Traditional versions also contain ~50% butter by total pre-cooking weight. (Hello heart-health my old friend…)

Dunno about your area, but there’s some pretty awesome frozen puff pastry sold in thin-ish sheets at most stores around here. It bakes up quick and almost magically multi-layered, and I would not for a million years be able to tell it from scratch puff pastry from une belle boulangerie.

This was already touched on earlier, but I wanted to add on a bit:

The idea comes from how Reddit handles it (MultiReddits) but from my experience it’s a feature not many people made use of, and it sounds like a pain to have to constantly create and manage new multi-communities to group together duplicate communities. This shouldn’t be a task that users have to manually do.

This is a pretty bad or maybe just naive take that IMO doesn’t sum things in a productive way upon Multi-Reddits. That is-- 1) it arguably doesn’t matter a bit how many people make use of it, as each person’s MR is going to be a custom affair, and it works at the individual user level anyway, 2) on the contrary, it’s no trouble at all to build your MR’s either quickly or painstakingly, and you can spread that effort across weeks, months and even years. In the end, I find MR’s fantastically useful as super-custom feeds that you can use to stay focused on a tight range of topics.

Unfortunately, these kinds of half-baked conclusions tend to suggest to me that OP doesn’t have a whole lot of familiarity with either platform at this time. That said, there’s a lot of interesting ideas in the article, it’s just a little disappointing in various places.

Gonna take a detour here and mention the time that I tried to make tofu from scratch, starting with making soy milk from dried beans that I’d ordered just for the task:

The soy milk turned out surprisingly well, with the help of a semi-automated device, but I realised on the spot that most commercial soy milk has a tonne of sugar added to it, and I didn’t want to go down that route. In fact, it just about turned me off of soy milk permanently.

Anyway, I moved on to the tofu-making stage, and realised that both coagulants I tested (lemon juice and nigari powder) imparted a huge, unwanted taste to the tofu, on top of neither being all that great at coagulating the soy milk. In the end, I think I could have improved on this cooking disaster, but my motivation was gone at that point, and I wanted to move on.

There’s also the fact that no matter what a versatile food tofu is, it’s also a significantly processed one, and I wanted to move in the opposite direction. That said, I understand that fresh-made tofu in Japan and other places can be incredibly tasty, almost worth wolfing down straight with no cooking or spices.

Well… it doesn’t sound like there’s much choice.

Expert doctors expressing that there’s no ‘super procedure’ for Joel at this point, combined with PG playing underwhelmingly, combined with their rookie hotshot already going down for the season, combined with the team going nowhere all season, anyway.

That… kinda looks like famous basketball player and coach John Thompson on the left(!)

Not saying you’re right or wrong, but these types of events only happen occasionally, mais non?

Gooottt iiiitttt!

Okay, when logging in again just now, I realised that last time I seemingly made the mistake of filling in the instance field with my community name, instead (i.e. !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee). So then-- seems to be working properly okay, now. :D

@rikudou@lemmings.world

If I may-- I would suggest that the service check to see if at the very least, the field entry for “Instance” looked like a proper URL. Even better I’d think would be to actually ping the entry, or something like that.

Because you know… careless idiots like me. ^^

Not just that, but I’d think it really useful to check that stuff right up front when a user logs in, including checking their ID & PW to see if it successfully logs in. Otherwise I suppose users are bound to see these “500” errors if they screw part of that up, I guess.

EDIT: Nah, even when I seem to schedule things, the tool just doesn’t seem to work anymore in terms of known time-differences.

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Thanks, mate!
So, both the acct and destination community were hosted by Lemm.ee. It’s one of the big-five or big-four instances (whatever) across the Lemmysphere, FWIW.

I suppose I could test this from FF (I’m on Chrome) if you think that might work, altho it did work fine in Chrome just a week ago. *shrug*

Hi, Elevator,
I started using the scheduler last week, and it worked splendidly at the time.

Trying it again the last few hours, I’m getting “500” errors when trying to put something through. Can you confirm on your end?

@rikudou@lemmings.world

EDIT: Solved! See below.

Fun fact: altho the early (and average) A2600 carts were 4k, they could actually be much larger, such as 16k, or even 64k, as with the later “Megaboy” by Dynacom. The key factor of course was the cost of memory at the time, and with more memory, that’s how you get more sprawling games like Pitfall 2.

So yeah, Pitfall 1 was 4k, while Pitfall 2 lazily only used 11k of it’s physical 16k or ROM size.

Oops, late reply. But yeah, that rings a bell!

