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  1. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Haven't posted in a while, but I've been playing a lot of... Survival: Fountain of Youth This is a survival crafting game set on some made up Pacific Island as your part of a crew that goes off...

    Haven't posted in a while, but I've been playing a lot of...

    Survival: Fountain of Youth

    This is a survival crafting game set on some made up Pacific Island as your part of a crew that goes off looking for the Fountain of Youth, but of course end up ship wrecked.

    I'm one of those people who loves the idea of survival crafting games, but they are all way too grindy. This one, thankfully, is not.

    In general, non spoiler, terms. The progression is really nice. There's very little actual gating you from progressing in this game, but there's a lot of stuff to build and craft to over prepare. It never really makes you grind to get all the gear either (except a little mining).

    There's a huge complaint on the steam reviews about the number of menus in this game and I get it, the game is menu heavy. There's no animations for harvesting or building like the forest or something, everything is a menu. But it's all done with some reasonable thought put into it. For the early game to mid game you will be deciding how much time, tool durability and stamina you want to put into any action. I felt it was a fun mini game. It does become way less of a problem later when you have gear and food but the menus are definitely a preference thing.

    Extremely light progression format spoilers

    The game is broken up into 5 islands which you explore one by one. To unlock the next you need to either follow the completely average storyline with hilariously over the top voice acting, find pieces of map around the current island or build the next tier of boat. If you do all three you get a skill point.

    I like this progression, it give you a lot of freedom. I've been doing all three the whole time, but I can easily see someone shorter on time just doing one and going right to the next island.

    The combat is completely fine, there's base building and a reasonably complicated disease system. I like the cooking and drinking mechanics. The maps are really well thought out and clearly everything is hand placed which is really great to see.

    Overall I would recommend it if a. You like survival crafting and b. You can deal with the menus.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Norwegian influencer buys failed property development in Spain to build ‘self-sufficient’ eco-community – Modern Eco Village plans to erect 500 homes, schools and shops in ~design

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    Norwegians aren't super rich or anything. The wealth gap is smaller than a lot of countries though. You earn a lot more doing blue collar work here than you do else where, but you earn way less...

    Norwegians aren't super rich or anything. The wealth gap is smaller than a lot of countries though. You earn a lot more doing blue collar work here than you do else where, but you earn way less owning a business or being senior leadership.
    Like the other commenter said, most of the money goes into public spending, for everyone. The Healthcare is good, the infrastructure is good, etc etc.

    Yet after all that the post here sucks, unbelievable haha.

    6 votes

  3. Comment on Norwegian influencer buys failed property development in Spain to build ‘self-sufficient’ eco-community – Modern Eco Village plans to erect 500 homes, schools and shops in ~design

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    Considering it's a Norwegian influencer, I assume that the intention is to target Norwegians. There's a culture here of staying in Norway in the summer and going to Spain for a long holiday in the...

    Considering it's a Norwegian influencer, I assume that the intention is to target Norwegians. There's a culture here of staying in Norway in the summer and going to Spain for a long holiday in the winter. Richer Norwegians have holiday homes in Spain for the winter.

    17 votes

  4. Comment on Anyone get into caffeine (coffee/tea) as an adult? in ~food

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    I mean I also have been drinking tea since a kid, but I have some useful input here. Tea has a slower release of caffeine than coffee. If you drink coffee (unless it's a teeny shot) you'll feel...

    I mean I also have been drinking tea since a kid, but I have some useful input here.

    Tea has a slower release of caffeine than coffee. If you drink coffee (unless it's a teeny shot) you'll feel the buzz right away. Tea you might not even realize the caffeine has hit you until you do a comparison to baseline (like trying to go to sleep).

    I used to drink a stupid amount of tea, like 8 cups a day, and I did not realize how wired I was until I cut down. I'm down to one cup of tea in the morning and... 7 decaf lol but like if I drink a normal cup of tea before bed time there's no sleeping for like 4 hours.

    I think it does also hit you in a different way as you get older, you'll hear so many people say they had to cut down because they can't drink as much coffee any more, so I dunno what's going on there to be honest.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on How do you remember? in ~tech

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    For work, I do similar to a lot of other folk here. For my personal life it's kinda more complicated... I think I have some kind of ADHD and I forget important stuff all the time. I tried notes...

    For work, I do similar to a lot of other folk here.
    For my personal life it's kinda more complicated...

    I think I have some kind of ADHD and I forget important stuff all the time. I tried notes apps, physical paper, calendars and whatever and nothing stuck.
    My uh, workaround? Is I just do as much as I can immediately lol. As soon as I have a new item to put on the list, I just do it. If I do have something to do, it's normally like 1 or 2 things and I can actually remember them.

