AncientMariner

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[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

What they failed to realise is teachers can have a unique ability to make kids hate a subject.

If you force them to do it, they can do it really badly without it being obvious.

I can imagine reading the Bible word for for in monotone from day 1 won't be a good experience.

[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

In the UK, we call it a minnie for girls. Willy for boys.

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Community move (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by AncientMariner@lemmy.world to c/mineclone2@lemmy.world
 

Hi all,

Due to MineClone2 renaming, it is time to rename the community. One thing I thought long and hard about was whether the community remained here on Lemmy.world. Due to fact that some players may not be able to access it (for example if they're on a community that has been defederated from), it is best to move to another instance. lemm.ee has a sensible policy on this and is one of the big instances so is reliable.

So the new community will be based here:

!voxelibre@lemm.ee

https://lemm.ee/c/voxelibre

Thanks,

AncientMariner

[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

India was considered part of the BRIC rapidly developing economies long before modi. Feels weird to give him credit for what was inevitable.

[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Good luck finding doctors bold enough to admit they have no idea and need help...

[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I think it's f to go forward one page, b for back. Down arrow goes down a line etc.

[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

How can you feel good about yourself if you aren't shaming people with less technical capabilities? Next you'll say something crazy like believing in yourself. Nonsense, crazy person. Get out of here.

[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

You've nailed this here, yet get downvotes. The amount of times I've gone to a man page and my eyes glaze over. Really handy to learn new flags or if you forget, but as an introductory material. They don't work for everyone. People learn in different ways, sometimes by doing and my brain isn't wired this way.

[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

VoxeLibre has intended to not be Minecraft clone for a long time now. There has been burgers in the base game for 17 months now. Unfortunately, every time someone tries to do something different, they get a hostile reception. The name is a liability, and not representative of what the project plans to be. The name change is about where the game plans to be, not where it was in the past. MineClone2 is a dreadful name. It's like calling it rubbish MC rip-off 2.

[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Very aware about Gitea, and unfortunately when we tried to migrate to Forgejo on Codeberg, the migration script got stuck in a repeating loop. Apparently it's a known issue and we got very little help with this so unless we abandon all our issues including 850+ open ones, we're in a bit of a pickle.

The new name followed those rules.It's voxel and libre, sharing an L. Only debate is about how people pronounce Libre, and we ain't that precious.

I would love everyone to use Matrix. I created the space and maintained it. We are now up to around 45 users ish. Discord has over 500. In gaming, it just operates at a different scale.

I'm as much of a FOSS enthusiast as you, but when you run big projects, you have to represent more than just your own personal view. You represent your players and contributors. Now and in the future. If you want new FOSS users, you have to reach them where they are. Best way to further FOSS software is to get new people using it. With over 350k downloads. I think we're doing a pretty neat job.

It's tempting to think your views are right and everyone else is wrong, but it's no basis to be functional and collaborative. Are you running any large FOSS communities? Want to share info on how you've done these things and how effective it was?

[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

You seem to not like the name or the things we do. Maybe tell us more about what you like...

We had the poll on Matrix also which is FOSS, and our issue tracker built on Gitea. The minetest forums are notoriously sluggish and many there don't play VoxeLibre. We reached out to players in all areas. The fact remains that 80%+ of our players choose discord and ignoring them is not a helpful. A lot of people do not check the forum frequently, and that policy would be exclusionary and unjustifiably dogmatic.

We make extra efforts to reach out to our members in FOSS communities and do more than most to keep away from non-free software like Github and keep our channels bridged to matrix.

I can assure you the effort is non trivial and takes away from actually writing open source software. Very recently it lost all the data and we had to manually bridge 15+ channels again when I had waay too much other stuff going on. Many projects abandon these bridges because they are unreliable.

[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

It was done by a poll on Discord, Matrix, and our issue tracker. I think over 120 votes were cast. It was a polling majority...

 

The name change is finally happening. We have decided on the new name and are moving forward.

[–] AncientMariner@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He's the first member... Of the DK crew!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9752285

A slightly delayed update, but MineClone2 had a big release recently! :)

Release notes: https://git.minetest.land/MineClone2/MineClone2/src/branch/master/releasenotes/0_85-the_fire_and_stone_release.md

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9752285

A slightly delayed update, but MineClone2 had a big release recently! :)

Release notes: https://git.minetest.land/MineClone2/MineClone2/src/branch/master/releasenotes/0_85-the_fire_and_stone_release.md

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9752285

A slightly delayed update, but MineClone2 had a big release recently! :)

Release notes: https://git.minetest.land/MineClone2/MineClone2/src/branch/master/releasenotes/0_85-the_fire_and_stone_release.md

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9752285

A slightly delayed update, but MineClone2 had a big release recently! :)

Release notes: https://git.minetest.land/MineClone2/MineClone2/src/branch/master/releasenotes/0_85-the_fire_and_stone_release.md

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9752285

A slightly delayed update, but MineClone2 had a big release recently! :)

Release notes: https://git.minetest.land/MineClone2/MineClone2/src/branch/master/releasenotes/0_85-the_fire_and_stone_release.md

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by AncientMariner@lemmy.world to c/mineclone2@lemmy.world
 

A slightly delayed update, but MineClone2 had a big release recently! :)

Release notes: https://git.minetest.land/MineClone2/MineClone2/src/branch/master/releasenotes/0_85-the_fire_and_stone_release.md

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2729454

Shout out to the guys who did the awesome Minecraft art (not us). It was only appropriate as a FOSS Minecraft clone, to join as neighbours :).

 

Shout out to the guys who did the awesome Minecraft art (not us). It was only appropriate as a FOSS Minecraft clone, to join as neighbours :).

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MineClone2 Let's play (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AncientMariner@lemmy.world to c/mineclone2@lemmy.world
 

I found this video series for a MineClone2 Let's play. Enjoyed it and there is some funny lines in there!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1247902

Why YSK GrapheneOS is a step above the rest. I understand it's ironic de-google phone/tablet with google hardware, but it just works better then anything else. Permission toggles, pin scrambling, auto-reboot, scopes, MAC randomization, isolated user profiles, longer passwords, sandboxed apps, open source firmware, no bloat & the battery life is incredible now.

I hope people understand how easy it is to move to Linux & GrapheneOS full time & remove Apple, Google, Microsoft etc. It exceeded expectations so much so that I want to share it with other people. I cannot recommend this enough to improve your life. #FOSS

Saw this, and thought it was a rather interesting comments section. Seems like an active discreditation campaign going on. Focussing on past maintainer and the fact it doesn't work with 2 questionable bits of functionality (Google pay + Auto). Why would I want either in a privacy phone?

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