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  1. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Nice idea! Check out https://github.com/maddox/magic-cards for some inspiration. Combined with Home Assistant you can do some awesome stuff. You could make a card play their favorite show on the...

    Nice idea! Check out https://github.com/maddox/magic-cards for some inspiration. Combined with Home Assistant you can do some awesome stuff.

    You could make a card play their favorite show on the tv or a playlist on Spotify or do something with a Google home etc.

    More inspiration

    4 votes

  2. Comment on ‘Heroes’ reboot in the works from series creator Tim Kring in ~tv

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    For people who don't mind K-drama, there is a fairly recent show called "Moving" on Disney Plus that is very similar to Heroes. I'm about halfway through the first season, it's been amusing.

    For people who don't mind K-drama, there is a fairly recent show called "Moving" on Disney Plus that is very similar to Heroes. I'm about halfway through the first season, it's been amusing.

  3. Comment on How do you organize your phone's home screens and apps? in ~tech

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    Most launchers have some kind of backup of the layout these days. I use that for each new phone I get with Nova launcher. It never takes more than a minute or two to get back and running with a...

    Most launchers have some kind of backup of the layout these days. I use that for each new phone I get with Nova launcher. It never takes more than a minute or two to get back and running with a new app (some widgets need to be put on the home screen again after a fresh install)

    Have you looked if your preferred launcher has backup/restore functionality?

    1 vote

  4. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Definitely! What kind of game are you making? Or rather, what kind of game do you want to make?

    Definitely! What kind of game are you making? Or rather, what kind of game do you want to make?

    1 vote

  5. Comment on It annoys me that so many PC games feel like they're intended for consoles in ~games

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    Maybe it is just me... But pressing 'E' to interact has been standard on PC games for 25+ years. (The earliest game I remember was Half-Life doing it but I'm sure it wasn't the first). Could there...

    Maybe it is just me... But pressing 'E' to interact has been standard on PC games for 25+ years. (The earliest game I remember was Half-Life doing it but I'm sure it wasn't the first).

    Could there have also been support to manually click open a door? Sure, but that seems cumbersome for something you do often.

    Doesn't seem like a console vs PC game issue IMO.

    15 votes

  6. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Looks awesome! I don't have or intend to get a vision pro, but that looks nicely polished for only ~6 months of Swift. Nicely done! I'm curious if it is possible to play on a non-flat surface....

    Looks awesome! I don't have or intend to get a vision pro, but that looks nicely polished for only ~6 months of Swift. Nicely done!

    I'm curious if it is possible to play on a non-flat surface. Does the vision pro accurately model a slope that can be used with your physics? Could you play on top of a ball?

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Help: iPhone SE (2020) home button not working; “Unable to Activate Touch ID” in ~tech

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    Nice the phone is semi-working again. Please back up your photos ASAP! Take this scare as a near-miss of losing all of those photos and get it situated today.

    Nice the phone is semi-working again. Please back up your photos ASAP! Take this scare as a near-miss of losing all of those photos and get it situated today.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (February 2024) in ~tildes

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    Use this app every day. It keeps getting better! Great job!

    Use this app every day. It keeps getting better! Great job!

    16 votes

  9. Comment on Show Tildes - Gametje in ~comp

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    So why would it be -pje? Based on those rules, gametje is correct and gamepje would be irregular. It references the ending letter not the sound? Didn't expect such a debate over diminutives 😅.

    tje for words ending in -h, -j, -l, -n, -r, -w, or a vowel other than -y:

    So why would it be -pje? Based on those rules, gametje is correct and gamepje would be irregular. It references the ending letter not the sound?

    Didn't expect such a debate over diminutives 😅.

  10. Comment on Show Tildes - Gametje in ~comp

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    Good to know! Didn't know that was an actual word. It was supposed to be half English half Dutch (I'm an American living in NL).

    Good to know! Didn't know that was an actual word. It was supposed to be half English half Dutch (I'm an American living in NL).

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Show Tildes - Gametje in ~comp

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    Thanks for the feedback! Indeed that is similar for Nijntje. My kids love those books (in Dutch and English). I remember a while back there was a Discord server formed for playing some games...

    Thanks for the feedback! Indeed that is similar for Nijntje. My kids love those books (in Dutch and English).

    I remember a while back there was a Discord server formed for playing some games together with other Tildes folk. https://tildes.net/~games/18r5/tildes_game_nights_discord_server. I joined back then but it hasn't been too active from what I can tell.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? in ~games

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    Not sure if you remember my comment, but I finally made a Tildes post about it: https://tildes.net/~comp/1dss/show_tildes_gametje Now I am wondering if I should have posted it in ~games instead of...

