Mr_Vortex

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Quire should become the correct spelling for the word 'choir'. in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Or in Shavian, ๐‘’๐‘ข๐‘ฒ๐‘ผ

Do you have any OC's? Can you tell us about any? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've never so much as shot a gun, so no, never had an open carry.

Alternative to Google Maps for sharing in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I had no idea that was the case. How does what3words make money exactly? I assume ads but I block those everywhere I use a screen.

Are there any services that do roughly the same thing but are open source?

Alternative to Google Maps for sharing in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The what3words app is awesome and lets you share any 10-foot square on the planet and save them into lists.

Is there an app that could send me a notification every 30 minutes? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not on F-Droid, but I use BlipBlip for this exact thing. It's an old app sadly, but still works on Android 14. There's a ton of customization options which you might find useful.

What are some good extensions or apps that you use for your browser or desktop? Really useful ones outside of uBlock Origin or Dark Reader. in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On Firefox I like Nimbus for advanced screenshots and Raindrop.io as my available-everywhere bookmark manager.

Am I the only one who thinks Discord is awful as a social media platform? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I appreciate your thoughtful reply! I guess it does boil down to a difference in how people like to consume content. I prefer being able to get a digest or summary of interesting things to read and don't care so much about what's brand new. Using AI for this could work well and I'm sure we'll see that pretty soon.

And certainly you're right about needing a willingness to jump in. I always feel like whatever I have to say is less important than what others are doing which scares me out of posting. That's why I like places like Lemmy where I can make a post and if people see it that's cool, but it's not in everyone's face and easy to ignore.

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Am I the only one who thinks Discord is awful as a social media platform? (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

It's great for communicating among individuals and in group chats, but I think it ultimately fails as a platform between creators and fans even though it seems like every creator or product team has one these days.

Let's say you're a server admin and you push updates to an #announcements channel. If people want to then discuss those updates, they have to go to a completely different channel. Unless there's one specifically for talking about announcements, that conversation is going to be mixed in with a bunch of other stuff. Sure, we have sub-threads now, but not all servers allow those to be created by anyone. They also disappear after being inactive for a while, so anyone looking in the future won't know if there was an important piece of information that's been lost.

Now let's say you're a regular server member and you've been away from a channel for a while. If you're like me and you find it hard to follow a conversation in reverse, you need to first scroll up before you read anything. (Discord does help with this by putting you 50 messages behind, but that's often not enough, and with no post ranking system, it's hard to know which discussions are the most interesting without reading every single one.) Then maybe you find a question from someone that never got answered and you want to help them out. You could reply to them, but if it's been long enough they might not see it and you'd be interrupting whatever conversation is happening at the bottom. So then you think you might try messaging them directly, but most servers don't allow that for safety reasons which is understandable.

It just seems that at every turn, Discord can't replicate the usefulness that traditional forums have. In a forum, everything is organized, focused, won't disappear, you can read everything in chronological order, and when you reply to someone it doesn't feel like you're interrupting people.

What do you all think? Am I just bad at using Discord?

how do you choose between two lauchers? steam amd gog through heroic? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would personally love to use GOG for their buy-to-own model, but I'm incredibly tied into the Steam ecosystem. I just can't live without Remote Play Together for playing with distant friends, the Workshop is incredibly convenient for modding, and free no-setup cloud sync of all my saves is a no-brainer. Gabe Newell was right when he talked about piracy being a service issue. If you provide the best service, people will keep coming back.

In that same vein, I'll never buy another Ubisoft title as long as I live. Their crappy launcher makes it impossible to play their games on Linux.

Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see lots of love for Linux in the comments which is awesome, but is there anyone considering making a hackintosh out of their machine? Is that a good route to go these days?

Who cares about red flags in people. What are your green flags in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Proud of you for breaking the habit! Not sure if you're masc or fem, but I'm masc and all I do is clip them before they get too long which helps prevent the buildup of dirt. Nail clippers also usually have a little scraper attachment that works great for getting dirt out when you notice it. I've never felt the need to file my nails, but you may prefer the extra smoothness!