You should watch the film, it’s great!

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

Homer: “Reverse Psychology? Oh that sounds too complicated.”
Homer’s Brain: “Fine. DON’T use reverse psychology.”
Homer: “OK I WILL!!”

Since it was completely server-hosted it was incredibly fast. You’d open it up and boom, everything all up to date. The search was fantastic. (Say what you will about Google but they’ve always been great at search. Very fast and very good results.) The site layout was clean and minimal. It was just a really good implementation. Of course they murdered it.

If you used Gmail in the early days, and ever used something before it, you probably had a moment where you said “wow, this is what email should have been all along”. Reader was the same.

That’s what I did! Over time I stopped looking at Feedly though. I replaced it with Reddit and Twitter mainly. Now that those sites have become Pure Evil I switched over to Apple News. I already pay for the Plus thing as part of the family bundle so might as well use it. The “Following” tab works like a personally-curated RSS feed list. If you want an algorithmic approach, you can use the “Today” tab.

The one main feature it’s still lacking that I really want is a pure chronological list of everything from my Following sources/topics. I sent them feedback so I’m sure it will show up any time in the next 5-15 years.

My daughter wrote a report on video game development when she was in 5th or 6th grade. Through some connections we got an invite to go to Double Fine studios and have a sit down with Tim Schaefer. He is exactly what you would hope. Nicest guy in the world, absolutely loves what he does and loves talking about it. He gave my daughter a tour of the place, showed her how they thought about designing games, talked her ear off for more than an hour, gave her some keepsakes (design documents from some games they had shipped).

For Psychonauts 1, to really get inside the characters heads, they created their own fake internal Facebook-type site and play acted how all the characters would interact on social media.

Cyberpunk 2077. I waited a year for the bugs to be sorted out, got it for half price, and it was just a very blah game. The Ascent is a way better game both in terms of being cyberpunk-y and also just being a fun game.

You can get a ps5 now for the price of a decent video card.

netflix has a plan with ads! https://help.netflix.com/en/node/126831

amazon uses prime video as a hook to get you to sign up for prime membership (which itself has been steadily increasing in price).

i’d be shocked if HBO didn’t introduce an ad-supported price tier at some point in the future. that totally seems like zaslav’s MO.

“buy your software and have it forever” was not really true other than in the very early days. everything that was in active development like office, photoshop, all the pro music software i used, was updated regularly and had an upgrade cost. my music app had a paid upgrade every year like clockwork for $150. it was essentially a subscription in all but name. yeah i could stop paying and stay with the last version forever but operating system and hardware advances would make it so those versions would stop running on newer machines eventually.

yes, that’s the one.

this is what it looks like on Messages (iOS)

Colors aren’t accessible. Some combo of shape + color would be better. An outline around the community name if subbed, or a small check mark icon next to it, for example.

yes please, there also seems to be a bug in safari where if you accidentally start to swipe, even a tiny bit, it stops the rest of the page from scrolling.

Oh I can still do it with iCloud passwords, it’s just not as convenient.

Benefit: My password autofill works because the domain is lemmy.world instead of voyager.app.

These were all made with Midjourney. I prompted it with voyager space probe, satellite, radio telescope, other things of that nature.

iOS App Store is under 24 hours most of the time.

you can view pretty much the complete history at groups.google.com. if there any usenet group still active they would show up there as well but it’s a wasteland as far as i can tell. pity, i spent billions of hours on it back in the day.

here’s a group i was active on back in the day, if you can filter it by just stuff from the 1990’s you might have an idea of what it was like to use it. (of course, it was mostly terminal/console based text readers back then, web browsers were new and scary.) https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.synth

Same here. Lemmy is rising quickly though, I have no doubt it will be a sufficient Reddit replacement soon enough. I’ve been using Apple News as my “read over breakfast” app. I already pay for the sub anyway, and once I set it up with a bunch of sources/topics I was interested in, it became a pretty good reading experience.