I’ve been on the fediverse for over a year dude, but people from Mastodon don’t generally end up on /all thankfully, so I don’t generally have to deal with it.

Oh. Fair enough. I always forget Mastodonians are allowed to interact with Lemmy from Masto

For any Mastodonians wondering why I asked, this is how it looks from Lemmy:

#Why #are #we #doing #hashtags #on #lemmy #now?

Who looks at this and thinks it isn’t satire lol? I sometimes struggling with telling satire apart, too, but this is the most obvious piece of satire I’ve seen in a long time.

Thanks!

Heya, sorry for the necropost, but would you mind sharing how you’re doing on storage these days? I’m looking at spinning up a Lemmy instance of my own and I’m curious about the storage aspect on small instances

Why’s it a static gif

many engineers do not know how to effectively communicate with management when something will result in terribly written software and just do it anyway.

I imagine this is partly a result of bad and misinformed managers too though. There’s a lot out there who have 0 clue wtf you do, just that you make computer do thing yet still act like they know your job better than you

Oh, yeah, you’re probably right. Unfortunately I absolutely do not have the knowledge required to do that, but I’ll keep it in mind. Thanks

Oh good idea, thank you! Yeah, I think because of the federation stuff, it should persist, although I think that will complicate searching and finding things. I’m pretty sure this is the largest instance to go down to date, so I’d rather be safe than to lose things, even if it is only a small instance.

This does make me a bit nervous for how archiving larger instances will look when one eventually dies, though. A spider that logs everything into a spreadsheet and then splitting into different groups would probably be the best option. Or maybe a local ArchiveBox setup could work too. All the Lemmy admins seem fairly resonable though, so perhaps they might even upload everything directly into the Internet Archive themselves

Isn’t this the same country that made the drinking age 21 because of car accidents?

It’s not even the spyware or ads that piss me off the most about “smart” TVs, it’s how they always seem to lag to fucking shit. I’ve mostly used lower end ones, but even a few mid range ones I’ve used are still laggy pieces of shit that obviously have the cheapest components imaginable. Which for a normal tv is fine, expected even! But on a “smart” tv where to do anything at all you have to dig through their shitty, counter intuitive “smart” menu, it just sucks.

And then you want to watch some normal tv after a long day and the fuckin thing won’t let you because it demands it installs an update, which thanks to those cheap components, takes far longer than it should

To play devil’s advocate here: sometimes there are genuine reasons to try and request support before making an issue. I’m not particularly smart, nor too techy. If something isn’t working, I’m just going to assume I’m an idiot and I’ve messed something up. If I can’t figure out how to make it work, my first post of call will be trying to find a community related to whatever isn’t working, or on smaller projects I might try and reach out to the Dev. Opening an issue always feels like a “hey, your program isn’t doing what it’s meant to do, here’s what’s wrong with it, please fix it” and not “I think I’ve fucked something up, can you please help?”

I suppose it depends what you’re developing though.

For something cheap, my vote goes to name cheap. Their support was actually better than I expected too. For something private njalla is really good. Not sure what’s a good mix of both though, maybe CloudFlare? I know you can move your domain to them, so I presume they also let you register directly through them.

Telstra here in Australia seems to have this as well. Not sure about duckdns specifically, but last night I found out that they block a few monero mining pools. I emailed them about it, and apparently it’s based off of virustotal ratings. They wouldn’t turn it off, but they told me it’s “trivial to bypass” (their words), suggesting google or CloudFlares DNS, or a VPN

Funny enough the post right below this one in my subscribed feed was a post from db0 asking about setting up media servers. And both of the top two comments recommend jellyfin, nobody recommended emby

So old it’s yellowed

Looking at all you guys with your gigabit connections, meanwhile I’m in Aus and lucky to get 30 down and 15 up