HiddenTower

I have no idea what your photo is trying to illustrate.

But you are right that it's a messy setup. I have an account on lemmy.world instance, and it is possible to find communities on other instances while logged in here, but it's not very easy. And it's possible for two communities with the same purpose & name to be on different instances. Should I join @lemmy.world, or should I join @beehaw.org ? What info is available for someone to make a distinction? It's early days here so maybe something will happen to make things clearer, but the nature of being federated & decentralized means there will always be some kind of problem with this.

It's a pretty lame situation. I used to have a big collection, but I sold 95% at the beginning of the pandemic when I realized I just don't play them. I'm more likely to emulate, even stuff that I own. Game collecting is different from game playing and it's almost like a separate hobby with a lot of overlap. It's a bummer for people who want to have a cool thing and can't have it.

Retro game podcasts are great, I'll check this out when I get a chance.

I had one as a kid. Only had Sonic 2 and Lion King game. I dunno why I never got another game for it. I ended up playing my GameBoy a lot more than this. My family had a Sega Genesis, never a NES or SNES, so the parents must have gotten this since I was a fan of Sega and Sonic.

I am one of the people that never got past the first boss of the Sonic game, that damn crab thing in the ground. I should emulate it and see if I can do any better as an adult. Likely not!

I had a lot of success with this back when I took the bus a lot. Very great way to cheaply get into it.

I've heard vita has slowdown on some GBA, SNES games, do you experience that?

It was super slow to join a chat. Also, scroll back history was always buggy, it would tell me I wasn't allowed to see chats from the day before when I've been logged in for days. Room search is slow. I didn't like having to do security keys when I logged in to clients on different computers. The encryption stuff never seemed worth it when 99% of the time in in a public room. Death by a thousand cuts is how it felt.

I did find it more responsive when I used the main matrix network, but I wanted to be on am offshoot and federate on, it always felt slow and painful.

I'm curious as to your thoughts on the difference. I haven't heard Tagalog called a provincial language before.

Any of the xmpp communities open? I've tried matrix for chat and it's kinda janky, I wouldn't mind trying an xmpp server.

Is there an equivalent of "going dark" in lemmy? Like if there is some "global" or "fediverse" issue that communities want to protest, is there the same option as back on Reddit that they are using now?

I only have limited time with ZIO, and used Cats without IO, but ZIO seems to be a little bit easier to grasp. I like that it kinda does everything that Option/Either/IO does in one, makes me feel like I won't be dealing with as much nesting, and I wont need the monad transformers too. At my job we used Future instead of IO and monad transformers were used a lot. They weren't too bad, but every now and then i'd step back and ask "is this really the best?" I'm not in a Scala job right now, I'm really hoping that in the future there will be just one library for this kind of thing, I hate having divided ecosystems.