nickajeglin

Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year

Woah.

Oh wow, I used to love metafilter but I guess I just assumed it died when it dropped off Google. Thanks for reminding me it exists!

That spinning snowspeeder gif brings me right back :)

My book club votes every month on one person's nominees, and last month I nominated these choices from my Dad's old fantasy shelf:

Nine princes in amber, Chronicles of Amber series, Roger Zelazny

Midnight at the well of souls, Well world series, Jack L Chalker

Guardians of time, time patrol series, Poul Anderson

Sorcerer's son, book of elementals series, Phyllis Eisenstein

It turned out that all of them were out of print and unavailable except for Amber... which the library didn't have! Really frustrating, as I read them as a kid and they're all amazing. There is a huge stock of interesting and subversive 60's and 70's fantasy out there that does seem to be in danger of being forgotten.

On the bright side, I feel like Goodreads is helping people rediscover old stuff. I don't have a Goodreads account, but I do appreciate their lists. For example, here is a list of classic 60s sci-fi: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5158.Classic_Science_Fiction_1960_1969

There's another list for the 70's, and more for fantasy. So that does make me feel better; you could spend years down the 70's subversive sci-fi rabbit hole.

Anyways, check out the Chronicles of Amber, it'll blow your mind.

*Sorry for my poor formatting, mobile is hard.

Cool.

Awesome! Thanks for the heads up.

Semi-related, do you know the fastest way to get the latest releases? I got the app from the play store, which I assume isn't getting incremental releases as fast. I've seen people talking about f-droid, is it accurate to say that's like an alternative package manager?

Ah cool thanks! Do you know what the cutout mates up with? I see in your screenshots that they're all keyed various ways, I'm guessing they went into some kind of punch machine or something along those lines?

Edit: best I found is from here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1859307

To facilitate the reassembly of the articles in customers groups, tag holders are provided, and to make confusion impossible, these holders are provided with characteristic admittance means, the tags having similar characteristic admittance means so that only-the tags of a certain number (and therefore of 'a certain customer) may be assembled on the holder having that number.

Makes it sound like there was a sort of rail that matched the cutout to mistake proof putting one person's tagged clothes bags back together after they were laundered.

I did try a reverse search on Google, but it only gave me padlocks for some reason. Another poster found it though, thanks.

For the guide, I needed an explanation on how to subscribe to local vs. not local communities. Also, the difference in subscribing to a federated community that is already linked to your instance, vs linking it the first time (by copy pasting it's address into the search bar). Especially note that you might have to wait a few minutes after searching it the first time, refresh, then search again to be able to sub. That was really confusing. Also that process doesn't seem to work at all if you're in jerboa, at least for me.

Also, how to sub in jerboa: you probably have to open the sidebar.

Those have been most confusing so far. I didn't really need a guide on "this is how federated systems work", as much as a step by step guide for finding and subscribing to communities of interest. Honestly, an mspaint/screenshot idiot's guide with "click here first" level instructions would go a really long way in helping people figure it out, then we could copypasta it easily as well.

For finding content, https://browse.feddit.de/ has come in handy.

Yeah, it's a little odd. On the desktop site, I can search "https://lemmy.ml/c/whatisthisthing" or "[email protected]", then I get no results, wait about 2 minutes, search again, and it'll pop up so I can join it. On Jerboa, I can search and search and it never opens.

If a community is already on your instance though, I think you can open the sidebar and subscribe from there.

I didn't realize there was one, thanks! I just figured out how to subscribe to external communities earlier today, so the link will get me there.

Self replying to say: I just joined [email protected]