Same goes for any sub - that’s what the Block feature is for, folks. Not necessarily to insulate yourself from different points of view - some subs are just the same shit over and over.

I haven’t even looked up their history - so apparently you’re not a mind reader, and things can be obvious to you without being true. Two good life lessons.

No, “backtround” is a perfectly normal term for history. There must be a better way to pretend to make whatever point you’re trying for.

Right, if your personal social justice hero and somebody who clicked Like on a tweet you found offensive say the exact same thing, I’m guessing you upvote your hero and douchevote the other person so you won’t be complicit in their evil. Congrats!

You’re welcome! [also notice we both got douchevoted lol]

I’d rather react to posts and comments based on the content rather than peer into the author’s background to decide whether to put a black hat or white hat on them.

I agree 100% with everything you’re saying. Expectation of conformity and zero-tolerance of nonconformity form a sort of tyranny that always makes any discussion of locally accepted gospel impossible. Many social media communities seem founded on absolutist beliefs that just aren’t up for discussion at all. Sometimes even asking informational questions out of genuine curiosity is treated as shilling or trolling - I suppose in those communities asking questions about doctrine any right-thinker should already know and accept is automatically suspect.

As a Hacker News-type person I never thought of my communication as Spock-like, but that’s a great term!

Is there a publicly available list of domains lemmy instances filter out? For transparency.

Seems like this is forbidden by rule 2: No spam.

Maybe you can take comfort from the extremely low incidence of laptop battery fires in spite of millions of people leaving them plugged in all the time.

Dad said we’re getting a sourcebox!

snot?

Great question! If it’s only a few GB I wouldn’t bother with tape. There are other options like

• Google Photos - I’ve been using it for 10+ years without filling up the free 10 or 15 GB, whatever it is.
• Burning a bunch of DVDs, repeat every 5 years.
• Get a couple cheap hard drives then replace 1 of them every 3-5 years so one is always fairly new.

Not gonna go back and search for “AI” but when I read the thread hours ago there were multiple back and forth comments criticizing/defending use of ChatGPT (which is what I meant by “AI”), and this was not at all the point of OP’s post.

ChatGPT was mentioned and now the thread is all about AI being good/bad, as usual.

Anyway, I’m glad you got your server going - hope you enjoy your flight!

If somebody says it costs $5000/mo, how could they say it in a different way that you would define as “transparent” - do you want receipts?

Nowadays I tend to only donate to projects that have full transparency on what the money is being used for.

If you believe he’s spending $5k/mo to run the server, even if you send him $20 and he blows it on blackjack and hookers, it means he has to spend $20 of his bj/h money on the server. So I don’t really see an issue. Does that make sense?

The expense of running busy servers is too much to expect of anyone. I haven’t even tried to figure out how the math would work but I wonder if the ultimate solution could be more of a BitTorrent architecture where the “server” is a hive of users’ computers all sharing the load? I’m a software developer but have never worked on anything in that area, but since BitTorrent works it certainly seems feasible. Comments?

Let’s go for a walk in the park - they just cleaned the algae tanks!

Pretty good intro for absolute beginners here…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg19Z8LL06w