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ElectroVagrant

@ ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world

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3 yr. ago

Another traveler of the wireways.

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General Discussion lemmy.world

11mo ago

Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”
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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago
[...] I really don’t see gamers ever embracing AI.
They've spent years training to fight it, so that tracks.

11mo ago

Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Ubisoft cannot complain when gamers "pirate" their games then.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft and all that.

11mo ago

YSK: If the frontpage constantly looks like the same 5 - 8 posts, try sorting by "Hot".

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Also if you don't want to manually switch it all the time, go into your account settings and change the sort type to whatever you prefer. Similar should apply in apps, with a bonus: some apps will let you change default comment sort setting as well.

11mo ago

Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Oh, at the time of writing I wasn't sure if the thread title would display in their notifications with the mention, so I wrote that just in case.

11mo ago

Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Meant to comment this earlier. On your last point so far as I'm aware there's currently no way to create a link post (direct URL lemmy link as you say) from Mastodon/microblog to Lemmy. The reason your test post is linking back to the Mastodon instance is because of the image attachment, because you can create image posts between the two.

If you drop the image attachment, while it won't look as nice, you can get the separate title, link, and body text without it looking too bad. Unfortunately it will lose the visual draw in the process, but that seems to be the workaround for the time being.

11mo ago

Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

The main ones would be @nutomic@lemmy.ml and @dessalines@lemmy.ml, which I just mentioned so should be no need to mention again I think.

Btw for their benefit, adding the context: post with feedback and questions on Lemmy-Mastodon interoperation.

11mo ago

22 years later, modders are keeping SimCity 4 alive

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Efforts like this always have me split. On one hand I appreciate them keeping old media going, on the other I wish their efforts would go towards an open source clone/variant instead of propping up a neglected property from a giant company.

Especially when said company could abruptly change with different management and start trying to shut down their activities.

11mo ago

The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

It may not do much depending on the mods/admins, but it never hurts to report and downvote comments or posts like that.

Emphasis on reporting there, as I think sometimes that stuff lingers around because people have made a habit of only downvoting and blocking those doing that regularly. I realize in your examples it's more likely bias or bigotry respectively, but still.

Report first, then downvote and block. Doing only the latter only makes your experience a little better, the former may help the community.

11mo ago

What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

For those that may only vote and otherwise lurk, there's a decent amount.

The inability to create multi-communities/reddits (or feeds as Piefed calls them), the absence of post-folding/deduplication for when someone posts the same article to multiple communities (sometimes similar, sometimes distinct), the absence of keyword filtering to automatically filter out stuff from local/all feeds one's uninterested in, and these are just a few from the top of my head for those that mostly lurk.

11mo ago

My First animation

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Congrats on the first animation! Making even one helps give a better sense of how much effort animations take to make. It's always cool once you get it to a spot you're happy with and see it moving.

11mo ago

Mastodon cultural question - when should we use Favorite?

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Whenever you like, honestly. It's mostly a nice acknowledgment to the poster that you appreciated their post. Unlike commercial social media it's not sending out anything to your followers that you interacted with it (at least last I checked).

I think many people boost more than favorite because it functions a little similarly in regards to acknowledgment, with the bonus that it helps share the post to others which is even more relevant in federated networks than on centralized platforms.

11mo ago

Permanently Deleted

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

In other words, vibe coders are today's technologically accelerated script kiddie.

That's arguably worse as the produced scripts may largely work and come with even less demand for understanding than a script kid's cobbling together of code may have demanded.

11mo ago

Clonk: Terraria 15 Years Before Terraria [8:45]

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Like others in the comments of the video, I'm surprised I hadn't heard of it earlier when it was still new. Then again, it may be even better to learn of it now so I can be excited by it being new to me and motivated to share stuff about it.

11mo ago

Walking sticks

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

These look nice! The fifth one to the right of the tallest walking stick is surprisingly straight. Almost looks like it could double as a fighting staff.

11mo ago

Lemmy is making me depressed

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

I can see how it could. Take a break from here and any online space that's making you feel this way. Don't feel obliged to participate or "fix" them.

Remember that these are optional. If they start bringing you down instead of up, take a break or move on to whatever invigorates you instead. Rekindle an old hobby, try a new one, try learning more about something you're curious about, or the like to find something else to channel your focus toward.

11mo ago

I've drawn acrylics the whole week with kids at work

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Not bad at all! If you enjoyed it you should keep at it

11mo ago

[RESOLVED] Looking for simple self-hosted image editor / resizer app

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ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Was thinking the same and you can.

Minimal fucking around needed too, just pkg install imagemagick then navigate filesystem to images ya want to adjust and magick however desired to reduce the file size.