I'd have gone with a Kbin server. Lemmy just happened to fit more what I like in Reddit and its interface. The servers I mainly interact with seem calm and healthy enough and I get to see fun posts, shared articles and handfuls of discussions here and there. If there was no alternative? I'd just have moved on. Either federated social networks (Or something similar, one day) thrive, or social networks are all bound to gradually become pits of hostility no one wants to or can moderate. Just takes a single rich idiot looking to capitalize on his "product" to tip the scale in the wrong direction. I like connecting with people, having calm conversations about low-stake stuff with strangers. Keeping the heavier stuff for those I know and understand. Hasn't been possible in places like Twitter for ages and if the smaller, chill subreddits I like are all bound to see more spam and negativity? Pass. I'd just get back to reading novels regularly. Which I still should, honestly.
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Flatpak's the only one I've had good experiences with. Tangentially related, but I especially dislike AppImages. I'm not a fan of how bulky installing various flatpaks ends up being and use native packages or the AUR usually, but beyond that they're really convenient for non-critical applications that otherwise would mesh poorly with my distro or aren't available there. Friend of mine tells me it's also a nice system to package Windows applications/games with a preconfigured Wine version.
For starters, cameras are only supported on iOS/macOS as far as I know. Someone wrote a python script to do face tracking and send the information to Godot via TCP a while back, maybe you could take inspiration from this?
I tend to hang in indie game development subreddits and didn't want to have to deal with confrontational trolls on a regular basis, so programming.dev felt like a relatively safe choice since it's neither a super large server or a general-purpose one. I just wanna make lil' games and have little patience for those lacking in empathy and maturity.
C'est sûr. C'est comme toutes ces histoires que j'ai entendu de plusieurs à propos de la cigarette. "Les 10-20 dollars ici et là s'empilent vite en ostine et tu t'en rends compte après avoir arrêté de fumer." D'après-moi, c'est carrément quelque-chose qui renforce l'idée comme quoi un vice pourrait aider. "Ça coûte cher, donc ça doit marcher". "Si c'était pas bon, ça ne se vendrait pas pour ce prix là". Je voyais l'alcool come une béquille, il y a trois ans. Ça ne m'aidait pas au bout du compte, mais c'est réconfortant d'avoir un rituel qui calme les nerfs. Que ça le fasse vraiment ou non. La nicotine c'est grosso-modo un stimulant et les fumeurs l'utilisent quand même bien pour se calmer les nerfs. Faudrait juste qu'on puisse convaincre le monde qu'une tisane fait une toute aussi bonne job qu'une bière, sans nous détruire le foie. 😂
Non, j'suis pas-mal convaincue que c'est bien le cas. Le monde est juste pas-mal stressant dernièrement.
Quand la pandémie nous a vraiment frappé et qu'on devait s'isoler autant que possible, des ponts se brûlaient avec les paranos qui ont décidé que ce vaccin là était mauvais pour eux. Tout le monde autour de moi allait moins bien… J'ai commencé à boire du fort. Quelques verres de whiskey/vodka chaque soir et de la bière quand on m'en offrait. J'ai pas-mal arrêté tout ça après avoir rencontré ma fiancée, mais il me reste encore ma "collection". J'ai aucun doute que toute l'incertitude autour de nous en pousse beaucoup à boire davantage.
Ça parle de guerre, ça parle de maladie, ça parle de haine et d'économie brisée, injuste et corrompue. Le monde brûle. Le climat ne fait qu'empirer et tout coûte beaucoup plus cher qu'il y a quelques années seulement. Certains ont comme moi commencé à boire plus qu'avant pour vivre avec le stress et ça finit par monter la barre pour ce qui est considéré "normal" comme consommation. Et je gagerais qu'il y a toujours des pubs pour la SAQ à la télé?
Go-doh. The French pronunciation. 👀 From "En attendant Godot". Hearing it pronounced "Go-dot" annoys me as much as hearing someone say "jif" instead of "gif". 😂
Custom CSS themes, for the main interface, but also maybe on a per-community basis? I liked most of what I'd see on Reddit.
Maybe a casual game-jam once in a while? Or we could organise the creation of some Mix and Jam style tutorial projects aimed at experienced users, replicating some features from popular games. Showing off what Godot can do and how to do it, in bite-sized open-source projects? GDQuest's free character models would be perfect for this. 👀
Just picture that lil' boï entering an oddly large blue pipe and turning into a retro pixel-art version of himself for a platforming demo. Nothing too deep or complicated, just the whole switching from controlling a 3D character to a 2D character in its own viewport, whose texture is pasted onto a wall in the 3D world and then back to the 3D character. That kinda stuff.
I would wait some more. Most people will just shrug off the current protest/blackout. So many subreddits stayed open that the average user just has a slightly different feed for a short while. And posting multiple times in there would just be rude to their mods. Interest in alternative platforms will grow once third party apps die and good mods start tapping out.
For now, let's just try and keep things active in here. 🤷♀️
There's a line right at the end of an extremely obscure animated film from when I was a kid. It ain't a great movie. And I didn't fall in love with it even at the time, but that line somehow stuck in my mind to this day and I re-discovered it a couple months ago. I'll just hint that it takes place in a sky world and Mark f*ckin' Hamill does the narration. "Comme des anges" is the line in question (Since I saw it in French as a kid) but it probably translates to "Like angels" in English. I tried to find it and it was impossible to stream or buy that movie in any form nowadays.