so far the weekend has been pretty good. currently: writing about labor stuff, also reading this book. it has been a pretty mild and wet spring so far which is rare for here, and i’m enjoying that while it lasts

  • lysy
    13·
    2 years ago

    Weekend was cool, cooking with local Food Not Bombs folks and chilling out on a concert. Week is mediocre, work + some flat repairs. Happy that there’s so much sun last days, afraid that there’s no rain though. Normally it should be raining at least once a week.

    • seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.social
      9·
      2 years ago

      It’s cool you’re working with FNB. I love my local chapter. We’re supposed to get like 10 straight days of no rain and hot weather here in Northeast Ohio.

      • lysy
        3·
        2 years ago

        Saying that, today’s another sunny and dry day.
        Yes, FNB is fantastic, I met great people there, I’ve even introduced few of my friends to it, also my mother was there last week and she appreciated a lot what people there do for others.

  • gyrfalcon@beehaw.org
    11·
    2 years ago

    Good! Long weekend for me as an American, so I got to relax a bit before I’m moving the next two weekends. Plus I’m finally getting to see the various medical professionals I need to figure out some nagging aches and pains. Only drawback is now I need to find time to do all the different exercises they are giving me, which is easier said than done!

  • Chris Remington@beehaw.org
    11·
    2 years ago

    TL;DR

    I’m about to make more money than I ever imagined and I don’t know how I feel about that right now.

    I’ll think about making a longer post about all of this in /c/chat sometime in the near future.

      • Chris Remington@beehaw.org
        7·
        2 years ago

        I can say the following right now. My biological brother is trying to transition from working for his current employer to going out on his own. He has, roughly, 25 years of experience in this field that he wants me to be the CTO. If I agree, then I could be making 6 figures (or more) for the rest of my life.

        • humorouslyironicname@beehaw.org
          6·
          2 years ago

          That’s exciting! I remember when I got my first real software development job and tripled my salary.

          My advice is that you may be surprised to learn that you still need to budget. Even a hefty six figure salary can easily be spent if you’re not careful.

        • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org
          5·
          2 years ago

          Not knowing the specifics, it sounds like a great opportunity. I hope you find the decision easy to make and that you feel right in the choice you make, whatever it is.

  • amortized_cost@beehaw.org
    10·
    2 years ago

    Lost Mullvad port forwarding, RARBG, and possibly Reddit 3rd party client.

    I don’t want to be that kinda guy but why is the Internet getting shittier every damn day?

    • ollien@beehaw.org
      8·
      2 years ago

      “Enshittification”, as Cory Doctorow calls it, is a real thing :)

      Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

      I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two-sided market,” where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

      https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

      • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 years ago

        Do you think Reddit would still be good if they hadn’t gone publicly traded? Because then they wouldn’t have any financial incentive to milk their users so long as they broke even…

  • GuyDudeman@beehaw.org
    9·
    2 years ago

    Pretty nice now that I’ve found this place. Looks like the Apollo app for Reddit is shutting down because Reddit is getting greedy, so I’m thinking Reddit is done-for and looking for new places to get my fix. This looks like a nice one. Is it?

    • sexy_peach@feddit.de
      9·
      2 years ago

      This looks like a nice one. Is it?

      it is very nice if you can live with the fact that content is sparse sometimes.

    • OOFshoot@beehaw.org
      8·
      2 years ago

      If there’s one good thing about established social media sites making bad moves, it’s that the decentralized, donation-supported model seems to be trying to take their places. Honestly, why I hadn’t heard of doing it this way earlier is beyond me. Perhaps it needed Patreon to normalize donation models outside of NPR circles.

      • sexy_peach@feddit.de
        8·
        2 years ago

        I think it’s a kind of global learning curve, people need to experience it a few times how the free corporate sites turn against them. Maybe we’ll all learn to appreciate less polished but community owned spaces in the end :)

  • humorouslyironicname@beehaw.org
    8·
    2 years ago

    I think my next indie game is finally taking shape. There’s a lot of work to do, but I’m mostly going to re-use systems I wrote for my last game, so that will save a lot of time. I think my environments look great.

    I’ve been having a lot of fun with Midinous which is a generative sequencer. It’s super powerful considering how few concepts there are to learn. It covers a lot of the tricks that I’ve learned from modular synthesis, but in a more approachable way.

  • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 years ago

    Had a wonderful date tonight, so feeling pretty good about the week. It’s been mostly slow, with the exception of a few interesting events. Sunday night to Monday morning I got to see the legend ltj bukem at a local club and get in my first dancing since EDC. I also saw a friend whom I hadn’t seen in awhile who’s been going through some difficult times and I’m glad she’s doing well, all things considered.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.de
    6·
    2 years ago

    I have had a pretty good week so far. Some work, some uni, some do whatever I like. It’s been good lately.

  • DJDarren@beehaw.org
    5·
    2 years ago

    A reasonable week for me. Been quite excited to start AudioMo over on Mastodon, so let’s see how long I manage to keep that up for until I get overwhelmed at trying to publish something every day…

  • Swimmerman96@beehaw.org
    5·
    2 years ago

    With the hype around Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, I have finally started playing Breath of the Wild and it’s been a blast so far. I love the basically sandbox world with a suggestion of storyline, it’s been so fun to just explore.

    • scribblemacher@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      I went back this past week and finally beat BotW. The first 20 or so hours made a great impression on me, but as the pace of finding shrines slowed down, I started to get bored. I don’t have a lot of time for games, and if I play for 30 minutes and didn’t really find/do anything except walk around, I’d feel like I wasted my time.

      It’s a good game, but I don’t think I really enjoyed it. If I was in the mood for Zelda, I’d probably re-play Skyward Sword or Spirit Tracks instead. I’ll probably give TotK a try in a few years when it’s not so pricey.

      • Swimmerman96@beehaw.org
        2·
        2 years ago

        I get what you mean, when things slow down the big world can seem more empty and less fun and fulfilling especially when you’re otherwise busy. I have no doubt that day will cone for me too. Until then, I’ll enjoy it and save storyline stuff to keep a little purpose on the horizon.

        Sounds like Skyward Sword and Spirit Tracks are a bit more directed then? If that’s the case, I’ll keep that in mind as well on my Zelda journey.

        • scribblemacher@beehaw.org
          3·
          2 years ago

          Skyward Sword (which is on Switch now!) is really interesting to play along side BotW. Some of the ideas about stamina, climbing, crafting, etc have analogs in SS, but it couldn’t be a more different game. SS feels like the culmination of a specific style of LoZ game, and BotW was as much a repudiation of SS as it is other open world games. SS is easily the most story and dialog-heavy game in the series which turns some people off, but the story actually kinda of cool and it has some of the best dungeons and bosses in the series. I think SS deserves better than it’s reputation might suggest.

          Spirit Tracks is an odd one too. It does a lot of interesting stuff with the DS hardware so sadly it’ll probably remain locked to that platform.