When I joined, it was the only instance, but it was also useful that it was aggressively left-wing.

Before Lemmy, all the Reddit alternatives were Nazi bars, because everyone that got banned from Reddit congealed there. The Lemmy devs/admins banned anyone on sight who hinted at Nazi apologia and I don’t think Lemmy would exist today, if they didn’t.

But yeah, folks also assign way too much meaning to the instance. I don’t have to hold hands with my admins when I log onto lemmy.ml. I don’t have to agree with them. I barely interact with lemmy.ml users, because I just browse /all. And that generally looks the same as on other instances.
It’s just a way to access the wider threadiverse. If the lemmy.ml server is down, I log into my alt account on another instance and the experience is virtually indistinguishable, I just don’t have my block lists there…

Had to think about it for a moment, but I would say the fundamental problem with adding more content to Minecraft is this classic game design quote:

Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game.

Source

In early days of Minecraft, you would cut down a tree, then slap down 6 blocks of wood and that was your table. It looked fine, because everything was just blocks and the few available blocks all could be combined without it looking terrible.

Now you’ve got a magnitude more blocks and the player looking to ruin their fun will spend far too much time:

• Choosing colors to combine. It can’t just be wood, it’s gotta be jungle wood, to make it fit in with the orange color highlights.
• Choosing block shapes. Can’t just be a regular 1m³ block, it’s gotta be an upside-down stair. And a carpet on top as a table cloth.
• Farming those resources. You need to find a jungle and a sheep. And scissors to collect the wool. And then you need to craft those stairs and carpets.
• Placing blocks. An upside-down stair can’t just be slapped down. Instead, you need some scaffolding against which you can place it from the correct angle. Nope, not that angle. Gotta remove the stair and place it anew. And don’t forget to remove your scaffolding afterwards. And place back those blocks you had to remove to get to the correct angle.

There are folks that find it relaxing to mine for hours and to spend hours getting every detail perfect about their build. But even those folks presumably wouldn’t call it fun.

But of course, your community will still ask for ever more hyperspecific blocks to be added, so they can optimize the fun out even more. Because your community are not game designers.

They always felt kind of weirdly similar to me, even the games that they just ended up buying. Hard to describe, but the games always felt rather ‘functional’, rather ‘game-y’. Kind of like what I think of as solid AA games, just scaled to AAA.

Like, I don’t know, Hellblade is about mental illness and kind of made up to be this cinematic experience, so it should be a massive exception to this, but then it’s wrapped in this hack’n’slash gameplay and has the name “Hellblade”, as if they were afraid it might flop, if it doesn’t promise your usual dose of generic/violent gameplay.

Hell, Minecraft feels like it got microsoftified, in that they just keep adding more and more stuff to it, with no clear direction. It’s just, oh, the community wants XYZ, let’s add XYZ.

I guess, maybe that’s part of it? They have a lot of money, so game studios just add all kinds of features rather than making hard decisions on what kind of game they want to be.
That’s obviously also very positive in many ways, but yeah, might ultimately lead to the sameyness…

Hmm, in my case, it was certainly part of the problem that I tried to back up directly to an SMB share. It wouldn’t complete even after hours, and my best guess is that it somehow created the copy in/of the home-directory when the connection failed.

I’ve had that happen before when an rsync command for uploading backups was doing shenanigans. I think, it choked on a very large folder, but I just excluded that folder and then it was fine.

Oh man, I was wondering where they get the gelatin from. Not exactly going to have many bones on Mars, except perhaps from dead astronauts… 😵‍💫

I’ve never seen any search engine officially confirm this, but search across all search engines became terrible just a few months after the release of ChatGPT.
Which is why my assumption is that LLMs are being used to generate heaps of credible-looking, but ultimately worthless webpages. And search engines have to try to filter those out or their results would be even worse.

But then there’s no obvious distinction between a human-crafted blog and some spam webpage, which means the human-crafted blog is likely to be caught in the crossfire and get filtered as well.

Well, and on top of that, search engines presumably got hit by AI scrapers looking for training data, so that’s why I would assume, they now limit the search results to one page…

They were in that movie, you know the one with that actor in.

Basically, you can write a CSS file to override the stylings that Firefox uses in its UI. So, you can’t edit the basic HTML-like structure, but yeah, you can do a lot with CSS.

Probably best resource to read up on this: https://www.userchrome.org/
There’s also a community here on Lemmy: !FirefoxCSS@fedia.io

If you want precisely the layout that OP has, they’d have to post their CSS file…

In case anyone here is not aware, you can inspect the browser UI like you can inspect webpages, by using the Browser Toolbox: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/browser_toolbox/index.html

Ah yeah, it’s just a translucent overlay slapped on top of everything. It’s the fallback option when nothing else works.

Lots of apps that advertise lowering screen brightness below 0% just do that, so I thought that’s what you mean.

There is also a way to properly filter the colors, which doesn’t discolor things as badly, but I believe you need root for that, or for it to be built into the OS, like the “Extra Dim” option that various ROMs have.

I guess, there might also be ROMs where the manufacturer decided to limit how low you can set the brightness via the UI, even though the hardware would accept lower values. In that case, yeah, try what @hexagonwin@lemmy.today posted with writing to that file via ADB.
Maybe you can also do that via Termux somehow, if you’ve got root on your device.

I used this app before it came built into the OS for me: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jmstudios.redmoon

When I come home from being among people, I blow my nose and wash my hands + face, and I feel like that helps, too. I mean, logically it should help, since I’m physically removing bacteria and whatnot.

But yeah, I don’t know, feels a bit weird that we’re only telling people to wash their hands, when airborn bacteria/viruses are a thing…

With a webpage like that, I’m not surprised that no one takes it serious. Looks like it fell straight out of a startup. 😵‍💫

Relevant Wikipedia article, as per usual when this is posted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism

By the way, I did not procrastinate posting this since July 25th. The file name does not say 2026-07-25. That did not happen. Nuh-uh.

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Somehow, the 3D version looks more like the original than the 2D version, but it still has that fourth teat that’s not attached to anything…

Well, politics isn’t about finding the one principle to rule them all. The folks/companies that find restricting access to children important, probably don’t particularly care about some Linux devices being excluded. And other folks/companies find not restricting their Linux server really important, so that’s a compromise that can be made.

I imagine, they landed on specifically open-source being excluded as the more abstract rule, because open-source in particular has a problem here.
Anyone can download open-source software and run it. In most cases, there is no central backend, which could handle age verification.

And even if there is, it’s not really financially viable to offer that for anyone who downloads the software for free. Requiring payment to access the binaries or the source code would also effectively kill the open-source ecosystem, which is also not in the interest of most people.

I always feel like the much bigger challenge is whether anyone can still maintain the codebase afterwards. You throw away so much institutional knowledge by doing a conversion like this…

Well, in hopes that you’re not just trolling, maybe you’ll believe a dictionary that “stable” is ambiguous in this context. Because this is one of the listed meanings:

(computing) Of software: established to be relatively free of bugs, as opposed to a beta version.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stable#Adjective

It also lists your meaning. I’m not saying that you’re wrong. I’m saying it’s ambiguous, i.e. there’s two meanings that could apply here.
Well, and personally, I do feel like more people will interpret “stable” to mean bug-free here, because Debian is a piece of software to them.