    Like, terrible advise I know, don't do this. It's gonna get me. But thought I'd share.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Group chat solutions for small groups? in ~comp

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    Try out Signal? It has pretty much all the WhatsApp features (and also chat themes) except it's not Meta. I'd use it for all my chats if I could get my friends to change, but alas. For the emoji...

    Try out Signal?
    It has pretty much all the WhatsApp features (and also chat themes) except it's not Meta.
    I'd use it for all my chats if I could get my friends to change, but alas.

    For the emoji button, I'd just use a different keyboard on your phone, and use whatever app on the various desktops to type it to be honest.
    I have an emoji button on SwiftKey and I use it all the time.

    29 votes

  7. Comment on Communities, relationships, and navigating the enshittification of absolutely everything in ~talk

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    It's true, a move like that is a big deal! You're welcome to ask. I met my partner online and we were long distance dating, then when it came to living together one of us had to make a big change...

    It's true, a move like that is a big deal!

    You're welcome to ask.
    I met my partner online and we were long distance dating, then when it came to living together one of us had to make a big change to move. It made way more sense for me to move and my job were completely ok with me working remote.
    I did lose friends, but I made some new ones.
    Though my family being so far away does suck sometimes, but I see them 3/4 times a year.

    Anyway, I hope you find a compromise!

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Communities, relationships, and navigating the enshittification of absolutely everything in ~talk

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    Yeah, exactly. I think your (mental) health is important. It makes me sad that you're sad! So... Not retiring but why have you not tried either? I moved out the city to a farm 3 years ago and it...

    Definitely prioritize your own health over gestures vaguely all of this, yes.

    Yeah, exactly. I think your (mental) health is important. It makes me sad that you're sad!

    ... I dream about retiring and operating a farm or running a small restaurant quite a bit...

    So... Not retiring but why have you not tried either?
    I moved out the city to a farm 3 years ago and it did amazing things for my mental health.

    Sorry if it feels like I'm calling you out, it sounds like you're having a tough time and it sounds to me like you already have your answers.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Communities, relationships, and navigating the enshittification of absolutely everything in ~talk

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    So honestly, I agree broadly with you. I think other commenters have done a good job of sharing their feelings and talking about your sections and I won't try to do the same. You are clearly very...

    So honestly, I agree broadly with you. I think other commenters have done a good job of sharing their feelings and talking about your sections and I won't try to do the same.

    You are clearly very passionate about these things and I think that's maybe why you're seeing the disconnect with "everyone else".
    I'm bothered about my privacy, I'm bothered about the AI hype and enshittifaction, but I don't think about it all the time nor do I go too far out my way to do anything about it... Because honestly it would completely ruin my mental health.

    I'll be completely real with you, if I wanted to be genuinely upset about something and have it effect my mental health in a real, negative way then I would be getting upset about the outright murder and genocide going on right now, or global warming, and not "trillion dollar companies have once again decided to make more money at the expense of Discord".
    I can do without a third space on the internet, I can do without AI and fuck it I can just not use the internet except for work to be honest.

    But I do want a healthy lifestyle, food on the table, a loving parter, etc. World peace would be nice too but let's be real.

    So I dunno, I agree, it's not good. Huge corporate is gonna make everyone's lives worse in someway if they can make more money, that's a fact. It's shit the internet is trash these days and we aren't going back, the deal is done. But I personally think that too many people let their mental health get effected by wrong things. And yeah, that's also the modern internet to blame for that too in a big way.

    9 votes

  10. Comment on Giving my AI agent its own team and what that taught me about AI in ~tech

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    If I'm understanding this correctly, I've tried similar things myself and had some success. I wanted to see if I could throw together a web novel generator for fun. You gave it a blurb and it...

    If I'm understanding this correctly, I've tried similar things myself and had some success.
    I wanted to see if I could throw together a web novel generator for fun. You gave it a blurb and it would try to output a reasonable amount of badly written fan fiction in bite sized chunks.
    To try and stop the AI just making stuff up every chapter and keep the story kinda sane I had a second agent "judge" the output and critique it, pointing out plot holes and any errors.
    Trying to find a balance between the judge just always finding a problem, even if it was completely reasonable, and letting slip the occasional plot hole was really difficult, but it mostly made sense in the end.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking in ~tech

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    Honestly it's fair to ask, good to get challenged! It's a few things for me and this might not fix any of them: I would like to keep some notes forever digitally and taking pictures of notes...

    Honestly it's fair to ask, good to get challenged!