Indeed, I recall reading a fascinating article about their rise & fall, along with Sierra Online I think it was. Maybe over at The Dot-Eaters or such. [link]

I don’t know what it is, but these histories, what with their twists, turns, ironies, and terribly-made decisions, are downright fascinating to me.

Let’s be real. What OP really wants is for a certain moderator to not have power on a server she deems as influential. Thus, she’s trying to leverage peer pressure in order to make that happen.

Assuming good-faith effort, don’t you think it’s reasonable to publicly call out disingenuous, trollish behavior, especially with that sublemmy being one of the biggest ones across the FV?

Consider that we don’t have the same mechanisms across the FV as exist on Reddit, such that other means of correcting (evidently) terrible decisions (such as making a huge troll a mod on a big community) need to be explored at the very least. I.e., sometimes I think it doesn’t help in the end to run away from this kind of problem, and none of us should really want LW to drift towards an abomination such as HexBear, right?

If I remember correctly, I think the game I liked the most on it was Combat.

Good game for sure (based on an actual Atari arcade game), but oh man, that system had many games equally-good, as well as borderline amazing. For example, their version of Defender’s sequel Stargate was -seriously- impressive. You can try it out (and others) at this link if you care to: https://www.free80sarcade.com/atari2600_Stargate.php

You know, I thought that the Sega Master System predated the NES, but I just looked it up, and apparently the NES was 1983, and the Master System was 1986. So I guess it really was the NES that hit it first.

Oof, I forgot about the Sega MS. Actually, I’d say that was a much closer race than any of the earlier comparisons. For example, they were really close in hardware capability IIRC, with the NES hitting NA in 1985, and the Sega MS coming over ~one year later. By that point I wasn’t really in to consoles anymore, but IIRC theirs was a reasonably close sales and popularity race.

…But not necessarily great ones.
(yes, and I know I’m being argumentative AF on this point; I do see the logic of what you’re saying)

In any case, hopefully that troll’s influence across a giant instance like LW is relatively minor in the end. Also, by OP sticking to their SUBSCRIBE feed, they won’t have to deal with that community, either. shrug

No server on the Fediverse should is too big for blocking.

These thoughts of yours are all very well in theory, but aren’t very pragmatic for most users IMO. I mean, why not just block the user, anyway? Or make posts like this here, seemingly putting the heat back on the troll(s) in question…

Now there’s a phrase that I didn’t expect to see. :-)

I feel there’s a lot to talk about in that area. Not only were the A2600 games clearly superior to the Fairchild’s right off the bat, but the programmers kept pushing the envelope year after year with all kinds of little tricks & techniques.

Also, it’s kind of mind-blowing to me how Mattel began work on the Intellivision as early as 1975, eventually got it out the door with significantly superior hardware specs in 1979, yet kind of fumbled the ball when it came to the controllers, and specifically failed when it came to their library of games and the ‘fun-factor.’

Legendary games like Adventure could have been topped so easily on the Intellivision, yet they somehow missed the opportunity. Or a simple yet brilliant game like “Warlords” was somehow more fun than anything ever produced on the INTV, far as I know. How could that happen?

Then again, Atari sort of failed in similar fashion in preparing to win the next round of the console wars, being utterly blown out of the water by the Nintendo NES a whole 8yrs after the A2600 first came out. That pretty much killed off their whole console line, with the “Lynx” being their last gasp IIRC.

Haha, sorry for the ramble. Just chatty at the moment…

I’m coming up on 1,000 subscribers, 500 posts, and 1.5+yrs of content creation in my bandes dessinées sublemmy, with myself being responsible for maybe 85-90% of total content creation. Your concerns are real and valid IMO.

Soon I plan to set up a bot to post small, ‘drip-like’ content every other day, supplementing the off-days with my beefier content, which are generally small reviews and content roundups. I guess my point is that it’s good to keep trying different techniques out, asking this and other communities for ideas, and having requisite patience.

Also, I think light-handed advertising across various platforms probably helps. Imgur and Reddit have worked okay so far, but frankly I need someone to help with other social media joints. That’s something an active mod could potentially help with…

I did not mention you by name, and in fact have no idea who you are.

My response was intended in a broadly-speaking sense, and I think explains itself sufficiently.

Hmmm… going by this video, the Fairchild games (and controllers) were impressively innovative for the day, considering that Pong-like games ruled at the time. Unfortunately, it appears that with the Atari 2600 being released less than a year later, Channel F’s thunder was essentially stolen, and rightly so because of the A2600’s superior complexity and innovaton. So close, and yet so far!