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Tim_Bisley @piefed.social
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wccftech.com ASUS Increases Its Radeon RX 9070 Series And RTX 5090 Prices: Prime RX 9070 XT Model Now Costs $719 While RTX 5090 Starts At $2759

AMD's board partner, ASUS, has increased the prices of its Radeon RX 9070 series and RTX 5090 drastically. Now the cheapest RX 9070 XT card starts at $719.

ASUS Increases Its Radeon RX 9070 Series And RTX 5090 Prices: Prime RX 9070 XT Model Now Costs $719 While RTX 5090 Starts At $2759
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I've Become A Middle-Aged Skateboarder. It's Changed My Life In Ways I Never Expected.

www.huffpost.com I’ve Restarted An Unexpected Hobby In My 40s. I Had No Idea How Much It Would Improve My Life.

“My life became so much richer … and I even learned [it] could unhook me from my anxious thoughts, something I struggled with from an early age.”

I’ve Restarted An Unexpected Hobby In My 40s. I Had No Idea How Much It Would Improve My Life.
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Can someone help explain the difference between topics and feeds?
  • As a new user I latched onto the topics pretty quick and used it for navigating around. I will say despite the confusion the experience here is 10x better than on the lemmy instance I created an account on. I will work on Feeds over time as I navigate around and see content I like.

  • Can someone help explain the difference between topics and feeds?

    My understanding so far after a couple days is that joining a community gets it to show up on your front page but has no effect on it displaying under topics.

    In topics these are pre-built groups of communities (like multireddits). You can't modify them.

    Feeds are custom groups (like a multireddit) you can make that are just like topics except under your control. You can manage what communities are in the feed and show up under each category. You can create a feed that shows up as a "sub-feed" just like in topics. If you join a public feed it is like a user made topic where you can't change which communities show up in the feed.

    Am I understanding these correctly?

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    Upcoming Steam game called Wild Blue is like a spiritual successor to Star Fox

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    People who joined Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin this week, how confusing is the experience?
  • I joined sh.itjust.works during the third party app debacle with reddit. I was using it for a while then stopped. So I went back and started using it again and was surprised how little has changed. I feel like the momentum for lemmy kind of surged then faded a bit mirroring my own personal usage so many others must have done the same. After browsing around I found differences in the posts that appear when browsing on sh.itjust.works vs lemmy.world. I couldn't see any reason why this would happen as all the fixes I came across from a year or two ago are already turned on in my settings.

    Second the ability to discover communities is still difficult. The old site I had used before was gone so I used lemmyverse and the built in search on shitjustworks to try and find communities that were active. I was surprised to see some communities with a couple thousand members but very little activity.

    Third the ability for different federations to communicate with each other has not improved much. There is still a lot of difficulty and confusion there. I found a good summary of the experience at: https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-4-lemmy-piefed-mbin/

    Then I decided to give Piefed a try and I like it. I like that it has topics which are similar to multireddits. This subscribes me to enough communities that the content on the front page changed from last night to this morning where on sh.itjust.works it was pretty much the same stuff. Its confusing when I subscribe to a community that isn't part of a topic though. Sometimes I subscribe and see it was already part of a subtopic but I just wasn't subscribed to it? Like what determines which communities appear in a topic or not? I still haven't figured that out. It'd be nice if it provided formatting tools when replying to comments. Like I didn't want to paste the URL to that blog above but use text you hover over and can click. I also wish the front page of Piefed was more like old reddit. Its a bit disjointed between image posts and texts posts at the moment. Just give me thumbnails and expandos for everything.

    The biggest thing I'm seeing though is people just need to start contributing. Feel free to steal from reddit posts, go out and start reading a gaming news site or a regular news sites or whatever. See something you like? Post it up in a community here. Who cares if the community hasn't had a post in 30 days.

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    wccftech.com Undervolted AMD Radeon RX 9070 Retains 90% of Its Performance & Outperforms RTX 4070 Ti Super, On Par With 9070 XT At 3 GHz OC

    AMD Radeon RX 9070 delivers slightly less performance at just 170W TDP while being undervolted by 100mV. Still outperforms RTX 4070 Ti Super.

    Undervolted AMD Radeon RX 9070 Retains 90% of Its Performance & Outperforms RTX 4070 Ti Super, On Par With 9070 XT At 3 GHz OC
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    Here’s where the Lord of the Rings Online server transfer situation stands as queues surpass 48 hours
  • I tried to play this but I'm not a fan of MMOs. I couldn't do the fetch quests and just clicking on boxes for combat. I kept ending up wandering into these really remote areas and getting lost too.

    I would hope someone takes this world and updates the graphics and maybe even provide an updated RPG experience because it is truly amazing. There are so few good Tolkien based games out there which is nuts because there is so much lore to pull from.