I study Software Design where I’m the “class representative”, work 20h a week, I’m also planning my wedding and I have to manage a lot of family and friend stuff. There’s a lot on my plate and feeling overwhelmed has become the norm for me.

What helps for me is:

• I keep a master to-do list where I put in all my tasks with their respective deadlines, categorised in topic, but all collected in the same list. (I use Microsoft To-Do for that)
• I plan days where I do certain tasks and on those days I make myself a prioritised list in handwriting which tasks to do in which order
• I also share a calender and to-do list with my partner, so we can keep on track of eachother even when not communicating everything we do directly
• And I think the most important thing to do when I’m feeling overwhelmed is just starting with something. The next point on your list without considering what else you could do.

That’s the gist of what works for me. There are also some motivational techniques for “how to start doing”. One of those is “eat the frog” where you pick the worst item from your to-do list and finish it, then the other tasks will be less daunting. Another one is starting with a super easy or small task to get you into a flow state of actually doing stuff. Both work for me in different situations and mindsets 😄

I hope that helps somehow.

Contributing to open source projects is pretty much just altruism.

If we’re talking about protection of people integrating open source code in their proprietary code we’ll always have issues. It doesn’t matter if we declare our projects under GPL, AGPL, LGPL, CC or whatever, unless they do shoddy work, we won’t be able to know what code snippets, libraries or frameworks they’re using when source code isn’t disclosed.

People that want to be assholes will always be assholes. If you feel like giving back, contribute to an open source project. If you don’t, don’t. But making it about evil corporations is a bit meh. Even a company like Amazon is actively contributing to improving Java, offering the Amazon Corretto JDK for free. So the path forward may just be trying to be the change yourself, and making sure the company you’re working for is also giving back somehow.

A fork is effectively your own repo, so you can do with that as you please. Afaik MIT license doesn’t hinder you from removing anything.

Yeah it’s quite unfortunate with iOS. I’m on android but afaik iOS just doesn’t support all the PWA features.

Which is super interesting in its own right, because when you look back at the first iPhone, Steve Jobs actually announced at first that it wouldn’t have a Software Development Kit for native apps and all applications will be web based. They obviously didn’t stay on that path, but I find it quite ironic.

Short and sweet, thanks for explaining.

Yeah, I hope they expand immensely on public transport, biking and walkable cities. Having to build car-centric cities would make me sad.

If I recall correctly that’s how it’s always been with Diablo. I’ve remembered each D3 season there was a different build for each class that would work really well. So while the content was always kinda the same, the game forced you to try other builds if you wanted to beat the highest difficulty level consistently.

Looking at how uniques work at the moment they always seem to affect skills directly, groups of skills, weapon types or damage types. So if you want a strong build you have to get uniques that stack well and buff the same kind of tools you want to use.

Logically you want to buff one damage skill to the extreme but since there sometimes are no overlaps and uniques are sometimes skill specific, you run into the issue, that a different damage skill just doesn’t do much damage anymore. This concludes in you essentially having to use actives and passives from your ability tree that also buff your one “super-skill” or boost survivability. Since you’re not restricted when it comes to buffs, the most logical choice is then to just fill all remaining slots with buffs or skills that activate buffing effects. Even mobility gets pushed out in high end builds for more damage.

I don’t like it, but as soon as you make an effect that only works in one context, you have effectively ruined build variety because theorycrafters will just min-max the hell out of it. There probably is no good solution that helps build variety and at the same time makes uniques feel interesting and exciting. Because when everything is viable, unique effects will mostly just be stat boosts and thus boring.

Yeah, it probably works on an HDD as well, but load times will be awful. I think this gets blown out of proportion. These AAA games or any game which had to load assets or whatever which exceeded available memory always had issues with load times etc. on HDD. So asking users to run it on an SSD is quite sensible to me.

We should argue though if a size of 125GB is actually necessary… Looks like it’s time to upgrade my M.2 SSDs from 500GB to 2TB at least 😅

I miss the days where Blizzard was just known for making excellent games. Ever since that merger with Activision things have been going to shit.

Also me claiming I’m the best BBQer around when I burn 80% of the food.

Since they’re locking Consoles to 30 fps I’m worried their Recommended settings are using that as baseline as well.

If that’s the case I’ll wait for some IT hero with too much free time to upload their optimisation mod to nexus 😂

Thank you for putting all that time and work into building and maintaining the server and community. I think you’ve carved out a great place for yourselves here and I appreciate being part of it (in some way or another). I’d volunteer myself but unfortunately I can’t help much with the technical issues and I’m very light on time for actual moderating duty, which I’ve also had to drop on Reddit. But I did set up a monthly donation to help with the costs of running this and I’ll probably keep it running until I stop using Lemmy, which might be never.

Thanks for being honest and transparent and I can only emphasise that you guys have done a wonderful job so far. Take a well deserved break as soon as you can please.

My tactic of waiting a year until a newly released game is fully patched and grabbing it with a discount has yet to fail me.

Yeah, your first point is so true. I always wanted to build walkable cities and see if that would work, but without mods you’re just missing the tools.

Even when modded to hell I didn’t feel like my bike lanes or pedestrian walkways really helped to lighten traffic. My sims would rather wait a full ingame year in congested traffic to reach their destination, than just walk 10 minutes. 😵‍💫