Scraft161

I've looked at kbin, but things take a long time to federate through to it. it's still early days for it (same for lemmy, but kbin doesn't feel nearly as mature) and if I'm going to migrate to another fediverse platform it might as well be mastodon :/

I'd rather have Mojang get their act together and address some of the more fundamental issues that are starting to plague the game. I understand that Minecraft is a complex game and there's a lot that would need to be rewritten; but as thing stand right now they are signing themselves up to drown in mountains of technical debt.

A good example is the threading issues on the server where the game has to tick each entity and each chunk which is a fairly independent process and is an almost perfect candidate for multithreading, but the game uses a forEach() loop on a single thread. There's dozens more issues like these where decisions from 10 years ago (which made sense at the time) are now inadequate for the scale of the game at large. This is felt doubly so by mod devs who have to adjust to how things are done and have to try and fit their code with some of the now archaic java code that lies at the foundation of the game.

As things stand right now they are refusing to address these issues at al and just kicking the can further down the road, but there will be a point where doing so will simply cost them too much to do so and I fear that that will be the end of the Java edition of the game. And I do know that doing this is far from a trivial task; but if you start work now while you still have the time you can do this slowly in the background with other updates.

If the joke can be explained well using alt text I don't see the harm in doing so even if very few people will read it. If there isn't a clear or good way to explain the joke in the alt text then I don't think it makes a lot of sense.

I personally try to use alt text where it makes sense (see this post of mine).

Markdown also allows for hover text:

[link name](url "hover text")
![alt text](url "hover text")

This can be used to provide extra info when hovering over the image (also used in the post linked above). Hover text may be more appropriate for explaining the actual joke (I don't know how hover text plays with screen readers though) or serve as a nice mirror of the image's alt text.

tl;dr: you only should use alt text for memes where the joke can be translated into text format and use hover text if you want to give extra information.

are there any plans for this? I had a quick look around the GH and I couldn't really find anything conclusive.

right now there's too little content in my feed to not sort by new for me.

had this since yesterday thought the server was having trouble as I also couldn't really search for it's communities from my instance, good to know it might be IPv6 related.

NVIDIA has been shit on wayland for a while now, wayland is coming along nicely though and there's already quite a bit happening in terms of expensions; but unless you need wayland for something there's no real need for it (and you can get wayland apps working on X11 just fine). The big thing right now is that we're in a transition period where we need to go from one ecosystem with tons of well used extensions (like xinput) to one where these extensions are still being developed.

What I'd say is that if you just stick to Gnome or KDE you won't have to worry about which one you're using yet, and if you have problems with wayland just stick to X11 until those get resolved. I'm in a similar ballpark where I'm still on X as I am waiting for several parts of the wayland ecosystem to mature (mainly nvidia support specifically for certain laptop configurations and tiling WMs (yes there's options, but I have multiple problems with most of them))

use the $6900 iDildo instead, it should last at least as long as you do

things seem just fine for me ATM, discord feels way slower even if I'm just using their API, not that I'm expecting things to be perfectly fine; but I do think that once the influx is over things will normalize.

my advice is to sort by new, there's very few people here compared to the other platform and while federation allows for cross server interaction you still need people to post and vote a lot for hot to refresh like the other's. I don't expect this to get anywhere near as big as the platform but once you've joined a couple communities new should refresh often enough.

PS: if you like leftist memes and propaganda check out lemmygrad which is a fairly large instance.

I've been using dwm for a while now, I have a custom arch PKGBUILD to patch it the way I need and I'm generally satisfied with it.

the big downside is that you do need basic knowledge of C to actually configure it and quite a willingness to play around when applying patches, if you go the dwm route make sure that you're applying your patches via some script so you can easily take patches out or reorder them without having to rebuild everything from scratch, there's also a version that you can enable/disable patches and rebuild; but I haven't tried that yet.