empireOfLove

empireOfLove, 11 months ago

Honestly, chances are Reddit didn’t even ask them either. They could have been dead in a ditch for years for all Reddit gives a shit, they just need the content public again asap. And I would not put it past them to “access” a dead mod account to achieve those ends

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

looks like it's time to cross off the "Russian civil war" square from my geopolitical bingo card.

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

Show me 100 users, and I will show you 100 interpretations of the "perfect" website.

There are endless annoyances and inefficiencies in every user interface. They're unavoidable. And yes, Lemmy is still largely in it's infancy and has a lot of irritating bugs to work out. But you just have to learn to work around them as best you can.

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

This is some weird kink stuff isn't it

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

The fediverse is open to Meta. They're welcome to do what they want. I will simply choose to not federate with and actively block every iota of content or instances they create or touch. Zuck is an ugly cancer on the internet.

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

The loot: Three bread, two bones, and an iron horse armor

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

Planetside 2 is sort of a MMO Tactical fps. Involves (or can involve if you find the right group) a decent amount of geographical planning with squads and platoons across each playable continent. Very large worlds. Armor vehicles and aircraft are available too to add a new layer of logistics.

However it's plagued with performance and bad UI issues due to the 14 year old Forgelight engine, and the dev team is pretty unorganized these days so the player experience is not terribly great, especially for someone starting out fresh on the game that doesn't understand its many, many quirks (and does not have the skill to go up against the 1000+ hour gaming chair sweats that almost exclusively populate the PS2 servers now). That doesn't mean it's not worth trying though- it's free to play, so give it a try, get into a platoon, and see how you like it.

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

Yes. It's 16bit app support for win3.1/95 stuff that ran in the DOS layer that's depreciated, but even then they'll sometimes run.

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

Sure. It’s plenty feasible. I’ve used old laptops, desktops, a server board running naked under my desk with parts strewn about… anything can run your homelab.

The only thing you may have issues with long term in a laptop like that is the battery turning into a spicy balloon. Regardless of whether its healthy, or totally “dead” and wont charge, it can and will still start to offgas and can catch on fire. If it has a removable battery, take it out and run the laptop on a normal UPS that is designed to sit fully charged and plugged in 24/7.

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

They see the fediverse trend gain9ng steam with the rise of Mastodon and go “Oh sheit we need to be on that for $$$”. Proceed to embrace, extend, enshittify, and extinguish. Its nothing but Zuckerberg’s gasping breaths to try and stay relevant as his company begins the very slow, but inevitable, backslide into technological irrelevance.

I will be leaving and/or blocking any instance that chooses to federate with anything related to Meta. They are antithetical to the entire foundation of the metaverse and they ruin everything they touch.

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

2gb will be limiting, and the database will kill SD cards quickly (like, a couple weeks kind of quickly) However if it’s just you and <100 other people it will not be stressed otherwise

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

“Indefinitely” meaning “until Reddit evicts us as moderators in about a week”

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

honestly, once I wrapped my head around the idea of federation (which is very easy given I’ve been active in the P2P torrent field before- federation is but a simple extension of that concept) lemmy has pretty easy to use. It’s simple. The interface is clean and has what I want right in front. I search what I want, deal with a couple minor bugs, and then look at what I want to look at.

My only biggest concern with Lemmy longterm is community fragmentation. As more instances spin up with the user influx, and Lemmy being (currently) limited in horizontal scaling of individual instances, we are going to have cases of tens, maybe even hundreds, of instances all ending up with identical, but separate, communities. Federation of a single instance’s community can only work so well, if we’re expecting users in the millions, and such fragmented communities that may or may not end up federating with one another can artificially make the service feel a lot less active than it really is and/or potentially lead to a lot of content being missed by some users.

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

They kind of have taken away their default status. They removed lemmy.ml from the list of instances on join-lemmy.org.

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

Linus gives exactly zero fucks about saying exactly what’s on his mind. And it’s almost always massively based. He’s always been great about that, we don’t deserve such a great mind.

empireOfLove, 1 year ago

Huh, messaging via Bluetooth is a neat trick I didn’t know I needed. Makes a ton of sense, I could have used this quite a bit during some sporting events where device density in the stands absolutely ruined any chance of cellular or wifi data but I needed to talk with team mates.

I might give it a whirl and see if it has just a dedicated Bluetooth mode. I’d never use it as my main messaging service ofc, but it looks like a fun alternative on the surface.