MentalEdge

You’d have to be immortal, first. Most kids are gonna live to see their own parents pass.

Tragedy is a part of life.

It’s easily avoidable tragedy, unaddressed by those who could do something about it, that’s the problem.

Even worse, there’s potentially extinction level tragedy happening right now, going unaddressed by those who can do something about it.

If you don’t have a kid, you’re not passing your environmental values, or you educational values, or all the other values you may have for what makes a better society. Nor do you have any reason to hold to them yourself.

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Why does it have to be my kid for me to care?

Like actually. Are you seriously saying being a parent somehow intrinsically makes someone a better, more caring, and impactful, person? Or that parenthood is the only way to achieve true conviction? That’s literally not how any of this works.

Not bringing children into the world in no way prevents you from caring about making the world a better place, and acting to make it so. And doing the things that make the world better doesn’t functionally require having a kid. All it takes is some basic fucking decency.

Which is something people already have, but get taken away by the grind of survival or material success. That is maybe why you have this fucked up idea that people get it by having a kid, but in reality that’s just a huge life event that wakes some people up enough to take a look around and start caring again.

And passing good things on doesn’t require having descendants. If you’ve ever changed someones mind on something for the better, you’ve successfully passed on “values you may have for what makes a better society”. The person whose mind you changed doesn’t even need to be younger than you, thought doesn’t procreate through fucking genetics.

Plenty of parents are made no more profound than they were before by the act of procreating, and will conently continue to do nothing to improve the world. There are parents who will protect their own to the detriment of everyone else.

Kids though, if raised by caring parents, care from the start, but then have that heart crushed by society until they too have a kid of their own.

But in there is way for everyone to care, all the time.

The whole idea that it’s ok not to care about and deal with bad stuff unless you personally are somehow impacted is the whole reason we’re in this mess, and it’s perpetuated by people being forced to live in a constant scramble of stress and consumerism.

Not by people not having children.

ActivityPub unfortunately does need some work, and there’s drama about properly following the protocol and not extending it with non-standard stuff that then breaks things when federating with stuff outside the given application.

I’m optimistic, but I’m also making sure not to put too much of a stake in it, as it may eventually become an inferior system when compared to some future hypothetical standard.

And other standards like diaspora and ATProto, are around, and seeing use.

Oh hell yeah!

What? It’s a great umbrella term term for exactly this type of federated social media. Lemmy is just one application, and currently the biggest, but it already federates quite swimmingly with mbin and pixelfed.

What else would you even them all together?

There are. In most states.

He’s having the suits filed specifically in one of the few states that don’t.

You do realize Bluesky also tacks on .bsky.social? (Though with a dot instead of a second @)

And even without other instances, ATProto already allows people to sign up using domains they own.

The closest you can get to using Lost_My_Mind as you Bluesky handle is by aquiring a domain like lost_my_mind.com. And that still wouldn’t prevent someone else from signing up using lost_my_mind.net.

And that’s before pointing out that Impersonation and mistaken identities isn’t a solved problem on twitter, either.

Bluesky is succeeding because its a smooth and familiar experience that obfuscates away the complexity of how it works.

Absolutely nothing about how the ActivityPub network works conceptually prevents it from being an equally smooth experience, given the work were put in.

Your first six paragraphs hit the mark, but the following rant about the “username univerasility problem” ain’t it.

Not that I’m aware.

But there are web UIs you can run that allow you to run a lemmy instance more like a forum, and that could of course be federated with other fediverse instances, including other forum instances.

But not existing forum systems. That’s something they have to implement, not lemmy.

Behind the scenes Lemmy speaks a protocol called ActivityPub. It can’t just talk to any other similar arbitrary service if it doesn’t also support the protocol.

Edit: Apparently the forum systems you mention do/will indeed support ActivityPub. There would certainly be potential for interpretability with the threadiverse, then.

No.

But they don’t need to be. They’re essentially just indexers.

If two relays index all the same content, then any services using either will be “interconnected” in the sense that any users can see each other and interact with each other.

