Hate to say it, but Wintergatan and his Marblemachine X. In the earlier days his videos were an exciting mix of mad genius, cool music improv and crafting. Then he became obsessed with making the machine play tight, precise music to a level that is beyond what anybody in an audience would be able to hear, and it became obvious that the machine would never get finished because he was stuck in an improvement loop.
His goal wasn’t to create an art project though, but to create an actual instrument he can use. The artistry stuff and making it look cool was what made MMX a failure. I agree that the MMX videos were still fantastic content, but that thing was doomed.
Tightness: it’s a compound effect of every part, so afaik he’s just trying to make sure each part is as precise as possible, and selecting the most precise / consistent design out of the available choices.
Yup, one lf the most painful un subscribing I did. He forgot he was making an art instrument and got lost into engineering nonsense that he doesn’t even understand. Under every videos there are people screaming that he is making assumptions that won’t work in the real world and others that are just sad because the magic is gone.
Abandoning the MMX felt like being scammed by a shady Indigogo (can’t imagine how it felt for the patreons) after so much progress and many years of anticipation.
I still check his videos every few months and just randomly watch a few seconds of the videos, his new plans are ridiculous and uninspiring :/.
Yeah, pretty much this. Would have been best had he never bothered with 3d printed and manufactured parts as they allow a level of control (or illusion thereof) that would have never been possible with wood. Who cares if you’re losing a couple of marbles during a show (no pun intended), or if the snare drum isn’t tight to the thousandth of a second?
The MMX was doomed and not possible to save. It is exactly what it looks like: A cool looking contraption that can make some nice sounds using marbles, but it’s not an instrument you can use reliably in a band. You think it was hard for you to unsubscribe; how hard don’t you think it was for Martin to abandon the MMX? He wished it to succeed more than any of us, and probably abandoned it way too late because of it.
Well, if the plan is to eventually continue to sleep, I’d say nothing. Once you get up and start doing something you will just get more awake and it will taken even longer to fall back asleep.
Apple. They make some decent stuff but it has repeatedly become more expensive to own and maintain because repair is nearly impossible. And because of the monopoly they are building it is guaranteed to get much worse.
Additionally everything they do has a ripple effect across the industry. The average flagship phone is now over $1000. The average phone doesn’t have a headphone jack or micro SD expansion, or replaceable battery, and are all impossible to repair. Computers impossible to upgrade. Extra ram and SSD capacity being prohibitively expensive (8gb of ddr5 is 40$, apple charges 200$, similar scheme with their proprietary SSD’s)
It’s apparent that with Apple’s continued success the rest of all of our electronics have continued to get worse and predatory to squeeze more money out of us.
We reap what we sow and if we sow a company that is hellbent on enshittifiying all of our everyday devices and gouge us for our money, we aren’t going to have any other companies left (or at least those that won’t participate in this practice)
I work in computer repair and I have witnessed first hand how hostile aAple is to the consumer. Serialized components that are impossible to replace, to perforated cables that tear more easily during disassembly. It is dumbfounding that a company with such little respect for their customers is so successful.
There are a lot of brands that aren’t AS anti repair as apple and have devices that are fairly simple to fix, like Nokia and IMO Sony. There is the fair phone that does market itself as repairable but they lost my trust by removing the headphone jack and selling their own wireless earbuds.
On one hand, Kissinger was undoubtedly effective at achieving America's foreign policy goals and was undoubtedly one of the most influential Secretaries of State in US history. Unfortunately on the other hand, his brand of "realpolitik"--working pragmatically towards concrete policy objectives without concern for ethics or ideology--meant doing things that prolonged and worsened wars, knowingly propped up autocrats and dictators, etc.
Objectively speaking, Kissinger was a powerful diplomat who accomplished a lot of what he set out to do. At the same time, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, and a lot of us can only look back and judge him harshly for the long term effects of his decisions. Kissinger is the perfect example of a person who is highly intelligent and objectively effective at what they do, but because he had so little concern for simple human concepts like right and wrong, it's hard to look back at any of his "achievements" today with anything other than harsh judgement and disdain for the soulless husk of a man.
