JJ Abrams?

The Star Wars JJ Abrams?

I think just general UI stuff across at least the homepage

• Some buttons that wrap touch each other
• There’s a banner at the top (since I don’t have an account) that has weird, off-center margins
• When I first went to the site I guess the Explore dropdown didn’t load so it was an empty dropdown (though it’s now populated so that may have been a one off network request issue)
• If I have scrolled down the page a bit, every time I click an item in the main nav (like Explore) the page scrolls up by about 15 pixels for some reason
• The Piefed logo isn’t horizontally centered with the actual nav items so the text doesn’t line up correctly

This is obviously using Bootstrap to handle the UI, and that’s fine. I’m not knocking that necessarily. But it’s a little jank and rough around the edges. These are things I noticed in, like, 30 seconds.

And this isn’t to say that Lemmy.world is perfect or anything. And I don’t really use the desktop site for Lemmy. I just use Voyager on my pc. But even the Lemmy site feels a little more solid, if that makes sense (even if Lemmy.world is also using Bootstrap).

This is the first I’ve heard of piefed, and so I’m just browsing the desktop site. It’s kinda jank, to be honest.

I feel like I got my car at the perfect time:

It has Android Auto and CarPlay, and it’s a manual so there’s no way for it to turn on or off remotely.

Now I just have to make sure it survives until I die.

I totally forgot about this app because, well, it seemed pretty forgettable.

I’m also not in the target demo since I currently have my wallpaper set to whatever my phone wants to rotate in and out every hour from my Photos app.

It’s an older game, but Downwell is fun. Just a little action/arcade game where you fall down a well and try to get combos by not touching the ground by bouncing off of enemies.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devolver.downwell_rerelease

I feel like this is pretty reductive, really, to blanket all AAA games as one thing that are all bad. Just like all indie games aren’t great. In fact, the vast majority are kinda trash, really.

For every Call of Duty, you can find amazing games like Death Stranding 2 that have insane budgets but swing for the fences (and succeed in my opinion). And on the flip side for every Silksong you have three million, anime-girl-on-the-cover trash indie games.

There’s no “one is better than the other” when comparing the totality of AAA vs indie.

I’m trying this app out now based on your comment, and so far it seems really nice. I may replace Voyager with it as well.

Kirby Air Riders! It’s very fun.

And then also trying to finish Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment

I had a bit of a breakthrough with some personal growth with my code today.

I learned a bit more about entity framework that my company is using for a project, and was able to create a database table, query it, add/delete/update, normal CRUD stuff.

I normally work mostly on front end code, so it was rewarding to learn a new skill and see the data all the way from the database to the UI and back - all my code. I felt great after doing a code review this afternoon to make sure I wasn’t missing anything, and we talked about some refactoring to make it better.

AI will never give you that.

Rockstar probably: “Well we just can’t afford to do a 60fps patch with these sales numbers…”

(I know it’s because they are greedy shits and just want to do a HD version or something on PS6.)

You have to log in to your old Affinity account, and from there you can find the download links.

This is a good point. I’m going to download all the installers they have today and ferret them away just in case.

At least V2 still works and won’t just disappear. You can still use those apps you bought.

But it’s just sad to see this new path. I used to buy all the apps just because I liked the business model. I don’t really ever use Publisher, but I bought it anyway.

Now…there’s nothing that’ll get me to use this “free” shit.

Just like every Android phone that comes pre-loaded with trash apps you have to delete.

This isn’t my experience, and I had a iPhone 12 Pro up until a couple of weeks ago. Google Maps generally ran alright that I can remember.

On the newest phones it’s really smooth, but those phones also have enough horsepower to make pretty much any app run smoothly.

Honestly, I use it all the time now since I plug in my phone to my car and it’s right there.

It’s fine. Sometimes I use Google Maps. It’s also fine.

I actually like Apple’s approach to describing when to turn. It’ll say stuff like “go past this light and turn at the next” instead of vague shit like “in 1000 feet turn right.” Bitch, I don’t have a tape measure.

I think people who grip about Apple Maps as it is today probably just haven’t used it and want to gripe for griping sake.

I’m not a big MH head or anything, so MH Wilds was my first game in the series. And I enjoyed it a lot!

HOWEVER, playing online with my brothers took so much trial and error we only did it a few times until we beat the story. Then it kinda wasn’t worth the hassle.

It’s so obtuse I can’t imagine how it even got that obtuse.

This justification is always funny.

“Oh, your all powerful god needs the help of Brian the middle manager to get its work done for them?”

Yeah, I have had several people automatically assume I use Windows, and I don’t as my daily machine. I couldn’t give two flips about MS, really.

I don’t even dislike Linux. But a lot of these users here, man, just woof. A lot of these folks will point fingers and say Mac people are all Mac zombies and that’s bad, but then turn around and kiss that grainy photo of Linus Torvalds where he’s standing in front of an old, shitty computer.