What are your favorite sites you visit daily, besides Lemmy?
I was about to agree, but they fucking disabled reader mode! No dark mode is no bueno for me.
Here’s a few! While I mostly use the RSS feeds from these sites, I often read the web versions too:
- Hack a Day, wonderful place to get clued into ground-up explorations of technical topics from the outside
- BBC News, good for a world perspective that’s not fully US-centric but still in English
- OSNews, Operating System news for nerds like me who get legitimately excited for things like installing plan9 on bare metal
- Ken Shirrif’s Blog, the paragon of long-form teardown & explanation of vintage electronics, deeply insightful, terrifyingly technical but still approachable. Okay, not a daily update, but worth the wait
- Create Digital Music, solid and considered electronic music instrument news and articles, for us unreformed synthesizer geeks
Thank you for that last one.
unreformed synthesizer geeks
That should really be the name of a Lemmy community
That should really be the name of a Lemmy community
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Damn you’re installing Plan9 on bare metal? That’s some balls there.
Tried OpenIndiana as a daily driver yet?
I’ll admit I haven’t tried any OSes outside a VM in a while, the last was Haiku a while ago. But I am always keeping tabs!
Hacker News
SkimFeed
Ground News
The rest is all RSS feeds.
I’ve been wanting to get back into rss feeds. Have a good feeder? Reader? Compiler? What are the clients even called? I’m drawing a blank…
Royalroad.com Archiveofourown.org
I visit both hourly, and spend the vast majority of my time reading books on those two sites.
I’m not familiar with either. Taking a quick glance, Archive of Our Own is for fanfics, and Royal Road is for original web serials?
EDIT: No, Royal Road has some fanfics too.
Along the same lines, I’ve been reading short SF stories here to get away from social media: https://www.freesfonline.net/NewAdditions.html
Https://Rockpapershotgun.com is one of the few sites I still visit on a frequent basis. I don’t care about half of their reviews. Their writing and personality is just entertaining and the commenters are fun.
As a developer, I love https://js13kgames.com/. These masters of JS make games that are under 13k, smaller than font file!
This blog has been my late night addiction. https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/ reviews old PC RPG games like Wizardry and Eye of the Beholder. Theyve been doing it for more than a decade.
Js13k is such a cool find! The top few games are really good for what they claim to be what de hec
Have you noticed any changes since ign acquired RPS and laid off some of the staff?
Yes absolutely. There’s a slight shift of tone in regards to journalism. A lot of takes definitely come off more neutered as to not offend a company or lose favor. It’s unfortunate. But then again, I’m not interested in ragebait so it wasn’t a big thing for me. And other sites (and social media) do it already.
They still go into fresh perspectives. Random things like are audio logs a good mechanism for storytelling. Or the best item in Skyrim (which is filled with such cheeky humor to invite friendly arguments)
And some of the newer hires still haven’t found their RPS voice. They’re trying “too hard” to be zany.
I am still looking for a gaming blog that takes gaming mildly seriously. Ones willing to have both AAA games and incredibly tiny indie games on the front page, sprinkled with opinionated posts about their favorite book covers in RPGs, or if highlighted interactive items is good UI.
