tojikomori

tojikomori, 11 months ago

If someone walks away from the event thinking they might buy a product like this from Apple someday, that's a win for Apple – even if they're not sold on the current device.

This is what I'm most curious to see on Monday. So far VR hasn't really excited me, and the idea of a new headset with a price barrier the size of its rumored bill of materials only makes me less enthusiastic about it as a consumer product.

If it's a product intended for creators or developers – not just as a development kit but with actual productive use cases – then Apple might have my attention for a future generation. But if, as rumors suggest, this is primarily intended for gaming, I don't see a future where I'm interested in any generation of it. In 18 years of following Apple, that's a first for me.

tojikomori, 11 months ago

Upton said that Zero and Zero 2 stock would start returning and also said there would be "substantial" recovery for the 3, 3B+, and 4.

Sounds like we'll have to wait a little longer on the Zero, and I'm curious to see where its price settles because that's a big part of its utility. I had a few project ideas the last couple of years that I put on ice as soon as I saw the $10 Pi was currently $100. Eek!

tojikomori, 11 months ago

It applies to both for now. I opened a thread about this yesterday and as Kichae said, it's something the dev is experimenting with and is open to discussing. They also helpfully shared a roundup of links to past discussions on this topic.

For now I've created a separate Fediverse account for my Kbin activity (this one!) which seems to be what most people are doing on Lemmy anyway, but I agree it'll be nice to change Kbin's behavior so it's a less jarring experience for followers on other Fediverse apps.

tojikomori, 11 months ago

Because they're both part of the Fediverse, Lemmy and Kbin do federate with each other. You can follow Lemmy "communities" in Kbin, and Kbin "magazines" in Lemmy, and I believe other Fediverse groups (like Frendica groups) also federate.

I've been leaning into this from Kbin, as a way of dipping into communities on Beehaw and other Lemmy instances while keeping my distance from Lemmy's devs.

I have one concern. As we're seeing with Reddit, it's a huge effort to move internet communities. If Lemmy-the-app becomes untenable even for more reasonably admin'd instances, then the most obvious solution won't be to fork Lemmy (a huge undertaking) but rather to move to an app that's maintained by more reasonable people. That's probably going to involve a messy migration, some data loss, some loss of community, and some dead links.

I'll keep using Kbin as a way of tapping into existing communities, but when it comes to building new ones I'd much rather see it done on kbin.social or other Fediverse instances where there's no long-term dependency on Lemmy's devs.

tojikomori, 11 months ago

Two small ideas:

Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly indie sci-fi & fantasy magazine: short stories, poetry, and essays. I never know what to expect from its stories. They're often evocative, engaging, and weird, and they make me look at the world in a different way. Don't read it through. It's best savored.

Tempeh Lettuce Tomato Sandwich: I recommend these strips if you can find them in your local co-op, they don't taste anything like bacon but they're great –but the really important bit is whatever tempeh you get, pan fry it in slices. Pan-fried tempeh has a lovely nutty, almost popcorn-like taste and a satisfying bite to it. A dab of sriracha makes it 👌

tojikomori, 11 months ago

The first time I stumbled into superbad.com and it clicked with me immediately like art sometimes does. Total recognition in an ineffable language. It's my first memory of a distinctly internet culture.

alt.fan.pratchett and specifically the sprawling, unending hedgehog song that exhausted every rhyme there is to be made about bestiality. (That man really earned his knighthood.)

The Star Wars Cantina. I hadn't even seen all the Star Wars films, but I somehow fell into this clunky HTML chat room, and managed to role-play along just well enough to feel part of a community.

Finding music. Discovering bands on mp3.com when that was a thing. Typing odd combinations of words into Napster to discover songs and artists I'd never have been exposed to otherwise and still love today. Buying digital albums for the first time and feeling something so personal and special about not having to go to a store and rely on what they have in stock or order from a website to have shipped in several weeks. Reading eMusic editorials and putting my credits to obscure reissues and international releases I couldn't possibly have found out about any other way. (Now it feels like every service wants me to listen to music that sounds like music I've already listened to. Bandcamp's editorials are my last oasis.)

tojikomori, 11 months ago

Starfield backgrounds were obligatory! I remember spending hours in Paint Shop Pro's pattern mode trying to make sure my white and grey pixels repeated nicely: not so busy as to look like noise, but dense and random enough to hide the repetition.