Emotional_Series7814

joined 1 year ago

More used to seeing articles panic about video games, so it's nice to see a positive article about them. Especially with a demographic not really known for playing them. I'm not the eSport type but this is going to be me when I am old, playing games while the kids yell at me to get off the ancient PC and get with the VR2000 times. It's just nice to see people being happy and healthy.

 

A new generation of French seniors is discovering the joy of video games, with e-bowling emerging as their competitive sport of choice.

[–] Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am guessing the one big thing might be a Map of Content (basically just a Table of Contents). A big cluster could be all the notes for a project, and all those notes would get listed and linked to in the Map of Content for easy access, and so they get one giant node here.

Thank you for posting here. Wish I could contribute too but the academic articles I have read since becoming aware of this community do not have anything that fits the community.

I've learned that checking comments in UpliftingNews is often counterproductive. Uplifting news, then someone posts a comment that just invokes depression all over again. Yes, I am directly referencing the user above you's comment as one such comment—though just in case anyone is curious I didn't downvote (in case one shows up), on topic, probably correct, and I don't see anything on the sidebar saying depressing comments about how bad the thing the good news is opposing is would be against the rules.

So why am I in the comments now? Unfortunately bad habits are hard to break.

 

A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

Thanks for the description. I don't follow award ceremonies so just going by the title it is really unclear why is this supposed to be uplifting, and comes off as just typical celebrity news. The description tells me neatly, and lets me click on the article if I want further elaboration.

I appreciate that the sidebar manages to explain what this is for people out of the loop without linking to Reddit.

Okay that headline is hilarious and your description is too.

I suppose I'm probably the most anti-nature environmentalist. Protect this because we need it to live, and animals need it to live. But I really personally hate nature, it doesn't bring me pleasure. I have been to some of the wonders of the world and was not floored, breath not taken away. "Checks out, let's move on." (Why'd I go to see it then? Someone else with me wanted to see it :P I'm a lot more interested in history that directly involves humans or something once living. For me, dinosaurs and artifacts of early human civilization are cool, gems are not.) I don't marvel at it, and any reason to dismiss something made with cruelty is something I'll eagerly jump on, even if it's definitely not a popular perspective. To me it really is an overvalued thing you pulled out of the dirt, no matter the facts behind how it formed inside the dirt.

Disclaimer: I don't say this to be contrarian, I am really not the type. Popular ≠ bad and I'm not some special unique snowflake, I just have some quirks where I have a different opinion, as does everyone else! I don't like nature, others don't like chocolate. I think most people have at least one unpopular preference/dislike, this is mine.

[–] Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.org 43 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Geoffrey Farrow at Raphael, a jeweller on the other side of the street, can only just bring himself to sell lab-grown diamonds. “They are synthetic,” he said. “Lab-grown sounds exotic, but it’s created – they make it by the buckets. There’s no history to it. The price is going to go down further and further.”

I find that a very interesting perspective. I prefer the idea of something we made with human ingenuity as opposed to some thing you dug out of the dirt, probably with a shoddily-hidden special history of slavery and tears, and before that, just sitting in the ground like a bunch of other boring things. The history of a lab-grown is entirely mine and my hypothetical partner's to create.

If I was a diamond person anyways. I'd be more worried about losing the expensive ring somehow and worrying over it, and would much rather buy the cheapest thing that can still socially function as "look, I am married, don't hit on me!" without having to wear some ugly shirt that says that. Ideally both me and my hypothetical partner would just forgo expensive rings (and don't get me wrong, I'm adamantly not a T-shirt and jeans person, I like to dress up, I have just never been a ring person) and spend it on something else we would both like.

For those who do not share my opinions on wedding rings, which is valid, I am also glad to hear lab-grown prices are down so people can still get that ring they love without breaking the bank and without supporting De Beers.

[–] Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Because I am an idiot and it is actually !digitalgarden@lemmy.world

 

Figured it might be a good discussion question. Originally posted to our friends over at !journaling@sh.itjust.works.

I think of what I have far more as a Personal Knowledge Management System than a journal. I spend far less time on personal feelings and thoughts and “what did I do today?” and a lot more on making it a knowledge repository for Future Me.

 

Designed for Apple Notes but I have heard of people doing this in Obsidian. I like looking at different knowledge organization systems, so I'll be looking into this even though I'm definitely not going to use Apple Notes.

 

I thought I'd ask, since I have an organized method for some forms of media (things you watch, which is ironic given I spend much less time on watching tv/movies/videos than I do on any other form of media consumption) and for others… not so much. And I probably should organize the other methods and implement a system I'll actually use, instead of just tossing them on the To-Watch/Play/Read list and never actually consuming the things on the list.

 

Links to Obsidian forums, but the information here is applicable for any PKMS, not just one using the Obsidian software.

Hi y’all— I’m here today to talk about library and information science (LIS), personal knowledge management (PKM), and YOU.

Since this whole PKM/B (base) thing has taken off there has been endless endless endless discussion on how to organize things. Systems seem to pop up all the time ranging from PARA to Johnny Decimal, to folksonomies, etc, etc. This is a really fascinating and interesting time to be around and also very exciting to see this developing. however one thing that gets lost in all of these back and forth and arguments is that there is an entire field dedicated to the representation organization cataloging and classification of knowledge, a field that has been around for hundreds of years & has the experience of thousands of people involved: library and information science.

As far as I’m able to discern, almost none of these novel PKM or PKB organization systems have benefited from the input of library and information science. There are a lot of things that the LIS field can provide to help all y’all PKM folks. I’m going to talk about that a bit…

 

Found out about this. I'm already on Obsidian but I might check it out. Very not interested in the AI, but since it's open source you can definitely try to remove it instead of having it forcibly shoved onto you with no way to try to turn it off like with Notion.

 

!namethatsong@lemmy.wtf

/c/namethatsong@lemmy.wtf

 

I have to edit body text in here or Mbin will not let me edit the title to say SOLVED

 

I am really not the plugin type, but I might actually try to use this one!

 

Heard it described as somewhat like Obsidian before.

 

I have been meaning to check out Mastodon and never actually fire, not knowing what instance to sign up for…

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