I don't care as long as they don't take away NotePad. NotePad has useful features I'd hate to lose - such as stripping out all formatting, and being able to search/replace wildcard characters as themselves, rather than as wildcards.
There's always Diablo 1.
But my favorite is Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, which was made by some of the people who created Fallout and has a LOT in common with it. It's an open world, a combination of classic fantasy with elves, dwarves, and halflings with a rising steampunk technology that competes with magic. There are many schools of magic and technology, as well as social, stealth, and combat skills. The graphics are very crude by today's standards, but the gameplay is outstanding.
When I walk along a street, I count the number of drivers I see using their phones. It's been a consistent 50%. And the ones who aren't on their phones tend to be elderly. So what's surprising about an increase in pedestrian deaths?
Two states are seeing locally acquired cases- the first spread inside the US in 20 years.
Malaria has spread to areas of the southern continental USA. Decades ago I predicted that would happen; as climate change got worse, tropical diseases are expanding towards the poles. I expect Dengue fever to follow, along with other diseases of the tropics.
Sorry to post something so depressing! But god damn it, I PREDICTED this. The role of Cassandra really sucks.
I'm in the same place without having read that piece you mentioned. And I'm not going to be looking it up.
As I see it, climate change is the greatest threat the human race has ever faced. It makes World War II look like a squabble in a kindergarten playground. We should all be INCREDIBLY impacted by this, and yet everyone keeps going on as if nothing is happening.
But I think 50 years is a little bit of a narrow time frame. More likely we'll all die within 100 to 150 years. I mean, our species will go extinct.
Lately I've been thinking about what a sane society would do to try to mitigate the worst effect of climate change, while preparing society for the world that's coming. A world without fossil fuels or basic infrastructure.
I don't know about deletions, but I requested my data for takeout more than two weeks ago and I still haven't received it.
Wouldn't e-bikes be a relatively stopgap measure? They still require a relatively advanced and carbon-wasteful technological base, after all: maintenance and repair for the bikes themselves (including regular replacement batteries, which are definitely NOT environmentally friendly), plus paved roads in good repair (again, requiring a lot of fossil fuel expenditure).
There's also the likelihood that as the Earth's environment becomes increasingly hazardous we'll require protection from the elements more and more often - protection which would be difficult to add to a bike of any sort.
The US military has projected that basic infrastructure in the USA will be collapsing throughout much of the country in less than twenty years. It's hard to see how ebikes will be practical under those conditions. Gearing towards long-term lower-tech solutions would seem to be a wiser choice.
Those sociopaths have weighed down this sorry planet for far too long.
Jerboa is crashing more and more frequently. I'm getting maybe five minutes between crashes now.
What's the story with this? I'm getting it every time I log into Beehaw over the last few days. And Beehaw keeps crashing without warning and going straight to that same warning. Should I worry?
This isn't happening on any of my other Fediverse accounts, by the way.
Imgur is heading for an IPO too. And they're going to be purging all NSFW content. In other words, they're busy committing suicide.
I did exactly that. And ever since then, I've been backing up my full uncompressed photographs onto several duplicate hard drives and flash drives. Plus my videos, of course. I really should set up a server so I could do all that automatically, but I don't really know how and don't have the energy to figure it out.
Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling is the story of a boy coming of age in colonial India. Kipling grew up in India himself, and the sheer richness of the many cultures that Kim experiences as he travels across India and up into the lower Himalayas with a Tibetan llama is mind-blowing. Meanwhile Kim is drawn into the "Great Game" of spying between the European powers. It's a deeply moving and beautiful book. Best of all, you can download it for free in all the major ebook formats!
I was part of a group that left Goodreads when they sold us out to Amazon and Amazon started censoring reviews they didn't like. We set up a community on Google Plus to research alternatives to Goodreads and secondarily, to Amazon itself.
I set up the spreadsheet we used to track our discoveries. It's WAY out of date, but it's still there - unlike Google Plus.
It didn't exist back then, but BookWyrm would by far have been the best choice. It still needs some improvements, but it's already outstanding.
I'm BobQuasit@bookwyrm.social there, by the way.
I will never trust Google for anything since they killed off Google Plus. Getting rid of "don't be evil" as their corporate motto was a huge giveaway.
I want to abolish work, not reform it. Reforms always end up getting rolled back by the plutocrats.
It was well before I turned one; I was still in a crib. It was dark, nighttime, and incredibly hot. Some sort of animal with glowing eyes stared at me from the floor.
