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Took a bad picture, but it's of your cat? Post it anyway.
What exactly do you need from a Discord replacement?
There's a LOT of options, with varying features so if you don't need certain things it gets a lot easier to suggest what might work.
Yeah, Puerto Rico and DC first.
So Canada can be the 53rd state?
(/s, we shouldn't be annexing anyone for any reason)
It's not just the baked products either!
I just bought some lemon pepper seasoning.
Now you'd t think that the top ingredient would be either lemon, pepper, or salt right?
Well uh, no. It's sugar for some reason.
There's a hill I'll die on: screw that 19th century-ass business dress crap.
Nobody gives a crap outside of a bunch of boomers who are still arguing about how offended they'll be if you don't put on a monkey suit to sooth their egos, so like, we should just stop that crap.
Also: ties. Who the hell came up with the brilliant idea of wearing a noose?
Vance was groomed to lead this movement
If you want some fun tin-foil conspiracy thing, there's one I heard that I both find entirely plausible AND actually believe.
Basically, when (not an if) Trump dies or is otherwise removed, Vance will come out as the 'We've had a hard time, what with our last president being a batshit insane rot brained moron. I'm going to undo the worst of his decisions, and get MAGA back on Track'.
And presto, we now have moved to the competent dear leader part of this whole play, and everyone from creepy neocons to the bleeding heart-ist liberals will applaud and say what a lovely thing this is, and all this change is good!
Except it's the same shit, just sane washed, because it's not hard to be LESS insane than the Tangerine.
Americans tend to buy the most car they think they can afford.
Hell, Americans buy the most car they can finagle a loan for, independent of if they can or can't actually afford it.
It wouldn't be surprising to find that a good portion of Tesla buyers are stuck in the trap where they owe so much on it that there's no way they could afford the hit to replace it, because they can barely make their payments now.
For real: I'm using a 38" ultra wide, and if you had told child me that a 38" monitor would be the smallest display in the house I'd have told you that you're full of shit.
She works at Google, not Yandex.
Though I'm sure Google could manage something equally mysterious.
If the past few years have taught me ANYTHING, it's that at least half the "gamers" are cheering the deportations on, so uh, yeah, anyway...
Not that I disagree, but putting it in the hands of a foundation that's beholden to corporate money isn't exactly going to be the solution to "eventually messing up stuff".
Basically every one of them made in the past 4 or 5 years?
Some are better than others - CP2077, for example, will happily use all 16 threads on my 7700x, but something crusty like WoW only uses like, 4. Fortnite is. 3 or so, unless you're doing shader compilation where it'll use all of them, and so on - but it's not 2002 anymore.
The issue is that most games won't use nearly as many cores as Intel is stuffing on a die these days, which means for gaming having 32 threads via e-cores or whatever is utterly pointless, but having 8 cores and 16 threads of full-fat cores is very much useful.
Even if he did, how could you tell the difference between the holes dementia has made and the holes a worm would make?
You hope, anyways. Given how shit's going, I'd be entirely unsurprised if someone said that and actually meant it.
While that's true, "I'm sorry that you got upset at what I did" is in no way actually an apology or an admission that they might have been wrong, so.....
Well, I can kinda answer that: I've got a launch PS4 controller that I mostly use wired on my PC and it's fine.
If I use it wirelessly, it'll still get about 5-6 hours, which basically means after 13 years it's still right on spec for what it should be able to do.
Not really something that's probably worth worrying about unless you've got some absolutely shitty batteries.
(Hell, I've still got some PS3 controllers that'll do 3-4 hours, and they're freaking ancient at this point.)
No wildlife, unless you mean the swarm of spiders that were living in the piles of yard debris in my back yard.
Nearly 100 yard bags later, an enormous pile of branches that's like 8ft tall and 10ft long, and endless hours (seriously, easily 40 hours this week) and such later, my yard is no longer buried under 5 years of neglect and tree byproducts.
Now to make the raised planter beds, firepit, and outdoor seating I've wanted since I've moved in but haven't dont.
At least: I'm probably at 5x what the guns cost in training, ammo, gear, range fees, gas to and from the range (live in a city, so most local ranges don't exactly let you shoot 5.56) and so on.
Not the cheapest hobby if you're planning on actually serious about being able to use your guns if something makes that necessary.
That flushing sound you hear is me getting rid of the last Microsoft product* from my house.
(* Okay, so I've still technically got some DOS and Windows 3.1 and Win98 stuff, but I mean, it's not really spying on anyone.)
Community for Free Games
Made this mostly because I've found putting RSS feeds into Lemmy useful since my doom-scrolling has reduced to just Lemmy and figured I'm probably not the only person that'd find this useful.
It's pulling 6 RSS feeds that provide free games for Steam, Gog, Epic, and Humble.
