Very accurate. Currently still on my first character of around a 3-year campaign. I’m the only original surviving party member from the start. I’m just a Tabaxi Monk who wants to restore the crown. No ulterior motives. Just focused on the main campaign goal. My main powers are running real fast and attacking a lot.

Careful! They’ll find out if you keep letting them know on the internet!

Probably the Hello World I wrote for the Pocket Sprite along with the programming tutorial for it. To my awareness, I was the only person who made a tutorial for it and it got decent amounts of use on the Discord. It’s too bad you can’t get them anymore.

https://github.com/otacon239/PS_HelloWorld

Thank you for this! I’ve been trying to find a NextCloud replacement for years. I personally can’t stand the database approach to managing files. So glad to see Sync-In can just add a system folder directly without having to import.

Oh, but have you tried [insert software that has 8-billion tools, all of which you ignore and you just use as a notepad]?

Oh. Hey, now. I was sort of with you until the big boobs. And then I was really with you.

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

- Banksy

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This started about a day after mine. This is top from the last month.

I legitimately think I might be part of the cause. I posted this just a day or two before they all flooded in: https://lemmy.world/post/39082487

My inner skeptic sees an app and just knows that they’re collecting everything that goes through it. Not to mention it will probably a brick in a few years. It’s a product that’s a neat engineering accomplishment but I doubt it would actually get much more than a few hours of use on its couple of years of existence before you get your next iPhone that this no longer fits.

Side thought: this could have been a MagSafe attachment which would have made it compatible with a much wider range of models.

So I looked into it and there’s a few indicators this will either be vaporware or garbage:

• It’s a Kickstarter with an original funding price of $5000, which is nowhere near enough to fund something this complex
• AI is being pushed as a major component
• Video is very high production value in some ways, but very low in others, and before the product is funded
• No technical explanation of how it’s going to do any of what it claims and no one from the development side is involved in the video. Just a pure commercial.
• Dozens of news sites I’ve never heard of all repeating the same press release with no real info or interviews

Just to name a few… My guess is that the OS will suffer from being difficult to navigate and unresponsive from all the garbage they try to cram on it and none of it will be intuitive.

Hopefully this isn’t falling on deaf ears, but language is intimately more beautiful when you bend the rules: https://youtu.be/J7E-aoXLZGY

This right here I think is the ultimate way to practice religion. It’s an excellent framework for helping understand your connection to the universe and how your morality intertwines.

I’ve been reading up on Taoism and one of the things I resonated with is that it accepts the idea that you can worship anything. Even a rock. It’s not about actually believing that the thing holds power, but rather allowing yourself to give in a bit to the universe in an understanding that you are ultimately powerless. You have to give up some of your agency to the idea that there is power beyond your control and understanding and you have to accept that.

If you believe you’re an individual being separate from the world around you, the world will catch up to that idea. Aggressively. But if you accept that the world does not cater to you, and if you surrender some of that responsibility to a higher power, you’re not nearly as blindsided when the world finds you.

I’ve never had to code professionally, but even on my personal projects, I don’t want a single extra line in the program that doesn’t need to be there and I should be able to understand the purpose of every line years later.

My eyes glaze over whenever I look at corporate code because there are so many moving parts at that scale all from different qualities of programming.

I don’t know if this is a practical thought, but I really wish we could get away from every project being monstrously sized. I prefer small packaged ideas similar to terminal commands. Just because it has a GUI doesn’t mean you need to design every piece of software as if I’m going to spend a day in it. Just give me small, purpose-built tools I can understand and then stop eternally developing and adding features.

To add to this, it seems that every company now either makes one piece of software or 36 different softwares. If they make one piece of software, they endlessly pack it with features people don’t want and if they’re the latter, every piece of software is a hastily-cobbled-together half idea and they just move onto another piece of software. Is there really not a middle ground here?

Now I have to factor the time it took a trained engineer to design this 😭

Knowing the absurd amount of filament it took to print this monstrosity is making me feel things.

VERT is a file conversion utility that uses WebAssembly to convert files on your device instead of a cloud.

Doesn’t sound like you’re uploading to the server.

One of the tasks I find myself wanting to do all the time is clip my own gifs without having to use a whole dedicated app or busting out a video editor. I know it’s a lot more complex, but a system for doing basic video clipping would be amazing. I could be way off base, but I would think since you’re already using ffmpeg, maybe this isn’t too far of a stretch, but I understand if this is way beyond scope.

I don’t really follow any holiday traditions anymore. My friends don’t get me stuff and I don’t get them stuff.

I even stay home for Thanksgiving and don’t go to watch fireworks on the 4th.

It’s not that I don’t get out, but more so that I avoid the calamity everyone else is in on those days. To me, it’s a day off work and some time to catch up on chores or projects.