• raubarno@lemmy.ml
            3·
            1 year ago

            Originally a federated E2EE alternative to IRC. But it can replace any instant messengers (Discord, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, ICQ, Jabber, etc.).

            • superkret@feddit.de
              2·
              1 year ago

              Does “replace” mean I can use it to communicate with people who are on any of these apps?

              • raubarno@lemmy.ml
                7·
                1 year ago

                Sorry, by ‘replace’ I meant ‘use as an alternative’.

                Matrix has bridges, but they have to be configured on a backend (instance) and I don’t know any instances that allow them at no charge.

        • chutapues@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 year ago

          Why is it dying? Is matrix as easy to use? telegram is very user friendly but matrix from what I remember has you use servers or something else and it gets complicated for normies

          • Gto@lemm.ee
            3·
            1 year ago

            Bro, it’s same as lemmy. In few years it will be more advanced, and users too. Why bigger communities risk to be banned on telegram? Maybe more better to host your community on matrix?

        • Granixo
          2·
          1 year ago

          I am willing to sacrifice my privacy for accessing the 2nd largest chat mobile app.

          None of my family, friends or assosiates uses Telegram as a main chat platform.

          So i use Telegram as my space to exchange and talk about NSFW content.

      • Beaupedia@lemm.ee
        4·
        1 year ago

        I second this! That being said, I’ve been successful in recruiting almost my entire friend group over the last few years. All of the people I talk to daily or regularly are on it. Once people use it they realize how superior it is to anything else we’ve been using and end up staying.

    • techt@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’ve recently been trying to focus on this! A few years ago I looked at my collection of various things I don’t really need and realized how little I know about maintaining them properly; I just bought things with no regard to how long it would be around. If I were to actually do the recommended weekly maintenance on everything including home, it’d probably be a full time job. I’ve since taken a step back and slowly worked one thing at a time into my weekly schedule while minimizing, and it feels pretty rewarding. It changed the way I value things, both at their peak of function and that have a small issue I wouldn’t have considered fixing before.

  • gsb@lemmy.world
    24·
    1 year ago

    Maybe this isn’t a hobby but just hanging out. Video games, movies, road trips, or any type of activity without it being a big deal. No agenda or expectations. Just being social. I miss that from my younger years. Now everyone is busy, tired, and getting together takes a lot of prep.

    • Wojwo@lemmy.ml
      51·
      1 year ago

      Once a year, my friends from high school and I go up to a cabin and do just that. Play games (board and video), D&d, watch movies etc. Now that we’re older we also throw some nice cuts of meat onto the smoker and eat fancier. But the nice part is being isolated from our responsibilities. We’ve been doing now for 25 years.

    • mub@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      Basically being single, and 18 to 25 years old, about 20 years ago. I remember those days.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    241·
    1 year ago

    Reading math books, Linux, Lemmy, and Extreme metal. I have nothing to talk about with people IRL other than the fucking weather (that I actually want to talk about).

      • flameguy21@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m currently making an Astro theme to make static sites way easier and then after that I’m probably going back to working on the API viewer I was making with Svelte, Tauri, and Rust. (Think of something like Postman but way less bloated.) I mainly just need to finish the settings and redo the data input form and then it should be ready for a first release (but it’ll still obviously be far from finished.)

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      7·
      1 year ago

      I was literally going to post that exact thing.

      Like every part of DND has something that makes me grind my teeth and yet it’s so popular! People say it’s “easy” and simple and I’m like “WHAT BONUS IS 15 STRENGTH? WHY??”

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
        7·
        1 year ago

        That’s like the blues brothers bit “we’ve got both kinds of music here. Country and western”.

        I think pf2e is better in many ways but it also has a lot of the same stuff.

        • TeenieBopper@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Aha, that’s fair. I got a friend to join my PF2e campaign by saying “the mechanical building blocks are all the same. Roll a d20 and a number, total determines success.” which is, I think, an accurate description despite what a lot of PF2e players will say.

          That being said, you have any suggestions for someone who likes the the tactical nature and crunch of PF2e and doesn’t really have an interest in rules light or narrative driven games (my hot take: narrative drive exists independent of rule set - you can have a narrative driven PF2e game or any other rule system). I feel like Lancer or 13th Ave are probably the most likely candidates, but wondering if there are others.

          • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
            2·
            1 year ago

            I’ve heard 13th age is good, but I haven’t played it.

            I haven’t been in the market for a big crunch fantasy game lately. There’s always GURPS, which can get extremely crunchy and detailed. I played it once and had fun, but only for like two sessions.