Each relay host can choose what parts of the network they want to index, and as far as I can tell, any services could use multiple relays if they like.

I know.

ATproto has some interesting advantages, and eventually the idea is for anyone to be able to host any microservice component of the network, including relays other than the one run by Bluesky.

The relays don’t need to be centralized. They are indexers that provide functionality to others parts of the ATproto network.

The problem is that there isn’t really any incentive to do so… Any additional instances or new apps running ATproto can just rely on the one big indexer provided by Bluesky, instead of running each microservice component themselves.

I won’t be joining in until I can actually run a real instance on my own.

I don’t plan on doing that, but the important part is knowing that I could.

No.

Ah.

I just figured out why I’ll never find true love, then.

I ain’t doing that for anyone.

Except my cat.

Steam doesn’t do updates asap anymore.

Update downloads get scheduled for off-peak hours, sometimes leaving games un-updated for days. That means sometimes you go to play something, and it isn’t up to date.

This isn’t linux specific, it’s like this for everyone. It prioritises keeping games you play a lot updated, and lags behind more on games you almost never play but just have installed.

There is no way to circumvent this. Steam wants to spread out when people download updates, so there isn’t a giant spike in download server load whenever updates drop.

Updates only go out immediately to people actually playing the games, and then trickle out over time to the rest.

Also the constant “updates” that happen aren’t game files. Steam is keeping up with the files it needs to keep shaders compiled for your games in advance (which has to be re-done every gpu driver/game update). If you don’t want that, you can disable precompiling in steam settings.

Steam re-downloading these files constantly is a known issue, but to be clear, your game files are fine. Their updates work no differently from windows.

Some people post the whole comic as the main link, and then have a version using individual images in the post body.

That’s been handy.

I don’t understand people who “demand” things from volunteers. Open source devs, modders, and still recently content creators are/were treated like public service workers, by some.

Imagine if we went around treating artists as if they were obligated to please each of us individually with their every piece? I’m very happy to see this attitude improve with streaming and youtube, where creators are more and more met with care and support when they have to step away for a bit or retire entirely.

It sadly seems like this modder was eventually putting in tremendous effort, in a vain attempt to please absolutely everyone using her mods. But that isn’t a good reason to work for free.

Any work I do for free, is something I do because I want to, but this modder explicitly says she did work she didn’t want to do in order to please fans. And I can’t help but ask, why? (I know why, but someone should have cared enough to show her she is allowed to just say no, and do whatever she prefers.)

The blurb about her doing music is how you’re SUPPOSED to feel doing something for fun. I’m happy that she found her way to something that makes her feel that way.

You might just need to reduce choice anxiety.

Once my library got really big, I would find time to game, but then waste it on figuring how exactly I want to spend the time. End up on youtube or something and not actually get into a game at all.

The solution was to keep just a few games favorited, and forget the rest existed.

When I’m done with a game, it gets unfavorited. When I buy a new game it gets favorited.

If the list gets too short, I might do some spelunking in my library to favorite something from my backlog.

This way, each time I sit down to game, I have a very short list of stuff to start or continue that I might actually manage to pick from.

What the others said.

Maybe you need to take a break from games and indulge in some other, or new, hobby.

I like audiobooks, electric skateboards, cycling, manga… And more.

You could also expand the kinds of games you play. I keep trying new genres and if one gets boring I try something else.

Don’t force yourself if you aren’t having fun. That’s a quick way to really ruin something you like.

I’ve gone through several episodes of feeling like there’s nothing I want to play… But, if I keep giving things a chance, and make sure not to burn myself out by trying to find something too hard, or forcing myself to play something because it “supposed” to be fun, even when right then it isnt, something eventually gets me hooked right back in.

Most recently that has been Deadlock. I can’t get enough of it and the feeling is the best.

So… Is that kinda like a linux subsystem for windows?

I’m sarcastically referring to microsofts telemetry, UI changes, and anything else they try to sell that a lot of people simply don’t want or like.