Hope they know, you don’t have to launch a console every half dozen years. Could just hold off and y’know, not for a while. A long while.
I know it’s because I’m getting old, but it seems like PS5 just came out. But part of it too is diminishing returns on tech advances. The difference is more and more negligible every gen. And that’s for AAA; for most developers on real-world budgets, I doubt many are even hitting console power bottlenecks.
Hopefully this initiative sticks, sounds like my next phone (eventually) might just be Motorola/Graphene.
The question was a fun excuse to think about some old tutorials I’ve seen, and dig through the bookmarks. Any subject is a pretty broad ask tho. Out of curiosity, why do you ask? Are you just thinking about learning something new for the fun ot it?
Linux - LinuxJourney
Linux/system administration - Sad Severs
Programming - LearnXinYminutes
Programming - Lazy Foo’s SDL/C++ tutorials (Not sure how practical it would be to learn either of these anymore, but I enjoyed it when I went through)
Vim - vimtutor built in tutorial
Vim - Vim Adventures game to learn Vim’s keys
Godot - Heartbeast’s tutorials
CSS - Grid Garden
Web Design - Web Design in 4 minutes tutorial
Web Design - Visual design rules you can follow almost every time
SQL - SQLBolt
Guitar - JustinGuitar’s Beginner’s course (and beyond)
Music theory/guitar - courses from Signals music (many are pay what you want, he also has plenty of good info in his freely available Youtube videos)
Chess - ChessNetwork’s beginner to master playlist
Blender - The Donut Tutorial
Pixel Art - Gas 13’s tutorial
Pixel Art - Derek Yu’s tutorial
2D Art - Drawabox
Japanese - Sakubi’s grammar guide
Japanese - Bunpro’s grammar references
Japanese - Tae Kim’s guide
Smash Melee - melee.cookbook.gg
Melee - Advanced How to Play parts 1, 2, and 3 (outdated, but decent foundational stuff)
Melee - SSBM Tutorials channel
Funny to see this, I was just going through some old playlists today and listened to some Extol. Not one I think about often, but a fun band!
If you actually just download a .py file, you need to run it with python. Like in the example you linked, something like
python3 _filename_
(and if that’s the case, you might need to add a line at the top of the file, telling it where the interpreter is. But probably you actually want the following)
To install, you use the python installer program, pip. Something like
pip _package-name_
Before you do either, you need to install python and pip. I don’t know exactly (look for correct package names), but you need to run something like
sudo apt install python3 pip
The Ink Spots are an interesting case. They’re a vocal group from the 30s. Not only did that group Theseus itself and then dissolve by the 50s, but afterward there were legal disputes. A bunch of the past members claimed rights to the name. Courts ultimately said ‘nobody owns the name, you can all use it’. So anybody with any connection was going around performing as The Ink Spots, and those groups were also changing members. Over the decades there were probably multiple fully Theseus’d versions of the group going at the same time.
Andrew Hickey has a good podcast episode on it that you can listen to/read. https://500songs.com/podcast/the-ink-spots-thats-when-your-heartaches-begin/
Here’s a couple I’ve seen around, tho I haven’t dived too deep:
Sad to me a lot of times means stuff about time passing and getting older or things changing, so most of these are along that line. Some of the ones I think of first:
Time, Fat Old Sun, and High Hopes by Pink Floyd
In My Life by The Beatles (also Ozzy)
Hurt by Johnny Cash (orginally NiN)
Preaching the End of the World by Chris Cornell
There Was a Light Here by Demon Hunter
Thanks!
But yeah, it is rough. No wonder they keep it a secret, lol.
I have occasionally. I’ve got Google Play on my phone and I used to use a small tablet to do some reading.
Ultimately I find much better success rates reading a paper book. Having a single purpose item laying around helps motivate me, and the low-tech approach reduces distraction.
Had no idea they had an app. After peeking at that page, I still don’t. Do you just mean it’s a PWA, or is there a native one?
But yeah, agree that their UI/UX does not make it much fun. Still a great resource.
I just pulled a valuable card and got it graded through PSA. Wound up not being worth it really for me. But that might be because I paid for a single card. At the very least you save some on shipping if you send a bunch for grading at one time, but the submission fee might lower in bulk too, don’t remember.
The fee tho is based on how quick you want it done. I wanted it back within a couple months, so it cost me like 60 bucks. If you’re patient it’s a good bit cheaper (tho they did just send me an email saying they’re raising prices). My card (fresh from the pack) graded at 9, which in my case looks like it’s going about the same as ungraded, a little bit higher. Even if the card seems perfect, 8/9/10 is basically a toss up far as I can tell. My card went up in value a bit in the months the process took, so I pretty much broke even on the grading vs selling immediately. And PSA will handle the actual selling for you if you want, so that can be nice.
Anyway, that’s just my experience, and it’s n=1 so grain of salt.
From a collection perspective, I don’t really see the appeal in owning graded cards. On a base level, I want someone to enjoy them and I think the grading tombs lower the aesthetic appeal. I don’t want to put more graded cards into the world. But in some cases you just want as much money for your cards as possible. So grading might make sense for the valuable ones if they’re in especially good shape. Check pricecharting for the cards you’re considering for grading and see if there’s a nice bump.
Pretty cool projects. I played around with the Mandarin one a little. What plans do you have for these going forward?
More languages, custom vocab lists seem like they’d be good additions, but mainly I’m interested in how you plan to improve the game aspects?
Oof, this still isn’t up on F-Droid or either main app store. That’s a shame, I thought this moment would be a great time for Loops to get some user base, but it seems like it’s still not ready for wider adoption.
That said, it does look a lot better now than it did a few months ago when I last tried it. Here’s hoping it picks up some momentum. I finally tried TikTok last year, and was really impressed by the breadth of videos and how quickly it was able to start showing me things I enjoyed. With the recent change in ownership, I don’t know that I’ll revisit it much if at all. Would take quite a lot to replicate even a little bit of the zeitgeist TikTok had going. But like with Lemmy and Mastodon/Bsky, I’m hoping I can do my little part by choosing where to put my attention. Just don’t know that I’m going to find much there I care to see, for now.
Don’t know that I have a particular favorite, but one that comes to mind to recommend is Don Norman’s Design of Everyday Things.
I definitely second this!
Another classic in the game history space - Game Over - is one of my favorites too. MoD is probably better written, but then GO’s subject matter draws me in a little more.
Didn’t appreciate Reddit’s hostility toward their userbase over the API concerns.
I used a third party mobile app once in a while, but was mostly viewing from desktop anyway. I’ve not been banned (AFAIK), and whenever I peek back at it things still seem fine. But the whole controversy and their poor handling was as good an excuse as any to start using a more open, decentralized platform.
Was also already curious about Lemmy anyway, had heard of it before all the kerfuffle. Figured it would be dead, and the ‘choose a community’ thing was enough of an obstacle to keep me from getting into AP platforms for a while. When the mainstream closed platforms started heavy degradification though, both problems got solved(ish).
I’ll go ahead and knock out the ‘normie that watched anime on TV twenty years ago’ list.
I’ve got a handful of others I’ve seen and liked, plus some older and newer ones I plan to watch. But I need to really branch it out a little.
I’m doing pretty well! Busy lately, but still finding time for things I enjoy.
Chaos computer club sounds cool, what kind of topics come up there?
Nothing wrong (AFAIK) with asking here, but I think you’d dig the !casualconversation@piefed.social community.