Good call on Terminal. Not the call to star in it, but to pretend it never happened. Also, no need to specify between Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad, the second one had the The in the title suggesting that it is The one that counts.
When ‘you’ win an oscar I will probably add it to the title, but thanks for the suggestion. ;)
This mentality is why lemmy has been haemorrhaging users since the July reddit migration.
You guys are some seriously judgmental bellends a lot of the time.
I don’t use Linux because I want my life to be simple, I use lots of Foss and lots of non Foss because I want my life to be simple. I’m glad others care enough about privacy to fight for it because that’s a demonstrably good thing in the world, but I just want a simple life and don’t honestly care if I’m getting tailored ads and Amazon are listening to my inane kitchen conversations.
I don’t want to support reddit but you guys (ironically) make it much much harder to leave when there is next to no acceptance here for anyone who’s not a Linux expert who pushes for communism and has never used a Google product in their life.
I know I know, I’m everything that’s wrong with the world :) x
Simplest thing for me is not having to learn something new just so I can play trackmania AND be accepted here. I can play trackmania on windows just fine and I didn’t need to learn to set up an OS and work out what distros and the various other tech sounding things I don’t understand are.
But being personally offended when someone doesn’t use Linux and points out a valid reason is about 80% of lemmy it seems…
Trackmania requires no more configuration than it does on windows, and if you use KDE, the interface is almost identical.
The only thing you’d have to learn is to install steam from the app store instead of from the internet, if you give it a shot, I don’t think you’ll find it to be as difficult as you imagine.
The full steps would be
install linux mint (if you have no preference that’s the easiest distro) > open app store > install steam > install trackmania from steam > hit play
edit: just tested it to verify, yeah, trackmania required no additional setup or anything from the standard windows version
Installing linux is a 15 minute process, the only hard part is getting a flash drive, and you only have to do it once, once you have that flash drive you can do it easily endlessly.
I highly recommend trying it out, linux is significantly easier to use and has significantly less maintenance burden. That’s why I give it to the elderly, they’ve all said it makes their lives significantly easier, and none of them have switched back.
Plus, even on a windows machine, the first thing you should do is reinstall the operating system when you get one, especially for second hand machines. Every single major manufacturer puts a bunch of garbage on the computer some of which is nearly impossible to remove without a reinstall, considering you already should do this anyway, it makes it a much easier pill to swallow.
some examples of how linux is easier:
Your computer won’t forcibly restart for updates, ever
Your computer is never doing anything in the background that you don’t ask it to do, so you don’t have to worry about if the power cuts off, whether your machine will still work.
All of the updates are centralized so you don’t have to worry about various updaters
All of the installations are centralized so you don’t have to worry about using all of the various installers windows has, making sure not to enable it installing extra crap, etc
Guaranteed no cruft that slows your machine down every time, you don’t have to go through uninstalling a bunch of crap
Centralization means unless you do something very strange you never have to deal with malware
There’s other things, but I have found that these few things make a significant difference, especially for the elderly.
I would consider it unwise to avoid learning about a machine you regularly have to interact with, you’ll only make your life more difficult in various, impossible to observe ways from the other side. I guarantee the only difficult step will be the first install.
Wow that is a lot of words that I’m not gonna read. I have no interest in Linux, I had a curiosity when I joined Lemmy but the typical user just makes me want to not be counted among them. I know there are plenty of good ones too but so many just want to ram their opinion down your throat and judge you as a worse human being if you’re happy with Windows.
Thanks for the effort, but I just don’t give a shit. Windows works perfectly for me and if something works more perfectly I’m 100% happy living in ignorance anyway.
How do you know you’re happy with windows if you choose to live in ignorance?
What if windows does a ton of annoying things that you’re simply used to and accept as a part of life, that you’re missing out on fixing completely because you’ve chosen ignorance?
