wesley

joined 2 years ago
[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

For $15 you can have endless hours or fun with Balatro

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm using the android app and I've found it decent. I think the UI/UX could use some quality of life improvements but it's a simple and straightforward app to use.

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not on the main pixelfed.social instance but mine went down for a bit this morning. I just waited a bit and then I was able to login again.

Mastodon and Lemmy also had a lot of trouble even they experienced these huge waves of migrations partly because no one had scaled the software this far before

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 5 points 1 month ago

Mastodon is an app for sharing text that can also share pictures and videos. Pixelfed is an app for sharing pictures and videos with limited text.

You can curate a feed of pictures on Mastodon by following hashtags like #cats or #catstodon, but the interface is going to always emphasize the text first. Meanwhile on Pixelfed I can follow those same hashtags and get a much better experience for a feed primarily of pictures. Even though many/most of the posts will inevitably come from Mastodon users I can still browse those in my Pixelfed app in a much cleaner way. Artists can post their work from a Mastodon account, but the best way to view all their posts is going to be from Pixelfed.

This is why interoperability is a good thing. The whole point of federation is that different apps can implement their own version of the spec to curate a different type of user experience.

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 4 points 1 month ago

I don't do Instagram either but PixelFed has pretty chill vibes. I followed some hashtags like #cat and #nature and now I have a nice little feed of cats and nature.

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 2 points 1 month ago

It makes sense that they're playing it safe this time around. They've already had successors to well selling consoles due to gimmicks (*ahem Wii U). The Switch is already a well selling console so it seems like they're just making the same thing but with better performance and some usability improvements.

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Surprised Lemmy is so low tbh. It feels pretty active here to me!

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ahsoka was disappointing to me because I watched clone wars and rebels and love the character.

Honestly though Book of Boba Fett was way worse in my opinion. Even the Mandalorian which has some good parts also has a lot that's pretty meh

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 1 points 4 months ago

Even then sometimes manufacturers will still use Amazon for fulfillment and shipping. I agree though, the shopping experience is pretty awful and I try to avoid it

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 3 points 5 months ago

Yea that seems pretty high. I have a solo pixelfed server that runs around $5 / month. It doesn't get a lot of use though

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

PopOS is the only thing I have a few minutes away with

 

I'm interested in trying out OSMC because I'm really tired of my smart TV being well...not that smart. It crashes a lot of we have to reboot it manually because one of the apps isn't working.

How is it? Is it still pretty easy to use streaming apps? We mostly use Netflix, Disney+, and Apple TV. Occasionally some others as well

Does it work well with Chromecast?

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Linux for Kids? (yall.theatl.social)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by wesley@yall.theatl.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I'm thinking about building a desktop with one of my kids and I would really prefer to put Linux on it. My wife is not a fan of the idea, however.

I'm wondering are there any good Linux distros/utilities for children that include parental control features and things like that? And that are easy to use for a child who has only used basic Chromebooks in the past?

For reference the child is under 12.

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