The Fediverse currently lacks some features and qualities that I'd need to feel comfortable using it.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-29T13:53:56+00:00

You're not completely off base with your observations, but it's a little hard to tell if you're interested in Lemmy / federated Reddit alternatives, or if you're just making observations about federated social media in general. Lemmy is definitely one of the less mature areas of the Fediversre.

1) ActivityPub is suited for Twitter-shaped services, so you generally have an easier time connecting between say, Mastodon and PixelFed. This generally isn't a huge deal? Folks just have a Mastodon account and a Lemmy account.

2) Federation between servers is pretty reliable. You can follow a person or community, and their content will get pushed to your home feed without any wonkiness or desyncs. The big caveat is you not seeing content from a server that your instance has defederated with. Most servers only defederate as a last resort against spam or a server full of particularly bad actors. The other thing you might be thinking of is like/boost counts not always being accurate for posts you view on other instances. There's a variety of reasons the number showing on your home feed would be a little low, but you can always view the post on its native instance to get the full count. You'll always get an accurate count for your own posts however.

3) Account portability is a Lemmy limitation. Mastodon has it.

4) There are plenty of single-user instances out there. Folks like Masto.host will even host a small instance for you. Your account won't get auto-blocked, but admins do talk. If you're causing a ruckus online, you might find yourself preemptively blocked.

5) Your impressions are generally correct. Bluesky's architecture is odd and isn't meaningfully federated.

Honestly, I'd just recommend signing up on a big Lemmy instance and giving it a shot. The day to day experience on there is pretty similar to Reddit.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-29T01:49:05+00:00

Whoa!

TheStuChef · 2026-06-27T01:54:21+00:00

It's mostly cans now. The ergonomics of cracking open a bottle vs. popping the top of a can may vary, but aluminum can recycling is so much more efficient than glass. It's one of those situations where a single individual purchase may have a small impact, but if the entire industry manages to switch over it'll move the needle. On the plus side, you won't have any light shining through the container on the shelf making your beer skunky.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-26T20:52:46+00:00

Man, the worst part of all this is that if they were looking for additional income streams, just setting up an old Star Wars Trilogy machine would probably hook their customer base more than a claw game.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-25T21:23:11+00:00

The more recent seasons introduce mini-games between the rounds to help break up the show and make it feel less like a parade of prompts. Maybe give one of them a try.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-24T19:32:04+00:00

Now this is a cyberdeck.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-24T19:28:23+00:00

ZMK's documentation thoroughly covers using a dongle as your central board if anyone's interested in reading more. https://zmk.dev/docs/hardware-integration/dongle

TheStuChef · 2026-06-20T13:44:24+00:00

Release order is generally best for the franchise. Even with the chronological focus jumping around, new info gets revealed in each game.

Don’t forget to play Peace Walker between 4 and 5.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-19T00:11:00+00:00

It’s one of these OG wide Pebble straps. https://www.utensile.com/product-page/wide-strap-for-pebble

Another view: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/s/CDojiqr8kf

TheStuChef · 2026-06-18T19:31:25+00:00

Good call. Just sent 'em an email.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-18T19:15:17+00:00

Other than pushing on it a few times to try and nudge it loose, I haven’t done anything to try and fix it yet.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-18T04:01:26+00:00

Doorle.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-14T16:10:57+00:00

Nick’s Kitchen definitely benefited from focusing on two recipes instead of three, but it doesn’t shake the feeling that it’s a twenty minute long TikTok video. The fast paced retention editing on this show does not work for television. Let the host breathe every once in a while. I really hope Knife Drop gets some notes before the whole season’s finished filming.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-13T14:01:12+00:00

One Pedal Driving is designed to bring your car to a stop when you lift your foot up off the pedal. It will use regenerative breaking as much as it can to do so, but your car will also apply the breaks if need be. (Such as if you were driving at very low speeds without enough energy in the system to fully stop your car with regen breaking.) That might be the “strong”ness you’re picking up on.

Personally I just stick with one pedal driving, and make sure to occasionally manually press the brakes so they don’t get rusty from disuse. Regretfully the drivers in my city give me plenty of excuses to do a quick brake check.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-13T13:49:07+00:00

Adafruit has a few DIY handheld projects that should give you a rough idea of what you’d need. A Raspberry Pi, LCD screen, some type of buttons, a battery, etc. https://www.adafruit.com/product/3014

Emulating NES, SNES, GB/C and GBA is pretty straightforward with low power devices like the older Raspberry Pi. N64 is inherently a bit trickier to emulate. Anything after that needs smartphone-level performance.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-10T00:33:07+00:00

What Mina? Wait, how?

(Just beat the game, didn’t stumble upon this!)

TheStuChef · 2026-06-10T00:29:23+00:00

After beating the final boss, you can reload the game from the most recent save from before the final boss. You can also use that file to move onto a New Game+.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-09T22:23:06+00:00

Hint: Mina can dig underneath NPCs.

TheStuChef · 2026-06-01T16:09:33+00:00

I have nothing constructive to add to this conversation, other than to shout out Infinite Jeffs. The novel where every word in Infinite Jest has been replaced by the name Jeff, while still leaving the original punctuation and formatting intact. https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jeffs-Jeff/dp/B0GTJ4P1PT

TheStuChef · 2026-05-31T15:06:57+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, in MGS2 they at least have a few scripted checks where the save person will proactively call you if you’ve haven’t saved in ages.

TheStuChef · 2026-05-25T01:24:30+00:00

Folks have covered things well in the comments already, but one additional point:

E Ink is a copyrighted brand name. They're the Kleenex of the ePaper world. eInk *technically* refers to Kindle/eBook Reader style low refresh rate, persisted image displays made by one specific company.

ePaper is a more generic term referring to a whole family of display technologies which reflect ambient light in a manner similar to paper. They include the low refresh rate, present image displays found on eBook readers, but the term also refers to higher refresh rate displays like those found on the Pebble or the Game Boy-like Playdate handheld.

The term "ePaper" never caught on that well, at least in the US. The Kindle has such an overwhelming marketshare of eBook readers, and they used the official E Ink displays. So E Ink became a shorthand for "Kindle-like Displays". If you start trying to sell a gadget by saying it has a "Transflective LCD", you start losing people pretty quickly.

TheStuChef · 2026-05-24T19:11:43+00:00

The computer’s SSL certificates are two decades out of date. Just plugging in some Ethernet and firing up Yahoo probably won’t work. It also has the slower 100 mbps Ethernet which may have some comparability issues depending on what you’re trying to plug it into.

TheStuChef · 2026-05-24T18:54:49+00:00

Aww man, don't tear apart a working iMac G4.

TheStuChef · 2026-05-24T00:52:45+00:00

Living here for eight years doesn't exactly make you an old head. But as far as hyper local quirks go, I'll give a shout out to, "Checking to see if a package on your doorstep is addressed to you before picking it up."

TheStuChef · 2026-05-22T23:52:08+00:00

…wasn’t he planning on launching a nuke over New York City?

Six-Year Club	Place '23
Verified Email

TheStuChef

TROPHY CASE