Tech people talk about tech too much.

I really really REALLY want to use all the awesome privacy friendly FOSS (and similar) stuff, but I am not a techie person! I don't know how to program, nor do I want to.

And every SINGLE time I try to find out even what thing (OS, program, app, service, etc) to use, let alone how, and I search for it... I get techie-focused answers.

It's complete gibberish to me! Absolutely useless. It makes me feel actively unwelcome even though I really care about using alternatives to Windows, Meta, X and other dystopic nonsense.

For example: I'm like "How do I start a non-enshittified group chat to talk about a thing?" and all the results are technobabble to me. I don't even know if the words they use are supposed to be normal english words or if they refer to orgs or groups or apps or some weird coding wizardry.

I am so lost, every single time.

I stick with it though. But like. I wonder if the tech people realise that this is happening???? Because they probably understand what they're talking about. And they seem to not realise that not everyone does.

I'm not trying to blame or shame anyone or even complaining as such (a little bit complaining, ngl), mostly just giving feedback. This is not an issue with a singe thing but with ALL of it as a whole! Including #GNU/#Linux the #Fediverse #Matrix and most #FOSS apps.

My sincere wish: Give non-techie people an EASY TO FIND and easy to read and easy to understand and easy to implement guide about how to use the things as an alternative to using big corporation services, ie, "I just want it to work" and not have to worry about the technical side of things. (examples in thread)

Dolls: counts as tool, has roughly the same durability as stone pickaxes.

Drones: stacks up to 64 in your inventory

Angels: stacks up to 108

Demons: Doesn't stack, consumes adjacent inventory items.

Moths: counts as a key item, can't be removed from the inventory bar once you have it there.

Witches: does not stack, but you can make a cube out of them at a crafting table.

going to start writing troubleshooting checklists that start like

1. is it DNS?
2. no, really, is it DNS
3. are you sure?
4. i know it sounds silly, but you’d be surprised how likely this could be DNS

Gimme dat sweet sweet meat...

#Gaming #Minecraft #HardcoreMinecraft #SharedHardcore

i was told that my views on parenting would change when i got older and had kids of my own.

i dont have kids but they did change – i hate parents and nuclear families even more now and still think kids should have full control over their lives

apparently it takes the average WoW player less than a week to reach max level? and that’s without looking at guides

I didn’t think that I was playing WoW in a way that was particularly slow or inefficient but this really puts my playstyle into perspective to be honest. I sometimes play for 2-3 weeks at a time before quitting for a while again, and at no point have I ever reached max level. in fact the furthest I’ve gotten on any character is WotLK, and this was on a 3x XP private server

the stranger danger panic of the 80s did irreparable harm to community trust and especially queer/minority communities in the us

Regarding https://cryptid.cafe/objects/b3c23a32-b3d9-45c7-9174-9301a5c8ea67: I spent fifteen years using Git, and for much of that was considered the Local Git Expert. I definitely didn't know everything about it, but I understood the (beautiful!) underlying model well enough to mostly see through the (awful!) UI and fix most problems that arose for me and my colleagues. Git was my friend. Git had my back. Git let me boldly try things out. Git helped me find problems. Git told me how the heck we got into this state and why.

Now I work in a job where I have to switch between Perforce and CVS (yes, I *know*), both of which have totally different internal models and totally different awful UIs. It feels like I've lost a limb.

@kasdeya

someone on reddit: *asks a question about pianos on r/PianoQuestions because they’re interested in pianos*

a chronically online, deeply insecure white man: *pushes up anime glasses* ohohoho, you fool! you imbecile! you don’t understand pianos at all! allow me to educate you on just how wrong and stupid your question really is! pianos just so happen to be one of my most passionate interests, and instead of sharing that interest with you I am going to belittle you for knowing less than me!

I love how, when I tell WoW players the way that I play WoW, their immediate response is complete bafflement and a little bit of fear. like “what the fuck is wrong with you, you psychopath” kind of energy

that’s right, normies. fear my playstyle and despair

have you ever wanted to turn a 30 second text file edit into a 15 minute code golf exercise? well now you can, with Vim: the official editor of autistic transfemmes. making text editing unnecessarily complicated since 1991

95% of the time all you need to know about git is add, commit, push, and pull. maybe log if you want to see a list of commits

but then the other 5% of the time it’s suddenly like

!!! you didn't transverse the planes before ancilpating the forward inverse!! entering CRITICAL DATA RECOVERY MODE NOW!!!

and I’m like “uhh uhh uhh” *frantically googles and copy-pastes a command that looks like git refdraft -qXR hdd::~475.2* “phew! that either fixed it or corrupted everything!”

version control is the best

the first rule of bash is Never Use Double Quotes

the first rule of cmd.exe is Never Use Single Quotes

happy halloween

kaslisp now has:

• macros!
• a cool macro syntax that looks like this:

`(symbol symbol ,(evaluate this please) (symbol symbol))

• floats and ints as datatypes
• tons of operators that work on floats and ints
• comments! (finally. it was surprisingly hard to get my parser to be okay with these lol)
• an (eval) function
• unit-tests to make sure that closures work correctly
• (let) and (set) (I can’t remember if I’ve already posted about these but I’m so happy to have them working)

I feel like it’s almost ready for me to start writing some proper code in it? I just want to add (print) and (input) (and in order to have either of these I’ll need to introduce a string datatype and I’m not sure how hard that will be for my parser to understand lol but we’ll see!)

a point-and-click scifi horror adventure game called Stasis is free on GOG today!

https://www.gog.com/en/#giveaway

CWs: gore, violence, cruelty, and other things that you would expect from a scifi horror game. I don’t know all of the details because I haven’t played it

I get bored with art really really quickly. I basically have no patience for it at all - it has to capture my interest within the first few minutes or I just move on to something else

for example when I’m reading some fiction I often quickly skim through it at first to see if my eyes catch something interesting, and if I’m playing a game with scrolling dialog boxes I’ll often just stop playing if there are too many dialog boxes in a row lol

and often if a game expects a lot of up-front effort from me (for example, a big AAA game with lots of cutscenes and tutorials at the start) I’ll put off playing it pretty much indefinitely

and I used to think that this was a problem, like my attention span was being shortened by spending my entire life on the computer (which is kinda accurate, lol. though of course it’s more nuanced than that). like maybe I need to stop and appreciate things more or learn to have more patience. or I would have FOMO about “what if it gets really good just after I stopped?”

but thinking about it now, I think it’s just that there are so few types of art that I end up enjoying, so the expected utility of me putting effort into something that I don’t immediately enjoy is very low. in fact the statistical distribution of my enjoyment of art, given that I’m not immediately hooked by it, probably looks like a long-tailed bell curve with the center firmly on the negative side of the X axis - so the mean of that bell curve is definitely negative lol

so yeah I’ve decided that there’s nothing wrong with me playing a game, seeing that it has a lot of scrolling dialog boxes, and immediately uninstalling it lol. or me saying “I’ve been meaning to play this demanding AAA game for like 2 months. that’s never going to happen so I’m just uninstalling it” or even just, skimming a piece of fiction for 3 seconds and deciding not to read it

🫵YOU should love yourself