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I don't think it pervades all of Lemmy, but I do think rage bait does well here. Seems like the most popular comments are expletive laden diatribes about how x, y, or z is evil and bad, and the most popular posts are headlines about megacorps or evil politicians doing it wrong.

It's not even that the outrage is usually misplaced. Reddit and Windows and Gen AI and Facebook are indeed all bad things in various ways and degrees. But there's room for nuance, and no need to jump down people's throats about stuff.

Certainly there's a selection bias - enough of the people here left Reddit in principled stands. That or they're just into open source enough to try niche projects.

To be fair, the taste for negativity isn't just here. Online culture seems to have that slant at large these days. But it does seem more here in some ways.

Just finished The Memory Police today. Thought it was great! Some beats were very clearly telegraphed, but it was nice how it emphasized atmosphere and attitude in the face of loss.

Earlier this week I finished Dragon's Teeth and Thunderstones. Still agree with my initial impression that it's mostly not my jam. But I thought it was a little more interesting near the end.

Headed back to the library today for another couple of books. Between the ones I just read, and my next couple, should be able to wrangle that pretty close to a bingo. Memory Police is written on a different continent, and the fossil book can fill either 'nature elements' square or the 'supplemental info' one (almost any non-fiction fits that last one I think).

Just the other day I found a copy of this at a yard sale. A vintage, cheap feeling paperback, which (materially) feels so classy now by way of contrast with most of my other books.

Glad to see the high praise of it! Grabbed it on a whim. When I get to it, will be the first of Le Guin's that I've read.

I've been getting back into reading more (in English) lately too. Right now I'm reading a book by a Japanese author, and it keeps reminding me how much I want to be able to read novels in Japanese!

Try to stay cool out there!

Definitely a thing. Dolphin has support for netplay, and Melee in particular has a great rollback implementation in Slippi. Fightcade for classic fighting games, mainly arcade.

Feels like it should be widespread across emulators, but I guess I've only really happened across it in that handful of cases.

This right here. I'd rather my email stay the source of truth for auth, but totally sympathize with website owners that don't want to store and protect any sensitive user data (like an email address and password).

I do wish some sites would offer the magic link option if they don't want to keep password hashes. It has problems too, but can be a simple way sometimes.

On some level I know the OAuth flow should be pretty safe. The idea that I have one identity that gets me into multiple sites makes a lot of sense. And I'm already using the same email in most places, so it's not like I'm anonymous anyway.

And yet... I can't convince my paranoia that 'sign in with Google' isn't oversharing. I always worry that authorizing with other sites will give too many permissions to see/alter Google/whatever data, or that clicking it will take me to a fake Google/whatever page where I give away my creds.

I like to try and pick a mix. I've been leaning more mage lately. Sometimes magic is super op, sometimes it's just an interesting system. Sometimes it's neither tho, and just clunky. So it's really kind of a toss up on whether that's a good decision.

Warriors are probably the best pick lots of times - just because gear systems often incentivize them. Finding a cool sword or shiny armor isn't very exciting when you're just hurling fireballs all the time anyway.

"We built the phone in between" [a smart phone and dumb phone] is a pretty appealing tag line. In the last half of the 2010s, when I finally dragged myself into getting an actual smart phone, I really wished I could get a flip phone that was more capable. The feature phones still on the market at the time seemed to be right out of 2003.

This implementation seems a little off. It has the flip form factor, and can run most android apps, great! But then it sounds like they arbitrarily block browsers and 'social media'? I think just leave them out by default, and let people go that route if they want it. The form factor already limits how well some of those would work.

Oh, nice! I tried searching and it didn't come up, so I thought parent comment was correct. Glad to see it.

Pumping through Anki cards this week. But probably over-doing that, need to actually be reading and listening more.

Consciousness: a Very Short Introduction.

I can't vouch for that particular book, but the VSI series is usually a good bet.

!kagismallweb@lemmy.world is basically an RSS feed of little blog posts. I've randomly seen a bunch of interesting stuff on there.