We had some koalas living in our backyard at one of the houses I grew up in. Evenings were spent relaxing to screaming from the female and grunting from the male…
One video I saw some twenty years ago was so disturbing due to how clearly distraught the female was that I haven't been able to think of koalas the same ever since. Like, she might have developed koala PTSD, it was that brutal.
For all I know, new versions probably run fine in current OSs. But I don’t own new versions. I could use open source stuff that has less features and less creature comforts, but then I also need to dedicate a newer laptop to the go box.
The whole point of that hobby is reliability and stability. Those old lenovos are tanks and I have spares for days.
There are pros and cons. I use both, because Lemmy on its own just isn’t big enough to replace Reddit. Lemmy has a decent variety of active communities for very broad/mainstream topics, plus technology and left wing politics, reflecting the shared interests of most Lemmy users. But then for any topic that’s more niche and doesn’t have a disproportionally large overlap with the interests of Lemmy users, it kinda falls appart. A lot of the more niche subredddits I participate in have no Lemmy equivalent.
I’m also hesitant to call Lemmy’s moderation better. One thing I’ve noticed with Lemmy mods is that they tend to be far too lenient with off-topic posts. Right now the top post for me on “All” is this post from !science_memes. You might notice that it isn’t a meme in any way shape or form. You might also notice that it was literally posted by a mod from that community. This kind of thing happens a lot, communities on Lemmy are very prone to getting derailed away from their nominal topic.
Most of my Tor activity is on onionsites, so that’s okay.
Also, even given spooky nodes, the chances of getting a spooky entry and exit node are slim. Still, given the possibility, it is advisable to do spicy clearnet activities away from home with a MAC randomizer as insurance in case you win the world’s worst roulette game.
I think the big problem I have with tor is that there’s no way to know how compromised the network is. From a three letter agency budget, setting up 30,000 nodes wouldn’t be a big deal, you just have them doing other things.
Of course, I’m not really doing anything that would draw the ire of a three-letter agency, so even tor is overkill.
I was also never really big on people running bad s*** through my node. I’ve always felt better using a paid proxy then at least claims not to log, Even if there’s a half decent chance that people are watching their ingress and egress at the ISP level.
I use Microsoft Edge (parental controls and uBlock). That that made me whatever is beyond naked? Like one of those clear dummies in a health class that shows organs?
So, hold on, this run on sentence covers 3 continents and involves a few different native people that have a connection to a reservoir in Kansas built in the 60s. And that reservoir has a mystery that is causing it to be healthy?
The Prestor John connection to John the Baptist is the oldest part of this screed and the most easily debunked. The Waconda reservoir is only being talked about because of a comic book. And the Andean people? From the Andes? In South America?
This poor person has a lot of unfulfilled thoughts and they have matted together into some incoherent whole.
That’s only useful in commit messages, issue discussions and stuff like that. Why would the devs even make that execute in source files, where it’s all but guaranteed to be a false match??
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