BobQuasit

joined 1 year ago
[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't care as long as they don't take away NotePad. NotePad has useful features I'd hate to lose - such as stripping out all formatting, and being able to search/replace wildcard characters as themselves, rather than as wildcards.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's always Diablo 1.

But my favorite is Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, which was made by some of the people who created Fallout and has a LOT in common with it. It's an open world, a combination of classic fantasy with elves, dwarves, and halflings with a rising steampunk technology that competes with magic. There are many schools of magic and technology, as well as social, stealth, and combat skills. The graphics are very crude by today's standards, but the gameplay is outstanding.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

When I walk along a street, I count the number of drivers I see using their phones. It's been a consistent 50%. And the ones who aren't on their phones tend to be elderly. So what's surprising about an increase in pedestrian deaths?

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't know about deletions, but I requested my data for takeout more than two weeks ago and I still haven't received it.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, a LOT.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

Those sociopaths have weighed down this sorry planet for far too long.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I did exactly that. And ever since then, I've been backing up my full uncompressed photographs onto several duplicate hard drives and flash drives. Plus my videos, of course. I really should set up a server so I could do all that automatically, but I don't really know how and don't have the energy to figure it out.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I will never trust Google for anything since they killed off Google Plus. Getting rid of "don't be evil" as their corporate motto was a huge giveaway.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

It was well before I turned one; I was still in a crib. It was dark, nighttime, and incredibly hot. Some sort of animal with glowing eyes stared at me from the floor.

I thought it was a dream, but decades later my parents confirmed that when I was a baby the thermostat had broken and we had a night where the temperature was 100°. As for the animal with glowing eyes, that was our cat.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

That seems unnecessarily complicated! But I appreciate the info.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I find it strangely hard to care about the fate of a handful of multimillionaire tourists when hundreds of refugees died last week due to the indifference of the Greek authorities - and the media barely noticed.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

"Good content"? You mean like the stuff that's on Facebook now?

 

Taken near Comicopia, Kenmore Sq. Boston, MA.

P.S. - They made it safely across. Last I saw them, they were fine.

 

I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I'm enjoying BookWyrm very much; it's the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I've been looking for for years.

I love the simplicity of Paper.wf for blogging. It's truly elegant; I just click the link and start typing. But as far as I can tell there's no way for others to find my blog or for me to find other blogs on the site. There's no browse or follow feature. Nor can anyone comment on my posts! Those seem to me to be HUGE omissions.

Have you used any Fediverse blogging options? What are they like? And what other Fediverse services would you recommend? Other than Mastodon, I've already tried that (it didn't excite me).

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