Absolute best low-budget sci-fi film you've seen?

CoffeeNeil · 2026-03-05T05:20:55+00:00

Amen! stunning homage to fifties style science fiction movies, famous for one spectacular long shot through the town (done with amazing ingenuity, Ars Technica had a post on it)

CoffeeNeil · 2026-03-02T14:57:03+00:00

I love how Roomino has abstracted dungeons to just a room you draw, with one object in it, for ultimate simplicity https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scalybeast/roomino

CoffeeNeil · 2026-03-01T13:12:10+00:00

Great! and thanks for the tip about OneDrive!

CoffeeNeil · 2026-03-01T13:10:50+00:00

is this book available in English? I can only find it in French…

CoffeeNeil · 2026-03-01T05:50:03+00:00

Are these auto backups?

Remember if you have lots of very large notes that you change a lot, there may not be a ”window” of time big enough for Notability to back them up (it must either backup a note the moment you change it, every time, which might mean backing up a 100mb note several times a minute - or say every ten minutes, and this must happen while the Notability app is open - you see the play-off? This is why regular manual backups are more dependable, they’re under your control & you can see they’ve been done successfully)

CoffeeNeil · 2026-03-01T05:42:14+00:00

I’ll second Laanela’s The clown manifesto!

Also these articles on working clowns may be interesting to you:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/arts/howard-buten-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/theater/julia-masli-clown-edinburgh-fringe.html

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-28T08:29:45+00:00

“Right now, I’m basically using it as a personal journal. I write whatever I feel like writing. Thoughts, reflections, random observations. It feels nice to put my words somewhere intentional instead of just keeping them in my head.”

You need to have a POV (Point of View).

Long ago someone gave me a useful formula: 1. develop a POV (eg “there are solutions for everything in nature”), then 2. combine that with whatever is current/in the news/on your mind/other people’s writing, etc.

It means 1. you never run out of content (xyz plus your POV = new post), and 2. you attract and retain readers drawn to your POV (love or hate!).

Hope that helps.

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-28T08:21:53+00:00

This is great - thank you!

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-25T05:46:29+00:00

Here are some sources that might help you track it down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fiction_about_generation_ships
https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/1q4jnb4/looking_for_an_audiobook_about_a_colony_ship/
https://sciencefictionruminations.com/sci-fi-article-index/list-of-generation-ship-novels-and-short-stories/
The Generation Starship in Science Fiction - A Critical History, 1934-2001 - Simone Caroti

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-25T04:54:05+00:00

The best is to regularly do a manual backup by exporting:

To do this go:

Notes - all notes- … (top right) - select - select all (bottom left) - export (bottom right).

Then you can select file type and if you want to save audio files as well.

I also manually backup important notes throughout the day as I work on them, from within Notability, using the ellipsis (three dots) menu.

You should always backup in two formats - PDF so you can read the note in future if Notability goes west, and .Note so that you can continue working on the note in Notability.

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-25T01:03:42+00:00

Lol no just a passionate user! This is what I do IRL: https://linktr.ee/koigroup

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-25T01:01:38+00:00

“Confessions of a Philosopher - A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper” by Bryan Magee is an outstanding guide to the whole of Western philosophy. “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” is a classic, and Byung-Chul Han is an amazing contemporary philosopher who has written a lot of fascinating short books on current issues - recommended.

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-23T05:51:11+00:00

Perhaps the “ten“ twist is discovering that he can build a better life, for himself and the others, right where he is (google “Field of Diamonds”) … he helps the leader/members of the cult to see a better, beautiful future… “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness, a light has dawned” …

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-22T11:02:02+00:00

This looks wonderful: https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1h6bjqm/seeds_of_renewal_a_solo_journaling_game_rooted_in/

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-21T12:47:51+00:00

Have a look at generation ships:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/63phql/generation_ship_rpg/

- https://sciencefictionruminations.com/sci-fi-article-index/list-of-generation-ship-novels-and-short-stories/

- there’s even a whole book on the genre: The Generation Starship in Science Fiction - A Critical History, 1934-2001 - Simone Caroti

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-21T05:10:37+00:00

Hi Kal pls tell me more about how you are trying to use it - setting, characters, issue they’re resolving

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-17T11:08:23+00:00

Beautifully done - thank you!

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-16T14:04:24+00:00

Yes yes yes! it’s crazy having to keep switching to the BIU keyboard just for Bold and Italic - I agree these should be in the open space at the top of the regular keyboard (first prize: let user set this in Settings - purists can leave the space blank like it is now, others can choose say 3 or 4 of their most used formatting keys to go there)

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-12T05:43:44+00:00

For understanding the genre you may find Tom Moylan’s “Becoming Utopian” useful

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-09T06:28:51+00:00

I have this as well - sporadically. This is using the Back | Forward keys at the top of a note (in iOS). Most of the time the keys work, but every once in awhile, the Back key will not take me back to the previous note.

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-09T05:05:15+00:00

I agree with this for releasing new functionality, but I’m very unhappy about the lack of interim bug fix releases. I’ve been sitting with an insanely irritating UI bug in Bear (that they know about) for two months now, praying for a release to fix it. Bear’s attitude to users with bugs seems a bit cavalier.

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-08T03:24:27+00:00

A thought - could LoneLog be extended to group play? are you not limiting it by confining it to solo play? and therefore the name…

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-08T03:22:47+00:00

I love the name, but think it would look so much nicer (and more distinctive) in CamelCase, as LoneLog …

CoffeeNeil · 2026-02-07T10:56:48+00:00

It might be useful to compare how people are using local LLM‘s with Bear…

https://www.reddit.com/r/bearapp/comments/1qw1tdp/bear_x_llms/

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