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  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    TL;DR: The lead dev is German and had no idea at the time that toot was American slang for farting, he thought it was just an elephant/mastodon noise.

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    How do you deal with mixed experiences?
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 16%

    Alright, but don't be such a dick about it.

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    How do you deal with mixed experiences?

    People have told me in the past that their experiences with weed have been either good or bad. Myself, I've found that it's somewhere inbetween. There are times where It made me feel great Sometimes it feels kinda good, and kinda bad both at the same time. Other times, it's not worth it at all, and it just amplifies all the negative feelings in your mind by a magnitude of 5-10. It's because of this that I don't consume weed very consistently, because I seem to get better experiences when I wait a week or 2 in between usage. I only take edibles. Does anyone else have this problem? Is there any way around it?

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    Some trouble
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    Anything that isn't supported can usually be found either by flatpak or in the Arch User Repository.

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  • Some trouble
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    The hardest part is that the solution is often: Use subpar *buntu based distro for a month or 2 then get good enough to use Arch or something based off of it.

    I'm really hoping that valve's public release of Arch based Steam OS is good enough that I can just recommend that to people.

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  • Now no one will ever see all those super long !remindme bot posts set for 5, 10 or 15 years on Reddit
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    I mentally associate the concept the most with the late 2000's when Encyclopedia Dramatica (a troll wiki dedicated to making fun of people) was at peak popularity and could ruin peoples lives if an article was made on a person there. All you had to do was type in a persons name on google, and chances are their ED article was one of the first results. But then not even 2 years into the next decade, ED imploded because the site admins wanted the place to be more sterile and profitable, and they were tired of being threatened by lawsuits.

    You could argue that Encyclopedia Dramatica lives on in spirit as Kiwifarms, but at this point Kiwifarms struggles to even remain online 24/7 because they managed to piss off the wrong people.

    Nothing is eternal on the internet. The only way to save information is to actively back it up and maintain it.

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  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    No, bird 2 then screams at bird 1 for using Ubuntu and recommends <FLAVOR OF THE MONTH HERE> distro that will totally work and is totally easy to use despite the lack of documentation. It's then bird 1's fault if they can't get their niche hipster distro to work.

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  • Now no one will ever see all those super long !remindme bot posts set for 5, 10 or 15 years on Reddit
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 94%

    It's about time that people understood that "Everything on the internet lasts forever" is a falsehood formed from a Web 2.0 mindset. Now those big Web 2.0 sites everyone thought would dominate the internet forever are dying, and the only thing saving what was on those websites (the internet archive) is being constantly sued by greedy publishers.

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  • Nice try Google
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 97%

    Fun fact, did you know that google deliberately makes their products run worse on browsers like Firefox so users will think the browsers are slow? Please support Firefox, it's the only real browser not based on Googles technology (like Brave is), and it's actively fighting Google's monopoly on web browsing.

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  • Why Saudi Arabia's "The Line" is not a revolution in urban living
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    Obligatory "Adam Something" video on this topic: https://youtu.be/vyWaax07_ks

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  • I've been doing small hosting off and on for a while. Mainly for accessing files at home and the occasional Minecraft server. Not smart, as I've never used a specialized router. I used to use ddwrt, but now it's impossible to flash most consumer grade routers. id like to learn more stuff about cyber security, host other stuff, maybe host a website, but I'm just a guy who lives in an apartment. I'm stuck with 1 Internet service that claims it will terminate my service if they find me to be hosting anything. They must be semi-lax with that rule, because i haven't gotten terminated for using ssh and cockpit. Do you guys own a house, or are just fortunate enough to have access to an ISP that will let you host your own stuff?

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    Will there really be a big influx of users on the 30th?
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    I think the issue is more on lack of innovation. People ditched Skype for discord because Discord had many more features and wasn't an unusable mess like Skype was in the mid 2010s. Lemmy is literally just reddit with a few more features.

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  • Thank You Everyone For Rejecting The Fascists/Bigots At The Door
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    I gave it a try when I was going through my "absolute free speech" phase. I thought it was alright for a couple weeks, but after the people from "/r/coontown" came, i started to question my beliefs. Place immediately went to shit.

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  • inevitable
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    Painfully relatable.

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  • What other less-toxic system could work instead of karma?
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    But what if the thread is old and someone came across it from google looking for information?

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  • /r/Missouri was a great community for people who live in Missouri, but felt out of place living here. It was great for venting. But i feel that it also had a lot of wasted potential. I feel like there could have been a bit more of a focus on community activism. Obviously different people beleive different things, but i think it would have been great if the mods stickied some things relevant to values most of the community shared. Like when certain protests were going to happen. After all, if a good majority of people on the sub hate the political culture of where they live, why not help make it a better place? What do you personally want out of this community?

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    The FCC wants to know why data caps are still a thing in 2023
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    Would be wonderful if the FCC did their fucking job for once and banned data caps. Companies like Mediacom abuse the fuck out of them

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  • Why Kbin insead Lemmy?
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    Bootlickers, of the communist variety. Not very nuanced people. The type of people who deny the atrocities of Soviet era countries, and some are even dumb enough to support North Korea and the current regimes of China and Russia. Some are from troll farms sponsored by those countries.

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    Prediction: Reddit will someday remove the downvote from all posts.
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    One thing i love about lemmy and kbin is that up votes and down votes are separate and visible. The only other semi successful reddit clone that did this was voat, and I'm glad that shithole site is dead. Rest in racist peices.

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  • tar.gz
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    Why use this over .7z? I'm legit curious.

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  • “Sync for Lemmy is happening!”
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 88%

    This is exactly why I never pick iphones, because a good chunk of the time you miss out on all the niche things you can do on a smartphone.

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  • The what now?
  • psycrow psycrow 1y ago 100%

    This is usually the source of people's annoyance with me. I also struggle to comprehend what people say half the time.

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