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Hmm I’m pretty sure I could make an account, and log in, with the restriction being I couldn’t send email until I’d subscribed. So you should be able to test the features. I wasn’t aware of the 30 days and you’re nuked rule!

I moved to Mailbox.org in the past few days. You can encrypt your inbox with PGP it appears, though I haven’t quite got to it yet. Mailbox.org seems built by technical people, for better or worse.

Is it fucked? Or it it about to become one of the most successful companies in the world, given the apparent requirement to be terrible and exploitive in order to be a giant company.

Oh that button! That shows after a battle has started. You can tap anywhere! Just tap tap tap on the screen and and long as it’s not a button you’re tapping on then it will attack.

I just had to go back and check we were talking about the same game. There’s no fight button in the default control scheme, you just bump into the thing you want to fight, then a popup shows in the middle of the screen to start the fight.

I agree a half finished game isn’t what OP is looking for, and a lot of the gameplay (especially later) revolves around finding your way through what are effectively mazes.

I play it one handed though. It’s turn based combat and when out of combat you just put your finger on the screen and it walks towards it? I didn’t even know a d-pad option existed 😅

One trick I learnt to get your over sparkly clean like this, is that you buy this product called “a new oven” then never use it.

Seriously I am not entirely convinced it’s possible to make an oven clean again after I’ve used it enough (other than pyroclastic self-cleaning ones, which still don’t get as clean as the OP when I do it).

3% every year sounds high! I used to donate 3-4 times a year but then had kids and always seem to have some cold or flu. I kept getting screened out, and only do it once every few years at the moment when stars align. I hope to get back to donating regularly when I can.

I had to do mine because I have a kid that likes to dance on the toilet, and at times falls off and hits the toilet roll holder.

I put the new one a couple of inches to the left so now it’s into a stud and should handle the odd kid falling on it.

I don’t have that alt text field for post images on Boost, will check the web UI.

In the web UI it’s between the language and the community, not even next to the image. Not great or obvious but it’s there once you upload an image.

And yes, I can speak as moderator, but I can’t pin other people’s comments.

Sorry, I misunderstood again! No, I don’t think you can pin other people’s comments in Lemmy (or PieFed, as far as I can tell).

but Lemmy does not prompt you for one when uploading a main image to a post,

If you’re adding an image post there is an alt text field, but it doesn’t show until the image is uploaded, and Lemmy doesn’t try to bring attention to it. Mastodon is definitely better in that regard.

And yes, I’m aware of “feature in community”, but isn’t that only for posts?

Oh sorry, I misunderstood. You can use “Speak as moderator” and I believe this pins a comment for the Lemmy website, but may have sporadic app support.

Lemmy does have a feature to “Feature in community”.

I’m here to support the encouraging of all images having alt text. People with low vision may not get the same view of the image, but without alt text they may not even know what the image is at all!

Alt text for pictures of pet dogs should also be more than just “picture of dog”. Whatever is important in the picture should be included, e.g. “A picture of my golden retriever sitting on a couch, looking at camera with happy look on her face”.

This way someone who can’t see the picture well can still participate, e.g. “Oh I love golden retrievers, I have three and they are always chewing up my slippers but I love them anyway”.

I’m here fighting for us to get better at alt text as it’s something Lemmy does poorly compared to Mastodon.

Thursday here, which means I’m a day closer to Monday than you are.

If your aim was to power a PC then you wouldn’t use a normal keyboard. Why not have something much like a typewriter of old, with a long travel distance for the key? Instead of moving a stamp on a stick, use that kenetic energy to generate power instead. Surely you could get a lot more power out it it that way.