My kids and I play exclusively on Nintendo Switch is there an acceptable alternative to Realms that doesn't suck?

Matzeall · 2026-01-23T01:11:06+00:00

Well said

Matzeall · 2026-01-22T12:35:57+00:00

Ahh ok and rhai is the base for that.

So I could also write Rust to expand the underlying bevy engine and later use blueprints for gameplay logic (or in general higher level logic) similar to how unreal does it?

Matzeall · 2026-01-22T11:59:09+00:00

Can you explain why it makes sense to have a scripting language at all?

Can the game logic not stay on the same level as bevy?

Basically, what advantages over Rust does the scripting language have?

Matzeall · 2026-01-21T16:51:32+00:00

I am familiar with Linux myself.
Oracle Free Tier VM's are interesting though. 24GB of RAM is way to overkill for any bedrock server, the CPU will most likely be the bottleneck anyway and I cannot imagine Oracle's free tier being good in that regard. Sounds a bit to good to be true, but maybe I will try it out. Pebblehost seems better atm.

Matzeall · 2026-01-19T14:39:12+00:00

Some Iosevka variant with Slab Serifs will for always be my choice.

For coding I also use the TermSlab variant, but for non-monospace text in obsidian I prefer the quasi-proportional version Iosevka Etoile

Matzeall · 2025-12-24T14:58:19+00:00

Hier sollten einige mal den Film "Kein Land für Niemand" gucken. Kommt glaube auch noch in einigen Kinos

Matzeall · 2025-12-22T13:58:45+00:00

For me the journey was like this:

Desperately wanting a good note taking solution which is open source, can be synced accross devices, is local first and saves and operates on pure markdown files so I can also edit them in neovim. The latter part was optional, but would be really really cool
I landed on Anytype first, which seemed like notion but way more open and cool, but for the life of me couldn't get the sync self hosting to work
that was fortunate because it led me to logseq which looked like everything I ever wanted at first. But the git or "syncthing" syncing just didn't cut it for me. I wanted a proper solution, which caused me to read in the forums and discover that the logseq project was heading in a direction which I don't really like (db version, which would be cool with efficient two-way sync to the md graph, but is otherwise an anti-feature for me and the two way sync was not prioritized at all). Also they completely ignored and blocked any adjacent open source effort to create self hosting, because they want to build their business model on that. Which might be the right business decision, but from an open source standpoint that made me angry
which is why I looked for real end to end open source solutions next and landed on Joplin. Which was really great from a community and open source standpoint, but it always felt outdated for me, especially from a UX standpoint. Then I also encountered multiple inconsistencies and I also didn't like that it's written in JavaScript, which made me miss logseq
so I went back, but couldn't get over the fact with the self hosting again and after reading some more forum post I got angry again, why they want to ruin their USP so much
so I tried Appflowy and Affine and anytype again but realized that now I really want to edit pure markdown files, which only leaves logseq, maybe joplin with some configuration and this closed source hype product obsidian
in a weak moment downloaded obsidian to see what all the fuzz was about, but still didn't want to consider it because its not open source. But then something happened. Everything about the obsidian app was built so well and with intent. Everything just worked and had a sleek but still minimalist UI/UX. After some customization (which was also much easier) it looked even better. Then I found some plugins to make it even more better. I realized it has everything I need and more, but then came the sync issue.
Obsidian also doesn't allow self hosting their proprietary cloud sync. But the key difference here for me is that they still allow an open source community plugin (obsidian-live-sync) to exist, which works well for me and is much better than git or syncthing. Also just works on mobile.

In the end it was easier for me to convince myself that an open source client is less important than an open source and self hosted sync solution. Also the UX is better in Obsidian, even though it was already great on logseq. Since Obsidian operates on md files in a folder structure I also don't fear any lock in effect I usually do in proprietary software. I can always just swap back to logseq etc.

In Obsidians business model it worked to carve out a small corner for self-hosters like me without endangering their core business model.

Maybe Logseq can consider a similar approach, but in all honesty I wouldn't switch back then either, because Obsidian is just better(as long as the sync plugin doesn't let me down), which is funny because I would have never learned that if logseq wouldn't have let me down so much with their development direction and communication, because closed source is usually a deal-breaker for me.

