in the interest of throwing some positivity around, how has joy found you recently?

I'm not going to put a time limit on "recently." I personally have been struggling, so I thought it would be nice to see some other people's enjoyment of things.

for me, I've got a couple small things. it's nice out, finally, so I've started taking walks again (I like to go for about three miles at a time) with music to listen to and I'll chat with my friends too. additionally, I've handwritten some of my friends and my partner letters, with stickers inside for them to have. I'm really looking forward to them getting them.

lastly, I know I've posted before on things like linux and selfhosting, and I've been doing more with that. nothing too spectacular, but I recently spun up a Ghost blog container... that only took me 5 hours to troubleshoot, hahaha. I think it's my setup, but I'm just glad I did it. I use it as a private journal that my partner reads and comments on. I'm hoping to try again with so

Maybe im misinterpreting the situation but I've seen mods straight up delete comments they dont agree with and im curious about how common this is.

So, I'm trying to calculate the theoretical max wattage of everything plugged into my outlet. (Only have one wall socket in this room and need to carefully manage what's connected.)

I've currently got a 1000VA UPS (which is rated for 600W at full load, which, despite using for three years, I've recently discovered firsthand is already too low) which I use for my PC and monitor.

Since I'm going to need to be upgrading that soon to at least a 1200VA or 1400VA UPS for a new PC build (and probably should before a the new build anyway), I'm curious about how to calculate total usage for everything drawing power.

My question really is, when calculating how much power is being drawn from the wall outlet in addition to the regular stuff (chargers, etc.), do I only calculate the UPS, do I not include the UPS in the calculation, or do I calculate all three (PC PSU, monitor, UPS)?

Obviously, not everything is at full load, so I won't be drawing that much, but this is just a theoretical calcul

It seems odd to me that it's not banned outside of medically necessary situations or for when the person has informed consent.

Lately I have been thinking a bit about how commercial and governmental satellites impact my life, so that I'm mentally prepared for life if they end service. This isn't a doomer post, it's solar punk or whatever. Practical.

The first time I remember interacting with a commercial satellite was in the late 2000s when I got a device with GPS. I don't entirely know how satellites are involved in my current cellphone, but I know it does use them for GPS. Never had sat TV or sat Home Internet.

• The internet would still exist, people would have less access though especially in remote places
• Weather Service would be impacted, I think? But much of that is also done with radar.
• I don't know anything about air traffic control! Does that have satellites?
• Those ugly TV dishes would still be ugly, but maybe they could be ugly spider plant planters or something.
• I don't care about how nations spy on each other, but it's funny to me that would be impacted.

What about your individ

Good day! First post 🥇 Hello, thanks for having me, people of beehaw.org 😄

What a cool idea, to have a social media site organised like this ––– I love it!! I've been without the algorithm (IG, FB, X, etc...) for quite a while now, and I think the Lemmyverse will be much fun to explore 🔍. I write explore, because the other week I was watching TechnologyConnections new video on the ~ **𝚊 𝚕 𝚐 𝚘 𝚛 𝚒 𝚝 𝚑 𝚖** ~ where he was talking about how many users are feeling more and more alienated by it, wishing for a more self-curated experience. I couldn't have agreed more, and then I remembered Lemmy from an old MentalOutlaw video, back when Reddit turned 💩 for good (I was never a user).

Anyway, I just have a couple of questions, which I hope, I am posing in the right comm... 🥴

• I want to post to Hexbear's DIY community – as far as I can tell, it's the biggest one by far. However, Hexbear is not federated with Beehaw. That means, I'd have to create a seperate account for He

With the writing on the wall with firefoxes own version of "don't be evil" being removed I was curious what people on beehaw were switching to.

I'm looking for a song video clip which features a very close up shot of female lips. At a certain point it becomes sexual without being explicit, and it is suggested that the woman bit off a mans penis.

I started to notice some people posting NYT, Bloomberg or other websites with hard paywalls, that leads to people in the comments that are unable to read the article to discuess the headline without any analysis and some times spreading misinformation, which cannot be countered by the article, due to the paywall.

Which bring me to this: Why does no one thought about blocking hard paywalled articles for the sake of quality of discussion?

As some users are correctly pointing out, the midgame of the rise of fascist powers in the colonies would appear to involve private space corporations equipping the Trump regime with nuclear armed satellites.

Hypothetically I am a middle-aged white guy in average health with statistically solid odds to have another 15 years of time on this earth, and then we'll bell curve my life expectancy based on that (30 years likely, 45 years likely not). I live in the colonies, but hypothetically I'm not cut off short by the regime personally, either 😜. However feel free to include me in hypothetical MCEs or extinction events in your guesses.

My guess is that I am likely to live to see cascade events leading to a pretty significant manifestation of the Kessler Syndrome.

Here are some things I am considering:

• Private Space Corps, especially Space X, are prone to frequent accidents and pollute at regionally disruptive scale as a reg

(Is there a more appropriate community to post this in?) Thank you in advance for any advice/help!

I've come across this build on PC part picker, but I was hoping someone could help me customize it a bit better for my needs. I'm going to be streaming, gaming, and editing videos on this machine.

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/guide/ZpkcCJ/enthusiast-amd-gamingstreaming-build

I would like to future-proof the PC as much as I reasonably can (10-15 years' usage would be great).

My budget is probably around 2-3k CAD? I am over extending myself slightly, but I have used my PC daily for 12 years, and I figure if not now, when?

The only other thing I might consider is new monitors, but otherwise, I'll be reusing all my peripherals as those are more recently upgraded!

I was also thinking a better Nvidia card might be worthwhile? The main thing is I'm not familiar with how the parts work in terms of compatibility. That and electrical usage/needs from the power supply

Edit: are prebuilts any

No seriously, what does love mean to you? The love of your child, the love of your partner(s), monogamy, polyamory, (non) consensual non-monogamy, infatuation, limerence, heartbreak. The love of one's hobby, the love for an object, the love of an idea, et cetera. Whatever it is that comes to mind goes.

Photo credits: Gaelle Marcel on Unsplash.

I have some issues. I ignore most of them and cry when I want to. Is it healthy? Fuck no. But it keeps me going!

Today I’m soliciting feelings because I’m ultra disappointed that the person I thought wanted to shape their life to be with me, to match the shaping I’ve done to accomodate them, really only wants compromise when it’s mine! Super fun! We were looking at building a life and now I get to figure out how to do the big life goal things I want on my own! Super!

So, beehaw, what’s the most painful relationship thing you’ve been through? Bonus points if it totally upended your life plans. Extra bonus if they said they were “doing it for you”.

I have seen so many different approaches to ingress be responded to by Lemmings as inappropriate or creepy, much of it hypocritical to other responses, but I digress: is there ANY appropriate way that everyone can agree on for convincing humans to invite you past their threshold?

From the collective consciousness of Lemmy comments I have read, my impression is that the only appropriate thing is to be born into a coterie with thralls already and never make any moves or even so much as look at a human in your unlifetime.