I don’t think you should say that you’re happy with windows if you’ve never investigated any other options, you really just don’t know, and it’s not shameful to not know or not care, but if you say you’re happy with something, that implies a level of knowledge that you don’t have.
If someone was proudly ignorant of a topic you cared about, would you not, understandably, be annoyed when they give their opinions founded entirely upon ignorance?
I think that might be what you’re seeing here, sorry if this is an upsetting post, but, I just want to make sure you understand how that sounds to the people who did bother to not be ignorant. I’m ignorant of many things, and I choose not to comment on those things or claim to know things about those things, because I know what I don’t know, I think it’s wise to do that.
Furthermore a number of people have a genuine emotional investment in FOSS that you may not understand, there are good reasons for this, the world would be a significantly better place if FOSS was the norm, for example, in electron microscopy, there are perfectly good electron microscopes that are no longer supported by their companies, forced to run windows 95 and that can never be updated because of proprietary software, the only way of updating these would be to spend literal millions of dollars on this. There’s various aspects of healthcare that would be dramatically improved by FOSS being the norm, when you know many many things like this, people often form an emotional attachment to these things that you may not understand from a position of ignorance, and that seem unreasonable. It’s often helpful to find common ground with people, rather than be proudly ignorant.
Especially for marginalized groups, FOSS could be a huge benefit, as an example, when the holocaust occurred, the nazis turned to companies to get information from people, in the modern era, could microsoft be used by a government not interested in your best interests to corral you and kill you? Yes, absolutely, even if this is unlikely, it’s something that couldn’t happen AT ALL with foss, ever.
I don’t care if you use linux or not at the end of the day, but I do hope you understand that these people have a genuine, reasonable emotional attachment to FOSS that makes them behave in unreasonable ways when it is challenged. Especially when countless people who are completely ignorant of the problem tell them it doesn’t matter on a regular basis, this is an extremely common, compounding annoyance for the community of FOSS enthusiasts.
I hope that makes sense, and doesn’t anger you, I just want you to understand where all of this emotional stuff comes from.
Oh look another essay I won’t read. This is exactly the shit I meant mate. Stop trying to ram your own opinion down my perfectly happy throat.
Try to consider the fact that I don’t care enough about my PC to try and optimise every aspect and that maybe some people have a different view of the world to you, it’s not something you need to be upset by.
Imagine what you could have done with the time you spent writing two mini essays nobody will read. Feel free to write a 3rd but the response will be the same. Take care :) x
Try to consider the fact that I don’t care enough about my PC to try and optimise every aspect and that maybe some people have a different view of the world to you, it’s not something you need to be upset by.
If you read what I wrote instead of assuming what I wrote, you’d understand that your response makes literally no sense in response to what I wrote, I was trying to make you see why people might be emotionally attached to these issues. Why reply to what you won’t read? Why comment on things when you don’t care what others think?
Odd that you decided to be rude to me when you don’t even know what I said. Or do you hate the idea of having a dialogue, in which case, why post anything at all?
Same for the fediverse tbh. I’ve actually seen people treat it like an exclusive nerd club, then wonder why people are staying on Twitter or choosing Bluesky instead.
Linux is also like veganism as in that nonvegans/non linux users get very misunderstood and unnecessarily antagonised, although the second thing happens to vegans more from my experience.
All this talk about asshole vegans really sounds like those “SJW liberal triggered by facts and logic” videos that got popular around 2015ish.
If dude wants to air some grievances, let them. Lemmy isn’t doing too well. Listening to what our fellow users have to say so we can make the community a better place can’t hurt.
A joke I didn’t understand, or a joke I didn’t find funny…?
Jokey or not, there’s no denying that users here frequently just write off opinions as wrong if it doesn’t match theirs exactly. Whether they’re correct or not it’s not a nice place for discussion when the pervading mentality is one of superiority for a large portion of users (and yes this can be said for reddit too).
I don’t want to support the poor practises of corporations. More than that though I don’t want to cut off my nose to spite my face, and when the feeling from the alternatives is one of non-acceptance that’s exactly what it feels like I’m doing.
