lemuria

joined 2 years ago
 

Things along the range of:

"Checklist - 1. Ensure that the thing is on."

I've seen stories of people who just don't get it and need their hands held all the time, so what are things where you kinda feel that things are a bit too "hand-holdy"?

[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

What's the wildest sentence you've had to write to cater to the aforementioned corporate five year olds? Like say, a painfully obvious thing that is apparently a very niche detail?

[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have a personal MediaWiki installation on my computer (same software as Wikipedia). Been running it since 2022. Most recent offsite backup is from the start of December. I also have a very Wikipedia-like writing style as a result, too.

Any of my descendants, if they will ever exist, will probably have a great time going through great-grandpa's writings πŸ™‚

screenshot of Special:Statistics. WARNING: LIGHT MODE

The pages figure doesn't sound as impressive when you realize a lot of them are templates imported from Wikipedia lol

Hell, this month I made it into a Kiwix Zim file that I can read when away, but of course that doesn't support writing to it, so I sometimes write in a physical logbook when I'm away from my computer

[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

never been to the Rumble Quarantine Zone but I would put on a hazmat suit first if I were you

[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

OpenTTD (2004), which traces its roots to Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1994)

And there's a community of players who have modded the everloving fuck out of the game and the engine itself, one of these patch packs is OpenTTD JGR and we play it like it's a model railway simulator

[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

I’m primarily focusing on organizations and places and anything that isn’t a single individual person changing names, to be clear

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[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

~~we either put it in virustotal, spin up a VM, and run the thing without network access, and just hope for the best~~

[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Almost forgot to mention but here in the Philippines, our basketball teams are the ones with the sponsored names...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Philippine_Basketball_Association

 

I personally like to minimize name changes as much as possible because usually, the current name Just Works and I don't really think it's worth it to break muscle memory or replace signage and stuff.

Marginally related; what is it with American stadiums being named after big companies? And when the naming rights expire, people just have to get used to the new name??

edit: I'm primarily focusing on organizations and places and anything that isn't a single individual person changing names, to be clear

[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

There's so many I'll pick a random one: A picker tool. I play a game called OpenTTD and pressing F to select a decoration object I've already placed instead of scrolling through the menu ~~and accelerating the rate at which I develop carpal tunnel~~ to find the object

[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

learning keyboard shortcuts