Toribor @ Toribor @corndog.uk

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I thought you were being intentionally obtuse but I see what you mean. Ukraine might not be a NATO member (yet), but that doesn't mean that NATO wants Russia grabbing land from democracies that act as a buffer between them and Russia.

You might be technically correct but the distinction largely does not matter in terms of the West taking a hard line against military aggression in Eastern Europe.

I've been using Home Assistant for a while but I don't have a ton of IoT devices so I don't have a ton of automations set up.

My most useful though is an alert that triggers when my garage door has been open for ten minutes, and then again every ten minutes after until it has been open for an hour when it will automatically close.

Accidentally left the garage door open all night at least twice before this and thankfully nothing happened but the automation has prevented this at least twice as well.

Also gives me peace of mind in case I accidentally open it when I'm away.

I've been DMing a Scum and Villainy campaign, a space opera based on the Forged in the Dark family of games.

My group has been playing a few different systems together for a couple years now and this might be the most fun we've had. They get to cruise around space stealing, smuggling and generally being a bunch of scallywags. The campaign setting is a really solid base that I've been building on top of and I have so many ideas for things I want to try.

I'm jealous of your 5E campaigns. My D&D group I play with has been on hiatus this summer so I haven't gotten to play much this year but I'm hoping we can start up something soon.

I loved my Asus graphics card... Until it died.

I also loved my Asus Android tablet... Until a hardware problem that made it slower over time even after reformatting it thus eventually making it unusable. (Technically Nvidia's fault I guess).

In theory their stuff is really great, but yeah I have definitely been burned by Asus in the past.

Gamefreak clearly isn't interested in evolving their formula very much. Each game is designed to be approachable for young children who are potentially playing Pokemon for the first time. So yeah, there is a lot of hand holding.

I've found myself hoping the same thing though, that maybe the franchise would grow up with me, but it doesn't look like it is going to happen. I expect that we'll have to mash the A button through the Pokemon catching tutorial until the end of time.

You're working for the people who run the bots. Push the narrative and you'll get paid.

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Just remember. It's not a lie... if you believe it...

Don’t pay your taxes and you should be killed.

Only if you're a democrat. If you're a republican then not paying your taxes is patriotic and supportive of 'small government'.

The period of time where they completely ruined the turtle emoji after killing the blobs was the emoji dark ages. At least they finally fixed it.

It's it's optional, what's the problem if I decline?

If it's not optional, don't we deserve to know more information about how this data is used and stored? It's clearly not just taking a picture.

Yeah it's likely that I'll move this eventually. This instance was only setup so I had a test environment to learn AWS.

Currently I'm just running a single user instance on a t2.micro. I've definitely locked it up at least twice after subscribing to a big batch of external communities so it's definitely undersized if were to open it up to more users. I only have one other small service running on that instance though so Lemmy is definitely using the bulk of that capacity at least when it's got work to do.

Costs are about $11.25 a month for the instance and about $2.50 for block storage (which is oversized now that pict-rs is on S3). I'm guessing that pict-rs s3 costs will be just a few pennies a day unless I start posting a lot on my own instance, probably less than a dollar a month.

Data transfer costs for me are zero though. I'm not using a load balancer or moving things between regions so I don't expect that to change.

There is a good writeup on how to do the migration here. I went through it myself since I host my tiny Lemmy instance on an AWS EC2 instance. It went pretty smoothly bu obviously larger instances will have to take a longer downtime to perform the migration.

Notoriously mature and level headed mods that spend all day on the internet putting an excessive amount of emotional energy into something most people barely care about... Who could have predicted this?

Jank is partially the result of allowing for emergent gameplay where various forms of simulated systems can interact with each other in novel or unpredictable ways.

That being said I have no clue how people tolerate playing these games on console. Can't even count the number of times I've had to use console commands to fix something myself.

The fact they are priming people to expect this is pretty bad.

Using Google apps used to be a smooth and seamless experience but it's become a slog. The best you can hope for is that they'll just stop supporting whatever service you like and just let it rot without updates for years while you are allowed to keep using it. Otherwise they'll just force you to migrate around constantly while merging or fragmenting the experience until the former happens anyway.

It's exhausting and it's utterly destroyed my desire to check out anything new in their ecosystem.

It's pretty hilarious how badly they've fucked this up. I have no interest in Google Chat at all because it's almost certain they'll replace it with yet another service before I even have a chance to settle in.

That cynicism is acceptable for the Senate.

The venn diagram for legislation that gets 50 democrats on board and 10 republicans is razor thin. They can barely keep up with essential shit like not defaulting in order to prevent a catastrophic global economic meltdown. The literal bare minimum is now what we look to for an example of bipartisanship.

I think there are both real and performative concerns being raised about Tik Tok as a platform.

Ideally the federal government shouldn't be deciding this sort of thing on a per-case basis at all. Pass actual data privacy legislation and force data collection to be transparent and potentially housed in US datacenters that are subject to US regulation. Then if Tik Tok can prove it's behaving responsibly it can continue to compete on an even playing field with other platforms.