kartoffelsaft

joined 1 year ago
[–] kartoffelsaft 1 points 1 year ago

I sent an application last night as notherealfluffy and I'm not whitelisted yet (albeit it hasn't been 24 hours). I'm a bit afraid that if it's being manually added to the list then whoever is doing that might attempt to fix what appears to be a typo but isn't.

[–] kartoffelsaft 8 points 1 year ago

Not really an answer to the question, but does anyone else think that the phrases "take a shit" and "give a shit" seem swapped? You say you're gonna take a shit when you are giving one to the toilet, and you say you don't give a shit when you are unwilling to take shit.

[–] kartoffelsaft 1 points 1 year ago

Curious if anyone else is seeing what I'm seeing, but your comment has -1 down votes. Anyone know how that could happen?

[–] kartoffelsaft 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of the reasons I really disliked Reddit and stopped using it years ago was this way of using the voting system. If I make a post, and it gets voted something like +4-10, and a reply that is some rewording of "that's a dumb statement", what am I to think? I'm certainly not going to change my mind, no one gave me a good reason to.

If one is voting because they feel they can’t stand behind their opinion if they expanded it in text… I don’t know what to tell ya.

I'm inclined to believe a lot of people do this. This is not to say they are terrible for doing this, it's that it's human nature. Replying to someone with a well thought out post takes effort and, from my experience, makes the me realize i don't know shit about the subject. Point is, this way of using the voting system breeds half-thought opinions which is a host of a lot of other problems.

[–] kartoffelsaft 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That video is actually about sand cave, not nutty putty. Still worth a watch though.

[–] kartoffelsaft 2 points 1 year ago

I started working on a similar project about a year ago, except I was doing it fully by hand in the vanilla game (journey mode in a blank world), custom 8-bit instruction set, all that. I took an extended break from the project and kept thinking "this idea is so obvious, someone else is gonna do it first and I'm gonna look like a copycat" but not getting around to finishing work on it anyways. I'll post pictures if anyone is interested, maybe a world download if I can find somewhere to host it.

[–] kartoffelsaft 3 points 1 year ago

I think wikis have already gotten there, at least for games. All of the game wikis have gotten consolidated into fandom/Wikia, which, from my experience, has enshittification levels that makes viewing Reddit from a phone browser feel likea slick experience. You can't avoid it either. Wikis that used to be very good (at least compared to fandom, like gamepedia), have somehow gotten all pulled into the enshittification vacuum.

A few days ago I was on the Minecraft wiki, but I was playing b1.7.3 so I was viewing it on wayback. And holy shit, before fandom bought out gamepedia (albeit I was looking at the pre-gamepedia wiki), the wiki was actually usable.

[–] kartoffelsaft 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not super familiar with the details of either (as I've gotten so used to the AUR having everything I might want), but I can say with some confidence that snap was rolled out in a way that doesn't do it any favors.

I have an old laptop that I occasionally boot into to do some stuff, but not super often. After an update, it appeared as though Firefox had forgotten everything; I wasn't logged in, default start page, all settings reset, etc. I was super confused and mildly annoyed, but I set everything back up anyways. Then a bit later I ran Firefox again and it opened to what it was before the update??? Then I realized there were two installs, one apt and the other snap, and the latter was installed without my permission (or knowledge, maybe apt said in one of its 10k lines it spits out that 'btw here's a snap package' that I was somehow supposed to notice).

I find containerized packages really nice for things that are very dependant on how the system is setup but are unlikely to get updated if that system changes (either by me not updating it or it just going unmaintained). Firefox is not that though.

[–] kartoffelsaft 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was really excited to look into this thread and then I see:

My favorite hidden gems!:

  • Skyrim
  • Witcher 3
  • Halo master chief collection
  • ...
[–] kartoffelsaft 1 points 1 year ago

There's [email protected], which was hard to find for me because it didn't appear in Lemmy's builtin search. I had to use a search engine to get to it (and then use URL tricks to subscribe to it from my instance). Maybe try that for now?

[–] kartoffelsaft 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I often hear about the original "Elite" in this context. It managed to do real time 3d rendering on home computers (albeit wireframe) in a time when that was usually relegated to pre-renders or supercomputers. Came out a good decade before making 3d games was more generally viable.

[–] kartoffelsaft 1 points 1 year ago

If you are to believe that Reddit is setting the API pricing as high as proposed to eliminate 3rd party apps, rather than to recoup costs of allowing their existence (which I wouldn't put it past them to lie like that to make it sound more palletteable), then it's reasonable to believe Apollo's existence doesn't cost them 20M$. In fact I'd be surprised if it even costs them the 10M$ figure because Reddit's reaction implies a number that high must be extortion.

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