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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Yeah, Back when I was a kid we used to roam those point and click adventures a lot. We’d get stuck all the times. Sometimes a friend would have an idea and we’d make some progress. But the internet was slow and we still had dialup. I guess there weren’t that much walkthroughs available. At least not in the parts of the internet I knew my way around… Yeah, and English is my second language. So information was kinda scarce antways, before I learned the main language of the internet in school… Everything developed and now I have everything available. I even have those old games sitting on an SD card on a Raspberry Pi and waiting for me. I really should finish that game at some point. On the flipside, I’m an adult now and it’s difficult to find the time to play point and click adventures all day long 😆

    And regarding the items: I tried ManiacMansion, which I believe is included in DOTT. That’s properly impossible without an expert at your side.





  • Yes. I have like 3 different apps but I regularly use Eternity. I think you’re right and a decent part if it is Eternity. Like half of the empty messages show up in other apps or the web interface. But not all of them. I don’t quite think it’s just deleted messages. Some others are definitely there and also don’t show up in Eternity… Maybe it’s a combination of factors. Honestly I didn’t quite pay attention when I was using which app. I’m still trying to figure it out. But this definitely seems to be part of it.










  • Plug it into a computer and see what the computer says.

    I usually use Linux for that because it offers good error messages and I know the tools. But other operating systems might help, too.

    And if you start writing to the card or executing recovery tools, make a backup / image first.

    If the files are very important, maybe don’t tamper with it and ask for help. Like a repair shop, your local Linux community or any trustworthy computer expert friend.

    The biggest enemy is probably encryption, if it’s encrypted. The files are definitely still there if you just ripped it out. In the old days you could just run a recovery program and get everything back.







  • Yeah, I agree. And I appreciate your perspective.

    I don’t think growing Lemmy and funnelling in users works out. We don’t grow. We’re somewhere between 40k and 50k active users and there is no trend in either direction.

    Last year, I despised beehaw for doing their own thing and not respecting how federation is supposed to work. That is connecting people and not being a patchwork of small spaces that don’t talk to each other because of small minds/perspectives… I think I changed my mind a bit. Their way of doing things turned out to foster better behaviour than on other instances. It’s still detrimental to the idea of a federated platform, but still… The effects aren’t just negative.

    I think we have lots of issues here. The culture is a bit different from what I’d like it to be. It’s a tiny bit above Reddit in atmosphere, but on the downside it lacks the (niche) experts. It’s more average people here and just the most predominant opinions. Furthermore, it’s too much discussing the news and not much else that’d be meaningful for my life. It’s too small for lots of things that this place could excel in and that you won’t find anywhere else.

    And the technology really isn’t that good. Progress is super slow, they don’t implement the things the users need and wish for. And it doesn’t foster growth or nice behaviour.

    And I think that’s the main issue. We’d need a solid basis to build something upon. It needs to be shiny, have excellent moderation tools and user-facing features. All of this has been requested but except for things like instance blocking by the user, that doesn’t even block their users, we didn’t get much.

    My personal wish is that new approaches like PieFed will go ahead and provide that to us. I think I’d like to host an instance with that and then invite some people. As of now I didn’t advertise for Lemmy because I think neither the software, nor the atmosphere/community, nor the content here is worth convincing anyone to join. At this point I’m just waiting for one of the three to get anywhere. But I think I’d also like to defederate from a few people. And force them to be nice, upvote replies, not just dump any random links but provide some text in a post, and have some niche interest communities, because just dumping links to news and posting memes isn’t cutting it. We already have X and Mastodon for that…

    And a little disclaimer: I’m being negative in this comment. But that’s not all there is to it. There is a reason why I’m here. I regularly have nice interactions, learn new things and have good conversations. It’s just that it’s far between and I see lots of potential for more. And I’d really like that to become reality.