Midnight Wolf

Actually, he is a cat. I am a wolf.

Can confirm, disabled for 11 years now. You either rely on someone else, or die.

And this memory is rather clear, even though it occurred in the fall of 2007.

We definitely remember shit (heh) like this.

Kitty, grabbing the camera: yes, just like that. I mean, meooooow…

I remember in hs, freshman year, physical ed was a required course, and I was one of the guys who hated it. We’d run like 4 laps around the track, then up and down the bleachers, almost every day for a ‘warm up’.

So me and some old faces, some new, start lazy-assing around the track. Technically we are jogging, just. Like 6 of us. PE was our first class of the day and it was regular that someone didn’t have time that morning and would have to go take a shit. Coach was always annoyed but what you gonna do.

Well one day, we are jogging, and… Emmanuel? ‘mini’ if I remember right. He starts making noises, like, devastating noises. We are on like lap 2 of 4 and we slow down, even for our usual pace, so we can all stick together.

And then it happens.

He makes this wet, sloshing noise, and we fucking stop. And we all look at him, and he said ‘oh fuck, I think I sharted’. Omfg the mix of hilarity, fear, and pity, as he starts waddling down towards the building, and the coach is like ‘the fuck’ and is then informed of the situation. He was not annoyed that day, not that time.

Mini, if you’re reading this, you seemed like a cool dude. And you left a great memory in the brains of several that day.

I thought the small indie devs were mostly on itch?

Whoa whoa, let’s not go overboard here…

I’ll be that guy and say that I do prefer buying from GOG, going as far as paying more money in doing so, so the issue isn’t really ‘friction’ but ‘mfs don’t bother offering on GOG’.

My hate for drm has only grown over the last two decades, and so I’ll get stuff wherever I can that isn’t plastered with it. But it’s not even a rounding error in comparing the number of games available of steam vs GOG. You’d have to go so far out with zeros that you fall off the page before encountering a positive value (0.00000[…]00001%). Which is upsetting and frustrating, since the other option is steam or piracy. And I do like rewarding developers for their work, so that leaves one option basically all the time.

I have a owncast container setup, I’ve used it a few times. It combines a customizable webpage with the stream, kinda-sorta like a twitch page. Hook obs to it and you’re off. Took me a couple hours to get everything set.

My only complaint is that the stream will fall behind - not sure if obs or oc is to blame. Perhaps my nas being underpowered, though I was testing/watching with ‘source’ so it shouldn’t be transcoding. After an hour or two I can, watching my own stream, see it’s fallen back by like a minute. If I remember right it continues linearly, so more time = more discrepancy.

It’s nice though, so I haven’t bothered to try other solutions. I should re-test and see if it’s been fixed…

“take off your clothes then”

and if they proceed to do that

“now let’s go shopping”

Mmmm, interesting, can you list off that data along with your mother’s maiden name? It’s uh for a friend…

You vastly overestimate boomers-era individuals (and really the entire general population). Beyond turning things on and ‘everything magically works’, most know fuck all about tech.

I know that if I croak tomorrow, while my ex partners and a couple friends would be able to piece together things, 1) they’d have to be informed that I’m dead, 2) they’d have to be asked to help with my different hosts, and 3) they’d need to remember where I physically put the password in case of emergency to access the main host (with all of the family’s important shit, like all of it). Assuming they got those three things done, they would have to convey to the ex/friend how to access the main node, and then figure out my password manager master password, and the mfa (multiple options), or assume it’s inaccessible and use the physical password to retrieve the data and restore… on an OS none of them has ever used before.

Assuming all that is doable, after the restore is to maintain the system and the containers, perpetually, as well as continue paying for the domains so they can access the services hosted on the nodes, and continue paying for my vps and the backup storage strategy (two different companies on two different continents alongside the local copy).

As I have literally almost died before (I was supposed to have died, according to doctors who saved me), I have tried to make this hypothetical situation easy, and still it would astonish me if they get past like step #2.

Ha ha ha, I’m in danger

A/S/L?

🅱️ossy

I’d counter that point though, and say ‘then you should be/stay on topic’ and not forking the discussion into other topics. It’s certainly not difficult to create a new topic about a related discussion, and if it interests the original posters then yay, they might join in, but either way you aren’t cluttering up the original discussion.

I see forums as more… professional? Whereas layouts like we have here are much more ‘lol memes’. The two types serve two different users.

I spent a good chunk of my teen years on forums and it was definitely a direct, ‘here is A Thing and I want to discuss A Thing’ conversations. Lemmy/reddit comments are like ‘I have this one thought of a kinda-tangible idea for A Thing 2’ and it’s just… It’s not ‘bad’, but it’s most definitely scatterbrain thoughts, just shared for other wandering thoughts to collide. Scribbled brainstorming vs careful planning, I guess? I dunno.

Maybe I’m just old. Blah.

If only we had a system where anyone could report anyone… Maybe have a link that says ‘report’… And we could have it on every topic, and every reply, so it would be easy to do… And after a number of reports by users of sufficient account age and in good standing, the reported comment would be moved to a quarantine so if the admins are unavailable, the forum can operate on autopilot to keep the users safe…

Ah well, nobody would ever implement that wild idea… sigh

impossible

Me, following several forums and the topics within: uh

You win this time, bigger thing!

So we made lossy the norm, but - let me blow your mind - what if we make lossy BIGGER?