If I wanted to self host a search engine, I'd just use a proper one that actually searches content rather than regurgitates bullshit.
Search engines worked just fine until Google and Microsoft decided that they wanted to sell their AI products.
Honestly, I'd go as far as to say that any social media platform above a certain size should allow custom clients/API access.
If you want the official app to be telemetry ridden AI powered slop, whatever. Just let me use an alternate client to skip all that and customize it to my liking.
Only Bedrock is predatory, Java edition was released before Microsoft got their hands on it.
Unless it's a JavaScript app which uses some random build system (that was popular when they started work on the app but is now outdated) that you need to set up and learn.
Or it's a Python app that doesn't work because you don't have the right version of python and backwards compatibility is a myth.
Whether WotC did this intentionally or not, Baldur's Village has too dedicated a following—and nuking it is so bad a look—that I don't think any company would willingly endure the PR fallout that comes from destroying it.
Isn't this the company that sent the Pinkertons after someone and tried to retroactively collect loyalties on everyone supporting their content? I don't think they'll let something as simple as PR get in the way of neverending profit.
Ehh... I'll do it tomorrow.
UK here, I pay £5 a month for 3GB. I could pay more for more, but I don't really need it.
If moving to another language erases 15 years of experience, you probably don't have a good grasp on the fundamentals...
One thing that could be interesting to discuss is character creators and general restrictions on what a player avatar can and can't do.
For example:
- Require all player + npc relationships to be hetero.
- Have most relationships be hetero, but sprinkle one or two bi characters for spice.
- Lock certain clothing options or body styles to specific genders.
- Tie the player's pronouns and voice to their gender.
- Tie the player's gender to what's in their pants.
- Restrict genetal options to a boolean "male" or "female" (intersex people exist).
- Force the player to only be in a monogamous relationship.
- Allow the player to be polyamous but inexplicably punish them for being too poly (Looking at you, Stardew).
I can't claim to fully understand the things that you've gone through, but I've been dealing with my own past and have noticed a few things about my thought processes.
Fisrstly, for me at least, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that "nobody cares". That's probably because of social media focusing on the negative or me looking for things to be upset about. It's not really true through; a lot of people have been through horrible things and there's a lot of advocates out there campaigning for rights and protections. Ultimately, I'm not alone, even though that's how it feels some times.
Possibly related to the above, I also have been putting pressure on myself to "fix" these issues. Often to the point where I'm "not allowed to be happy" because there's so much suffering in the world. But I saw a post where someone brought up that being an advocate is a full time job with training and a required skillset. I don't think it's fair for me to put those kinds of expectations on myself, especially with my own mental health issues. I'm trying to adopt a mindset of doing what I can, where I can and not stressing about "not doing enough".
Anyway, rambling over. Not sure if my experiences are helpful, but there you go. :P
If I may give some generic unsolicited advice: Take care of yourself; give yourself space and time to heal. Don't put too much pressure on yourself to move forward quickly. Take care of your physical needs (sleep, hydration, exercise, diet). And good luck.
If people are actually triggered by any discussion of rape, then they might have a text filter set up to block posts containing the string "rape"... Which this post won't get blocked by either.
As an aside, presumably "sexual assault" is a better content warning flag than "rape". More neutral and less emotionally loaded.
Just something I threw together last night, figured I'd share it here. Enjoy!
Think it came out decently, although I think the "grass" is a bit messy.
I mean, bait aside, creating a new distro with an existing package manager allows you to set up a different set of default packages and even add your own new/updated ones. That's the value of it there.