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  • You misunderstand what the Hot rank is doing. It’s not balancing newness vs hotness, it’s scaling hotness according to community size. This might feel like newness if you’re focused on vote counts as a proxy for post age, but it’s a different approach. See https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3622 for details.

    There’s a couple ways to think about this:

    1. There are a handful of Lemmy communities that are just WAY more active than everything else. The main feeds are kind of lame if you have to scroll 300 posts it to find anything other than a shit post from the same 3 communities. Scaled Hot rank shows a greater variety of communities by making it easier small communities to get ranked hotly.
    2. Or you can consider Hotness to be a rough measure of what percentage of people who have seen the post interacted with it. A post with 500 upvotes in a community with 10,000 active users is kind of popular, but only 5% of the people likely to have scrolled passed it cared about it. A post with 50 upvotes in a community with 200 active members is much MORE popular relatively even though the absolute numbers are smaller.

    At any rate, this preference toward smaller communities in hot is a recent change and deliberate. While they might further tweak the scaling factors, I wouldn’t expect it to be drastically different. It sounds to me like what you want is Top, Active, or Most Comments. All these are unscaled according to community size and will get you top posts by their absolute metric rather than posts that are doing well relative to their community size.



  • My take echoes this. If one puts any stock in streamer recommendations, Baalorlord who has at various times held spire world record winstreaks, has recently cited Monster Train as his current favorite spirelike (other than spire itself), and also cited Griftlands as a playthrough a highlight.

    Baalor probably doesn’t have an opinion on Inscryption as he tends to avoid things with even a slight horror theme. I enjoyed what I played of Inscryption a lot, but very little about playing it evoked the vibe of playing spire. Monster Train is quite adjacent though, the mechanics are different enough to feel fresh but it slots into the same gameplay mood for me whereas Inscryption is just a different (and still very good) thing.

    Neither has the tight balance of Spire or feels quite as deep strategically to me (though in all honesty I’m probably not a strong enough player to be trusted in this regard), but both are fun.


  • That’s an interesting report but it’s possible to “work” at different latencies. And unless you have specialized audio capture/playback hardware and have done some tuning and testing to determine the lowest stable latency that your system is capable of achieving… “works” for you is likely to mean something very different than it does to someone who does a lot of music production.

    It remains an interesting question to some users whether Wayland changes the minimum stable latency relative to X and if so whether it does so for better or worse.


  • I’d consider asking in a Linux audio or music production community (I’m not aware of any on Lemmy that are big enough to have a likely answer though). If music production is a primary use case and audio latency matters to you, almost no general users are going to be able to comment on the difference between X and Wayland from a latency perspective. There may not be a difference, but there might and you won’t be likely to learn about it outside of an audio-focused discussion.


  • It may seem kinda stupid to consider that an accomplishment, but I feel quite genuinely proud of myself for actually succeeding at this instead of just throwing in the towel…

    Way to go. I’ve been at this a decent while and do some pretty esoteric stuff at work and at home… but this loop of feeling stupid, doing the work, and feeling good about a success has been a constant throughout. I spent a week struggling to port some advanced container setups to podman a month or so ago, same feeling of pride when I got them humming.

    It’s not stupid to be proud of an accomplishment even if it’s a fundamental one that’s early in a bigger learning curve. Soak it in, then on to the next high. Good luck.



  • I feel like you’re combatively advocating for a specific vision and not collecting and processing feedback as your OP suggests, at any rate… you don’t seem to be understanding what I was trying to say at all… but it’s not something I’m going to fight about with someone who is questioning if I know what a multi-reddit is and dismissing client-side techniques as nonsense without seeming to understand why they were being discussed in the first place.

    I’ll leave with these thoughts, do with them what you will:

    1. I’m not interested in any multireddit feature that reduces sub privacy. I’d consider it a net loss for lemmy.
    2. On Reddit, multi-reddits personal in nature. Such a personal multireddit for lemmy doesn’t require interaction with federation or privacy changes.
    3. I realize that a shared super-community feature is frequently requested on Lemmy aimed at addressing duplication of communities across instances. I don’t think that’s more than superficially similar to actual multireddits, and I don’t think it’s a good idea because it creates moderation problems that are far worse than the community duplication problems it purports to address.

  • What you’ve described is one way. It could also be a filtered view based on the subscribed/all feed which provides a single API call that can return material from multiple communities. I’m not suggesting that a client-side only solution is a GOOD solution. But from an information-flow perspective, I’m suggesting that multireddits are a “local” function. Theu are so local that they’re possible without server-side support at all, and especially local enough not to require representation in the federated feed… which is a more significant change with potential impacts to other federated projects like kbin and mastodon… and shouldn’t require relaxing privacy constraints in any case.


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    Anyway, what’s the feedback on privacy issue with allowing any user to have read-only access to your community subscribe list…

    I wouldn’t want this in exchange for multi-reddits. You can a little bit infer the communities someone subscribes to from their comment activity, but as it stands one can choose to privately lurk and this would eliminate that… silently for existing users in the absence of some big series of announcements to make it well known.

