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

If average comments/post is lowest on .ml, medium on .world and highest on hexbear, it might correlate those instances with post meaningfulness, or with the innate tendency of their users to comment. Or with both, or some other thing entirely. All I can really say about it is, “Huh, interesting.” Not interesting because it leads to any particular conclusion, but interesting that there’s a pattern.

My sidebar correctly says I’ve joined.

Thanks, when I hit that link it shows the page and says “No posts”. Thanks for all your help though! Commenting on that post wasn’t a big deal, I just wondered how the system works. I guess sometimes it sometimes sh.itdoesn’t.work lol.

Thanks, english and undetermined are both enabled.

Interesting. When I search for “white” the “People Twitter” community on sh.itjust.works does not come up. Also doesn’t if I search for “Twitter”. Note that the results include communities on other instances, but not sh.itjust.works. No idea why my search and your search would be different.

Yes I get the principle, I’m just having trouble with the mechanics, but not quite “just as easily” - posting or commenting in a community hosted on sh.itjust.works seems to require remote-subscribing to the community from lemmy.world - which I’ve done and it’s now pending. Waiting to see if that does the trick.

Makes sense and I appreciate the help. But when I go to the post link on sh.itjust.works it says:

I’m currently logged in to lemmy.world, but apparently I do need to login sh.itjust.works. This is how I thought lemmy worked, but I also thought the content from sh.itjust.works would be repeated on lemmy.world as you described, and I would be able to find it here and comment. But the whitepeopletwitter community on lemmy.world is pretty empty and that post isn’t there. Does this mean something’s wrong, or maybe lemmy.world has muted that community, or some other explanation? Just trying to figure all this out.

Edit: I rethought what you said and found where I can remote-subscribe to the community on sh.itjust.works. It says subscription pending. I will give it a while to get processed and see if this solves the problem. Again, I appreciate your help!

How could the_picard_maneuver@lemmy.world post to sh.itjust.works? They would have to login to sh.itjust.works. I’m not able to login there as lovablesidekick or lovablesidekick@lemmy.world.

Likewise, if you’re originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com how are you replying to my comment on lemmy.world without logging into lemmy.world?

Beats me what anybody would get out of vote manipulation on lemmy - there are no sponsors, no money involved AFAIK. What’s the payoff, upvotes?

I think any app for text input should have word prediction. It’s mostly for phone users but I’ve found it so handy since getting a phone where it’s well implemented (Pixel 8) I’ve quickly come to think of it as an essential component that should be available to any app.