My solution to the problem presented in the previous entry is, for now, a low-profile desktop app called RSS Guard.
We’ll see how it pans out.
Category: Geekery
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Wither, RSS
When Google Reader was killed off by its makers, I went to Feedly.
I tired of Feedly’s increasingly frequent attempts to upsell me on their product, so I installed FreshRSS on my server so I’d have my own setup and not be reliant on other people’s stuff quite so much.
Then this morning I went to upgrade FreshRSS and it lost all my data.
I now have no RSS reader, and what’s worse I can’t find an RSS reader setup that I even want to mess with, and what’s worse than that is that I don’t remember what all websites’ feeds I was subscribed to, so that information is gone forever. The other self-hosted options are even worse than FreshRSS, the desktop apps are for-pay and/or ad-supported, and… what am I supposed to even do at this point?
Other than, you know, manually check bookmarks periodically, because that’s sure gonna happen with my ability to remember to do things. And that’s wasted time anyway because the whole point of RSS is being able to ignore websites that haven’t updated lately.
I know that in this modern age of social media and other walled silos, funky old tech like RSS is out of sight and out of mind, but it’s still useful, dammit, and I miss being able to take advantage of it reliably.
Old man yells at cloud. Literally at The Cloud.
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Satisfactory: Turbopower Factory Tour
Fifteen minutes to record, four hours to edit and add a slew of text cards, and half an hour to convince YouTube to post it and let me select a thumbnail of my own choosing instead of picking one of the three automated options.
My ongoing “save game” wherein I play with design elements and such is called “eSthetics” because I’m an absolute dork. I know, you’re all shocked & amazed. I didn’t want the trouble of recording, cleaning up, and editing a voiceover track so the audio is just what’s in the game footage itself. Also, I thought the idea of going all “silent movie text gags” with title cards would be fun (and I was right). I’m not sure which method I’ll settle on if I do more of these, but I’m glad to get some practice under my belt with this particular style.
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Banner Rotation
I really need to freshen up the banner image rotation pool. The question is, what percentage of it should be made from Satisfactory screenshots…?
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Satisfactory: ChooChooingScenery
Forgive me, FICSIT Inc, for I have sinned. Instead of proceeding onward with my existing resource-harvesting goods-manufacturing project, I have started anew with a fresh world. Oddly enough, it looks almost exactly like the old one…
From such humble beginnings shall a continent-wide rail network grow. All kidding aside, what happened? Trains happened. Which is to say, I decided that I wanted to take trains “seriously” and make a proper rail network. (My previous savegame ended up more devoted to drones than trains, and that went… only partly well.) In order to make a rail network possible in that save, though, would’ve involved ripping out almost everything I’d already built. Ha ha, no thank you.
Update 6’s new skybox is amazing. Absolutely amazing. And the game was already extremely pretty before! So here I am, climbing the tech tree again. Grubbing around for every blade of grass and stick of wood to power my meager collection of equipment. Fighting off the hostile fauna with an electrically-charged stick. And so forth.
Current status: I sent off my first Space Elevator shipment, unlocked coal power, and have accumulated enough material to commence building my first actual power plant.
There are reasons not to start near what I call Iron Heights in the northern forest, but they aren’t particularly compelling reasons, let’s be honest. Wish me luck. (I’ll probably need it.)
