lotanis

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lotanis,

I'm a similar age and my wife and I have just started watching the Pokémon cartoons (they're on netflix!). She's seen them before but I never have and it's great.

Similarly we watched Phineas and Ferb and it was great.

lotanis,

The "two Edinburghs" situation already existed on Reddit. You'd get slightly different "competing" subreddits. They'd have to differentiate their names a bit but it still happened.

To flip it round - there was an issue in Reddit that whoever first set up a subreddit with a given name then owned it forever. Let's say I got there first for /r/london but then I'm a twat and either create a community of horrible people or fail to build a community at all. Everyone in London who wants a city subreddit is worse off, and at best someone has to come along and make a different subreddit with a different name to fulfill the same person. Not having this single namespace with "first mover" advantage is good and democratic. And all we have to do is pay attention to the bit after the @ sign.

lotanis,

I've never played Heroes of Might and Magic at all. What's it like? Should I get it and where should I start?

lotanis,

I think it's ok, as long as federation still works and migration is sorted out. The problem with centralisation is the control that can give. If there's a mechanism to move a community or user to a new instance without too much disruption, then the users maintain control and have recourse if the operators do something unpopular.

Mastodon has a pretty good system that automatically moves people's follows to your new account if you move. We need something like that for Lemmy.

lotanis,

Pokémon, via emulation.

I'm playing Ultra Moon on the Steam Deck and it's wonderful and chill.

lotanis,

Yes - Lemmy is a great reminder of how fast and snappy a website can be when it is focused isn't weighed down by all the commercial baggage.

lotanis,

Yeah, that's the main issue I have with it, but it's generally pretty good and I'm using it anyway.

Also: No option to open links in real browser rather than the web view thing No notifications for replies (not that important)

lotanis,

Interesting. I don't get that at all (just tried it).

lotanis,

Consistency from Steam Deck to PC makes a lot of sense and means features can come to everywhere at once.

lotanis,

I've started using newsminimalist.com It's one of the most useful LLM based services I've seen. It's an aggregator that uses ChatGPT to identify the significance of stories and group the articles on different sites about that story together and then summarise them.

I don't want to spend hours every day reading news, but I do want to keep up to date with major events and it's been good for that.

lotanis,

No, because the primary purpose of the LLM is to choose among news stories on existing news sites and just group them together put them in order - not so much opportunity to make stuff up.

It's also doing summarisation, but that is something LLMs do pretty well and in that constrained way also don't hallucinate much (in my experience).

lotanis,

I like to keep up to date enough on the things my government chooses to do so that I can make an informed choice the next time I vote.

lotanis,

I decided it wasn't worth it.

I bought the 256 GB deck. That filled up fairly quickly obviously and I looked at the alternatives. It turns out that if you buy the right SD Cards they're basically the same speed as the SSD, so I just bought a 1TB Samsung EVO and it's been great. Also, I didn't have to lose the existing 256 Gb of space that I had and it was zero effort.

Maybe one day I'll upgrade to a 2TB internal, or maybe I won't.

lotanis,

That would be so good. We'd get to contrast "Up and coming team" one year and then "serious contender" the next.

I'm actually a Packers fan and therefore I still am waiting to see this hypothetical contender, but I get the vision.

lotanis,

Yeah, that behaviour is very weird. My decision to search for and follow a community shouldn't affect the "all" of another person on my instance.

lotanis,

Definitely!

DRG is one of those games that I find it really hard to explain why it's so good. They've just done all the little things really well and the resulting experience is just fun.

I mostly play co-op with a couple of friends, on a not particularly high difficulty so we can have a good time killing bugs without too much stress.

lotanis,

It is in your control, just not on a day to basis. You choose which instance your account is on and that is an important decision with consequences. People have signed up to lemmy.world because it's easy but maybe their approach doesn't match what you're looking for.

It is hard at the moment because everything is in flux so the consequences of choices aren't very clear. One thing to remember though - you don't have to have just one account.

lotanis,

This isn't a problem that's unique to Reddit. Americans live in a fairly big country with a lot going on and do have a tendency to forget that there is a world outside (source: I'm from the UK and worked in the US for a while).

It's particularly obvious on Reddit because it is actually a very international community and so you see the mismatch much more obviously than you would chatting to an American at home. It's a fairly built-in feature of American culture, but yes it would be good if this was a space where people were always gently reminded of accidental US focus.

lotanis,

Ribbing is the WORST. It always goes so slowly compared to the rest of the knitting. I do toe up so it's always a question of how much patience I have to finish the sock!

lotanis,

You can. It’s not exactly the smoothest UI for it, but you need to open the community on your instance and then click follow. E.g. you’re on lemmy.world so you want this URL: lemmy.world/c/nfl@lemmy.ml

You can then click sidebar and follow just like you can with a community on your own instance.

The main potential problem would be if your instance has banned the other one for some reason or they’ve got issues with their federation.

Edit: and that actually might be the case. I’m not actually able to follow nfl@lemmy.ml either. Get a 404.

lotanis,

Glad you got it sorted. I’ve managed to confuse myself though in trying to subscribe to nfl@lemmy.ml. It should work and I can go to here and subscribe fine: discuss.tchncs.de/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

But this gives me a 404: discuss.tchncs.de/c/nfl@lemmy.ml

lotanis,

Nope! Something odd is happening. Need to be back at my computer to properly dig into it.

lotanis,

I looked at doing this and it was extremely hard to find good data on what the low load power draw from the wall was actually going to be for most of the small cheap PC options (I.e. how much in electricity bill). Whereas with a Pi it’s much easier - we know the numbers and we know they’re decent.

I’m lucky to live in Cambridge (UK) though so I could just go the Pi shop and get one!

lotanis,

Yeah, but what’s it going to cost me in electricity?

That said, you have just shown me how I’m going to replace my Mum’s aging desktop.

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