I need more information. Rinse aid costs a fortune, but I also hate spots.

Do you buy a particular brand of citric?

Also rinse aid feels quite oily to the touch, like dish soap, is it really just citric?

It’s often not the speaker doing the editing, there are thousands of channels built around creating and releasing these cast-a-wide-net shorts to subtly drive you towards their goal of obsessively watching right wing vtubers saying things that compel you to be a selfish narcissist.

Yeah, for real. YouTube is essentially placing infinite bets that it can drive you into the rabbit hole. Watched a short of Dillahunty give Peterson a verbal wedgy? You must like big words, so here’s more Peterson! Watched a short of Joey Swoll telling people to be polite, because it rolled on automatically? Here’s an Andrew Tate wannabe with shrivelled nuts to subtly criticise you about your dad bod.

Obsession and radicalisation are one and the same to the algorithm, and both turn a targeted individual into a money printer. And fuck the consequences right? Because Google got theirs.

Interesting take and thank you for being detailed. Part of my problem is various commitments mean I only get short and sporadic spells to play these games, so forward planning feels like a chore when you want to get stuck in for 3 to 4 hours, but might not return for a week or two.

It sounds like the way you play here is the way I played the various Tycoon games (particularly Transport) when I was younger. Paper and pen optimisation was part of the grind and made it very fun.

Now I just want to get things going and bask in my barely working mess of a solution. (This probably makes it feel way more roguelike than it actually is!)

In that sense I guess Satisfactory might be structured enough to fit my schedule, but I’ll definitely be looking out for the things you mentioned.

I came to PS through YouTube shorts and his streams were cut to ribbons and repatched into something resembling a zeitgeist-appealing view.

Then I watched a couple of his long form videos and was like … eh. If anything it taught me more about the danger of using shorts as an onboard to any big vtuber. Much like movie trailers and their movies, they tend to overpromise and underdeliver.

This became undeniably apparent when YouTube started shoving Jordan Petersen into my feed. Much like the thousand monkeys at their typewriters, you can take the words of anyone who talks at length almost daily on a subject and edit them into something that sounds reasonable and appealing.

I already knew that JP was a right wing rhetoric Markov chain posing as an expert/pundit before YT started promoting him, but it really did cement the point.

Ok yeah that was poorly phrased. It’s shallower than it appears on first impressions, or at least was for me.

The belt management is the best part IMO and kept me playing for a lot longer than I would have otherwise. I loved ripping up the floorboards and doing it newer and better and bigger and … Oh god I’ve made a mess again, time to start over!

It is undeniably a very fun game… but for me it was a bit like binging a netflix debut, and it didn’t stick enough to make me want to come back for “season 2”.

I’ll say that I’m also not a huge roguelike fan and while it isn’t a roguelike, I got that same feeling I get after spending a few hours in Enter the Gungeon.

Haven’t tried DLCs so can’t comment, but the gameplay is built for extension so I can imagine they’re pretty damn good.

Are you a Satisfactory fan? I have that in the library and it looked more like my kind of thing (except that I much prefer the look and feel of Factorio)

I got completely addicted for about a week and a half and then dropped it and never thought about it again. The core gameplay loop is crack, but it’s also very shallow and I can never think of a good reason to come back to it.

Wow that’s a pretty UI

Bubble grows big, bubble goes pop.

You can’t explain that!

Navidrome uses the Subsonic protocol to provide it’s playlists.

You can use that to import to Symfonium, for example, but it won’t stay synced if you make a change at one end or the other. You can reimport in Symfonium but it’s still pretty messy and not very useful if you want to update your playlists on the go.

Giving your technical employees random AI goals and targets because you don’t understand AI - Federal Reserve Edition

I wonder if they’ve already signed the contract before they get him in to evangelise.

Navidrome + Feishin are a killer combo for replacing Spotify.

Symfonium provides a similar UX on Android.

(The only thing I’m lacking is playlist synchronization and, as far as I can tell, no such homelab software exists to do it.)

Do you have a special game planned for the year anniversary of your posts?

To add to the others, Fennec is a fantastic replacement and has extension support.

Also heard good things about LibreWolf. Mull had some buggy behaviours I couldn’t seem to configure away from so I guess YMMV, but that was my experience.

Same here, top 10 but lower half. I used to re-read it every 4 or 5 years, but I reached an apex point where it held up less and less well, and even abandoned the last read.

That might also be a result of having kids and realising that, while he went through something horrifying in the end, his behaviour before that was rather obnoxious. That said, he could have chosen not to have painted himself in that light, I just never figured out whether he realised it himself or was oblivious / felt it was justified.

Still, some magnificent prose pieces about quality and perception that are highly quotable, and broadly useful as tools to interact with the world around you.

Lila I never quite got to grips with, but my old man said I should try it “when you’re older, much older”

in no particular order

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Not sure if intentional but made me chuckle.

That was one of the big 5 in my mind. I never did any BB dev, but I remember looking into it at the time. If I couldn’t get a device for cheap or free it was inaccessible. Student life is what it is. By the time I made my webOS money they were already on the decline and considering a move to android so I didn’t consider it thereon.

Just watched the Jay Bachurel movie recently and can recommend. It’s a bit slow but the nostalgia is top grade.

Nothing well known on WP, and I don’t want to give names as it’ll dox me given reviews are out there somewhere.

One was a different take on a Twitter app and another was a minimalist Instapaper app. I will say no more!

Unrelated fun story: I rewrote a plugin integration for a WP game from a fairly well known studio, 5 minutes before it was demoed live at GDC in SF, back around 2011 (±1 year). And it went off without a hitch! Good times

I developed one of the top ten apps in the webOS App Store. I released it about 6 months before they shuttered Palm and started the transition of webOS in to a vague “embedded and mobile things” open source OS that eventually ended up on, primarily, LG televisions.

It was my first big success as a computer science student. When I started working on my next big app idea it was about 80% complete when the new dropped that they were discontinuing all phones and tablets. Palm used to send me free phones and tablets too, and I spent a lot of time in the community forums, I had reviews on webOS Nation, and so on

I maintain to this day that enyo is one of the greatest app development frameworks ever written and I wonder what the landscape of web development would look like today if they’d moved faster to liberate it from mobile devices. The webOS team were also earlier adopters of nodeJS for their native services. It felt like living in the future using them at a time when the iPhone 4 was barely out.

If you can believe it, after that I moved over to Windows Phone, where history repeated without the afterlife. After that, I felt cursed but, honestly, I chose both platforms because the stores weren’t saturated with 100 versions of every app imaginable.

They were great times. Five big mobile platforms, free devices, open APIs to work with - it really was a digital gold rush.

I now have LG TVs in every room and it’s so strange to use webOS in it’s final(?) form. Wonderfully, there’s a homebrew community just as there was back in the day, albeit on a much smaller scale. I’ve even made a wrapper for some home assistant features.

webOS is dead. Long live webOS

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