I can’t offer much in the way of experience - but I have at least wanted to replace Amazon wishlist functionality. I’ve never gotten around to making the jump, so I can’t really say that I personally recommend any of these.
But when I was looking around, these are 3 options that seemed promising at surface level:
I’d be curious to know how it goes, so I hope at some point you update the thread with what works for you.
People that go outside a lot and have opinions about whether the sun’s out.
Personally, I’m a home-body, so I don’t get it. Let’s get rid of the hassle!
Yes. But not (just) that they haven’t envisioned other monetization - even if other cash is flowing in, they’ll eventually put ads and data brokerage into their business model on top of that.
And why not? Consumers have repeatedly, time and time again, shown tolerance for it.
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Retronauts and Hardcore History.
Retronauts gives perspectives on old games. They try to be informative, but sometimes it’s more casual too. It’s good, nostalgic stuff. And it’s a small thing, but the way they intersperse samples of game soundtracks really sets the mood well.
As for Hardcore History, Carlin is just such a good host. Sounds so enthusiastic and knowledgeable about whatever the topic. It’s history, in particular military history, though so it obviously gets pretty dark and depressing sometimes.
Love when I see neal.fun get posted, always something great.
Knew it was a popular site, but was surprised to see 10 million votes on these. Also interesting to see how much the count drops off as you go down through the questions.
My wife prints a lot (and needs color, cardstock support), and this is what we went with. Had it about a year now, and it’s been fairly reliable. A couple streaks and minor issues, but nothing major. Get a good amount of prints per ink refill.
Not a lawyer, not even close, but I’d be a little weary of using the exact same list.
A list of things with no creativity involved won’t fall under copyright, but the argument would be that they exercised creativity in curating a list of those specific figures. They could probably argue it and succeed. But since they’re pulling from the public domain, I doubt they’d go after anyone on it.
Would definitely be a problem if someone bases new things on designs from that game. Derivative work from public domain work still gets copyrighted, right?
General interest
Game history
Talking about current video games
Not good at all, but I’m just happy to be there.
“What the size of your book collection says about you” - I feel like there’s gotta be a bell curve here, with “you don’t read enough” on both sides.
I’ve got a bunch of books, but it’s faster and easier to buy them than read them.
Agreed! I’ve remembered to check it a a couple times before starting things, and sometimes it’s useful stuff, sometimes there’s not even a page for the game, other times it might look like the tips were just from one person with little editing/revision. But the idea behind it is spot on.
If anyone else was confused by the typo, difficult > default.
I’m not sure what to think. On one hand, yes, Google is of course slimy. But if Mozilla loses it’s big source of funding (and crumbles as a result), that may put things in a worse place?
Then again, it’s a shame that the only major competing browser engine is funded by the dominant browser’s company. Maybe Mozilla can be fine without it?
Love reading about the author’s struggle with find, it really resonates. I have the same terrible experience every time I try to use it.
There’s a more direct version of that, I guess from KDE, called KdirStat.
I hadn’t heard of the one in the op. But if I had to guess, it looks like it’s a different take on the same idea.
I don’t have any better tips for getting involved, but I just want to say thanks! OSS clearly needs help from skilled designers all over the place. Any time someone like you steps up, it’s a good thing. n_n
It is really cool! I expected to it to enjoy seeing the machinery in both main parts come together, but I did not expect the surprise 1-2 cameo inside the console.
I just built the NES/CRT set. It was about 2600 pieces - not very big compared to a lot of the serious sets I’m sure. But the only real one I’ve done.
Definitely would do it again! It was very relaxing to take a few minutes out of each day and go through a bag of legos and instructions. I was kinda sad when it finished - the end product is cool, but the fun was really in putting it together and slowly watching it turn into a thing. I mean, I’d enjoy doing it again, but I don’t expect or plan to for any reason.
TWSBI has been good, in my experience, for fountain pens. But I haven’t tried many different brands, just a handful.
Jeremy Parish has less than 100k, and constantly puts out great retrospectives on the nooks and crannies of retro game history.
While the Retronauts podcast he’s involved with is well known, I feel like his YouTube kinda flies under the radar.
Another note: any time there’s a piece of software that you like, but don’t want to use it (because it’s proprietary, missing features, or whatever reason), alternativeto.net is an incredibly useful resource.
Here’s their list of apps with a wishlist feature: https://alternativeto.net/feature/wishlist/
Usually a great starting point.