Notices by Emmet Coughlan (ecctm@mastodon.emmetcoughlan.com)

@flwwhtrbt I believe @killyourfm was floating a similar retro games club idea recently too, although I'm not sure if it was mainly targeting retro hardware?

Could be worth checking out either way!

https://layer8.space/@killyourfm/113974776597429276

Just watched the season finale of Dexter: Original Sin, pretty decent prequel to the original show.

The casting (outside of Christian Slater as Harry) was really faithful to the original cast, and while it wasn't groundbreaking it done a great job of letting us see things that were talked about in the original.

I'm just wondering if they'll make another season of the prequel, or if this was a one-time deal. It feels like they left enough space in the timeline to go either way.

@pyratebeard Ooh, that is an absolutely killer lineup! I'd say they'll probably pull out some surprises for the occasion too, congrats on the ticket!

@flwwhtrbt Alrighty!

I finally got all the achievements in Euro Truck Simulator 2! It's pretty chill, I'd throw on a podcast or vlog and drive along almost on autopilot while listening.

Re-playing Skyrim now - as much as people joke about it re-releasing on everything, it's still held up quite well as far as the gameplay goes.

Was thinking next game might be Spider-Man 2 (because I really loved SM1 and SM:Miles Morales) but reviews are not looking good... maybe time to try Death Stranding?

I'm not sure which was more annoying, having no power all day, or having power but no broadband all evening afterward.

Feck #StormÉowyn either way.

@padraig I didn't realize the red warning for Donegal doesn't start until 7am, it's been stormy enough already tonight... Just glad I charged my phone and steam deck 😂

Oh god, our planet is so fucked.

Getting the itch to swap from GNOME to KDE again to try it out... Maybe I'll plop Bazzite on my Steam Deck as a stopgap.

Happy Wrestle Kingdom, everyone!

My sleeping pattern is currently so messed up that this 7am start might actually be a good thing...

gonna fit in a quick nap now and hope I don't hibernate through the whole show.

#NJPW #WK19

@padraig While I can't comment on if Plex Pass is worth the money, I feel like all the features of Plex Pass are things Jellyfin can do for free with some manual config...

I noticed Reddit restored a bunch of my comments from years ago, and went to use PowerDeleteSuite to delete them... it didn't find anything to delete, so i tried manually, which appears to work... but refresh the page and they just reappear.

Great.

@Ciaraioch Haven't tried it yet, but I seen someone else mention they were using openvibe.social to see everything in the one place, seems to do crossposts too.

Watching #TaylorVsSerrano, and remembering I don't understand anything about boxing.

They just interviewed Mike Tyson between rounds and included a clip of his arse as he walked off. Yikes.

@gloriouseggroll Weird, can't find you on there.

@padraig I think the fact BSky is centralized is why they were more successful at capturing the twitter crowd.

Their verification is based on proving you own a domain, and I found a verge article from Feb that says they've allowing people to self-host their own account data, but they do seem to be approaching the fediverse with a more threads-like "our silo first" priority.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080334/bluesky-self-hosting-servers-data-federated

I think it's because I've been happily here on a quiet Mastodon instance for so long, but Bluesky feels a bit too much like the birdsite to me, and I'm not sure how to feel about it.

@Techaltar I think your last line is squarely on the money, MKBHD has been out of touch from reality for ages though.

Really trying to return to a world where I own the media I'm enjoying, but my #Music collection is now essentially an unearthed time capsule from 2010.

I'm really surprised Bluesky doesn't seem to have support for 2 Factor Auth by an app, only 2FA by email.

uBlock Origin is showing it's blocked 771 things and I've literally just opened the feeds and poked around the settings menu.

It's probably gonna become the new birdsite, but I don't think it's gonna become my main social account at all.

Watching #BlueLock season 2 (I'm starting S02E04 right now) and it feels like they really did just give up on animating half of it - it's like watching a slideshow in places.

Still pretty enjoyable though.