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adastra

@adastra@geekdom.social

(Board|Video|RP) Gamer 🎮 | Watcher of TV shows 📺 | Bookworm 📚 | Linguist 🎓 | Web 1.0 Coder 👩‍💻 | Introverted millennial 👩‍🚀

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adastra, to random
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Versuche seit 20 Minuten diverse Vorsorgetermine bei Ärzt:innen zu machen, und die Zweiklassengesellschaft wird immer krasser. Warteschleifen die in Anrufbeantwortern oder direktes Auflegen enden. Aber extra Telefonnummern für Privatpatient:innen auf der Website, die man als gesetzlich Versicherte nicht nutzen darf...

Imperor, to Games
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I think I have to come to terms with the fact that I do indeed like #survival #games

What are your best entries into the genre, that you wholeheartedly recommend?

adastra,
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@Imperor Enshrouded

adastra, to Blog
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New #blog post about (re)reading The Hunger Games and its prequel: https://chaosworks.org/2024/hunger-games/
#retroweb #indieweb #blogpost #hungergames #bookstodon

adastra,
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@mez Tapping on it works for me

adastra, to webdev
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At all the #retroweb #yesterweb #webdev coders, what tools and frameworks do you use for coding your #personalwebsites?

I'm having a hard time finding tools and frameworks that works without admin access to a server, which I don't have on my webspace - #ftp only, #oldweb #Web1_0 style.

adastra, to random
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Hey #bookstodon, after diving back into reading, I've recently evaluated goodreads and alternatives for tracking my reading habits:
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adastra,
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  1. Goodreads: Been a member since 2009 and really liked it back then. Has the most comprehensive functionality for everything I need to organize my stuff. The only problem I see is that recommendations focus immensely on new releases, whereas I prefer to read series that are finished - I hate waiting for the next book in a series. Also has loading issues sometimes, but nothing unbearable.
    #bookstodon #goodreads
adastra,
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  1. StoryGraph: Was really excited for this a couple of years ago, but back then the functionality was very bare-bones and I still don't quite get the structure of the site. Tried again and I feel it is still bare bones and can be really slow.

The stats are really good. The recommendations seem really good too, and are not at all biased towards new releases. I don't like that it has premium features and I can't really tell if paying $5 a month would be of any use for this site. #storygraph

adastra,
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  1. literal.club: This site seems bare-bones at a glance, but it emulates the structure of goodreads more closely than StoryGraph, and seems to try to be a modernized version of it. The site is blazingly fast. As far as I understand, there are only ever two recommendations at a time that can't be refreshed, or maybe I just didn't find them (which would be bad usability).
    #bookstodon #literalclub
adastra,
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So to summarize, goodreads still has the most functionality, but obviously they sold their soul years ago and now try to shove new releases down your throat. I will continue to use goodreads to organize my reads, but I will probably occasionally check StoryGraph for recommendations (not that I need any, with my to-read shelves having over 60 books)...
#bookstodon #goodreads #storygraph #literalclub

adastra,
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Got two more sites to add to my evaluation:

  1. LibraryThing: This site looks straight from the 00s and reminds me a lot of boardgamegeek. Allover it has seemingly the best functionality aside from goodreads, large database, and recommendations seem really good. Not very many social features, which can be good though IMHO.

#bookstodon #librarything

adastra,
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  1. bookwyrm.social: The fediverse alternative! I want to like it, and it looks a lot like goodreads, but the functionality is bare-bones as there are only basic shelves, it didn't import 7% of my books, it didn't import my custom shelves, and the database needs some cleaning (duplicate authors, etc). No recommendations based on my shelves. Sadly, not good enough (yet).

#bookstodon #bookwyrm

metaphil, to fedibikes German
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Wollt ihr eine @fedibikes Gruselgeschichte hören?

Dieses sehe ich seit ein paar Wochen abgeschlossen hier in der Nähe – an wechselnden Fahrradständern. Das bedeutet: Jemand fährt damit noch! 😱

adastra,
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@metaphil @fedibikes So sieht doch jedes zweite Fahrrad in Berlin aus 🤷

adastra, to random
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@eerko @Suzan Been browsing my games and had the idea that Sort by Average playing time (if recorded) would be nice 😊

adastra, to random
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I hate that booking.com now also lists "private" apartments AirBnB style (at least in Europe). Renting out apartments should be forbidden, and hotels, hostels and B&Bs should be the only hospitality options. Give apartments back to the people, and regulate the renting market.

adastra, to random
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While I do enjoy playing DLC for I do wish the game was less "idiot-proof". I remember playing puzzle games where NOTHING is explained to you, and you sat there hours trying to figure it out. Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, those kinds of games.

practically slaps you in the face with the answer to any given riddle.

adastra,
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@rick Yeah, in #BurningShores it's not just handholding, there's a big puzzle in an early mission where you use your focus and it highlights everything to make it extra super easy PLUS verbal hints... like what is even the point of having a puzzle anymore 🙄

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