As a sibling commenter said, I think the background texture is the most distracting.
Other than that, I also think the tag density is higher than on Lobsters, where they seem to be using mostly one, or at most two, tags, whereas this website's front-page is using around three for each post.
Maybe the color scheme as well. And perhaps more negative space can be removed by making the column wider, like it is on HN.
They've also gone with the sadly-ubiquitous "tiny fixed width column of content with heaps of whitespace on either side" pattern. Real HN does have whitespace borders after a certain width, but it mostly allows the content to scale to fit your browser window. Nothing worse than having a nice gigantic monitor and then having web content constrained to a 5" vertical strip down the middle of it.
For me, it's the fact that the tags overflow to the next line on mobile. Some posts only have tags on the right, some only have tags on the next line, some have both.
The inconsistency makes it impossible for my eyes to settle into a reading pattern.
As a gamer though I immediately noticed how easy it was to visually filter the content by tags and drill down into the details at will. It's an uncommon texture but it works for me.
Older games are usually easier to run on newer versions of linux than windows, in my anecdotal experience. Not sure about cracked AAA titles, I guess that's a bigger part of the "illegal" stuff.
Yeah, that's true. The other week I tried to get Svea Rike II (1998) to run on my desktop. Tried everything with Windows 11 since I thought it would be easier but nope, nothing worked, couldn't even get past the installation. Switching to trying it on Arch with Wine and boom, five minutes later I was up and running.
Does anyone know if titles like FIFA/FC25 work seamlessly on linux devices with proton / whatever the best gaming software is? I remember Wine having a lot of trouble with past FIFA titles.
FIFA22 works well for some values of well: when the EA launcher is not acting up, which happens often, you might still need to set some flags in the config file, which sometimes get reverted.
It is true that if you manage to start it at all, it works completely fine.
I use Gadgetbridge[1] exactly for this reason. It's a FOSS app (on f-droid as well) that tricks wearables into thinking that your phone is actually communicating legitimately with the server.
Garmin support[2] is not really good. Some commenters here mentioned that Garmin watches can work without servers, maybe that's why.
It's not local-first by definition, because you still need a phone with an app, but it's the best I got for now (apart from finally assembling my PineTime watch).
I don't want to make you use it more, but I found a thing that actually works for me, to restore some of the previous feed behavior. I saved a bookmark that directly goes to the "Friends" feed. It seems to have surprisingly few (I think zero or one) ads and recommended things this way. The funny thing is that the "You read all the posts" thing still appears if used in this way, telling you to go outside.
I do the same for instagram [2], and there was also a post of setting "Google web" as the default search engine, showing you actual web results, not stuff recommended by Google.
Thanks! The "friends" filter with facebook does not really work from me (I have unfollowed all my fb friends and follow only pages/groups mostly for events and such) but realised that replacing "friends" with "following" in the url actually provides a feed with anything I am following, so really thanks!
I used to use the FBP extension but it still takes so long to load and filter out stuff that facebook floods my feed, so this is much better.
Interestingly for me on iOS, that instagram link just takes me to the main feed in the app. For anyone else getting this, you have to tap the instagram logo on the top left, then select “following” from there.
Custom made, it is called YOShInOn. I will be blogging about it soon.
It's very solid for a demo, it's not inconceivable that it could be open sourced but it has some social media posting features that might be a little dangerous (e.g. it could really spam Hacker News, in fact the autoposter really pissed off somebody on the night shift when it was not coupled to YOShInOn and what it was posting wasn't so good)
It's also conceivable that it gets firmed up into a product for people who do "search" for a living such as salespeople, recruiters, patent search professionals, etc.
The user guide has a short section on writing custom rules [1], and the API reference also covers the attributes of a LintRule [2]. I plan to document this in more detail at some point in the future.
I have the same feeling. I recently started contributing more, even after such articles were already present, and I have to say it's a fun experience and I feel like I learn a lot, despite the occasional hang-ups I mentioned in a sibling comment to parent.
Especially nice to be able to link my own answer to things.
Other than that, I also think the tag density is higher than on Lobsters, where they seem to be using mostly one, or at most two, tags, whereas this website's front-page is using around three for each post.
Maybe the color scheme as well. And perhaps more negative space can be removed by making the column wider, like it is on HN.