A brief #Introduction for the #GooglePlusExodus of former #GooglePlus users:
I'm Filip, online better known as #FiXato or FiX
Current interests:
· #MSX (#MSX2 in particular) and various other #retrocomputer / #RetroGaming topics such as the #demoscene.
· #Ruby #webdevelopment and #scripting
· #Photography and casual #hiking
· #LetsPlay and other #casualgaming content
· #DiscWorld novels.
· Drinking interesting #beers, #Trappist beer in particular.
#GooglePlus features that were killed early on that I really missed:
†Followed By Stream, where you could see the posts of those who were following you. Handy way to connect with people with similar interests, and to mute those who followed you just to spam.
†Keyword/topic subscription, so you could follow posts based on interests, rather than people, without having to manually search. Much better than the promoted +1'ed content that later 'replaced' it.
#GPlus
That btw was one of the #GooglePlus features that really pissed me off and made me use it a lot less: the +1'ed by a friend promoted content, which more often than not was irrelevant to my interests, as it often included family photos of people I only followed for a specific interest. Along with the What's Hot posts, which increasingly became mostly about 'celebrity' nonsense, they just polluted my stream with noise.
The influx of mainstream users also made #GPlus go quickly downhill.
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@FiXato can you recommend an MSX emulator on Linux? At which games or demos should I definitely have a look? I really like the MSX machines. Sounds like the super 8bit computer I have dreamed of in the early nineties. Unfortunately I did never own one...
@dubst3pp4 as a host of development builds for Windows, MacOS and Android of the #openMSX emulator, I'd suggest https://openmsx.org where you can get release builds and source archives, or https://github.com/openMSX/openMSX where you will find the source code.
For legal reasons it only comes with the #cbios BIOS ROMs, which should get you up and running with most cartridge images at least. For other machines and extensions, you will need to find and download the necessary ROMs to the systemroms folder.
@FiXato thanks, good to know!
@dubst3pp4 most Linux distributions will have some version of the #openMSX emulator in their package manager as well, though personally I would recommend building the most recent versions from Git.
If you need live assistance, there's #openMSX on freenode IRC.
@dubst3pp4 If you want to play #MSX games straight from your browser, you can also give https://www.file-hunter.com/MSX/ a go, which uses the #WebMSX embedded emulator.
If you want fairly recent MSX titles, check out the #msxdev competition: http://www.msxdev.org/ and in particular the archive of previous submissions: https://www.msx.org/news/en/msxdev-update-over-120-games-available-for-your-pleasure-and-more
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As for #GooglePlus:
I was a GPlus user from the early beta period. While I was very active during the first couple of years, my interest in creating original content dwindled after Google removed interesting feature after feature, till I remained only as a lurker and occasional commenter.
Especially during the early adopter period, before Google's focus for #GPlus seemed to switch to mainstream users, it was an engaging platform. It was interest-oriented, rather than existing-contact-based.