RadDevon

joined 2 years ago
[–] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Here are the apps I used that I'm not seeing.

  • FoodNoms for calorie counting
  • Waking Up for guided meditation
  • Finch for gamified general mental health
  • Future for asynchronous virtual training
  • Tripsy for travel tracking
  • Organic Maps for offline mapping
  • Transit for navigating most US cities via public transit
  • Fastmail for personal email (Apple Mail for work email)
  • 1Password for password management
  • Elaho for browsing Gemini
  • Tidal for music
  • Vellum for cool backgrounds
  • SwiftScan for scanning documents
  • iPlum for a cheap business phone number
  • Kagi Search to set the Kagi search engine as the default in Safari
  • Parcel for package tracking
  • Mona for Mastodon

And I'll second some others.

  • Overcast
  • Bookplayer
  • Reeder
  • AnyList
  • Sleep Cycle
  • Signal
  • Obsidian
  • Vinegar
  • Noir
[–] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, definitely depends on who I'm recommending to. If it's someone who's pretty familiar with games, I think it would be Elden Ring. Love the sense of exploration and discovery in that game.

 

Recent change in life circumstances, and now I'm trying to figure out how to be an adult about food. I want to focus on eating healthy. I have very little foundational knowledge, so I need ELI5-level content. I'd love some online resources that I could use to learn. In-person classes are not a great fit. Anyone have any recommendations?

[–] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I switched fairly recently. I was on Ting before, and they appear to be quietly sunsetting that service after Dish Network bought them a few years back. Hoping the same doesn't happen to Mint. It's been great so far. Incredible value!

[–] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, come to think of it, I think this is a larger issue I have in life: I always have to be working toward a goal or else I feel guilty. I can see your point of view too though. If there's no beginning and end, there's no minimum amount of time you need to play. The goal is just to enjoy.

My perspective is basically the inverse: if there's no beginning and end, there's no maximum amount of time I need to play. 😅

[–] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I don't feel this way about open-world games because they do usually have an end and you can skip a lot of the open-world filler content. I get this anxiety about sandbox games. I hate it because I really enjoy games like Cities Skylines and I'd love to get into Dwarf Fortress, but I can't play them anymore because I could spend 1,000 hours in one of them and never finish. That open-endedness keeps me from playing.

[–] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Greater transparency under capitalism is always a good thing. I have to admit, one thing Trump did that I liked was to force hospitals to publish their prices. I can't think of a good reason people buying a thing shouldn't know how much it costs beforehand.

[–] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

All great points, and you're definitely right that it's not black and white.

[–] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I would like to make a distinction between a “content creator” in the literal sense — just a person who creates content — and a “content creator” as the phrase is commonly used today — a person who makes a living by selling content or by giving away content to market something else.

I, for one, would be very interested in seeing more people on the fediverse creating content, but I’m not super interested in the fediverse becoming a marketing channel for professional content creators.

Of course, it’s an open platform, so pro content creators are more than welcome to join. I’m just not super excited about approaching them and saying, “please come hock your wares to us on the fediverse!”

[–] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Illucia: the town of Final Fantasy. This was a Final Fantasy fan site, but themed as a town from a Final Fantasy. This isn't a town ripped out of a particular game though. Illucia was an entirely original town with original art created by fan Tatsushi Nakao.

Before the release of FF7, it was themed after a town from the 16-bit era of Final Fantasy. To navigate the town, the user was presented with a clickable server-side image map, where clicking on different buildings in the town would take the user to a page on the site that was thematically appropriate to the building.

Quick aside: a history lesson on image maps. Image maps were a technique that allowed for a single image to be linked to multiple different places based on where the user clicked it. In the later years of image maps, the web site developer ("webmaster" to use the period-appropriate nomenclature 😜) could define the different clickable areas in HTML and the browser would handle requesting the correct URL based on where the user clicked. This is a client-side image map. Before browsers had this capability though, browsers would instead send the clicked coordinates to a server-side script — often written in Perl, I think — which would translate the coordinates and send back the corresponding page.

Anyway, after the release of FF7, Illucia was reworked in that style. I believe in this iteration, the user would interact with it by using the arrow keys to walk an actual character avatar around the town and enter various buildings rather than clicking on a (relatively) simple image map.

Just like the FF series did, the site sorta lost its luster for me at that point. Final Fantasy had gone from an ensemble cast of quirky but warm characters and brightly colored pixel art to a blue and gray mess of blurry, pre-rendered environments and low-poly brooding characters that looked bad at the time and aged even worse. I pretty much stopped visiting, but I still fondly remember those old pixel art days of Illucia.

Sadly, I haven't been able to find any trace of it online anymore aside from one brief mention in another online article. If anyone knows of anything, please send it my way!

[–] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sliced turkey, pear, and feta 🤌

 

If you're like me, you're accustomed to setting up 2FA by having 1Password detect a QR code on-screen, but this doesn't work with Lemmy's 2FA since it never displays a QR code. Here's what you should do instead.

Start in Lemmy by enabling 2FA in your settings. When you save, scroll down again to the bottom of your settings. You'll now see a 2FA installation button. My first inclination was to click this button, but my Mac wanted to open it in the macOS keychain instead of 1Password. Instead, right click the button and copy the link. (It's styled as a button, but it's really just a plain link.)

Now, in 1Password, add a one-time password field to your Lemmy login. Paste the URL you copied from the button into the one-time password field. Save the login, and you should now see the one-time password displayed in 1Password.

You're actually done at this point. One thing that threw me off is that Lemmy's 2FA does not require a code validation step like many 2FA systems do. I validated it manually by logging out and logging back in. Lemmy asked me to enter the 2FA code, and I was able to copy/paste it from 1Password to log back in.

Hope this helps others who are confused like I was!

[–] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like you're talking about Home Assistant maybe?

 

I've enjoyed the influx of new users over the past week or so. Hope things continue to stay awesome around here even with lots of new faces. So far, it's been pretty great! Thank you all!

 

I've attempted to subscribe to a couple of communities on other instances. When I'm looking at the list of communities, those both say "Subscribe Pending." What is actually happening here? Is there a manual approval process? Some handshaking between instances?

The most confusing part is that some communities on other instances just subscribe instantly. These two didn't. 🤷‍♂️

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