            I do really like Mage: The Awakening 2e, but that’s a completely different game. I used to hack the underlying rules system into fantasy sometimes and it worked well.

            I’m not sure I understand your hot take. I’ve done DND games that were very plot driven. The system just didn’t help very much.

      • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, isn’t true anymore.

        And hasn’t been for some time, since the nvidia drivers stopped killing your X-server every so often, making sure you remember your console commands.

        Most things people complain about (partitioning drives, installing an os, setting up dualboot) isn’t something that is deliberately made complicated by Linux either. It’s only necessary because Windows is in the way, because your pc came preconfigured with it. and with Windows, these things are actually even way more complicated.

        Tl;dr: Computers are complicated machines. Maintaining them requires knowledge. That has nothing to do with the OS. Also: Buy a PC that comes with Linux if you want Linux easy. (As you do with Windows or MacOS)

          • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
            2·
            1 year ago

            I don’t buy that. You either want that as a hobby or you don’t. You can’t have it both ways.

            Buy a PC and use the distro on it. They seem alright. Or use the mainstream distro of today. They come with a desktop and a browser and LibreOffice installed etc

            Or you want everything 100% specifically tailored to you and make all the important decisions yourself.

            You just cant have both at the same time. It is just physically not possible. And that isn’t a limitation of the OS.

            And also with other computers you do answer that question. Do I buy a Mac, do I buy something with Windows, maybe a Chromebook? Acer? Lenovo, HP?.. M2 processor or Intel or AMD? It’s pretty much a hobby…

            (If you want an honest answer to your other questions: Use your distro’s defaults unless you specifically need something different. I cannot stress that enough. Otherwise you will need to put in extra effort. And it’s going to be your fault. Always use the distro’s package manager if possible. Don’t use Flatpak, Snap etc if you aren’t specifically told to because of proper reasons. And don’t listen to Ubuntu and whatever they’re trying to push nowadays. This might change in the future. But I think it’s sound advice for the next few years. And don’t use custom file managers etc. You’ll get one of the major destop environments. Use the default software that comes with it. It comes with a default file manager etc for a reason.)

      • puppy@lemmy.world
        41·
        1 year ago

        people want an operating system that gets out of their way

        They have been existing for along time now. Only that the public don’t know about.

        KDE Neon and Zorin OS come to my mind. I recommend trying them out if you haven’t done already.

          • puppy@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            I have been running KDE Neon on my 10 year old laptop for a couple of years and I haven’t done anything you’ve mentioned here. KDE Neon gives you a notification when system updates are available and it’s just a mouse click if you decide to do it. No terminal involved.

            As far as resources usages, it’s by far the lightest desktop among the “heavyweights” like Gnome etc. KDE used to be a resource hog in the past but it is not the case any more. In fact it has not been the case for a few years now. I installed latest Fedora Gnome last month and immediately went back to KDE because Gnome (or Fedora) took too much resources that the laptop was practically unusable.

            I have also run Zorin OS in the past. The pro version is to get extra themes and customer support. You are not missing any functions in the free version.

      • Secret300@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think it’s come to the point that it only becomes a hobby because software isn’t built for Linux, like adobe or games. Everything else it is genuinely easier than windows

  • Cruxifux@lemmy.world
    19·
    1 year ago

    I wish there were more normal people who play magic. Going to any shop to play is always a gamble, half the time the people you end up playing with smell bad or are socially inept, sometimes both. It’s a fun game if you have actual good people to play with.

    • TommySalami@lemm.ee
      7·
      1 year ago

      I don’t play Magic, but that issue definitely overlaps with tabletop gaming. Early into my start into the hobby, I played in a public campaign at my FLGS and the whole table was kind of sad stereotypes. Thankfully on my way out that night, I met some other folks who were looking for another player in their private game and they were all more socially adept, sanitary, and welcoming.

    • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      I unfortunately had to stop going to our local board gaming meetup because of this.

      Most people were fine but there was this one creep who kept making weird comments if I did something like, you know, be a woman and dare to bend over to get something from a bag. And then a guy who smelled like pretty much the worst thing I’ve ever smelled and always wanted to be in the same games as me.

      I was so excited to find the group but I did not last long there.

      • Cruxifux@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I feel ya man. I refuse to play with “my mat is literal Hentai” people and “I don’t shower ever and think it’s okay to subject other people to that” people. Don’t show me your weird fetish porn when we are playing games, and don’t gas me out with your filth, because I will absolutely say something and you won’t like it.