    Not sure if you remember my comment, but I finally made a Tildes post about it: https://tildes.net/~comp/1dss/show_tildes_gametje

    Now I am wondering if I should have posted it in ~games instead of ~comp. Let me know what you think!

  13. Show Tildes - Gametje

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    Gametje Hi all been working on this project for a while in my spare time. I wanted to share it with this community to see what you all thought. What is it? It is a set of online games (currently...

    Gametje

    Hi all been working on this project for a while in my spare time. I wanted to share it with this community to see what you all thought.

    What is it?

    It is a set of online games (currently only 2) which can be played in person with a central screen (like a TV) or remotely via video chat with screen sharing. Essentially there is a host screen and then each player has their own player screen (laptop or phone etc). It is playable in 8 languages at the moment (feel free to request any others!) It also has an integrated ChatGPT player which can be turned on/off in game settings if you prefer to play without it. There are some game mechanics to identify a ChatGPT answer which can yield some funny reactions if you choose a human's answer! It has Chromecast support and works well on Amazon Fire sticks. Visually, it is still a little rough around the edges as frontend design isn't my forte but the core concept is there. I have been play testing it with friends but have not shared it publicly yet.

    Why is it called Gametje?

    I have been living in the Netherlands for some years and my original motivation for starting this project was to create a game that supported languages other than English. I wanted to incorporate something Dutch into the name. tje is one of the diminutive endings in Dutch. It is usually meant to soften a word or make it "smaller". So Gametje -> a little game.

    Where can I try it?

    https://gametje.com/

    You can either create an account (user/pass with email confirm) or try it out as a guest (navigate to either game, then choose continue as guest). Currently it is free to host a game. Happy to hear any feedback (both good and bad). Hopefully the host provider I am using to run the game will hold up.

    Thanks!

    17 votes

  14. Comment on What was your highlight of 2023? in ~talk

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    I'd also love to give her a listen if you don't mind sharing. Thanks for the story as well.

    I'd also love to give her a listen if you don't mind sharing. Thanks for the story as well.

  15. Comment on Pipelight: Automation pipelines but easier in ~comp

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    I was looking through the GitHub to find the documentation source as I noticed a few typos. Are the docs hosted/stored somewhere else besides the git repo? Overall I was impressed with the level...

    I was looking through the GitHub to find the documentation source as I noticed a few typos. Are the docs hosted/stored somewhere else besides the git repo?

    Overall I was impressed with the level of documentation.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Pipelight: Automation pipelines but easier in ~comp

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    Looks pretty nice. Will definitely give this a shot for a small project I have been working on which has mainly been built/deployed with shell scripts.

    Looks pretty nice. Will definitely give this a shot for a small project I have been working on which has mainly been built/deployed with shell scripts.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Conan O’Brien’s wild first year: An oral history - In 1993, NBC made a historic decision—and gave Late Night to a nobody. O’Brien, Letterman, Lorne Michaels, Lisa Kudrow, and more tell all in ~tv

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    Great read! Thanks for sharing. Been a Conan fan my whole life. Very interesting to read about the early days of the show.

    Great read! Thanks for sharing. Been a Conan fan my whole life. Very interesting to read about the early days of the show.

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Game recommendations, specifically in ~games

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    Came to recommend this, really fun game, not that long but it's game mechanics are fun and it doesn't overstay its welcome.

    Came to recommend this, really fun game, not that long but it's game mechanics are fun and it doesn't overstay its welcome.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Fooocus - The most user-friendly local image-gen interface to date in ~comp

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    Been playing with this from the HN thread with my Mac M1 32gb ram. Set-up was very easy and the results are great. Image generation is about 2-3 min per image for me which is acceptable for me...

    Been playing with this from the HN thread with my Mac M1 32gb ram. Set-up was very easy and the results are great. Image generation is about 2-3 min per image for me which is acceptable for me given I have no GPU. Watching the image preview is also fun as it makes little tweaks here and there after the initial image it creates. You can also watch the terminal to see the exact prompts it puts into each model. Overall very nice to be able to generate stuff offline (after the models have downloaded).

    2 votes

  20. Comment on SteamWorld Build is out in ~games

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    Seems like there is a demo, so you can give that a go first.

    Seems like there is a demo, so you can give that a go first.

    2 votes