Not sure I’ll be here much longer to be honest, the world won’t be changed by people who base their personalities on being morally superior while denigrating anyone who doesn’t follow their beliefs exactly. You’ll piss people off, but you won’t change their minds, and ultimately everyone’s a loser as a result.
A joke that highlights what I feel is wrong with lemmy, I’m really sorry for commenting though, people have taken it very seriously considering the main criticism seems to be that I’m missing the joke.
Why not just downvote and move past my comment without feeling the need to leave a comment?
I find it pretty funny that I point out the non acceptance in this community and lots of the reactions could be summarised moreorless as “Well then fuck you!”. Is anyone seeing the irony?
Fuck everyone, people suck no matter what platform one’s one. But the main idea behind the fediverse is “make your own”.
Block people whose replies are of no value to you. Block communities that harp on about things you find annoying. If you find anonymous downvotes instead of proper replies cowardly, go to an instance that doesn’t accept downvotes.
The problem for me is simply lack of users to get a good discussion going on anything that isn’t tech or socialism.
I enjoyed it at the start when lots of people were trying it out as an alternative to reddit, but every day I get closer to sacking it off completely because there just isn’t the content or users to support the discussions I’d like to have to kill 20min here or there.
I guess my problem is that “make your own” sounds great in principle but when every group makes their own they each become echo chambers for that group. I also haven’t bothered fully understanding the fediverse and what I can do with it so that’s on me obviously.
I just want an easy to use discussion forum for a range of topics and opinions. And unfortunately it just doesn’t seem like this is it.
There’s close to 30.000 communities on the Lemmyverse, most of them on servers/instances different than yours. You’re on lemmy.world, one of the most “general” instances that took on a lot of the migrating users so there’s going to be a more “reddit” style userbase there.
Check out lemmyverse.net/communities and look for other communities for your favorite topics. I’m sure you’ll find different communities with different type of users. For instance, I browse !technology from several instances. Many of those communities I don’t bother commenting in, simply because it’s not my crowd. If there’s a good post I want to discuss with likeminded people, there’s always the cross-post function.
Yeah that’s probably one of the biggest barriers to growth unfortunately, which is a shame because it’s also potentially one of the best things about it.
With reddit I can just subscribe and unsubscribe to subs I like or don’t, it feels like (comparatively) a lot of work to achieve a similar thing here and even when you’ve nailed it it’s yet more work to have a discussion because users are spread so thin.
I think the sad reality is it’s just not for me. Ironically this whole thread has been about as enjoyable as I’ve ever found lemmy though, actual engagement is what I want instead of outright dismissal and this thread is the most in depth discussion I’ve had in 5months here.
Why did you delete the example from this post bud?
You know, the one where I called someone an “entitled renter”. I thought it was a decent example tbh, even if it WAS framed entirely out of context to make me sound like I was attacking all renters (of which I’m one).
You know what? I’m back in, this whole discussion is exactly what I was missing. Thanks dude x
I know you don’t, that’s the problem. I moderate a very small community for man united supporters which is supposed to be an alternative to reddit to discuss football. I feel like I’m contributing plenty, but if even if I wasn’t, I’m contributing more than people who actively discourage users from sticking around.
Shouldn’t we be encouraging users to lemmy? Doesn’t it hurt the overall experience if there are fewer users and opinions? Won’t it just become an even more extreme echo chamber than reddit?
I’m sorry that I apparently haven’t taken the post in the jokey way it was intended, but it does highlight a number of issues with the lemmy userbase, surely you can agree with that at least?
Accusing someone of using something “straight from Reddit’s playbook” is (ironically) copy pasted straight from the lemmy playbook. I’m not accusing evrryone of anything, just pointing out the problems I see with a large portion (not all) of users.
Anyway, I’m all about enjoying life. I enjoy it less here than I feel like I could and it seems to be very detrimental to the growth of lemmy.
