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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess I'm on the right track 😌⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Instances are more like servers or domains. Your instance is lemmy.world. We can see votes from individual users because in order for votes to federate across instances, (like if you, on lemmy.world, were to vote on my instance, lemmy.dbzer0) they must be public. So anyone with the know-how can inspect who has voted on posts, and how they have voted.

  Someone spun up three entire instances and mass created dozens of accounts, just to mass downvote. It’s just blatant vote manipulation, and is why the admin stepped in to defederate (stop sending info back and forth) from the rogue instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Your mom is hurt, and probably feeling betrayed from multiple fronts. First from her husband having the affair, and now from you choosing to stay with him. But that doesn’t make her words accurate, nor does it make them acceptable.

  She actually needs to be really careful in how she brooches the subject going forward, because this is a clear cut attempt at parental alienation. It’s a big issue in divorce proceedings; If one parent tries to alienate the child(ren) from the other, then the courts can step in and use that against the offending parent in the divorce.

  Basically, courts recognize that divorce brings out the worst in people, and they don’t want children being caught in the middle or used as weapons/leverage. If it gets too bad, the court will even appoint a lawyer specifically for you/any siblings, whose entire focus is on your wellbeing. Because the court basically recognizes that during divorce, chances are very good that the parents will act out of spite instead of the child(ren)’s best interest. So to protect the kids, the court essentially appoints a lawyer to represent the kids.

  That lawyer isn’t focused on which parent gets the bigger slice of the assets, or who pays alimony, except to determine how that would affect your living conditions. All that lawyer does is fight for your best interest. And when it comes time to decide who you stay with, your opinion does factor into it. They’ll weigh your opinion more heavily if you’re older, but it does play a large part in who ends up being your primary guardian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably don't remember these but I have a question⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is unfortunately the only real answer. “Install an aux port in your car, or get a different player that will play via USB” isn’t a good answer to hear, but it’s the correct one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet every single apartment complex has paper-thin walls, because landlords want to maximize floor space instead of eating up square footage with thicker walls. Also, proper sound insulation costs big money. Like thousands of dollars per wall. Landlords building shitholes to rent don’t care if the tenants can hear each other fuck through the walls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, keep calling so you can make a paper trail. Cops don’t know it’s an issue unless you tell them, so keep calling and keep making reports. Once enough stack up, they’ll be able to take action. But you need to prove a pattern of behavior, and that takes more than a single call. Take video too, if you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy two longest running best friends.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but mostly because I dislike roguelikes. They get too repetitive and turn into a slog, and the success of your runs is often entirely dependent on which items you find.

  I’d much rather have a tight, concise game with handmade maps. IME, roguelikes just pull the old NES/SNES trick of “well we can’t fit more data on the game cart, so just make the game harder to force players to replay it over and over again. That will artificially inflate the game length.”

  Bastion and Transistor don’t need sequels, but I do wish they’d stop with the roguelikes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm something of an expert myself⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re using air compressors, you should consider adding a moisture filter on your air gun. When the air gets compressed, humidity tends to get increased. Then when you spray it, that moisture re-condenses as it leaves the system. You can very easily fuck up electronics because you blew a bunch of water mist into the connections at 60 PSI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if you’re 100% local, that’s basically the ideal use case for Jellyfin. Plex really shines when it comes to remote access. But if you never use that, then there’s very little reason to use it over Jellyfin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, just spin up a second Docker image for your porn Jellyfin server. Copy your transcoding settings over from the existing image, and point the new image at different media folders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It literally gives you a gigantic “hey we want to sell your data. Do you want to allow that” prompt when you open it. They didn’t even make the “no, don’t sell my data” button grey and tiny like so many cookie prompts do. Plex went out of their way to put it up front and center, instead of quietly burying it in an obscure opt-out. There are plenty of perfectly valid complaints about Plex… But if a company wants to sell my data, (and here’s a spoiler warning: They all want to) this is how it should be handled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also the difference between active and passive voice. Passive voice tends to take a more roundabout way to say the same thing. Active would be something like “the man smashed his cup when his temper flared.” It’s very direct and to the point. “Man>Smash>Cup.” The man is directly acting upon the cup. In contrast, the passive form would be more along the lines of “the cup was smashed during the man’s outburst.” It removes a lot of the action. It’s more like “Cup>was smashed” and everything after that is just additional context; We could even remove the context that the man was the one who smashed it, because it isn’t needed for the sentence to still be complete.

  You see it a lot when cops fuck someone up, then have to release a public statement about it. They never say something active and straightforward like “our officers beat the man to death.” That puts the blame squarely on the cops who killed the dude. Instead, they always say something more passive, like “the man succumbed to injuries he sustained while resisting arrest.” Notice that the former has “officers” doing the action of beating, while the latter removes officers entirely and has “man” doing all of the action. It is used to shift blame away from officers and onto victims. The former is a direct “the man died because of our officers’ actions” statement. But the latter is more like “the man failed to stay alive, and the failure is entirely on him.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And a Samsung TV app. There’s an entire branch of Samsung TVs that require side loading to get a Jellyfin app installed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t even need to dig. As soon as I opened Plex in my browser, it gave me a giant full screen “hey we want to sell your data. Do you consent” page. I disagree with data sale in general, but at least they didn’t go out of their way to bury the opt out. In fact, they actually went out of their way to present the notification in a way that was impossible to miss. If you’re capable of reading, you’ll know what the popup is for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad to see Okami mentioned here. It was poorly marketed, which basically killed the development company… But it was so good.

