I’m sad to say I fell for this trap as well! Wanted to keep using vim, but I’m too old to put so much effort in maintaining my tools, when I have a self-cleaning swissknife … just… right… there.

Hi my name is Alex, and doing dishes while listening to audiobooks is my favorite hobby.

You don’t suddenly find out that your peeler is several versions behind

And then proceed to spend 17 hours trying to get it to peel just the way the invetors wanted it to, which is different from the other 987654321 peelers around.

After 20 years in the field, I hate love despise like 'm ok with technology

The spreadsheet.

Always start with the spreadsheet, and go uo from there!

It’s its own thing. I spent some time over there, but the UI didn’t click, doesn’t look like a good mobile experience either.

Bruce Sterling is definetly a must read for fans, but Schismatrix and Mirrorshade published after Neuromancer, which explains a little the popularity difference I would say.

There are of course plenty of excellent books not mentioned, and for that I would recommend the Best of Cyberpunk list.

For this list I just wanted to keep it short and digestible with the books that brought new turns or depths to the genre, kind of like the gateway drugs of the genre. :P But as it is with all things regarding knowledge, it definetly is limited by the knowledge I have consumed subjectively.

Oh yes, manga and anime has done wonders to the genre by bringing more of a oriental point of view to it. They deserve a list themselves. :P Akira, Gits (before the massive commercialization it received), Texhnolyze and Serial Experiments Lain are the cornerstones of japanese cyberpunk to me. >

Theres more to it than that, vut it does help. However, the base issue here I think is that they just don’t crawl the federated space yet.

This is the gist of it. It will happen again, and again, and again. After they go public, every quarter that they need to come up with some shenanigans to satisfy shareholders, it will happen again. Eventually, either a new thing will come up and start it all over again, or we will be mostly decentralized.

https://beehaw.org/post/537673

Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried a few, DRG, Warframe, destiny, and some others, but that hasn’t clicked for me unfortunately.

I really feel a game like Rust or PUBG, but with a massive pick up and play scenario with shared goals where everyone collaborates, would ve a great game. I haven’t come across anything similar, as I think it would be something between a 3/4-person shooter and a full blown MMORPG?

I don’t know, there are likely many technical complications obviously, but I feel there is unexplored terrain there.

Thanks for sharing! This surge in latin science fiction has been top of my interest this year. I’ve been looking mostly into Brazilian sci-fi, which sadly is more scarce (I’m working on adding a few more drops to this bucket myself :P).

I’m really enjoying the divergence from the anglo-saxonic vision we have in the genre, and also the light they bring to the social/economic issues we face in our region. Not to mention the amazing and underrepresented cultural elements we have here!

Perhaps this is also a great moment for this surge, as the language barrier is becoming more and more irrelevant with good ai translation.

The main issue for me is also the pvp aspect, which in reality just makes for a somewhat unfair game. I would love a battle royalish game that was PVE, or just collaborative in some manner, where everyone got together to fight bots and gain control of the territory. It’s definetly tougher to implement, but it would be great.

Oh she reads exponentially more than I do, and quite a lot of interesting national books that I want to read too, IF ONLY I COULD BURN THROUGH MY BACKLOG :(

Lemmy was not created last week, man. All you see here today already existed and was running when spez hit the fan.

In that sense, part of what attracts me to this is a bit of the barrier to entry. I find it enticing, it reminds me of the good old days, where you had to earn your way in, in a sense. Of course that’s silly old man talk, because honestly, all you have to do is select any random site and sign up.

Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, it all comes down to the same thing. This “barrier” to entry is almost fictitious, and I feel that’s the ideal type of barrier.

Is shitting on your users the new 2023 trend?

Oh yes, that has caught me once or twice too! Was not a bad experience, though, proving the old saying wrong!

Para uma viagem longa, tem que ter combustível. Paçoca.

Just finished Alone Together, by Sherry Turkle.

It’s a book that dives into our relationship with technology, and each other. It’s a decent read for these times we are living, although the author didn’t get to live the massification of social media before writing it.

It dives into how we turn to machines to fullfil our connection needs, while avoiding the disappointments of connecting with other humans. It showcases a bunch of stories to illustrate its point, as usual for non-fiction books, but I felt it gave good nuances to the point, and even identified a little with some scenarios. She goes just a little overboard with how little she thinks about online communities, and I feel she doesn’t state very clearly that communities o line doesn’t have to ve the same as communities in real life. My opinion diverges from shat related to that assumption, but it was a great read overall!

Pattern Recognition, William Gibson.

Gibson is tough to get into, personally, but his stories are very cool!