𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏 @ lemann @lemmy.one

Hey! Please contact me at my primary Fedi account: @lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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2000: I bought myself a car!
2023: I bought an limited licen$e to drive a car!

That registrar is operated by Freenom who is currently in court with Facebook.

If you try and register a domain there you're taken to their correctly configured main site AFAIK, but the ability to register a domain has been locked since the court case

Take the A train like the rest of us.

This! Instead of burning the money on useless garbage, put it towards the existing underfunded infrastructure which would benefit way more people!

Road Rash on the PS1, absolutely loved it but could barely win a race on it 😂 yeeting other riders off their motorbikes was too much fun.

Also thought the video cutscenes and menus looked kinda cool back then, especially compared to the simple ones in fighting games (tekken, versus etc). Actually thinking about it now, the music on Tekken's character select screen really made you feel like you were in an arcade

the entire conservative ideology undermines ideas like right-to-repair

Louis's videos are posted to multiple platforms out of principle, not politics... that means they also get posted on sites with creators that have been kicked out of YouTube, like the one linked here

Says a lot about their internal organisation structure for something like this to happen. Intern is the only tolerable excuse here, but even still why would you put a newbie in a position where they could brick thousands of vehicles with a slip of the finger?

I'd expect a tech company like Rivian who happens to sell a vehicle to know better than this 🤦‍♂️

wrong build with the wrong security certificates was sent out

Isn't standard practice to validate signed code first before installing it? Hope the next update allows the car's computer system to check the firmware signature before doing what I assume is an automatic installation...

may require physical repair in some cases

Ouch

It was all getting spoiled for me in social media anyway.

I thankfully haven't seen any spoilers for anything since moving to Lemmy... on other sites it's silly easy to accidentally run into a spoilers for anything remotely popular 😭

Unless you follow ST communities here... then oops I guess spoilers are in your feed for each episode 😳

There's a free version??

Let's hope we can export them too then! I stopped using WhatsApp a few years go, but it would be nice to have access to my chats, unencrypted... at the moment only iPhone users can do this

That is why I pay for open subtitles

Lost me right here. Personally I'm not ever going to pay for a service where the work done by volunteer users, for free, is filling some random person's pockets. An argument can't even be made a la RedHat here - there's literally no value being added to the volunteers' work by OpenSubtitles...

OpenSubtitles literally has pulled a shXtter here IMO

Nice one, not sure why it's geo restricted to the US, Canada, and Europe though, unless that's a limitation of the bridge software they're using. Could be a pretty neat selling point for a small subset of users, but I don't think it'll make people reconsider which Android they choose to upgrade to.

Also nice to see e2ee RCS implemented outside of Samsung and Google's apps.

For anyone looking at alternatives, there's AirMessage (if you have a mac, real or virtualized), and Beeper (not free, in any sense of the word, but supports even more messengers)

Would get more people upset that they don't have an alternative (assuming this affects one of those cable monopoly communities)

Fight with your wallet by...

• 🏴‍☠️
• An OSS/”source available" alternative
• Buy alternative from another company that has a less restrictive licensing scheme, make sure you are happy with the definitions in the EULA

If you want to go the legal route, see what they define "lifetime license" as in the software EULA. I am not a legal expert, so ensure you get professional guidance should you choose this

If you still have the original computer kicking around, depending on how the software licensing works they may have a license file saved somewhere (maybe in appdata, or program files). Grab that and pop it in the same location on the new system and see if that works

I don't see why not - there are loads of other sites, let's say DDL (roms etc) and various self-hosted blogs that chug along for years at the expense to the owner.

With Lemmy, the main concern would be growing storage, but that's mostly solved by using something like B2 or Wasabi to store images, instead of the local server. B2 also recently changed their plans to make it free to download to a certain extent (prior to this, you had to pay for downloads) which makes this route even more viable.

I'm aware of lemmyworld and dbzer0 being very public about their donations, and lemmyml has been run by the devs years before we migrated. Lemmee's admin is extremely active in the fediverse so that's likely to stay too. We've only migrated from reddit in the past few months, so i'd say a lot of lessons have been learned in that time, as well as the viability/sustainability of running reasonably big instances.

A fair few have folded in that time too, some just disappearing out of the blue (vlemmy, lemmyuk, lemmyfilm) and others not able to manage the moderation as well as abusive users. I don't think any have folded from it being too expensive to run - but I could of course be wrong there.

Personally, my blog site costs about $200/yr to run out of pocket, and is quite manageable at around $16/mo - comparable to a multiple-screen HD netflix subscription maybe. For a moderately used lemmy instance maybe you'd be paying $600/yr - about $50/mo which is still reasonably manageable. If just two users donated $50, your out-of-pocket costs drop to around $40. If all your users donated $2, assuming 100 users, your out of pocket drops to around $34.

The last time I checked, the largest instance Lemmyworld costs over $1k/mo to run (this also includes sister site mastodonworld, which is on separate infra but managed by the same core admin team IIRC). As of today there is a 4 month donation buffer, but looking at the graph on OpenCollective at least it looks like the admin team may need to cover a few hundred $ out of pocket if the buffer runs out, as monthly recurring donations is lower than the infra expenses. There are occasionally some very generous donors so I think it's financially sustainable for the time being.

Overall I don't think there's anything to be worried about, this is the fediverse so you're free to have an identity on any instance and still interact with the various communities. It's not like Digg or Myspace where "when it's gone, it's gone".

I store my totp seeds in a separate, rarely used password manager, which then follows me on an "emergency USB" - hopefully something I won't need to use at all

Ohh my 😍

Do you get any output from # virsh list --all and # docker info?

I have a feeling it's an SELinux issue, and i'm not familiar with how that works at all (yet 😳). May be a good call to purge virt-manager, libvirtd, docker, containerd, and reinstall them...

Noncredibledefence defo is set up here, they pop up on /all from time to time.

You could try these fediverse search engines:

• https://browse.feddit.de/
• https://sub.rehab/ (allows filtering on official and unofficial communities)

boop Naughty, naughty lemming!

This question could potentially be against rule 2... if it isn't then I guess a bunch of participants are going to see a lot of [removed] depending on their instance's slur configuration 😅

Wouldn't be surprised if it was related to the new "The Marvels" movie being an unfinished flop.

A few of critics have said that the film was single handedly kept barely alive by the actress playing the role of Ms Marvel, but fundementally the directors and the cutting room floor put out another generic heroes-from-earth-save-outer-space movie... where shockingly even the villain wasn't all that convincing

The first 30 secs of the trailer aren't even footage from the movie, that should pretty much say how confident Disney are about it 😳