Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
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Hello! I fix #pinball machines and #arcade games, and tell you all about it! I fix lots of other things too, and occasionally tell you about that. I also run one of the web's longest-surviving #textAdventure games, called Improbable Island, and I often write here on Fedi about decade-scale online community management stuff. Husband, dad, professional Thing Fixer and amateur woodworker in my early 40's, an #immigrant from the UK to the USA. Gun enthusiasts pls do not follow/interact.
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🦝 *leaning close enough to see the veins in my eyes* WOULDN'T YOU LOVE TO NOT BE THE GUY ANYMORE
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🦊 Oh, but all MY social circles include the guy who can change out a broken hard drive!
🦝 THAT'S YOU. YOU'RE THE GUY
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If you're a competent software maker or interface designer you should constantly be thinking "Oh wait, no, that only makes sense to me because I'm an irredeemable weirdo, normal people without a monitor tan won't be able to make head nor tail of this"
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Like seriously I need y'all to understand that most social circles do not include someone who can take out a broken hard drive and put in a new one and put windows on it.
When the hard drive dies, the whole-ass computer goes in the bin, end of story.
For goodness' sake keep that in mind when you're designing your software, and the website that tells people why they should use your software
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In response to this postYaknow, if someone's Windows installation gets all screwed up to the point where only a complete reformat and reinstall makes sense, you know what they do?
They go and buy a new computer.
I know this because once upon a time I was the guy that sold them one.
I am begging the nerds to understand that if windows gets irreparably fouled up and the person using it* can't afford a new computer, they will continue using the current one in its fouled-up state, having a Bad Time, and I know this because once upon a time I was the guy who came round to unfoul it.
Please for the love of god write software for use by the actual real people who really exist in the world, not some idealised fantasy where everyone put all their skill points into Computer.
* (if you use the word "user" to refer to people, imagine me hitting you with a rolled-up newspaper)
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In response to this postFriendica shows promise but it's written for people who care about software and protocols and honestly, like, nobody does. I'm not gonna be able to get my mum signed up for this.
I mean srsly check out the crap on the homepage:
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Decentralization
Decentralized architecture with no central authority or ownership.
Relationships can be made across any compatible system, creating a network of Internet scale made up of smaller sites.
Seamless wall-to-wall posts and remote comments, even across different network nodes.
Privacy
Access lists for every item.
Private conversation groups — on these pages all communications are restricted to group members.
One-to-one private messaging on supported protocols.
Optionally "expire" old content after a certain period of time.
Download your personal data. It all belongs to you.
Interoperability
Built-in support for ActivityPub (e.g. Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed), OStatus (e.g. StatusNet, GNU social, Quitter) and diaspora* protocols.
Support for email contacts and communications (two-way) via IMAP4rev1/ESMTP.
Import arbitrary websites and blogs into your social stream via RSS/Atom feeds.
Support for other services via plugins.
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That's noise. That's all just noise. Like, it means something to me? It sounds great to me! It means something to probably the majority of the people who are on fedi! But outside of our nerd bubble, to seriously 999 out of 1,000 people, that's all just computer gibberish for weirdos who probably run linux.
Yaknow, if someone's Windows installation gets all screwed up to the point where only a complete reformat and reinstall makes sense, you know what they do?
They go and buy a new computer.
I know this because once upon a time I was the guy that sold them one.
I am begging the nerds to understand that if windows gets irreparably fouled up and the person using it* can't afford a new computer, they will continue using the current one in its fouled-up state, having a Bad Time, and I know this because once upon a time I was the guy who came round to unfoul it.
Please for the love of god write software for use by the actual real people who really exist in the world, not some idealised fantasy where everyone put all their skill points into Computer.
* (if you use the word "user" to refer to people, imagine me hitting you with a rolled-up newspaper)
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In response to this post(yes I know the software I'm posting from doesn't allow account migrations either, but just because I made a mistake once doesn't mean I wanna make it again. Okay twice, because I started on .social and still have four years of posts there. Okay yeah I was on stux's server too, so I made the mistake three times alright, well fool me four times shame on me and you and website boy and the whole of time and space and human evolution leading up to that moment
Friendica shows promise but it's written for people who care about software and protocols and honestly, like, nobody does. I'm not gonna be able to get my mum signed up for this.
I mean srsly check out the crap on the homepage:
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Decentralization
Decentralized architecture with no central authority or ownership.
Relationships can be made across any compatible system, creating a network of Internet scale made up of smaller sites.
Seamless wall-to-wall posts and remote comments, even across different network nodes.
Privacy
Access lists for every item.
Private conversation groups — on these pages all communications are restricted to group members.
One-to-one private messaging on supported protocols.
Optionally "expire" old content after a certain period of time.
Download your personal data. It all belongs to you.
Interoperability
Built-in support for ActivityPub (e.g. Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed), OStatus (e.g. StatusNet, GNU social, Quitter) and diaspora* protocols.
Support for email contacts and communications (two-way) via IMAP4rev1/ESMTP.
Import arbitrary websites and blogs into your social stream via RSS/Atom feeds.
Support for other services via plugins.
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That's noise. That's all just noise. Like, it means something to me? It sounds great to me! It means something to probably the majority of the people who are on fedi! But outside of our nerd bubble, to seriously 999 out of 1,000 people, that's all just computer gibberish for weirdos who probably run linux.
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So what's Fedi's favourite federated facebook freplacement?
I had a vague recollection of Diaspora* looking interesting, but looking further I see they still haven't figured out migrating accounts and at this point that's a Hard Requirement tbqh
also does anyone know a good synonym for "replacement" beginning with F
(yes I know the software I'm posting from doesn't allow account migrations either, but just because I made a mistake once doesn't mean I wanna make it again. Okay twice, because I started on .social and still have four years of posts there. Okay yeah I was on stux's server too, so I made the mistake three times alright, well fool me four times shame on me and you and website boy and the whole of time and space and human evolution leading up to that moment
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