Obviously video games are the problem. They didn’t invent violence until Pong came out.

Happens on days ending with ‘y’? Yeah, I’m cool with that.

Yeah then someone fucked up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

This a WiFi channel issue. People often leave WiFi on auto channel mode. Like you said, this is fine for a single point network. For bigger networks, you’re supposed to set your channels to static and spread your bandwidth.

For example, 2.4 GHz WiFi has channels 1, 6 and 11. The in-between channels are just blending these 3. You would have one end of the network set to 1, the midpoint set to 6, and the far end set to 11. Your client device will do the work of choose the strong signal and jump between them.

If these were in Auto, they would constantly detect each other and regularly channel hop, dropping connections in the process.

From my experience in IT, it’s almost always a local network issue in the end. That’s not to say, the user’s fault. But the distance a little education on home networking could go to save a technician having to come to your house a day or two later just to fix something that could be done in a few minutes is not insignificant.

I saw this recently and all of my frustrations with the keyboard were suddenly justified. I knew it was getting measurably worse over time, but then someone went and measured it: https://youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo

I’m in a similar boat. I’ve been producing music for nearly ten years in Ableton, including stuff for some local theater, but this will be my first year releasing an album. Making music takes a lot of time and effort, I found out.

Something something something dark side. Something something something complete.

You are correct. Never was good at remembering voice actors…

Vaas from Far Cry 3.

This scene is always such a treat: https://youtu.be/rKMMCPeiQoc

Also Alan Tudyk Stephen Merchant in Portal 2.

Edit: Was just recently watching something with Alan in it and got them mixed up 😅

David Lynch’s Eraserhead immediately popped into mind. There is very little dialog and the main character is almost entirely wrapped in his own thoughts. Also just a very strange and surreal movie. It feels almost like you’re not meant to see it.

I’ve have amazing luck with both Beelink and Minisforum computers. They’re relatively cheap and excellent quality.

I personally use the Beelink ME Mini and it’s been able to handle just fine about any server tasks I need it to, not to mention the wildly expandable storage.

Consequences? For Amazon?

lol… lmao even

On top of this, it’s usually because the local cache hasn’t actually written all the data to the drive and if you go yanking the drive in this state, your most recent chunk of data would be missing or corrupt. The eject button forces your OS to clear its write cache before unmounting the file system.

But that’s a lot less of an exciting answer.

It bothers me to no end that there isn’t regulation to shut all the lights off for unoccupied buildings and parking lots at night. So much light and energy pollution for no real benefit.

After I’ve spent several years away from algo-feed-based social media, I can’t imagine going back. The sheer amount of content that I didn’t consent to witnessing was wild. The frequency of shock and gore was pretty much at least weekly, if not daily.

It wasn’t until I left FB, joined Reddit, unsubbed from all the defaults, and started adding subs as a whitelist rather than a blacklist, did I start seeing my reactions to news shift. I started becoming way less reactionary over time and engaged far less with bait.

When they killed 3rd-party apps and I came to Lemmy, there was a lot less content, but it was also obvious the advertisers weren’t here generating bait. I’m now back to a blacklist on Lemmy, but I also don’t get hit with engagement bait here like I did on previous platforms.

It brings a tear to my eye with the thought that I’m pretty certain I started the trend of this particular phrasing. I had never seen it before I made my meme and now it’s popping up on Lemmy every now and again.

It’s a sentiment I truly stand behind as I feel the internet should be a safe haven to write what you feel in the most raw form possible. When we start giving up the one public space we have truly left to ourselves to the advertisers, there will be no open communication left.

Fuck the algospeak, fuck the system. Say FUCK on the internet.

I feel like if I’m pronouncing any Linux package for the first time, there’s some tongue-in-cheek “um, actually” trap hidden just around the corner for some self-righteous geek to correct you with a big smirk on their face because they get to feel smarter, which I used to be guilty of, but try to cut back on as much as I can these days.

It’s a fun joke at first, but I kind of got tired of it after a while, and just decided that politely educating in context and ignoring it otherwise feels way nicer.

I would sell my left nut for a respectful Burnout 3 remaster with original soundtrack. Emulating it in HD on the PS2 will have to suffice.

The concerning part is when you find out all your friends are already on there and they’ve been excluding you so far for some reason.