Bluefruit

@Bluefruit@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If college is a scam, where do you go to get better education?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, trade schools are where its at rn if you want a decent education in something. Usually a two year program so lower cost, better value cause you get trained in something that AI or robots won’t replace any time soon, and you can actually make a decent wage so you won’t be buried in debt afterwards.

  Other than that, I learn a ton just doing shit I like. Music production, repairs, 3d printing, all my hobbies are skills I can use in other areas of my life. Doesn’t have to be that way for you, but learning to fix some things is a valuable skill that you can learn from YouTube or the internet in general.

  Libraries are a great resource as well of course. Lot of value in books that aren’t tainted with AI slop. Sometimes harder to find what you are looking for, but it helps you slow down and learn more if you read it, at least for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyists, How are you avoiding the crazy prices for computers and newer tech?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Used tech is your friend like others have said, but yea I’m also not buying anything new right now. Once the prices stabilize again, I may buy some stuff but for right now, old used stuff or getting stuff from friends for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Small kitchen appliance storage...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how often its used. Ice maker, Coffee maker, and rice cooker, always on the countertop. Blender, instant pot, and air fryer, top of the fridge.

  That’s all we have. The only other thing I’d add is a mixer, but we honestly don’t do enough baking or cooking to justify it rn. Counter space is precious.

  Putting something away that’s used daily is inconvenient. Unless you have no space, I fail to see why you wouldn’t have it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am a solo dev creating a Mexican folklore horror game inspired by Silent Hill and a real life location in Mexico called Island of Dolls. What do you think of the new trailer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks rad man! Not much of a horror game guy, but I think you nailed the vibes just based off this trailer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Driving Game Players Are Burning Through So Many Tokens Its Developer Had to Take Out a Bank Loan to Keep It Running⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly my thought. Surely you could and achieve at least a similar result.

  I would say yes, yes they are dumb. Taking out a loan for a game that isn’t even out yet according to the article to keep an ai going is pretty stupid. Even if the game does well, the overhead is massive for what could be done with a smaller specialized model. Hell, I bet payig someone to train an existing model would be significantly less than a $1000 a day when you aren’t even making money yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Theres only one setting I found and it only works for menu actions. Any where you have to hold E for harvesting plants, opening refiner menu, interacting with NPCs, its still there.

  I’d rather make mistakes than be forced to wait every time I want to interact with something you know what I mean? Its just irritating. Thankfully I found a mod for that which makes the hold function almost instant for everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My buddy talked me into no mans sky and I gotta say, its really fun.

  Its got bugs for sure, and some stuff that is irritating like having to hold E for every action or the stupid notification that happens every time you warp to a system or station that requires you to hold tab to skip but there are mods that help.

  I love being able to build a ship and a base on different planets, own my own space fleet, destroy pirates, be a pirate, etc. Its far from perfect but I’m into it now. Its fun as hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lollipop Chainsaw Back2Back coming to PlayStation 5 in 2027. A brand-new entry starring Juliet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought I heard they weren’t doing PC ports anymore and this article seems to confirm that unless something has changed since then:

  cnet.com/…/sony-reportedly-ends-playstation-pc-po…

  Unless they go back on that, doesnt seem they will release a PC port.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gonna turn 19 next month, any advices for me?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 29, so not too much older than you so take all this with a grain of salt. Ive been very fortunate in my life to have good friends and family to support me and jobs up until now were not super hard to get. My life is likely very different from yours.

  Enjoy the little things man. Find friends that can be family, don’t pay attention to the entire world all the time like on social media. Hell, I barely use Lemmy and completely got off other social media. Its been a good choice for me.

  Find a decent job that pays the bills and figure out what you like. You dont have to figure everything out right away. Things change, you’ll change. Enjoy the ride. Thats what I’m trying to do.

  Also dont quit a job before having another lined up. Its not worth it, it may feel like it is in the moment, but its not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone out there?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone out there?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome!

  I have really enjoyed Lemmy so far. Most folks here are good to talk to, understand nuance and are generally not giant dicks.

  That said, we still have trolls or the occasional spam account making the rounds but that has been a small part of my experience.

  I will say, most communities are more left leaning, so if you dont lean that way, you may find that people disagree with you but as long as you are civil and argue or discuss issues in good faith, I think people are willing to listen for the most part.

  With all that said, there are still echo chambers here. But most of us know the world is burning, and we do our best to inform each other and build good community. We can only do so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dont give them ideas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea good luck with that. Especially in the US. Internet infrastructure is way behind here in a lot of areas. Some people still use dial up for fucks sake.

