FoD

@FoD@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're called leaves for a reason.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, you’ll know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm at a loss on what server to buy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an Intel s2600 with dual Xeon and 120 gigs of RAM. It seems like such a good idea to run that as a home server. However, the amount of power that it used because it was older was way too much.

  I ended up hunting on eBay and found an old Asus motherboard, Intel chip, ram, and a pny Nvidia card.

  I bought refurb hard drives from serverpartdeals and a new case from Amazon.

  I recommend starting with a chassis you want and working backwards to help narrow your scope.

  I know you wanted smaller but heres what I bought. SilverStone Technology CS382… www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKTYSZV9?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_s…

  I

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Android, so Fedilab was the app I’m using.

  I didn’t want my feed to be an endless stream of news or other languages. So first I joined a smaller server, with a topic I care about.

  Then I followed a few journalists, and followed tags I care about like cycling, my hometown, tech news relevant to me, and TV shows.

  Lastly after I had that base of content… I went looking for people. When someone posts something I like, I check their other posts… do I like those too? If he’s then I look at who they follow. Big accounts usually don’t follow a lot of others. This is endless but really gave me a consistent group of people who I care what they think and say.

  Not easy but worth the time over the course of a week or two.

  Also I watched the #followfriday tag where people lost accounts they follow and why.

  Also, look at the top accounts lists that exist. Threads accounts have millions of followers so it’s a good bet it’ll be good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree and started putting effort into Mastodon. It took a week or two of filtering and browsing to find users and content but I’ve definitely found a more base of content to interact with that is nice.

  I agree though and Lemmy. I was an engaged redditor who switched 100% to Lemmy and I do not feel quite satisfied with the comments and content.

  I’ll stick around, but I find myself on Mastodon and using Ground News more often.

  Btw I have comments in my history of how frustrated I was about finding content on Mastodon, and suddenly it clicked after I spent a bunch of time on it. Not a raving endorsement but ultimately I do enjoy it.

  Another side note, I was looking for too users to follow and some have 10k followers, cool. Then I find some federated threads accounts with millions and realize how small we are in comparison. I know why, and I understand it, but it’s truth that small user bases have less ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the comments in the thread, they asked it to repeat before actually having it say anything so it repeated the directives.

  There’s a whole bunch of comments relocating it with chat logs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have dogs and for the last ten years or so, owned indoor sneakers. I do not like slippers or sandals so I buy some running shoes or something, cheap ones, on sale. They last forever because it’s indoor only. I replace them when they get smelly.

  I do not wear shoes that have been outside, in my place.

  Works for me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forest Gump thought "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get" because he was illiterate and couldn't read the little card.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what I expected. Nothing can just be fun anymore.

  I come into a comments section to read and maybe find something interesting and we have police brutality jokes, political bullshit, mean comments.

  It confuses me that people are thinking about this stuff all the time and trying to jam their misery into everything.

  Downvote me, up vote me, I don’t care but I am just so tired of being forced to think about all the bullshit in the world every day all at once. It’s inescapable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tasty flag⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

  I’m a fan of Dune and this always made me laugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X filing “thermonuclear lawsuit” in Texas should be “fatal,” Media Matters says⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like all these giant legal teams have such incredible capabilities to push lawsuits however and wherever they want - it’s honestly hard to just keep up with what is happening and why.

  This article does a good job of explaining as Ars typically does. But every lawsuit we read about these days is so convoluted that I can’t really understand it as much as I would like to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon's Dogma 2 cooking features "real meat" - does that mean vegans shouldn't play it?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t speak for the author as to their intentions, but that’s what I took from it.

  I would just add, it doesn’t matter if it’s for food or for a game or anything else, an animal died. And in this case it was cheaper to get meat and take an animals life than make a digital version.

  I’m not vegan, I’m not trying to speak for others, but it is my takeaway that the point is an animals life is worth less than a digital steak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon's Dogma 2 cooking features "real meat" - does that mean vegans shouldn't play it?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The headline is click bait imo but the article makes a somewhat valid point about the larger use of animal products in everything. The article lists paper money in the UK as an example so a vegan is essentially unable to use paper money without conflicting with their ideals.

  I would say the point of articles like this is a reasonable way to bring awareness of how ubiquitous animal products are in everyday items.

  I think it’s a valid topic with a headline written by marketing and an article written by someone with a point to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Active Users looking good⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to like mastodon but I don’t want to do the leg work of finding accounts. I like the algorithm to some extent, I want to find things.

  I also have trouble deciding how to support the post. Liking doesn’t do anything and tooting or whatever puts it on my page. I don’t feel part of the community boosting topics I like.

  I like voting things up and down.

  Maybe I’m doing it wrong but I try and get instantly bored because I have to hunt for everything. I really tried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep sorry I wasn’t specific and thank you for clarifying. Auto forward so like I want my girlfriend to receive all my Walmart+ emails which doesn’t let you have accounts like Amazon. So I forward all emails. Had to keep my Gmail to just make it easy. I’m sure there’s a more complicated setup but it’s Walmart… I just need email to get to both of us about orders.

  It’s like this because it’s secure, there’s was good reason they didn’t have this feature. But it’s inconvenient and I’m not using Proton because I’m a secret agent, I just to want to pay for a product instead of being the product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t forward emails until about a month ago.

  Their drive app backs up only the computer it’s on and other computers can access that backup. It’s like a sectioned off part. Or I can upload files that any of my devices can access.

  Their calendar has some problems with compatibility of run into and it’s things that the person on either side can’t change. Not world ending but it’s really annoying.

  They literally just added the ability to automatically add holidays to the calendar. And of course I had set it up about a month prior so I manually entered everything.

  The proton drive app for your phone doesn’t automatically back up anything.

  I’m not shitting on proton because I’m an active proton unlimited subscriber and I use a bunch of their services, but I also recognize the flaws and how it’s not as seamless as Google yet, which I don’t expect it to be.

  I also wish they had some better Linux support in preaching to the choir with that.

  Love their vpn and the netshield features. Email works great and I love knowing I can read an email and automatically have trackers blocked. Aliases are great but I use their simple login site free with my proton subscription too. So my point is I like them lots, but it’s not a complete Google replacement yet.