Edit: I called someone an entitled renter because they were pissed off that their friend had decided to sell their house. Is that unfair…?
You’re not wasting time on a redditor though, except to go through their post history to try and find something to meme them for. Again… Seems like redditor behaviour to me :) x
Checking post histories and holding it against users, presenting Lemmy as “a site” instead of interoperating and independent instances where one can tailor ones experience, not advocating finding more suitable communities…
Joke you didn’t understand. You are taking everything ludicrously seriously on, again, a jokey post. The amount of reddit energy flowing out of this comment is obscene. Accusing everyone of acting “morally superior” is copy/pasted straight out of reddits playbook.
Leave if you want. I really don’t care. From what I’ve seen so far you’re not exactly adding much substance to the community other than whining and getting personally offended by a vague meme.
You objectively need to lighten up. This WAS supposed to be a fun post and you’ve unintentionally (good faith interpretation) sowed discord here where it wasn’t otherwise palpable.
No offense guy, I want you here as much as anyone but this isn’t Lemmy.Fucking.ML, c’mon man
I feel plenty light mate. I’m pretty amused by the reaction to be honest, particularly the irony being accused of redditor behaviour by someone who literally went through my posts to make that point.
I’m just slowly realising that lemmy isn’t what I wanted it to be, I.e. Reddit without the greed.
Maybe this wasn’t the post for my comment but it’s done now and I stand by the point I’m making. This joke post does highlight the biggest issue with lemmy imo.
Less drama please, i meant what i said. Let us know how many months you commit to leave and when we can expect you back and someone will set a remind:me thing or whatever. But none of us are that important singularly so I hope you adjust that cuz its offputting at best
Honestly mate I think I understood about half the post.
I’m not trying to be dramatic, I’m literally just calling it as I see it.
How many months I commit to leave? What?
Adjust what? My opinion?
Being offputting is exactly the criticism I’m making about lemmy and it’s current problems. This comment is to my comment what my comment is to this post (if I’ve understood that part correctly).
Honestly, i dont blame you for posting, i blame the OP for creating an instant divide, the tenor of what he requests is “jokey” the he added space for the downer stuff.
Don’t get me wrong you guys have valid points but its just annoying that everything is blended into one. That’s poor form on the part of the OP, I hope theg see this and do better.
You’re aftually fine, we shouldn’t need to fight here and I take ownership of my part in that, but you can see from my history i interpreted this (OP’s post) as a prompt for funny and lighthearted stuff. If I want the issues and problems and dissatisfactions, I will click on a discrete post about same. Its silly to ask for both in one megapost, everybody’s gonna be pissed about having to deal with the opposing side
Thanks and sorry for any misunderstanding/sass on my part
Edit: this is a great example of powerful people setting the agenda and framing things in a monolithic+inappropos way to get the little people fighting and “downvoting”/reducing each other like lobsters in a bucket when we could realize we can knock the bucket over and kill the asshole who set up the bucket that way and take over Crab-People style
It’s all good bud, ironically enough this post is the most I’ve enjoyed lemmy for weeks. Proper in depth discussion is all I want, with people who have opposing views and might make me think about my own.
Im learning just keep all the toolchain stuff to myself cuz i dont care enough to change people. Got enough to change about me.
I voted up cuz there’s is a super non-robus line inherent to this platform where i get down for the most mundane random shit. Like either people have a sense of humor or they freak the fuck out and dont even comment but simply downvote
Well… Lemmy is the place for nerds who understand tech or at least want to understand the tech they’re using. So everything you consider opposed to just being simple is pretty simple to the average Lemmy user.
I agree and that’s kinda the problem, I thought lemmy would be the place I could replace reddit with, it’s just not what I’d hoped it would be and for a very left leaning platform doesn’t seem nearly as accepting as I’d expect.
That’s not always the case obviously and even today I’ve had a discussion about distros as I was fed up not knowing what they were, people were polite and helpful explaining which is great, but that feels like the exception rather than the rule when I’m just browsing comments.
