Or I can pay nothing and get a plain video file that I can do anything I want with, and play on any device without needing a player. And as long as I keep that file backed up somewhere, I’ll always have a copy of it.

The TV business is struggling to learn the lesson the music industry learned a long time ago.

Doing a quick skim on my phone, your microphone quality is fine. I would probably lower the game audio in post a bit to make the sound more distinct, but it’s only noticeable when the game does loud stuff.

I’ve had a lot of games that I found online, thought they looked fun, then discovered I actually had them in my steam library already and never once touched them.

I’m a Loss Prevention Manager.

I just wanted to know how computers worked when I was fairly young. Like, I’d open a web browser and look at the homepage, and think “But how does the computer know how to draw all this stuff?” As in, how do you take an image of something from real life, and over the internet put that image on somebody’s screen for them to see? Or how does it know what to do when I click this icon and run a program?

I found out about a popular programming language called C++, asked my parents to buy me a book on it while we were at the book store. Learned a lot, moved on to other languages for other things I wanted to do. It’s still a fun hobby, but I never opted to make a career out of it.

The relative lack of content on Lemmy, for me, has been a boon. I go through New, then Top 6 Hours, then Top 12 Hours, then I need to find something else to do. When I was on Reddit, I found myself bouncing between Reddit and YouTube for entertainment. With Lemmy not having boundless amounts of crap to scroll through and no algorithm, my tech usage is far more varied.

unbearable due to the sheer amount of advertisement.

I spent 3 days in a hotel room this week, and while I did bring my Steam Deck and dock with me for entertainment, I got there to find that the TV had no HDMI ports. I was stuck with basic cable and the only saving grace being Showtime, which wasn’t at extra cost and doesn’t have ads.

But when both Showtime channels had stuff I was less than indifferent to watching, the advertisements on any of the other channels were horrible. The shows felt like they were 1:1 in terms of content to ads.

Don’t get me started on the radio, either. I used to love listening to the radio, but now all they play is the same set of a couple dozen songs, with 5 minutes of ads that play every 3 or so songs. Also, no rock station in my area plays anything newer than ~15 years old, tops. They’re all still playing the same music that I listened to on those stations when I was a teen, and I’m a little over 30.

I remember hearing about the potential of Web 2.0 in the 00s and thought it sounded like it was going to be really cool.

Now I just want the old web back. Isolated forums had a sense of community that, even on Lemmy, isn’t present in the same way.

This site has a bunch of samples in various programming languages for an X11 Hello World, including Assembly.

The user never had much choice to begin with. If I write a program using version 1.2.3 of a library, then my application is going to need version 1.2.3 installed. But how the user gets 1.2.3 depends on their system, and in some cases, they might be entirely unable unless they grab a flatpak or appimage. I suppose it limits the ability to write shims over those libraries if you want to customize something at that level, but that’s a niche use-case that many people aren’t going to need.

In a static linked application, you can largely just ship your application and it will just work. You don’t need to fuss about the user installing all the dependencies at the system level, and your application can be prone to less user problems as a result.

The only thing I really miss is doing data calculations in Google because I have shitty Internet and I want to know how many hours I’ve gotta let this thing download before I get my bandwidth back.

At this point, the community is clean. So unless more is posted, then you should be good. If someone searched for the community and caused a preview to load while the content was active though, then it could be an issue.

From what I was informed, purging a post doesn’t remove the associated cached data. So I didn’t take any chances.

Not really. You could technically locate the images and determine precisely which ones they are from their filenames, but that means you actually have to view the images long enough to pull the URL. I had no desire to view them for even a moment, and just universally removed them.

As mentioned in my edit above though, ensure you are in compliance with local regulations when dealing with the material in case you have to do any preservation for law enforcement or something.

I’m on 1.18.4, once I deleted the most recent images, the former CSAM posts(among others) became broken images. So yes, it was pulling from local disk cache. Then I took care of the posts themselves after the content was invalidated.

I think Dwarf Fortress is going to hold the crown for ultimate fantasy world simulator. I don’t think ES6 will allow for systematic breeding and killing of mer-children for their valuable bones.

Reminds me of Obsidian, which is what I use for notes. But obsidian isn’t selfhosted. I might actually host a copy of that because it’s cool

You can host a webmail like roundcube or similar. I don’t know if they can be turned into PWAs with phone notifications though.

I often grab a pirated copy to see if I like it first, and if I do, I’ll buy it. If I play it once or twice and don’t really get much out of it, I’m not out anything but some download time.