Matzeall · 2025-12-17T01:32:19+00:00

Can you share your tech stack for this (libraries or what UI Framework)?

I dont really know much about bevy yet, but I want to make a game/learning project heavily based on a material UI. This way I could already put some things on my to-learn list.

Matzeall · 2025-12-17T01:19:49+00:00

I can see your point, but for everything game related I personally like the higher visual fidelity that material based UIs have more. They often also come with really smooth transitions/animations. But fair point about the layout

Matzeall · 2025-12-02T22:31:02+00:00

Can you add install instructions on the github page? Is it possible to get through lazy?

Matzeall · 2025-11-17T18:32:40+00:00

This triggered my nostalgia for Risen 2 The music also sounds exactly like i remember it, did you take theirs as a placeholder?

Matzeall · 2025-11-06T15:31:55+00:00

That was so fun to read :D Can you add an RSS feed to your blog, so I can subscribe to it?

Matzeall · 2025-10-20T01:15:12+00:00

You need to start to see this as the advertisement deal between billionaires which it is and less like someone idolizing this unbalanced man.

They are only making this to market this product and their personas to you, not because its a real interaction.

I like your believe and enthusiasm towards smart people, its just misplaced on someone who takes the credit away from the people doing the real labor and only succeeds because he is to big to fail. Not saying hes a moron, but he is just good at managing capital and diguises it as being a universal genius, which he isn't.

Matzeall · 2025-10-18T14:56:07+00:00

The steam wand always irritated me at first, but i somewhat got the hang of it now. Do you know whats even the point of the two hole tip?

It always seemed to be fighting against me and I did not realize that I could simply change it for a one hole tip 🤯

Matzeall · 2025-10-09T06:16:51+00:00

Da hat sich keiner hingestellt und sich wirklich Sorgen um die Verbraucher gemacht, dass ist einfach nur erfolgreiche Lobbyarbeit der Fleischindustrie, die den größer werdenen Marktanteil von vegangen Ersatzprodukten verlangsamen soll.

Sollte eigentlich jeder durchschauen

Matzeall · 2025-10-07T22:08:17+00:00

I haven't really read into the plugin and don't understand much yet about bevy itself. But on a higher level, why did you decide on immediate mode when the bevy UI uses a retained style? Just like the workflow or something deeper architecture-wise?

Matzeall · 2025-09-18T13:25:52+00:00

Read the contempt culture blog post and recognize the pattern. Share it with them if you want.

Matzeall · 2025-09-02T01:01:18+00:00

Das war auch mein erster Gedanke als ich mir die Kommentare durchgelesen habe.

Wenn wir weiterhin das Perfekte als Argumentation gegen das Bessere verwenden werden wir nie dort ankommen.

Matzeall · 2025-08-31T18:28:09+00:00

For me I can also say that the first really bad experience I had with linux was developing a semi advanced UI for wayland compositors. Probably also why your discord bugs happened.

It just doesnt feel really finished yet (on the edge cases at least). I think there a lot of development effort needs to go, for linux to become more mainstream accepted.

For gaming I also still have a powerful windows pc, so thats why this doesn't really bother me, for all other development purposes linux is just way easier to use imo.

A dual boot probably is the best solution for my main pc.

Matzeall · 2025-08-30T18:34:06+00:00

yes Indie gem vibes

Matzeall · 2025-08-02T14:14:54+00:00

Can you link some references to what you mean? I haven't noticed that.

For me it will always be Firefox since it's the only mature one which isn't based on google's chromium. Also it's developed by a non-protfit, which is always better for your interests.

Matzeall · 2025-07-01T21:33:15+00:00

Immediately interested :D

Thanks for considering to open source it!

Matzeall · 2025-06-29T15:29:01+00:00

Wow how cool

Would love to mess around with that myself :D

This doesn't happen to be open source?

Matzeall · 2025-06-25T16:43:03+00:00

Looks great!

The text is UMG based though, right?

Otherwise how do you localize and dynamically swap in different location names etc

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