adhocfungus

@adhocfungus@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM may be abominably expensive, but hey, at least SSD prices are also exploding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the strategy I am now forced to adopt as well. I bought a 2 TB SSD for my home server in late 2024 for $80, then it died exactly a year and a day later. I knew RAM was out of control, but didn’t expect to see the same SSD for $350.

  So I guess it’s back to the old 250 GB SSD and rotating old stuff onto an ancient HHD, then hoping prices tank again before one of those implodes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think size is the biggest factor. OS ISOs are pretty big, so having a managed download is helpful. If the 100 GB triple-A games were open source I would certainly expect torrents. But the FOSS things I download directly are pretty small, and the vast majority are done through a package manager or docker compose. So there may be a Goldilocks zone in the middle where it’d be helpful, but in those cases I’d expect a small installer that downloads the bulk of it for you.

  So not much benefit for the consumer, but what about the provider? Spreading the traffic would reduce load on the hosting server which is a positive. You’d still have to handle the bulk of the traffic until the seeders outpace the leechers, but on long enough timescales it’d be helpful. Except you can’t really update a torrent, which means each release needs to start fresh. This still works for OS creators because updates tend to be far apart, there is a large user base, and there is still some market for older versions. For regular programs you may only get one of those three, at which point adding torrents may be more hassle than it’s worth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it from the [youtu.be/Jm7nZMHX2Cs](Octopus Lady)? She’s always great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please tell me this is shopped.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Chat, is this real?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dating profile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely he just means that he left the church and is no longer a pastor at… 18!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to say the opposite. They somehow made it uglier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank me later...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard the dev didn’t intend for those to stack and it’s nerfed in the next patch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Memoirs and Autobiographies partly fictional? How the f do people remember so much detail?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying to write a memoir and this is legitimately true. I have basically no concrete memory of my childhood, but when I start writing what I do remember it opens some floodgates. Admittedly I still have to fill in a lot of gaps with what I think is funniest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FMK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that it sounds so much like “papacy” is making me laugh extra hard at this for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Trumps tries to change the constitution so he can serve a third term⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems most likely he’ll just do it and have the Supreme Court rule that it’s legal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When your father is clueless⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not masturbating with me then you must be masturbating against me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocking releasegroups from Sonarr/Radarr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never had a download tagged as SuccessfulCrab that wasn’t malware. I don’t know enough about them to know if that’s their fault or the indexers’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long can someone physically walk for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen the movie, but the book is very detailed about how the death march is tearing apart their bodies and minds. Some basically sleepwalk and get the tiniest fraction of rest. But even those that do are driven insane.

  I’m not really a fan of most of King’s work, but The Long Walk is worth a read even if you don’t like his other stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you name this New vehicle outta science fiction movies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Madder Max

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acetaminophen-American⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, the official standards are changing soon. Elon and others are already training us on the correct way to honor our supreme leader!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly what I thought of. No way this guy is serious; he just wants a wider dating pool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wobble wobble⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what I thought too. I had to stare at this one for a while to get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't eat wild carrot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there something I’m supposed to be doing with Queen Anne’s Lace? It gets more out of control every year, but I just rip it out and compost it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entering hyperspace⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always get the thought, “This can’t be normal. Guess I’m dying.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about 15 bean soup.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could say the same about Hannibal Lector, but I wouldn’t eat him. I do eat pork, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that salami or raw ground beef?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activity Pub: Can I join a PeerTube or Mastodon server using a Lemmy account?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my opinion this is the biggest shortcoming of the ActivityHub ecosystem. That’s not to say it should have been solved by now, since I don’t know how to decentralize authentication safely. And after using it for a while I’m not sure I want a single account.

  But it is a challenge facing newcomers and those trying to recruit them. This group of services is already tough to explain sometimes, and telling them it all interconnects just muddies the waters when you have to explain that it’s not the way they expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These pesky airbags⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  WHIPLASH

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always so loud 😒⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I gained it after having a kid. I don’t understand it, so I’d like to see a study as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My love for you… is like a truck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I immediately heard the old Guts theme in my head when I saw the right side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say Feynman for the same reason. Outside his classes it sounds like the guy was a lot of fun to be around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember to dry your filament kids⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the one on the left the dried one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BE NOT AFRAID, MORTAL⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can imagine those words coming out of that jar.