    It's a few things for me and this might not fix any of them:

    • I would like to keep some notes forever digitally and taking pictures of notes really sucks. A digital scanning tool thing does not sound great either
    • I'm always switching between lined, gridded and blank paper for different things and I end up with paper everywhere, then I can't find notes
    • I have a bad habit of spilling drinks on my notes and then they become extra unreadable and it ruins the paper
    • I always run out of space physical paper, it'd be nice to have more like an infinite canvas
    • It would be great to organise notes by folder. I just throw all my notes away because I don't have much space to keep them around the house

    I don't fancy spilling tea on an expensive tablet, but the rest I'm hoping I could maybe improve!

    2 votes

  12. Comment on E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking in ~tech

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    Thanks for the detailed reply! That's very interesting, I had actually completely written off the remarkable because I misunderstood the subscription. I thought that without it you'd have limited...

    Thanks for the detailed reply!
    That's very interesting, I had actually completely written off the remarkable because I misunderstood the subscription. I thought that without it you'd have limited cloud support to all cloud providers, which seemed extremely dumb. So glad to hear that was just me misreading it.

    Definitely sounds like a contender, I'm going to put it on the list!

    2 votes

  13. Comment on E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking in ~tech

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    Thanks! Sounds pretty manageable then.

    Thanks! Sounds pretty manageable then.

  14. Comment on E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking in ~tech

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    Thank you for your reply, it does help! I understood that you needed to replace the pen nubs occasionally if you used the stylus a lot, is that something you've experienced? To be honest, my plan...

    Thank you for your reply, it does help!
    I understood that you needed to replace the pen nubs occasionally if you used the stylus a lot, is that something you've experienced?

    To be honest, my plan is to use this thing to sit on my desk during the day and replace my A4 paper note book and pencil for work and game notes. I've got a Kindle that my partner and I have been using to read for years now.

  15. Comment on E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking in ~tech

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    Thanks that's really useful. Me like 5 years ago would have 100 percent gone for the Android tablet for more options, but I know now that all the extra fluff is gonna distract me. I'll definitely...

    Thanks that's really useful.
    Me like 5 years ago would have 100 percent gone for the Android tablet for more options, but I know now that all the extra fluff is gonna distract me.
    I'll definitely watch some videos on the OS though before making a decision!

  16. Comment on E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking in ~tech

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    Thanks for the reply! That's good to know. So does that mean the Boox has the normal android stuff like a lock screen, home screen, settings drawer, etc etc? I feel like a lot of that stuff is...

    Thanks for the reply! That's good to know.

    So does that mean the Boox has the normal android stuff like a lock screen, home screen, settings drawer, etc etc?
    I feel like a lot of that stuff is nonsense distractions I don't want or need in my note taker.

  17. Comment on E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking in ~tech

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    Great comment thanks! Sounds exactly like what I was thinking of, glad you could confirm a lot of it. I didn't know you could side load on it, that also really makes it desirable.

    Great comment thanks! Sounds exactly like what I was thinking of, glad you could confirm a lot of it.
    I didn't know you could side load on it, that also really makes it desirable.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking in ~tech

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    Yeah for most of the reasons mentioned by @creesch I don't want a normal tablet. I hate using my phone (or a tablet) for writing at all because of all the other crap and distractions on there, I...

    Yeah for most of the reasons mentioned by @creesch I don't want a normal tablet. I hate using my phone (or a tablet) for writing at all because of all the other crap and distractions on there, I think it really impacts the experience.
    I'm taking literally having to turn it on, unlock the screen, open the right app. That's a lot of friction.
    I expect with an e-ink tablet built for note taking it may be on all the time on the notes app or at most a button/pen press away from just working.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking in ~tech

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    Great feedback though, thanks for the post!

    Great feedback though, thanks for the post!

  20. E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking

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    Does anyone here use a tablet for note taking? I've always used pen and paper for note taking when working or in/around the house. At one point when phones got bigger I did try moving to notes...

    Does anyone here use a tablet for note taking?

    I've always used pen and paper for note taking when working or in/around the house. At one point when phones got bigger I did try moving to notes apps but they never clicked. Something about the glossy screen and the levels of fuss to take a note just didn't work.

    I recently found out that there's e-ink tablets which try to emulate real note taking, like the Supernote which runs a custom firmware to make note taking as easy as possible. Or the Boox which is Android based, so it has way more apps, but it's got amazing reviews.

    There's quite a lot, I'm curious if anyone here has actually used anything like this and what their thoughts are?
    Looking at reviews, I'm drawn to the Supernote. But I'd love to hear some real use cases!

    27 votes