Ephera

It’s funny when someone says “I want a solution besides X” and we all kinds to to say “uhhhh, srsly, X is the answer”

I mean, yeah, you kind of have to point it out. Newbies won’t be able to judge how much they’re making their life harder by wanting to do it their way. 🫠

Yeah, not a bad stance to have. When I switched to Linux (in the middle of a compsci minor), I thought I was the king of the world and that I knew everything about computers.

Then Linux showed me that I know fuckall, not because it was particularly hard, but rather because it’s an open library.
You can look at a random config file on your PC and it will explain you highly technical concepts for free.
You can look at the source code of anything you’re interested in. Well, or probably rather read an explainer from someone who read/wrote the source code.
And you can easily look at the logs of your applications to debug them.

Every so often, I run into folks that genuinely seem to know a lot about Windows, and I always wonder how. It doesn’t explain anything to you. 😅

Just to point it out: Having a USB stick with a Linux ISO laying around can be a lifesaver.

Even if you decide to go back to Windows or whatever.

Because you can actually boot off of the USB stick into a practically fully functional OS, so without installing, and then access the files on the hard drive, in case your installed operating system bites the dust (so long as the hard drive and filesystem is intact).

So yeah, might be worth the invest…

Yeah, I was gonna say, just a bunch of Markdown files would probably be fine. Use e.g. mdBook if you want a static webpage with search.

A dedicated service might have some advantages, but personally, I’d care much more about having my recipe collection in a format that I can access without specific software.

Yeah, the companies would rather not, though, because people may think you need to play them in order…

Yep, roguelikes are roguelikes, because there was literally a game called “Rogue” way back in 1980: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)

Duskbloods is the new FromSoftware game, so there’s no chance anyone will forget that.

Oof, I had already forgotten it before they mentioned FromSoftware. It sounds like a teenage vampire drama…

Wow, this sounds like that modder played Luanti and figured they want that feature ported back into Minecraft. 😅

As in, Luanti has had server-side modding for a long time, and unsurprisingly, it uses Lua for its modding API…

With a webpage like that, I’m not surprised that no one takes it serious. Looks like it fell straight out of a startup. 😵‍💫

Did you maybe try to press Esc?
When it shows the pretty boot logo, you can do that to see the logs, so maybe it works here as well…

Slop 😕

Ah, I did not see the engraving on the lens. Maybe it’s more visible in person, but it sure looks more like Oakley merch…

Yeah, I really don’t get those sunglasses. I’m not even sure, if there’s Vice City branding on them. I guess, if they did some funky design, people might not have wanted them, but buying fairly generic sunglasses in an expensive bundle is also silly.

Yeah, the only reason I would want them to add the game license in, is that the price is far too high for what you get.

Well, this kind of design language is actually referred to as “neobrutalism”, so you might find a theme under this name. But from what I’ve seen so far, it’s mostly a thing in web design at this point…

I also always find the minimalism vs. maximalism debate interesting for usability. Lots of minimal designs are so flat that you can’t tell a button from a label or icon.
At the same time, iOS’ new Frutiger theme regularly confuses me with its transparency, e.g. yesterday I saw that the silent-mode notification had a ➋ inside. It was centered and everything. Then the notification went away, but the ➋ stayed, because it was from an app icon behind.

I wish, we could throw out the bad eye candy, like transparency, while keeping the good parts, like 3D buttons and such. I feel like this kind of neo-brutalist UI design isn’t the worst direction to go in:

(This particular example isn’t perfect, like the buttons are flat, while there’s useless shadows around the boxes. But yeah, could just move those shadows to the buttons and it would still look fine.)