Nothing shockingly world-changing, but hey, free games.
Raised beds for food growth question
I've been meaning to turn a good portion of the back yard into a garden for food and food-related plants (herbs) since I moved in..... 4 years ago.
So, really plan on doing it over the winter for next year so I can plant in the spring.
I'm mostly planning "easy" plants: Zuchinni, squashes, onions, carrots, potatoes, broccoli, peas, maybe cucumbers etc.
The question, though, is what's the best way to like, do a raised bed?
Google has helpfully offered up what looks like a non-stop barrage of AI generated nonsense, but I'm figuring some sort of cement blocks for the corners and some un-treated boring white pine (or whatever's cheapest at the local lumber yard) wood for the sides.
The questions are, I guess, is what exactly is the correct thing to buy to fill these since I'm planning on making something like 4 or 5 large raised beds and like, what extremely obvious things am I overlooking that'll result in this being less success and more of a typical my-project-failed?
Laptop for Linux use
So I'm looking for a laptop, but before you downvote and move on, I've got a twist: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux support that's going to intentionally be console-only and rely on TUIs to make a lower-distraction device.
I was looking at older Thinkpads with 4:3 screens and the good keyboard before Lenovo went all chicklet with them, but I'm kinda concluding they're both way too expensive AND way too old to be a reasonable choice at this point.
A X220 or T40-whatever would be great and be the perfect aesthetic, but they're expensive, hard to find parts for, and using enough crusty old shit that this becomes yet another delve into retro computing and not one into practical, useful computing which is the goal here.
So, anyone have any recommendations of any devices in the last decade that have a reasonable keyboard, screen, use modern enough components that you can source new drives and RAM and batteries and such, and preferably aren't coated in a coating that's going to turn
Proper sound balancing
So not entirely music related, but my don't-use-reddit policy and this looking like the closest not entirely dead community has led me to post sooo...
I have an audio question about recording levels. I'm doing voice-over stuff for some really bad Youtube videos I'd like to make and it never sounds remotely good.
I get that the recording volume should be just the green side of clipping, but how do you take a track, and then add it to other tracks and balance the whole thing to not sound like ass?
It always seems that it's either too loud or too quiet and I'm baffled as to how to tweak the mix correctly so that things sound right.
www.theregister.com Appeals court revives TikTok ‘blackout challenge’ death suit
Want a bot to pick engaging content and immunity from liability? Sorry, no
Basically, the court said that algorithmically selected content doesn't qualify for Section 230 protections, which could be a massive impact to every social media platform out there that has any sort of algorithm selecting content, which, well, is all of them.
Definitely something that's going to be interesting watching play out.
Service availability monitoring/flapping services
So I've got a home server that's having issues with services flapping and I'm trying to figure out what toolchain would be actually useful for telling me why it's happening, and not just when it happened.
Using UptimeKuma, and it's happy enough to tell me that it couldn't connect or a 503 happened or whatever, but that's kinda useless because the service is essentially immediately working by the time I get the notice.
What tooling would be a little more detailed in to the why, so I can determine the fault and fix it?
I'm not sure if it's the ISP, something in my networking configuration, something on the home server, a bad cable, or whatever because I see nothing in logs related to the application or the underlying host that would indicate anything even happened.
It's also not EVERY service on the server at once, but rather just one or two while the other pile doesn't alert.
In sort: it's annoying and I'm not really making headway for something that can do a better job at root
Anyone else get an email from Portainer?
Just got an email thanking me for being a 5-node/free user, but Portainer isn't free and I need to stop being a cheap-ass and pay them because blah blah economic times enshittification blah blah blah.
I've moved off them a while ago, but figured I'd see if they emailed EVERYONE about this?
A good time to ditch them if you haven't, I suppose.
Shelly relays for energy monitoring
I'm wanting to add a bunch of energy monitoring stuff so I can both track costs, and maybe implement automation to turn stuff on and off based on power costs and timing.
I'm using some TPlink based plugs right now which are like, fine, but I'm wanting to add something like 6 to 10 more monitoring devices/relays.
Anyone have experience with a bunch of shelly devices and if there's any weird behavior I should be aware of?
Assume I have good enough wifi to handle adding another 10 devices to it, but beyond that any gotchas?
ArcaOS + DOS BBS stuff
insecuredisaster.com Arca OS, a MiniPC, and running a BBS
I've been running a BBS off and on since the mid-90s, and have tried a variety of methods to do so: OS/2 on real hardware, DosBox on Linux, a VM running OS/2, and more modern software that runs fine on modern Windows without the need of dealing with
Saw an older post asking about ArcaOS and BBS stuff, and since I actually just did a rebuild of mine doing exactly that on newer hardware, figured I'd write about all the stupid shit I had to deal with and how to configure the OS in a blog and post it here if anyone is interested.