  • Mistermillennia@ttrpg.network
    15·
    1 year ago

    Honestly I can’t narrow it down to less than 2:

    • Australian Stingless Bee “farming”: as the hobby is niche, even in Australia, there isn’t much publicly available advancement in hive designs, propogation methods and care techniques for native bees. This makes the barrier for entry high, and the chances of losing a hive when inexperienced is moderately high too. More people in the hobby would hopefully bring in more discussion and experimentation, and make the hobby more accessible to others by hopefully bringing the price of hives down.

    • TTRPGs/Wargaming outside of the big 2 games: if its not 40k or D&D, you are unlikely to find anyone that knows of alternate systems, let alone wants to play them. Makes it a lot harder to find a group outside of a game over discord or similar

    • kozel@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Can you elaborate how much is stingless-bee-keeping different from apis-mellifera-beekeeping?

      • Mistermillennia@ttrpg.network
        4·
        1 year ago

        Honestly, they are extremely different, and while there are transferable skills from apis beekeeping to stingless beekeeping, it is different enough to be a separate hobby entirely.

        Apis bees use a wax based honeycomb structure for brood, pollen and honey, whereas stingless bees around the world use tree or plant resins based structures for brood and different resin structures for honey/pollen, and keep them totally separated. As these structures are not as orderly as apis bee frames tend to be, it is much harder to harvest the honey from stingless bees (in Brazil where the honey pots are larger, they use a syringe system to vacuum the honey out of the pots. In Australia where the pots are much smaller, we use a piece of wood with nails sticking out of it to smash all the pots and drain the honey). It is also harder to clone hives due to these structures, as in apis bees you can just take some frames with a queen cell or two and put them in an empty hive and they will hatch into a new hive. In Australia, the most popular method is to literally rip the hive in half and hope both halves survive. You also have to monitor the temperature, because stingless bees have less bees to cool or warm up the hive, and may need help during heat waves or cold snaps to survive.

        Having said this, stingless bees are great pollinators, and are totally immune to varroa mites. Their honey is totally different to apis honey due to the flavour contributed by the resin pots the bees store it in and it is extremely interesting (totally worth the extra work to get at). The hives are also much smaller in comparison to an apis hive, so combining their stingless nature into the mix you have a perfect beehive for beekeepers in more urban areas or with younger families.

        If you are interested in beekeeping, but not fussed with honey or monitoring for varroa or are worried about getting yourself or people nearby stung by bees, stingless bees native to your region might be be best thing - if maintained, their hives can live longer than we do, and will make you and everyone within half a km of you have great gardens as they go around pollinating everything nearby. Once you have the first hive, you can easily make a second one (the Australian hive design is the OATH and designs for this and upgrades to the standard can be found easily online) and start making your one hive into a ton of hives.

        • kozel@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          TIL varroas have been found in Australia, I’m sorry for that.
          And thank you for the explanation.

          • Mistermillennia@ttrpg.network
            2·
            1 year ago

            The outbreak we have of varroa is being contained but it looks like we may have it spreading to the larger apis community of Australia now as it has been found many kms away from the initial outbreak. Unfortunately, the baits used are just sugar syrup laced with insecticide, so this is currently wiping out stingless bees alongside the varroa infected apis hives. Many stingless beekeepers have started moving their hives out of the containment zone and giving them to friends and family until the baiting process is complete.

            If you have any social bees in your area, consider getting yourself a hive! As said its a bit more work than apis bees, but that’s because the community for non-apis beekeeping is much smaller. The more people in the community, the more knowledge and the more native beekeeping will advance!

            • kozel@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              I’m from Europe, so there are only apes, and I don’t want to keep theses, as the area aound me is heavilly overbeed. However, I consider keeping/supporting nonsocial bees (or bumblebees), but I haven’t started yet.

    • DerKriegs@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      If you’re looking for a TTRPG and not wanting to worry about the lfg hassle, check out Ironsworn! Grimdark low fantasy, playable in solo or co-op. Just takes some getting used to, and reading lots of player advice, but playing solo become very easy if you already have that rpg brain leading the way. Also free materials online, but I bought the core rules and the “dungeon” expansion hardcopies for about $50 (USD).

      I’ve since converted a couple of things and am solo playing to beef up the plot of a book I’m writing in a world I’ve been working on for about 5 years. Makes that process engaging for the gamer side of me!

      Can’t help you with the bees, I’m afraid…

      • Mistermillennia@ttrpg.network
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ll have a look into this! I’ve been playing solo OPR to get the wargaming itch, but I haven’t found anything for TTRPGs so Ironsworn might fill that hole nicely.