Rentlar @ Rentlar @beehaw.org

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Elon is the master of baiting.

It certainly helped me during my first Slay the Spire runs, when I'd often mess up the order of the cards (the most common being applying vulnerable AFTER doing all of my attacks).

You are right it's "Paul McCartney and Wings". As strange as it sounds to me.

I agree with your assessment that the Fediverse would be healthier encouraging small to mid-sized servers to populate with each having active groups of members contributing a fair share of money or time.

I'm just confused by the other parts of your comment. Donation-based financing appear to work for some instances like Beehaw at least for hosting and backup costs, but how do you determine what is a fair contribution and who is freeloading? Should the admins be taking a minimum wage salary from the fund as fair compensation of their work? Are the free-loaders the prolific posters or commenters, the chronic lurker who only votes, or the people that only visit the website once in a while?

A slush fund non-profit to help get small and mid-sized servers up, running and maintained as suggested in the article is a good idea.

Also I've long been telling the admins since 2 months ago to take breaks as needed and forgive themselves for mistakes they might make. It's a lot of work, and burnout shouldn't be normalized. Instead, taking breaks for the purpose of mental health before it reaches a breaking point should be normalized.

About the first part of your comment, some of the ideas around "professionalization" imo would make Beehaw lose a part of it that I love. How in my experience it's a little rough around the edges but friendlier in a deeper way than most social media, relying on common sense and mutual understanding to keep arguments from getting too heated, and a strict but well-defined and equitable approach to moderation. I get why it might work better in many aspects, but the raw conversation I was able to have even with people I vehemently disagreed with on Beehaw has been an amazing experience.

From the article:

If you want a certain feature, or are waiting for the release of a new version of the software you use, or have a bug: I urge you to please be patient with the developers. There’s an enormous amount of work to do, and every project is understaffed and strained for finances at the moment.

Please please please be nice to people that are taking their own time and mental energy from their own lives without material compensation to give you something cool to enjoy.

I get things can be frustrating when something needs fixing, but people that contribute here are mostly overworked and underfunded.

And those that are helping out but feeling overworked, do take breaks regularly before you get permanently burnt out on it. That should be normalized, it goes for Beehaw admins and other Fediverse admins mods and contributors as well.

I'm still using a Samsung S7 (but only for a few months more now, it needs upgrading), and it surprised me that most flagships have removed good features!

I knew about no physical nav buttons and the headphone jack, but why the SD card slot? Come on!

http://lemmystatus.org/

Apparently the materials aren't extraordinarily rare and the process to create it isn't too mindboggling. It should be possible for other labs to produce and test.

Untitled goose kingdom.

This discovery has potential. At least it's not a totally exotic process to make this LK-99. I bet more researchers are going to jump on it and explore how it will work and where its limitations are.

The click-baityness is a little off-putting about this video. This doesn't solve everything, but it's possibly a big leap in the field of superconductors.

Keep in mind that the question is presented will affect how it is responded to as well. I, for one, get very defensive when people act all entitled expecting the world and the moon for free from FOSS developers. Here's the difference:

Good:

I've been trying out [software], but I've been having a problem with [issue].

Thanks for your work on [software]. I'm having trouble using [feature] because of [issue]. I tried a number of things to solve it, [troubleshooting steps] but no luck.

[Software] has been having an issue lately with [issue] when I do [recreation steps]. Does anyone know the problem and how it can be fixed?

Bad:

Why isn't [issue] with [software] fixed already?

When are we going to get [feature]~~~~~

[Software] is completely unusable until they get [issue] fixed. (This may be true, but what kind of motivation do these kinds of comments give the developer to fix them?)

Someone help! [Software] isn't working! It's showing an error! (No real description of what happened, how it happened, no effort shown to help the developer fix the problem)

So all in all it's about tone for me. I'm happy to guide people, but bad tone puts me off a bit in wanting to help them.

The ad, while not suitable for work, is hilarious!

Very creative on the Progressive Action Fund, it starts like a safe sex ad.

...screaming into the void...

Yeah, to me, following people on Twitter is like an online and more socially acceptable form of following that mentally unstable person that's walking along the street yammering on to themselves about how everyone's a scumbag and the world is out to get them.

You should have seen that long post someone did on "why I hate your favourite story-telling game", on Beehaw last month.

I'll edit it in once I find it.

Found it! Beehaw link Original link

I've never found Twitter or Mastodon type of social media blogging interesting, personally. I don't need to know what person X is saying or what is buzzing.

I more like to hear topic based conversation, where who is saying it matters less, so Lemmy (and formerly Reddit) was for me.

In the article apparently things feel too sanitized/no-fun-allowed on Mastodon, which is interesting. The most popular communities on Lemmy are Memes and shitposts, which I guess follows suit with this.

Go on.

And what makes you think that?

Mhm. Tell me more.

"Human or human-like". Can you tell me more about that?

How do you feel about it?

Live and Let Die, I thought the Guns N' Roses version was the original...

Years later I found out it was Paul McCartney and the Wings.

My desktop still on Zen+ 👀

Two tiered stuff is what the bean counters want: a divided, tired and de-motivated union organization. You can do better, Teamsters leadership!

It's only a matter of time until there's a hegetsus@jesusloves.you community for religion-funded BS, then a companion community heget_sus@jesusloves.sex to match it.