i am back on Facebook. I never thought i would return to that awful site.

harmonicarichard,
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@kcarruthers everyone knows how much I hate that site. I never thought it would be the least worst.

VeroniqueB99, to random
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harmonicarichard,
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@VeroniqueB99 i worry about who controls Facebook and Twitter. They have already done a lot of damage. Somehow we blindly accept that they are controlled by their owners. No one converse on TikTok. Facebook and Twitter indoctrinate.

harmonicarichard,
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@HistoPol @VeroniqueB99 In 2007 we had Seesmic, and with seesmic we could have video conversations with people, that led to meetups, being invited to LeWeb and more. With TikTok it's mainly people copying each other. My concern is that if TikTok is seen as nefarious then FB and TW should be dismantled for the same reasons. We need a flattening of social networks, to see a spreading of communities, and smaller, healthier online communities, like we used to have.

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