yashima

One big difference I see, between email and various messengers on the on side and social networks on the other side is, that emails are me pushing my information at people while a social network is supposed to be them pulling information from my feed. This allows me—when it works—to share stuff with people instead of potentially sending spam. Not all communication is a digital postcard. Social networks allowed a new form of communication. I enjoyed OG facebook until the first big privacy scandal. It was a (mostly) good thing and it was very accessible even then. I‘ve never got such a large part of my tribe on a pull service since then. Sure we all have messengers and groups and what not… but it is not the same. I dream of self-hosting something from the fediverse but we‘re not exactly young anymore and I doubt my tribe will assemble.

Ein absoluter Rückschritt. Beim Elterngeld geht es sehr stark um Gleichstellung beider Elternteile, so dass eben der Verdienst des einzelnen Elternteils nicht ausschlaggebend ist bei der Entscheidung, wer die Pause macht, um sich um das Kind zu kümmern. Stattdessen könnte man sicher Geld sparen indem man das Ehegattensplitting endlich abschafft.

I have already written more comments here than I ever did on reddit. I want lemmy to succeed and it needs even us lurkers to do that. It ain't much--but I am commenting ;)

If not for BaconReader (the only client that was on iOS and Android when I looked) I would never have been on reddit at all. Right now writing this via wefwef. On my Android phone I am testing Liftoff. I would have been willing to pay for a subscription if reddit hadn‘t behaved like they did.

I stopped using reddit with the blackout and I can‘t say I miss it much. Especially not when my favorite subreddit equivalents are popping up everywhere.

there were some really decent TTS mods when I Last used TTS. in any case I highly recommend finding someone to teach you the game if you don’t know it already. I have more than once encountered people saying they didn’t enjoy the game only to change tune after getting a teacher. It is not even that the rulebooks are bad. It is just a lot of moving parts.

Over several iterations the Spirit Island app became good enough. However, as much as I love the game, it is immensely difficult to play in digital. Even when on my large monitor, I cannot show everything at the same time and I need to switch between maps and cards and I find it makes for much added difficulty. I have stopped playing the digital version. I have not played Scythe enough to be able to say anything about that app.

Apfelessig mit etwas Spüli drin

Und selbst wo nicht geleugnet wird, ist man schnell bei

• "Aber mein Verhalten ändern will ich nicht." oder
• "Ich bin so alt das betrifft mich nicht mehr" oder
• Tiraden, wenn irgendwas teurer wird wie Benzin, Energie oder Parkplätze in der Stadt

Da hilft auch nicht wenn man immer mal wieder sagt, dass ein Tempolimit schon okay wäre.

Mein Favorit ist immer noch "Also ich bin früher zu Fuss zur Schule gelaufen und hab die Milch in einer Glassflasche vom Bauern nebenan geholt. Und deswegen hab ich mit all dem nix zu tun" --sitzt dabei am Steuer seines SUV auf dem Weg in sein unsaniertes Haus aus den 70ern um dann von der Couch aus die nächste Flugreise zu planen, während Frau das argentinische Steak für das Abendessen in die Pfanne haut. Nebenbei unterschreibt man noch schnell so ein NIMBY Bürgerbegehren gegen das Windrad im Nachbarort und überlegt sich ob man vielleicht doch auf eine Ölheizung umstellen sollte--das mit Peak Oil war ja scheinbar nix, gibts ja immer noch die Plörre.

It‘s not just about the data—which is bad enough but as you said they could just write a crawler to get at it. The question is why would they want to federate and why now? Meta being Meta the most likely reasons are terrible for the fediverse and it reminds me very much of Google and xmpp. I saw a really good writeup on this yesterday: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Das nicht auf jeder Website meine Daten abgeschnorchelt wurden. Und das noch Leute persönliche Blogs mit einer wilden Mischung an lustigen Content geschrieben haben, weil das Wort "monetarisieren" noch nicht erfunden worden war. Bloglines. Delicious (schreibe mir gerade mein eigenes). Was ich nicht vermisse: Popups.

• Spirit Island. My overall favorite game since my first play of it. Plays great solo as a single or as 2 spirits. Coop games in general are good for solos because you can run them multihanded if necessary
• Dune Imperium has an automa based solo mode that luckily is simple enough to run
• On the hard to find side: Leaving Earth--space race simulation. I haven't played that many solos of it but it is a grandiose thing to be launching a moon mission and testing Saturn rockets.
• most of the big Uwe Rosenberg games have excellent solo modes. My favorites are Nusfjord and Oranienburger Kanal. But A Feast for Odin with the Norwegians expansion is also very good!
• I recently got Legacy of Yu which is a solo only campaign game that reminds me of Paladins of the West Kingdom but is much easier to run as a solo because it was designed as such.
• Imperium: Classics and Legends are very versatile and once one understands the basics of how to run the opponents they aren't that difficult to grok.
• As I mentioned on the small games thread I love Ark Nova and Revive as solos.
• Obsession - tile laying, worker placement, card-game mashup that I recently found out I prefer solo on the table as opposed to multiplayer online.

I am not a fan of having to run automas so I prefer games that can be soloed without complex bot actions. Dune Imperium is one automa deck that I can stomach.

Hope you are having fun with it :) I never travel without it. Sometimes I play a game with morning coffee or during lunchbreak. Those 18 different goals are enough for endless combinations.