  Some people have called it the best Zelda game never made, and I believe the description is accurate. It has all of the mechanics of Zelda’s puzzlebox dungeons. It’s just a different setting, and the “tools” to solve the puzzles are your brush abilities.

  My only real complaint about the game is that it was long. Like every time I expected the game to be wrapping up, it would introduce an entirely new region. But that length also meant it was able to deliver a fully self-contained story that didn’t rely on cliffhangers (sequels) to finish. Sure there were some sequels, but the original story stands on its own without them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, being a novice in the FOSS scene can be extremely frustrating sometimes. It can very easily start feeling like you’re reading documentation for a plumbus, where every single sentence seems to introduce a new term you’re unfamiliar with. And it often assumes you’re already intimately familiar with how these new terms work. So even just reading the documentation for one specific thing often means having fifty different tabs open, as you also have to read documentation about a ton of dependencies or terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the sad reality is that Plex’s setup experience is much smoother. And when you’re trying to convert people, the single largest obstacle is often social inertia. So lowering the barriers to entry is extremely important. My mother-in-law would need to sideload the Jellyfin app onto her TV, but Plex is available right on its app store.

  Luckily, you can run both side by side. Jellyfin for me and my more tech-literate friends, Plex for those who don’t know/don’t care to learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is that it also included things like the 12 year old hosting a Minecraft server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Flat colors, thick ink lines, and very little detail. The goal is for animators to be able to reproduce the art quickly and reliably, to be able to churn out dozens of seasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an episode in season 10 where Meg turns 18, and Quagmire ends up taking her to his remote sex cabin. Peter and Lois end up breaking in and threatening Quagmire to stay away from her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That candy room was apparently disgusting, for what it’s worth. The chocolate river quickly became the dumping ground for the cast and crew’s ashtrays, and it also started to smell like rotted food. Also, the river was extremely shallow, with only a small hidden cutout for Augustus to fall in and splash around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Turkish Delight, from Narnia. It isn’t even that good, but the little brat was willing to sell out his entire family for it. Given, he was growing up under sugar rationing, and the turkish delight was magically enchanted. But still…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People saw “scraped Discord messages” and immediately jumped to “oh shit fuck my private chats have been leaked everybody panic”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, that game is still playable online?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My buddy still regularly plays EverQuest Online. These days, it’s sort of expected that you multibox and run an entire party, instead of just one character. He usually has his bots pulling mobs in the background of whatever other game we happen to be playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fix two things:

  1. The weird loot range issue, where if you’re not standing in juuuuust the right angle, you won’t be able to loot certain corpses or containers.
  2. The fact that, outside of combat, controlling Geralt feels like driving a boat. Weird large turn radiuses, slow start and stop, etc… The devs did this to make his movement look more natural, but it feels like the game is constantly fighting against or trying to correct your inputs.

  Combine those two things together, and you get a consistently frustrating experience outside of combat. Installing a ranged loot mod was one of the biggest quality of life upgrades. You walk near a corpse or container, and it automatically gets looted.

  The combat can also get repetitive at times, and the difficulty scaling is weird too. But as long as those two things and still deliver a good story, I think players will ultimately walk away happy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, the real appeal of the Borderlands series is multiplayer. The games are alright in single player mode, but multiplayer is where it really shines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher III is currently on sale for 3€ until 25th May⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first game is rough by modern standards. Most people (even the most diehard fans) will tell you to just skip it. The second is worth playing, but with the mindset of “this game was made in the 2000’s”. Because it is definitely showing its age too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, the federal Do Not Call list, used to stop domestic spammers from calling you, is used by international spammers as a source of known active phone numbers to call. Because you need to actively add yourself to the list, so it’s a pretty solid list of active phone numbers. And the list is only enforced domestically, so all of the callers from overseas know they’ll never be prosecuted for using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a shame that Another Metroid 2 Remake got Cease & Desisted, purely because Nintendo was about to release Samus Returns and didn’t want to compete with a fan game that was better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use a Windows XP machine for work nearly every day. And yeah, it’s because it runs some of the most expensive equipment in the company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any corporate fleet machines, really. Corporate C-suite executives always demand the best laptops on the market… They also demand the newest laptops on the market. This means there’s always fresh stock of last year’s corporate laptop hitting the used market. And they’re almost always gently used, because they just sat docked on some executive’s desk for a year.

  Those $2000 laptops often get dropped on eBay for like $250, because the random Accounting person who has to auction them off doesn’t really care how much they sell for; They’re just checking a “was sold to recoup costs” checkbox.