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- Comment on xkcd #3056: RNA 3 days ago:
I read this and I hear my dad bitching about how RNA vaccines “haven’t really been tested on anyone!”
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 1 week ago:
It’s actually a very simple ploy they’ve used since before I was born (I’m not young). Anything they can paint as sexual, or that actually is out of the sexual “norm,” they will use as a scapegoat. They used it against blacks (coming after their white women), gays, and now trans. Pedophilia and rape are the two Worst Things, and if they can tie the Bad Guy du jour, that equals fear-votes. The best kind of right wing votes in all the land.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Forgot to add that I’m not saying Lemmy is perfect as is. For sure there are things that can be improved and tweaked. And by all means, people who want to contribute should be encouraged and applauded. I’m just saying that the community that’s grown here is pretty great, and growth coming from slow-ish trickle of new users probably wouldn’t threaten that. Right now, Lemmy has a good late-90s, early 00s community feeling, and I really enjoy it.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think the effort to make joining Lemmy easier has some downsides. One of the nicest things about these communities is how easy it is to have good conversations with internet strangers. I’ve grown to appreciate and hope for Lemmy not trying to be a Reddit replacement. In fact, I’m totally fine with “the masses” staying in Spez’s data harvesting machine. If, one day, Lemmy gets as popular as Reddit, I think it will inevitably have many of the same problems. It just theoretically won’t be selling your data for profit (one hopes, anyway). My wife isn’t super-techy, and I explained the concept of Lemmy to my wife in about 10 minutes. She set up an account in about 5.
To me, it’s not that using or joining Lemmy is hard. It’s that a lot of people have come to loathe change. They’re told that Lemmy is “like Reddit,” so why leave Reddit, all their accumulated Internet points, and their familiar communities/echo chambers? Pretty much all of them also use other data-harvesting social media sites, so they mostly don’t care about that aspect. When I tell my friends about Lemmy I talk about how the size of the communities is really conducive to good conversations from wide enough ranges of opinions and experiences, compared to Reddit’s too much of everything including trolls.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Of course it’s not on par in English.
Nier défendre déposer!
- Comment on ugh i wish 2 months ago:
Those inspections are carried out by federal inspectors. The incoming administration wants to severely cut funding for pretty much “the government” (except the military). That means fewer inspectorsand less thorough inspections. That’s how things like the Boar’s Head thing, and listeria outbreaks in spinach happen. They’re happening more and more because of industrial farming processes coupled with more relaxed federal inspections.
- Comment on Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks – new report 3 months ago:
Every time I see this, I look for information about the aftermarket space. I have an 11 year old car with a Pioneer deck.
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- Comment on I'm moving to another city soon. What are some good apps that could help? Inventory, logistics, etc 3 months ago:
This is a criminally underrated tip. Liquor boxes are seriously sturdy, and the size keeps you from overpacking them.
- Comment on What advice would you give to someone half your age? 3 months ago:
Never be afraid to learn something. More than anything the world needs smart people.
Be virtuous and kind. These qualities will pay off over time.
Listen. To the people around you. To the world around you. Pay attention. When you have to speak, choose your words carefully. We have enough hot takes.
Read. Seriously, read a lot. The more you do it, the more you’ll find stuff you like.
Take care of your teeth. You only get the one permanent set, and dentistry is basically prevention and patchwork. They can’t really “fix” a problem. Also take care of your body. It gets harder to do that as you get older.
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 3 months ago:
Generally, I agree with this. Not quite w/ regards to Nike and some other brands, (most of Nike’s competitors, Apple) , since they put the logo on everything as part of their design asthetic. Whether you like that or not is personal choice, of course. Personally, I miss the old colorful Apple logo.
With luxury brands, yeah it’s a blatant cash grab extracting money from poorer people by selling them the mirage of owning something luxurious. The stuff you buy at the mall isn’t sold at their Rodeo Drive location! That said, some luxury brands do qualify for “buy it for life” status, though having the kind of quality isn’t exclusive to luxury brands (see also: Zippo lighters, and many many other solid, reasonably priced brands).
- Comment on VPS services connecting to local services 4 months ago:
Just reread you comment and I guess it’s the network that will cause issues. To be clear, I think I can make the cloudflare portion work one way or another (I have a second domain i can use if necessary). If my thinking is correct the tailnet communication would be over that IP space - not trying to route to my LAN net. Unless I’m missing something.
- Comment on VPS services connecting to local services 4 months ago:
So I learned today that I need to play with the conflate tunnel if I want two systems using one domain. I’m hoping a second api key will help. Honestly, until I tested the second server on the tunnel, that’s been rock solid. Or are you saying using both networks will inject flakiness?
Also, I appreciate the suggestion of clustered with, but none of this is mission critical. If it’s down until I can login/fix, I’m ok with that. Only a 2-3 people using it.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 4 months ago:
Agreed. I’m not much of a coder, so the best contribution I can give is probably $$. At least until I get off my ass and learn something new!
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 4 months ago:
True, it’s a good percentage, and probably better than most free software. That said, given the communities the self hosted apps support, their excitement for the products, and for some the essential nature of some of these apps, it would be nice to see the yes/no number more 50/50 at least.
- Submitted 4 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 4 months ago:
I think this is pretty troubling. Including myself in the sentiment that the self-hosting community needs to do better. Aside from funding individual projects, are there any organizations that help fund self-hosting projects?
- Comment on I always get them confused. 5 months ago:
I used to get them confused until a visit to Luray Cavern. The tour guide explained that one “held ‘tite’ to the ceiling while the other just ‘mite’ reach it.”
- Comment on Are all FRU for a particular Lenovo Marketing part number? 6 months ago:
Compatible? Should be. Identical? No (at least not always). Only identical FRU are interchangeable.
- Comment on Current best lemmy clients 6 months ago:
Anyone else get a lot of “Failed to load media” messages on images? I particularly see them on science memes in both Voyager and Arctic on iOS. Haven’t tested on android yet.
- Submitted 7 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Maths 9 months ago:
There’s a certain irony in using a Douglas Adams quote to support saying something is reminiscent of Terry Pratchett.
- Comment on apex predators 10 months ago:
- Comment on have a little help from my friends 10 months ago:
Assistant to THE branch manager.
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 11 months ago:
And Penistone.
- Comment on Piers Morgan gets owned 1 year ago:
Isn’t “getting owned” basically this douche’s job?
- Comment on I think trump might win, and it's due to shitty memory and DND 1 year ago:
Don’t forget, the GOP will be winning control of the Senate pretty soon, too.
- Comment on What NAS to get for running plex and is there anything I should know? 1 year ago:
There’s nothing wrong with the small PC/NAS route. Certainly more powerful and flexible. I’m currently running the *arr stuff in containers on a Synology 1520 (also storing a bunch of other stuff), with Plex running on a Shield Pro. It’s pretty low power draw, and so far does everything I need.
- Comment on Stick Enthusiasts - For sharing your great sticks or stick related memes 1 year ago:
FINALLY!
- Comment on What existing organizations should start hosting fediverse instances? Which ones are already doing so? Finally, what's a good community to organize this stuff? 1 year ago:
That TLD is pretty awesome!