I feel like the reddit api drama was a huge opportunity for lemmy to grow but it shit the bed a bit (or rather, the users did collectively) and people like me have left in droves. Reddit has always been circlejerky and it’s probably the worst thing about it, but that almost feels like the MO of most lemmy instances.
There’s good and bad obviously, I’m not saying lemmy is a desolate wasteland where all users are coders who berate anyone who can’t write in python (probably an awful example, not a coder), there’s just an awfully strong feeling of “if you don’t do what we do then you’re wrong” in my opinion.
Ultimately I’m here 5months later so I don’t hate the platform by any means, but I’d be nowhere near it if reddit hadn’t been so greedy earlier this year. Not enough users and not enough breadth of topics to be properly engaging for a simpleton like me.
I can’t help but to feel like this is a bit of an overreaction.
I happen to really like discovering unwritten rules, it says a lot about the place. I also think we all shouldn’t take ourselves too seriously. I am no Linux user, but I definitely respect people who do and have no judgment about it. I really like FOSS and I think it’s important, and I also think privacy is very important and have learned a lot from my time here on lemmy. I do like video formats, however.
What I’m trying to say is, I’m not judging anyone, I just think it’s nice to have a laugh about who we are
Donations or grants would probably be best. I’m sure there are community grants available for doing public good.
I’ve also seen some open source things sell merch, where you buy a hat or something with a particular logo. It’s still donating with extra steps, but it’s a little different
Our instance admin broke it down recently, and it’s actually not too expensive to run. Without wasting money on engagement, growth, data collection, marketing, etc, it’s not actually that expensive to run social media platforms I guess
Until you get into image/video/file hosting, it’s very cheap. So long as people are ok with off-site storage usage, then it shouldn’t cost much at all.
Merch is a pretty big risk, or at least was when I was doing it for bands. I know there are solutions for on demand creation now that might be more feasible
ber of instances grows 100x, all existing instances face an increase in costs even if they didn’t gain many more users, because they’re receiving more messages from federated instances,
The German feddit.de hosters (the one I’m using and probably the 5th largest instance) declined donation completely when I last checked…
Agree on CrossFit. At my last job, there was a group of people who went together and would talk about it. For hours, every day. Got really sick of hearing about it. My wife even joined up for a while. While she had fun and it was good for her, I just didn’t have the patience to listen to her talk about it and all the gym gossip when she got home. I felt guilty knowing I should be more supportive, but I just couldn’t do it after hearing about WODs all day.
I don’t PVP so I can’t speak to that but the lore and PVE is solid. Gameplay is very classic MMO. The releases continue to be ranked and reviewed higher with each one that comes out. Players are strongly encouraged to help new players (sprouts) via the mentoring program. Community has been so good, very helpful, never seen anyone rage or get angry at a new person, or anyone for that matter. Very LGBTQ+ friendly. TONS of fun stuff to do on the side between chapters like glamour or housing for folks that want a chill experience or you can do savage raids or hunts for the more hardcore game play focused players. Me and a friend love to just run around to all the apartments and houses to check out everyone’s place from time to time. Some are really amazing. I’ll throw mine and my buddy’s apartment in that ring we put a lot of work in and did some really cool tricks to make the space feel bigger and more unique. Some people turn their houses into cafes or dance clubs, some require RPing when you visit some don’t. They are pretty fun to go to. From time to time they’ll have giveaways for gill or items at the parties.
BONUS: It’s totally free up to level 70 so you have plenty of time to figure out if the game is for you.
I’m not playing right now, taking a quick break but I’m in the NA server Sargatanas. The name is Obi-Bun Kenobi, I think I have the address to my place in my Adventurer Plate. I leave the apartment unlocked so people can use it for g-posing or just to have a nice place to hang. Come check it out sometime!
the pvp is pretty fun but suffers from not being a primary focus of the devs or the community and lacking basic things like a duo queue Balance and skills is entirely decoupled from pve which means there’s virtually no cross-value to doing both pvp and pve aside from unique cosmetics
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