Jackie Plage
I actually managed to get littlefedi running. Nobody is more amazed by this than me!
Born in 73. Huge lover of music. Blogger. Keeper of journals, collector of fountain pens. PC Gamer. Cachyos user. Occasional street photographer.
Other account: @jac@social.lol
My fondness for idle games.
I seem to have slowly developed a love of #idlegaming. You do have to cherry pick games in this genre, to avoid the cash grab mobile games, but there are some nice gems out there. Those that I play are generally found on either Steam or a web browser. While they do often have microtransactions, they are genuinely optional in the better games, and not required in order to make progress in a reasonable time-frame. Most are also games you pay for, rather than the freemium model (which I do my best to avoid).
For me, it started with Melvor Idle. Billed as Runescape but as an idle game, it was the first one I really fell in love with, and is still the bar against which I judge all others. It's surprisingly indepth, and kept me amused for a very long time.
My latest discovery is Unnamed Space. It's not quite as indepth as Melvor Idle, but certainly has enough going for it to keep me amused in short bursts. And that's what I love about idle games - even during times when I'm too busy to play a "proper" game, it gives me something to dip in and out of.
I guess one thing all idle games have in common is that they basically boil down to "numbers go up". I appreciate that's not for everyone, but some hidden gems have just the right amount of complexity to keep me interested.
And thus concludes my first tiny blog post using #littlefedi, which has a static blog feature that I've been very excited to try out!
@basil@sarcasm.stream I feel bad about the number of accounts I have (which is now 4), but then I think about @andyc@yakshaving.social and it makes me feel better. 😆
@andyc@yakshaving.social Ah, the times I've "fiddled" with things I know have a high chance of leading to disaster.
This thing has managed to stay afloat for 16 hours now!
I haven't yet tackled the email side, but as I don't really need email notifications, I'm not in a huge rush to do that. Maybe tomorrow, if I'm feeling like inflicting a bit of torture on myself.
@andyc@yakshaving.social It's pretty amazing! I'm really impressed with how light and responsive it is.
I don't know about truly "non-technical" users. I know a lot of people that genuinely struggle with tech, and while I'm no developer, I'm not in that category either. But I think if you're used to maintaining websites or similar, this isn't too hard. Certainly a lot easier than Mastodon seems.
That said, I'm still waiting for me to hit a wrong button somewhere and then watch the whole setup explode. I'm not completely inept though, I have backups in place. 😄
Well, I've somehow managed to get #littlefedi running on my own VPS! I even managed to follow my social.lol account from it, and vice versa.
Feeling quite pleased with myself right now. 😄 I'd better go sleep though, it's almost 5am.