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  • I got mine recently and have been playing a little bit of a lot of different stuff, but the thing I’ve put the most hours into has been Midnight Suns. I did not expect a Marvel game to my new favorite turn-based tactics deckbuilder, lol.

    The stupid open world collectible part blows chunks, but the actual core gameplay is shockingly fun, if not perfectly tuned the way some deckbuilders are. The extremely weird lightweight high school dating sim / bioware relationship management aspect is very odd but produces some extremely funny interactions at times.



  • First off, if the coffee tastes good, you don’t need to worry about hitting a certain time just to do it. But if you do want to:

    I don’t have this kind of machine, but I know that most folks say that single baskets are inherently difficult to work with, and you should just a double instead. That’s not to say you shouldn’t use the single, but maybe look for some single-basket tutorials that might have specific advice?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0XariiJiHk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OnH2Woluck

    In terms of slowing down your shots, other than grinding finer, you can also increase your dose within a given basket.

    Also, if your GCP is stock, then it might be worth doing the overpressure valve mod. By default, those machines have a really high pump pressure, and replacing OPV spring with a 9 bar or lower one is a very common mod for the GCP.





  • They serve vastly different purposes. Lemmy would be a terrible place for people to chat about how their days are going, which is a key part of what microblogging platforms provide to be honest. And conversely, for structured conversations focused on specific topics, Lemmy has obvious advantages.

    Beyond the basic structure, there are cultural issues with both that make them a bit tenuous for me.



  • I posted a medium-short summary elsewhere with a couple of links for folks looking for slightly more context.

    I don’t think the eris or defederation things are Huge News in themselves, but if it’s true he doctored a screenshot to make the .art admin look bad, that’s not a good look for a lead deve/flagship instance admin.

    .art is an influential leader in community safety/moderation standards in the fediverse; their standards for federation are moderately high, and probably higher than folks on many lemmy instances would likely agree with. But it feels like the firefish guy has possibly a pattern of not doing his homework about things in general?

    Obviously the big question is, did he actually doctor screenshots and if so, WTF, man.








  • Lol what does any of that wall of text have to do with “diversity.”

    There’s not much drama here tbh; “admin defederates a somewhat controversial instance and some people agree and some people don’t” is, as other commenters have said, very business as usual for the fediverse.

    I do think it’s natural in lemmy for people on other instances to have takes about defed calls because they may use communities on one of those two servers, or both, and be impacted as defederation splits the user bases. But it feels like most of the “drama” here is just free speech maximalist/libertarian trolling.



  • I don’t have an issue with the defederation call, and transparency regarding decisions around defederation is very healthy and good!

    However, one of the more complicated implications of Lemmy’s federated structure is that defederation on instances is more of “everybody’s business” than it is on Mastodon, since Lemmy instances host communities and not just users. I don’t have much sympathy for free speech absolutists who feel the need to frame all defederation as “censorship” or some of form of tyranny, but since it is potentially splitting the user bases of communities on blahaj that folks on other instances have joined, it makes sense for folks on other instances to want their voices to be heard.

    (Obviously, there are constructive and non-constructive ways to do that.)

    This is also why the answer to everything won’t be “just run your own instance.” It’s important that more instances have well-developed and transparent moderation standards both internally and externally, and users will need to be savvy about the moderation landscape when they choose what instances to start communities on. (This will be a little less loaded of a question if/when Lemmy gets the ability to migrate communities.)

    I think there’s a lot of “cross that bridge when we come to it” mindset amongst some of the bigger instance admins that is in the long run is much more detrimental than any one defederation call could be.