    Why are multi-reddits a thing that involves federation at all? Multi-reddits as they exist on Reddit itself could be implemented entirely client-side, the server side stuff just syncs the behavior of multiple client apps. Why does the concept of a multi-reddit need to extend outside of the user’s instance?




  • Two tips:

    I have not tried running WINE yet but I plan on doing so soon.

    Steam “just works” on Linux, you can install it via flatpak (which I use) or from their deb repo. It includes “Proton”, which is a fancy bundle of wine and some extra open source valve sauce to make it nice and easy to use. Any game that runs on the steam deck also runs on Linux via proton, and there’s no messing around at all. It looks and feels just like steam on Windows, and thousands of games just work with no setup or config beyond clicking the big blue and green buttons to install and run. Not EVERY games works, but tons do. I’d heavily recommend this over raw wine to a beginner.

    The second tip is not to ask what you can do on Linux. The answer, to a first approximation, is that you can do everything on Linux that you can do on Windows or OSX. I daily drive all three, and mostly do the same stuff on them. Instead, ask YOURSELF what you WANT to do on Linux. Then Google and ask us HOW to do it… or what the nearest approximation is if the precise thing you want to do doesn’t work on Linux.


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    Very true and good points, and when it comes to snap I mostly agree with you. I would guess the “war on Ubuntu” going on is more due to Ubuntu’s history of making controversial decisions that go against the grain of what most other distros are doing at the time (creating and dropping Mir, creating Unity instead of using GNOME and then switching back to GNOME when they finally got Unity working well, installing an Amazon app out of the box in one version), many of which angered a lot of Linux community members before who are still angry despite Ubuntu rolling back most of those decisions, and they’ve found snap a great current scapegoat issue to use to vent their long-standing frustrations with Ubuntu at.

    I agree with just about every word here. I lived through all this stuff. Mir and Unity were hugely disruptive to the OSS desktop community beyond Ubuntu and I was as salty about them as anyone. If someone is aware of this history and just fucking done with Ubuntu’s bullshit they’ll get no flak from me. I rarely see this coherent an argument made though, it’s much more often “snap bad, use this other distro that’s downstream of Ubuntu and shares all the same foundations but has a different default desktop and disables snap by default”, which I think is pretty nonsense and is rampant in the comments of this post.

    But I’ve done my share of distro hopping and if someone wants to use something else for any reason or no reason… more power to them. I will make the counterpoint that no one has to care about snap specifically and if you just pretend it doesn’t exist then your life will be no different. And if history is any indicator, snap has about 2y left before they abandon it anyway.


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    Tell me more about why I care that snap is setting up loop devices and not that docker is setting up virtual ethernet devices and nftables chains. System tools do system things, news at 11.

    I say again, this impacts my life not at all and there is nothing easier to ignore than snap.


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    … those “pending update, close the app to avoid disruptions” popups are kind of disrupting.

    I don’t exactly disagree that it’s slightly irritating but:

    1. No one declares war on an operating system the way snap haters have over a “restart to update” message. It’s an irritation, but it’s not an irritation proportional to the response snap gets out of people.
    2. Restarting to enable an update or complete an update is not something unique to snap. Except for a tiny number of very advanced live-patching systems like the one some kernel updaters use, every updater either nags you to shutdown to do the update, nags you to restart to finish the update, or doesn’t nag you and the update just doesn’t take effect till you restart (apt falls in this category and it’s not unambiguously better than nagging because you’re silently vulnerable when security patches are shipped until you restart). So again, this is just an extremely unremarkable thing that tons of updaters deal with similarly.

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    I do nothing.

    • I use the Firefox snap. It takes like 800 extra milliseconds to start up on my 10y old laptop and it moves my profile dir. It otherwise impacts my life not at all and is just fine. If it ever bothers me, there PPAs, flatpak, or a dozen other ways to install Firefox that are all perfectly simple.
    • I install other stuff from flatpaks or PPAs or using docker.

    The angst around snap is inscrutable to me. There are 30 million easy ways to install software and they all work on Ubuntu. There is nothing in my life that’s easier to ignore than snap.


  • https://www.quora.com/Is-there-an-open-source-alternative-to-Blackboard

    The above link looks like a pretty reasonable answer to this question to me. In short, Moodle, Canvas, Sakai, and OpenEdX are all open-source e-classroom solutions. They are not really targeted toward casual self-hosters though. These packages are typically run by full-time engineering staff on multiple beefy servers at schools where the setup serves thousands of students. If you’re quite strong technically, it sounds like Moodle might be at the easier end of things, but I don’t commonly see individual teachers standing up their own Moodle servers, but I also don’t hang out with technically oriented teachers so maybe I’m not in the right crowd.

    There may be something oriented toward more casual self-hosting, but these are what I’m aware of. I haven’t used them though.