pitl

pitl, 9 months ago

As a CS dude who uses Linux and is around way too many people who seem like they genuinely are in need of some therapy on a daily basis, this entirely checks out, tbh.

I’m now mildly worried for my own mental state

pitl, 9 months ago

Yeah, same boat here. Was a longtime Sync Pro user back on reddit, and saw LJ as a dev worth supporting, but I’m not entirely on board with the changes on the privacy end. Maybe if that stuff changes I’ll go back.

pitl, 9 months ago

Quite. That’s why I used to use Pro, however. And ultra as a regular subscription is… a bit out of my price range. I’ve heard that there’s an ad free only tier priced lower, but I couldn’t find it in the app, so… shrug

I’ll probably come back to it eventually after post-launch flux ends and such, but we’ll see.

pitl, 10 months ago

Yeah, it just doesn’t really exist yet. I’m not sure a really well-moderated community for news content can exist yet on Lemmy, due to the culture that’s slowly springing up, but if it did it’d have to be on a dedicated instance, I expect - one with a very, very dedicated set of moderators with relatively strict rules regarding what is sufficiently-well-sourced content, and all other communities on the instance being held up to the same bar in their specific niches in order to encourage that kind of posting culture.

Honestly, I don’t think Reddit ever achieved a really good result either - the news subreddits were all dumpster fires to varying degrees - but Lemmy’s immaturity worsens the issue here, I think. It’s pretty appallingly obvious. I’d look elsewhere for news opinion aggregation, for the time being.

pitl, 10 months ago

Alundra. It’s basically the PS1’s own Zelda title, with a bit of Terranigma DNA mixed in. I played it as a kid and remember being blown away by the plot, and unlike a lot of other games I played back then, this one mostly held up when I replayed it as an adult.

pitl, 10 months ago

Holy shit, I had no idea there was an Alundra rando now! That’s fantastic news. I’ll hafta do a few runs. It’ll be nice to have a new way to experience the game after so long. Thanks!

pitl, 10 months ago

Very much this. The atmosphere here doesn’t feel any different than it did back on reddit, for better or worse. I feel like there was a time when reddit was less pessimistic, but there’s been at least a little of that vibe for a long time.

pitl, 10 months ago

… most of them, embarrassingly. I buy games when they’re on steep sale, but rarely actually gst to the end of them (Hollow Knight was the last one I completed, as I recall).

pitl, 10 months ago

Is Passport ID really sufficient? Might be better to just ask for a verified picture of the entire passport, gotta make sure they are who they say they are!

pitl, 10 months ago

It feels like the hype for this game already died a year or two ago... let alone lasting five more years. There's nothing wrong with ensuring quality by having longer development cycles, but a nearly twenty year gap? They dropped the ball hard on maintaining momentum. Even worse, that means they'll be courting additional delays due to the usual hiccup of entering a new console generation and potentially having to tinker with the game engine mid-development...

pitl, 10 months ago

Honestly? Metroid Prime 4. Dread tided me over regarding 2D Metroid for a while, and I've been really excited for a new Prime entry since announcement.

pitl, 10 months ago

Huh. I've wanted to try picking up COBOL for a while out of sheer curiosity. Guess now I've got an opportunity.

pitl, 11 months ago

... well, that's going to be incredibly confusing.

pitl, 11 months ago

It's working again, at least for me. Not sure when they made the change but I can sub to kbin magazines and look at user profiles now.

pitl, 11 months ago

In my experience, it seems like (from what I've seen on the web, so there's possibly a bit of sampling bias there) that homebrew is somewhat more common, but it's definitely a mix. Personally, my way of doing things is to take old modules and take bits and pieces from them as inspiration.

pitl, 11 months ago

I'm so glad to see this community exists! I had pretty much resigned myself to waiting a long time before a new OSR forum would take shape after leaving Reddit, but looks like that won't be necessary. Thank you for creating this!

pitl, 11 months ago

I... don't think I've ever read about the ball being dropped this hard on anything before. This is incredible.

pitl, 11 months ago

I'm assuming that they just didn't think about the implications and that it was a case of "should've vetted that one more time before posting," but yeah. Yikes.

pitl, 11 months ago

I have to regularly use HP, Brother, and Epson wireless printers with my laptop, and they've all worked via CUPS with no tinkering that I can recall. In one of the cases (the Epson WF-3720) the available settings and indicators were very limited, but beyond that no issues.

pitl, 11 months ago

Usually either Terry Pratchett if I'm in a more upbeat mood (Discworld only, as I haven't read any of his other books... yet. One day I'll broaden my horizons), or China Mieville otherwise (especially The City & the City).