Elvith Ma'for

Former Reddfugee, found a new home on feddit.de. Server errors made me switch to discuss.tchncs.de. Now finally @ home on feddit.org.

Likes music, tech, programming, board games and video games. Oh… and coffee, lots of coffee!

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  • There’s an app that I find useful. Many many years ago (on Android 2.3 or maybe Android 4?) I got a lifetime license for it.

    Then a few years ago they updated the app and introduced a subscription. I don’t care, because the features that I use are still accessible in the grandfathered lifetime license. BUT after every update without a subscription you now need to complete the whole “let’s personalize this app for you” thing. Afterwards it just dumps you onto a screen to select the subscription you want to pay for. You need to dismiss that screen in order to use the free features OR login and restore your old license to unlock most of the features.

    They intentionally put a white X to dismiss that screen in the top left, but also put a very bright image there directly under it, so that it’s barely recognizable.



  • The only somewhat valid use case for “driving 1.000km without a stop” would be several people in the car taking turns on the driver’s seat. While you’d technically need to stop to switch drivers this in itself is way quicker than even a quick charge on paper.

    BUT: considering traffic jams, speed limits and such - a 1.000km trip would take around 10+ hours anyway. You’re not going to tell me that you do not even stop to pee or stretch a bit for 10+ hours, do you?













  • MTX - Microstransactions. I was referring to starting a new world and live streaming it on YouTube/Twitch/…

    I joked that the caving and mining will be quite tedious if you want to do specific builds and just need tons of specific resources. Many streamers will just go and afk at a farm and/or mine for hours off stream and then just stream the interesting parts. So you could do the opposite: (Also) stream the boring and tedious parts in the whole length and offer you viewers some micro transactions so that they can pay money to send you some resources directly.

    There are some twitch/game integrations that offer something like this. E.g. Crowd control support Minecraft and lets viewers pay money to (temporarily) alter the game like giving you a minute of creative mode, forcing you to drink specific potions, delete items from your inventory (or clutter the inventory with useless items) and so on. https://crowdcontrol.live/game/minecraft/?pack=Minecraft

    For my experience: Start a new world, get basic tools, get wood, build boat, travel the water to find a village, set up an early easy iron farm and from there on you’re usually set. The fun for me is nowadays either doing some builds, tinkering with Redstone or interacting with other players.