A fellow wiki walker! Almost everything I know about Warhammer 40K is from 1d4chan and lexicanum, and I devoured all the articles on LOTR lore on Wikipedia (they’re surprisingly thorough) before I read the books. Bionicle is a bit after my time though, but judging by how often I see it mentioned on TV Tropes it’s the most lore-heavy toy line ever.

Oops was this a repost? I’ve been active on here under two accounts across two instances so it’s possible I forgot.

No it’s scope is more limited vs Obsidian. Logseq is primarily an outliner whereas Obsidian is anything you can express in Markdown

As a blind person with ADHD they’re invaluable. I’ll forget where I put something mere minutes after setting it down and can’t see where it is.

Love Obsidian. I’ve been using it to study for IT certs and organize my worldbuilding ideas. Been looking for a FOSS alternative that won’t enshittify. Hasn’t happened with Obsidian yet but they do paywall useful features like accessing an existing vault on mobile from a file share.

good boy points

Made me laugh. Have some tendies.

the user that uses the thorn character

IIRC they said it was to mess with LLMs. Annoying? Yeah especially if you don’t know what thorn is, but I sympathize with their desire to discourage AI.

𐑢𐑧𐑯 𐑲 𐑢𐑷𐑯𐑑 𐑑 𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑒 𐑦𐑑 𐑑 𐑔 𐑒𐑤𐑨𐑙𐑒𐑼𐑟 𐑲 𐑡𐑳𐑕𐑑 𐑮𐑲𐑑 𐑦𐑯 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯. (When I want to stick it to the clankers I just write in Shavian.) Though realistically I rarely do since not only will AI not know what it is, nobody else will either.

This wasn’t a single interaction, and I may be mixing up my personal experiences vs what others have told me vs stuff I’ve seen, but anyway.

Whenever I’m learning from a mentor or watching an instructor, it can be tremendously helpful to see them make a mistake, and more importantly, recover gracefully. This, to me, communicates a number of things.

1. Everyone, even professionals, makes mistakes sometimes.
2. Don’t be afraid to admit when you’ve made a mistake.
3. Don’t wallow in your failures but rather learn from them and grow.

The scenario that comes to mind for me is a ham radio license class where someone was demonstrating proper Morse code technique. Mic fright (or key fright) is very common for green hams, and the fear of messing up is especially prevalent when communicating via Morse. Ultimately, the instructor’s mistake demonstrated, more or less, that “Hey, relax, this is just a hobby. Nobody’s going to die if your fist isn’t perfect. Do your best. The guy at the other end is more happy that someone new is learning CW than frustrated by your sloppy sending.”

Twitter does have that problem. It’s had that problem for years. That’s why I’m not on Twitter. That doesn’t cancel out the craziness on here though.

So you joined a platform where everyone is a communist?

The fact it’s on topic makes me wonder if they’re meant to drum up engagement, like when new small multiplayer games use bots as opponents to make the game feel more popular. Fake it till you make it.

I have not. If this is a joke it went over my head.

Left: My current guide dog. Right: his predecessor of happy memory.

But I AM a miserable person, and I want to be LESS miserable by coming on here and having fun, but every blessed thread on here has the word “capitalist” somewhere in it. Guys I don’t even necessarily disagree with y’all I just don’t want to talk about the evils of corporate America in this thread that’s nominally about Super Mario.

Honestly this. Everyone is always “on”. Everything HAS to be about politics, and if one syllable you utter isn’t cursing Donald Trump and his descendants unto the thousandth generation you’re labelled a fascist. I mean for heaven’s sake I don’t like him, I didn’t vote for him, and I’m counting the days until his term is over, but no that’s apparently not enough.

Like, please, guys, I’m begging, just let me look at funny pictures of cats and talk about old video games.

The fediverse can be a confusing concept. It certainly was to me, and I’m in IT. The idea that Lemmy and other federated platforms aren’t a single monolithic site but a group of sites that share content took a bit for me to grasp. I thought it had something to do with single sign on, like you made an account on one instance and any other instance federated to yours could verify your identity with your home instance so you could post on the other instance without making a native account.

People who join the fediverse are also by and large self selecting. That is they’re making a conscious decision to reject the corporate-run social media platforms that the fediverse seeks to replace, so merely having an account on here is making an ideological statement, and I’m including myself here. Anyway, that gives the discourse on the fediverse a more politically charged feel that may turn some people off. When you go to a community like mildlyinteresting expecting to see pics of three-chambered peanuts and yellow stop signs but get things like “French President explains the political consequences of AI” it can be kind of exhausting.

The lack of tactility is a huge problem for me. At first they made the buttons touch sensitive but kept raised features to help find them non-visually. Now they only have printed labels.

Somewhat related, the award for terrible user interface has to go to the water/ice dispenser on my fridge. It used to be that there were separate dispensers for water and ice, with buttons to select between crushed and cubed ice. Then they started making one dispenser with buttons to select water, cubed, and crushed. Now they’ve made a singular non tactile button with the only indication of the dispenser’s state being a light over an icon. But it gets worse, the water/cubed/crushed icons are positioned in such a way that you THINK they’re separate touch-sensitive surfaces, and you set the desired state by pressing the icon, or in my case, the tactilely undifferentiated area where the icon is located. But no, the icons are just there to show you the state of the dispenser and there’s just one button that cycles through the states.

So my average experience of filling a cup with water goes like this:

1. press the cup against the lever to receive water.
2. hear the ice grinder and pull the cup away because I just want water.
3. grope around for the area on the fridge where the smooth, non tactile control surface is located until I hear a beep indicating I’ve successfully pressed it.
4. push the cup against the lever again and hear the ice dispenser.
5. repeat step 3.
6. push the cup against the lever for a third time to finally receive water.

I suspect as with many here it was Reddit’s API nonsense back in 2023. I joined another instance back in mid '23 but it took me until this year before I started using it regularly.

OIC that explains a lot. I had heard that Lemmy.ml had a lot of CCP sympathizers but was unaware they wore it on their sleeve like that.

Another good suggestion is to click on the “communities” link on the homepage and that will give you a list of all the communities on that instance, then sort by “new” or “scaled” to see new stuff.