  Not to mention latency, or god forbid the internet goes down and you can’t play games at all. Yea no thanks dumbass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop OSS - an open-source, self-hosted alternative to platforms like Steam and Epic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think something messed up with the link you posted. Shows me a Lemmy.world page with nothing on it rather than what I assume is this: playnite.link

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea it was a very short window for development, 18 months: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m only just now feeling like my life is on track and I’m almost 30.

  Meanwhile my partners friends both have a nice house, great jobs, and just had a baby. Everyone’s path is different man.

  My advice is just do your best and enjoy the ride. Count all the good things in your life. Take a minute, put down your phone and just be with your thoughts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on where you live. If you can find a large enough building and renovate maybe. A pre existing building with all the machines already there would likely cost much more.

  Running a business isnt really simple though. Lots of things to take into account. Taxes, overhead, inventory, maintenance, customer service, and thats just off the top of my head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games could strike before GTA 6 launches over unionization⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. Unions should be a more standard practice, especially these days. Fuck these big companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I choose which independent developers to donate to and how much should I donate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pick a project you like and donate what you think is fair. The fact that you are donating at all is great man.

  I donated $50 to the Dev of the Automation app on fdroid. My car automatically tries to play any media that I had playing before it connected to the car. No way to turn it off, happens on any and every phone ive used. Finally I found this app and made an automation that pauses media after a few milliseconds once the bluetooth connects.

  I felt a $50 one time donation was worth it cause they helped me solve one of the most annoying things i deal with. No idea why someone thought that a “feature” shouldn’t have a fucking off button but here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Drop shipping has become a really big thing online. I just watched a video about people creating fake sad stories to push “handmade products”. All cheap mass manufactured shit from China.

  Hard to find legit businesses right off the rip since it seems everyone is trying to scam these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 669 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was my first thought. Twilight princess is my all time favorite Zelda game to this day. And seeing Dusk was so cool. I may have to give that a go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would like to play a calm game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention there are plenty of mods that you can add to make it more tuned to how you want it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I actually find a job that isn't retail?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you there. Plumbing I would avoid. I could do it, but like you said, flooding or just water damage in general makes me think twice. Gas I would be more ok with but even then I’d be wary of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I actually find a job that isn't retail?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. I’d recommend everyone try and fix things themselves at least sometimes. I try and fix small things I don’t want to have to buy again if I can.

  Sometimes it makes sense to pay someone, but its a good skill to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I actually find a job that isn't retail?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you like working with your hands, look into education for the trades. Trade jobs are only getting more and more rare these days so theres a good chance you can get a job that way and it pays waaay better than retail in a lot of cases.

  Also like others said, knowing someone is also ideal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is putting black beans in my chili a bad idea?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m making chilli right now and put black beans in it. I like black beans in my chilli.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS push apps, aka "install available apps" feature, how does it work?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please anyone feel free to correct me if I get anything wrong.

  From my understanding, Apps dont change based on the profile they are installed in. They are the same exact app regardless of profile. Profiles just serve to separate apps for different users and further separate apps from each other with them being in thier own directories.

  Not all apps that you install from the Google playstore require google play services. Some apps will run just fine without them if the devolper decided not to use them during development. If they did decide to use googleplay services, the app may function OK or completely break. Just depends on the app in question.

  As far as I am aware, updates will happen separately for profiles. Most apps that are installed via googleplay will install automatically. Same goes for fdroid apps in most cases unless specified otherwise.

  I’m not sure what you mean by your last question, fail how? Fail to open or update?

  Also, profiles aren’t really necessary for grapheneos to separate google play services from other apps or whatnot because they are already sandboxed. I dont use them myself for this reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the national Do Not Call Registry actually work? (USA)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has helped at least a little for me. It depends though.

  I got lots of annoying calls about selling land because they mixed my information with someone else’s I guess. After i signed up, I got less calls like that.

  IMO the best thing you can do is be very selective with what info you give out. Use a privacy focused browser, use ublock and privacybadger as well.

  Also switching from Verizon to T-Mobile helped with spam. I get way less spam on tmobile at least it feels that way. This is all anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, that sounds harsh coming from a friend. Its OK to be critical, but insulting an idea like that is pretty rude and not constructive at least from what you’ve put here. You should reevaluate your friendship with this friend if that is an accurate portrayal of how they said this.

  Second, your story sounds like a normal super hero story which isnt a bad thing. Theres this weird idea that you need to come up with super original concepts to be successful in art but that’s not really true. If you do something that someone’s done before, but different enough, and do it well, people will probably like it.

  So yea, write your story man, not because you think people will or won’t read it, but because you want to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Slay the Spire 2) If they replace this placeholder art, I will be upset.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I fucking love that little goblin in the corner. What a masterpiece