Which systems or games you always fawned over when you were younger?
Stuff that, back when you were in the economic clutches of your parents, you could but dream of having....
My Reddit Account got banned for the dumbest reason.
In a post regarding climate change I called another user an “Ignorant Slut” like that line from the Office. Anyways got permanently banned site wide and I just can’t help but wonder if that was necessary....
Should I use Matrix for Messaging?
I use an iPhone and my fiancé uses Android. He is not very tech savvy. He does not like to text for privacy reasons. I was going to recommend we get Signal but see others in Lemmy talking about Matrix. Is that better? If so, what app is best that works on both our phones? Thanks Lemmy friends!
What’s your white whale?
People with bad sense of direction, can you enjoy open world games?
I have always liked open world games as a concept, but I have a very bad sense of direction. So whenever I play open world games I keep getting lost and frustrated. Eventually getting bored and dropping the game. I am curious how other people with bad sense of direction cope with this problem.
How do I find the lowest ping Lemmy instance?
I joined Lemmy a few days ago under the lemmy.world instance and want to keep it as my main instance, but it’s being pretty laggy....
Is it a good thing if there are identical communities on different instances?
Is it worthwhile to try to get mods to combine them? It just seems like a bit of a waste when trying to grow a community and its split in two....
S22 Series vs S23 Series vs Pixel 7 series
Can anyone help me understand how close the performance and battery life is between the three phones? I’m in the USA so the chip will be Qualcomm between the Samsung models....
Should I host my own instance if I don't intend to run a community?
Is there any benefit to host my own instance?
Redditors, how do you like Lemmy?
I run a few groups, like @fediversenews, mostly on Friendica. It's okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has....
Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?
Correct me if I’m wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I’m a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network...
[Answered] Any open source host solution for private users?
Situation: we live in europe, there’s PRISM and Privacy Shield and all that, to which selfhosting is the solution. Now, my sister, mostly on Apple, got concerned with all the hacks and privacy violations over the years. She’s a tech noob, so i can’t really recommend her prism-break.org...
What duration of time do you connect to intellectual property?
It’s one thing that copyright/IP is such a matter of debate in the creative world, but a whole new layer is added onto that when people say that it only matters for a certain amount of time. You may have read all those articles a few months ago, the same ones telling us about how Mickey Mouse (technically Steamboat Willy) is...
Does anybody know an open source self hosted application to create diagrams? Like draw.io or something like that
Would you think less of a potential partner if they didn't know first aid?
It seems more like a job requirement but I feel like it’s quite important to me that whoever I date knows first aid....
it's just that simple. Don't forget to exercise out of depression...
Which consumer grade printer should I buy?
Title, basically. My old torture device needs to be replaced, and while it’s been mostly working OK, printers have no excuse for being as shitty as they are. So therefore I am looking for suggestions....
To Linux admins: What certifications/degrees do you guys have?
I’m trying to decide whether it would be worth spending an additional 2 years upgrading my associates to a bachelor’s in CS or not....
I know this is PatientGamers, but can we discuss how even the current generation of consoles seems to ask for patience as they aren't that many games 4 years after their release?
Stumbled upon this video, which kind of summarizes the issue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJxaIP8F3K8...
I'm confused... why do even Democrats seem conflicted on Kamala Harris as a replacement of Joe Biden?
As far as I can tell, different faces, but same old, same old… I mean, literally anyone is better than Biden at the job, considering age…...
We might see Microsoft adding ads to BSOD
Sure to annoy IT people but those just need a line of text while the rest of the screen is free real estate for Micro$oft! Public BSODs tend to go viral too.
How Much Is Your Time Worth?
I spend a lot of time fixing things, for myself and others. (Computers, electrical, plumbing, etc). While I learn a lot, I wonder sometimes if it would be better to pay a professional and do something else for which I am more ‘valuable’. Do you do the same, and do you find it worthwhile?
Community for moderation accountability?
This is inspired by this advice from a few months ago:...
Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk.
Why couldn’t this call be an email? Why would you call, when you know that you are near indistinguishable from spam calls about Microsoft services and Nigerian princes?
bash coding standards?
i didnt care about how i wrote my bash scripts, coz i know theyd ultimately be used just by myself. but for the past few day, i’ve been working on this project, mk-blog which uses some bash scripts, there are chances that others might look at them. besides in work they’re asking me maintain a server. so why not learn the...