I thought it was a dream, but decades later my parents confirmed that when I was a baby the thermostat had broken and we had a night where the temperature was 100°. As for the animal with glowing eyes, that was our cat.
Welcome to the free world!
Taken near Comicopia, Kenmore Sq. Boston, MA.
P.S. - They made it safely across. Last I saw them, they were fine.
Taken near Comicopia in Boston, MA.
Collected audio files of the Weekly Radio Address (parody) of President George W. Bush from The Onion.
I downloaded these every week from The Onion. They're incredibly funny. There are 40 files available. These are generally unavailable online, apart from some which can still be found on the Internet Archive. As far as I know, this is the most complete archive available anywhere.
I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I'm enjoying BookWyrm very much; it's the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I've been looking for for years.
I love the simplicity of Paper.wf for blogging. It's truly elegant; I just click the link and start typing. But as far as I can tell there's no way for others to find my blog or for me to find other blogs on the site. There's no browse or follow feature. Nor can anyone comment on my posts! Those seem to me to be HUGE omissions.
Have you used any Fediverse blogging options? What are they like? And what other Fediverse services would you recommend? Other than Mastodon, I've already tried that (it didn't excite me).
Do you think that Reddit management are monitoring the number of people coming over to alternatives? And watching or even possibly participating in conversations here on Lemmy?
If so, what would you like to say to them?
I'm looking for a way to sort of blog on Lemmy. On Reddit I could do it by posting to my own profile (note: not editing my own profile, rather literally creating a post and assigning it to my profile). I doubt anyone ever read them, but they were just stuff about what I was doing that didn't really belong in any particular subreddit.
For example, I want to write about my take on the different Fediverse iterations I've set up, on what works and what doesn't. I could post that to a Technology community, I suppose, but I don't think it really belongs there. This is more of a status report on my thoughts than anything else.
I've heard that kbin allows microblogging, but kbin is INCREDIBLY laggy so far. I'm more comfortable here. So...is it possible?
Just a working list - feel free to add to it. I realize that some of these might already exist, and I just missed them. Here's what I've got so far:
- Book suggestions
- Obscure Media
- New England
- Massachusetts
- separate communities for every other state too
- Mildly interesting
- Antiwork
- Anti-Amazon
- buy it for life
Did anyone else have the experience that two downvotes on Reddit hurt more than the good feeling from getting100 upvotes? Or was that just me?
I'm thinking of starting a hybrid campaign online, a live weekly session by video with a Discord forum for 24/7 sideplay. Has anyone tried anything like that? Any tips?
I'm an old reader who loved older books even when I was young. As such, I was horrified to discover that older books are almost totally unknown to younger readers. As best I understand it, Amazon and the remaining booksellers of the world focus mainly on new books; perhaps they don't make as much money on older literature.
But there are so many great older books out there. And I love those books. So I started recommending them over on Reddit. In the field of fantasy, for example, there are a million people recommending Brian Sanderson and nobody recommending the works of Lord Dunsany, Michael Moorcock, or Barry Hughart - among many other wonderful older fantasy authors.
Lord Dunsany in particular wrote a short piece that touches on this point:
>THE RAFT-BUILDERS > >All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships. > >When we break up under the heavy years and go down into eternity with all that is ours our thoughts like small lost rafts float on awhile upon Oblivion's sea. They will not carry much over those tides, our names and a phrase or two and little else. > >They that write as a trade to please the whim of the day, they are like sailors that work at the rafts only to warm their hands and to distract their thoughts from their certain doom; their rafts go all to pieces before the ship breaks up. > >See now Oblivion shimmering all around us, its very tranquility deadlier than tempest. How little all our keels have troubled it. Time in its deeps swims like a monstrous whale; and, like a whale, feeds on the littlest things—small tunes and little unskilled songs of the olden, golden evenings—and anon turneth whale-like to overthrow whole ships. > >See now the wreckage of Babylon floating idly, and something there that once was Nineveh; already their kings and queens are in the deeps among the weedy masses of old centuries that hide the sodden bulk of sunken Tyre and make a darkness round Persepolis. > >For the rest I dimly see the forms of foundered ships on the sea-floor strewn with crowns. > >Our ships were all unseaworthy from the first. > >There goes the raft that Homer made for Helen.
The way I see it, recommending an older book to a new reader is helping a raft to float a little longer. What great old books do you like to recommend?
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