My coworker has a friend that works for a company that sends her to Dubai fairly often. She gets paid a metric ton of money for it, apparently, but outside of work spends most of her time in her hotel room.

There is actually a system in the works called FedNow that banks here can sign up to be a part of to allow national money transfer between any two people. Probably a lot of banks aren’t taking part yet since it’s barely a couple weeks old, but it’s promising.

I remember reading about Mold years ago and being impressed, even though most of my programs that I compile don’t really benefit in any way. I appreciate that it kept going.

According to another post, it’s an X stolen from a font, and was apparently used in an old podcast. So he just took an X from a font that looked neat and said “good enough”

“Quackion, the Aspect of Ducks” sounds like a title Dwarf Fortress would generate.

Nah, you can often move around games on external drives from computer to computer just fine and they’ll typically work.

For my instance, I already have an MXRoute account that I use for my personal email, so I just set up an account on there and pointed Lemmy at that. I’ve been down the road of self-hosting email, and it is a dreadful experience.

Granted, that was with full inboxes and POP3, just hosting the send part might not be so bad. But then you have to contend with possibly being on spam lists, and those are hard to get yourself removed from. If you have some cash to let someone else deal with that headache for you, I fully encourage taking that route.

Sorry for the confusion, but Moe isn’t my last name, just the jamie part. I also own jamie.tools and jamie.today.

I’m on jamie.moe, I like to collect domain names that are just my name.

Any VPS provider worth their salt will have corporate clients with data far more valuable than a random person’s vacation photos. So they probably don’t want anything to do with that data unless it brings them legal trouble. Plus, not knowing can help shield them from all sorts of liabilities.

Possible, but I don’t see it happening. Postgres provides functionality that MySQL/MariaDB don’t, so if a lot of that functionality is used, the primary devs probably aren’t going to want to take on the extra overhead of maintaining and testing it. In those cases, it would require additional rewriting on the Lemmy side to make it work seemlessly. A fork could likely do it, though.

From what I read, it also requires Secure Boot to be enabled. I played the game for 90 minutes before reading about the anti-cheat change, fortunately I didn’t hit 2 hours and took a refund.

"Twelve injuries have already been reported with Zuru’s full-sized Robo Alive Junior Baby Shark Sing & Swim Bath Toys — after children sat or fell on the now-recalled products. Nine of these cases required stitches or medical attention, according to a Thursday release from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. "

Ouch.

Man, seeing people putting in effort from r/transcribersofreddit always reminded me about how many good people are in the world. It’s a shame they won’t be able to keep going, and even more of a shame that Reddit doesn’t care about blind people using their platform.

No, they’re going to arrest him, but he shot himself twice in the back of the head and fell 5 stories before they could move in with the cuffs.

It’s not just the operating systems, it’s also the way software is developed now. Those old windows applications were probably written in C++, which is only lightly abstracted over C, which is about as close as you’re going to get to machine code without going into Assembly.

These days, you might have several layers of abstraction before you get to the assembly level. And those abstractions are probably also abstracted by third party libraries which might be chained to even more libraries, causing even more code to need to load and run. Then all of that might not ultimately even be machine code, it might be in a language like C# or Java where they’re in an intermediate language that needs to be JIT compiled by a runtime, which also needs to be loaded and ran, before it can be executed. Then, that application might provide another layer of abstraction and run something in a browser-like instance, ala anything Electron based.

I freaked out for a moment, then remembered I used SSO.

Definitely keep searching and find someone who accepts your hobby, even if maybe they don’t partake themselves. I’m 30 and still play video games, though admittedly my career and hobbies eat into a lot of my play time, I don’t see myself stopping.

There are also a lot of crypto scam sites popping up, where a scammer will set up a fake crypto exchange site that looks real on first glance, hoping you make an account, give them all your identity information, and “deposit” a bunch of money/crypto into it, which they run off with.

Pretty much, that would force federation. Though I don’t think users in the other community would see your communities until someone from there searched one of yours.

An idea I have is giving small communities an option to run the bot on their instance, and it would add them to a list. Then, communities voluntarily participating in that list could auto-populate each other’s communities through the bot. I could see spammers abusing something like this to try and flood feeds with garbage content until they’re defederated though, especially on instances with open registration, so there is a downside. But that’s something the community of proper users will need to be prepared to fight down the road.

I’m working on a Rust API wrapper around the existing common API to make it easier to use. Implemented the calls that could let someone do this exact thing at scale last night.

It’s nowhere near ready for production and is still missing a lot of basic API functionality even for a simple bot, but I think it’ll be ready to publicly release in an alpha state within the next couple days.