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  • !raining@sh.itjust.works - used to be fairly active but has been mostly dead for months.

    (hmm, should I promote my own communities here?)

  • An Acetronic MPU1000 games console, from the 1970s - 76 or 78 I think. Still worked last time I powered it up, I also got some extra games cheap off eBay a while back, interesting playing something other than the three or four games I remember from childhood.

  • I don't always, but when I do it's mostly to do with character customisation. If I'm playing a game where my character is constantly visible I'd rather it was something I wanted to look at, and male clothing is boring. OK, some games don't restrict clothes but many do. So I tend to create a character which is a female version of me, except in the cases where I prefer a male character (which isn't often if I have the choice!)

  • Thanks! I cross posted it from another community and it didn't have a source cited.

  • Accessed from: Mobile, Desktop


    Platform Name: Mastodon

    • Accounts: Lots, Main one on oldbytes.space
    • Apps: Tusky
    • Uses: Mostly following retrocomputing folk, and running friendly bots.

    Platform Name: Lemmy

    • Accounts: This one is my main, a few bot accounts and others just for creating communities
    • Apps: Connect
    • Uses: You all know what this is! I also run a few posting bots

    Platform Name: Mbin

    • Accounts: Fedia.io
    • Apps: None, was testing Artemis until it went AWOL
    • Uses: Hosting a few communities still. Was my main Lemmyesque account but Kbin was horribly unreliable. Mbin seems much better but waiting for app support as I like Connect more than the mobile web interface.

    Platform Name: Bookwyrm

    • Accounts: wyrms.de
    • Apps: None
    • Uses: Logging and reviewing books I've read, keeping track of what is on my pile of books still to read.

    Platform Name: Takahē

    • Accounts: Technically one, but it supports multiple profiles
    • Apps: Tusky
    • Uses: Mostly testing, run a few minor accounts there because the multiple profiles feature is ace.

    Platform Name: Funkwhale

    • Accounts: One (can't remember domain offhand)
    • Apps: None
    • Uses: My bots also post here, I've never managed to get federation working on it though.

    I think that's it. I did have a PeerTube account but the instance it was on closed down, and I haven't bothered to make a new one elsewhere.

  • I had to buy an adapter. I much prefer wired earphones, as somebody else commented, it's much easier to switch wired ones between devices. With wireless you also have the issue of disconnecting them if you want audio through the phone speaker. I hate Bluetooth anyway.

    I also prefer the earphones which sit just in the ear, rather than the current style of ones that need to be forced inside. I don't think you can get wireless earphones like that, probably because they would be lost easily. I like proper headphones too (so that's an option for wireless), but they are quite bulky so not always convenient.

  • Woman across the way chatting to somebody and randomly exposes her breasts. The person she was talking to said, "whoa, that man might see!" (I don't think this was even a reference to me as I was at a weird angle and don't think I was visible). She got them out some more and shouted something about getting a good look at them. I'd backed away more by this point.

    (I have an even more X rated one, maybe later)

  • Hmm, the issue here is that the office temperature is lower than the temperature if I'm working from home, so all it would mean is I'd be forced to go into the office on my WfH days! At least I'd be cool until I go home again I guess...

  • Big box games with proper manuals.

  • I've been wanting to go there for years!

  • I bow to your superior knowledge. It definitely doesn't wear out SD cards as quickly though, but that might be due to other factors not wear levelling.

  • What I missed mentioning is it does wear-levelling so as its name suggests it is "flash friendly" and stops SD cards wearing out so quickly.

  • I use f2fs on my Raspberry Pis, it's designed for flash storage and appears to have much better performance than ext4 on the same device. I'm not sure whether it's suitable for SSDs, or just SD cards and USB (these devices are optimised for FAT and f2fs utilises that optimisation). When I tried to use f2fs on a proper laptop it was too early and the distro didn't support booting from it. I assume that has changed now.

    As for the others, I usually stick with ext4 as I've never seen a compelling reason not to.