I’ve actually been wondering how feasible it might be to set up a Lemmy or piefed server just for me. Is it frowned upon in the fediverse to essentially have a “vanity” url for an instance no one else can join? How difficult would it be to manage blocklists/federation without a team like the large instances have? Would there be an issue with instances refusing to federate with a single user instance?
Take another minute to think about just how many stars are in the solar system…
In Luigi’s Mansion 2, there is a boo who speaks in binary called Boolean… At least, in the British release. In the US localisation, its name is “Combooter” which is a far less satisfying pun.
VRChat for fans of anime girl streamers
Isn’t that just… Ya know… VRChat?
Data centers use massive amounts of power. Reducing that power consumption would be a net positive on the environment.
That said, looking at the site, I can’t see anything that suggests they’ve done any research into that. Instead they seem to be promoting their research into keeping kids safe online, with the only mention of the OSA being a short description in their recent June report with no comment about anything to do with it’s obvious shortcomings.
Technically it kind of already is. My username is the one I’ve used with little variation for 13 years, including my youtube and my website where I show my face. Everyone I know IRL knows my username, some of my friends even call me Spatchy and it would feel weird if that particular group didn’t (to the point I occasionally have to remind them it’s not my real name).
I’m still weirdly obsessed with not sharing my data with companies even though more of it is public than is probably sensible.
I use Thunderbird on both desktop (Linux) and mobile (Android). I currently have five accounts in a unified inbox:
Gmail (2 accounts): ‘professional’ one I give to people and the other one for generic account signups - currently migrating away from both of these.
Mailbox.org: the replacement for both my gmail accounts as mailbox.org allows aliases. They are completely EU based and don’t sell your data. Costs a small fee of €15 a year.
Zoho: for my own domain which is public and attached to my various projects as a developer contact address
Microsoft 365 🤢: Had to add this one literally today because I’m going back to uni in September. Hate that they use microsoft, but thankfully the uni enabled IMAP/SMTP instead of only allowing Microsoft’s proprietary OWA protocol.
As for general usage, I treat my inbox like a to-do list. Once I’ve completed all tasks relating to an email, it gets deleted if it’s not important or archived (usually if it’s anything to do with money like a receipt or invoice). I usually only have at most 3-4 emails in my inbox at once.
The only thing that annoys me about Thunderbird is that occasionally if I delete a message, it will leave a blank ‘ghost’ message where the old one used to be that has a date of 01/01/1970 which only goes away when the program is restarted.
And if you want to support an artist, buying a single song for $0.99 on Bandcamp will give them more money than your total streams on Spotify ever would, even if you pirate the rest
One of my favourite news name incidents was during the fuel shortages a few years back. BBC (or maybe Sky) News sent a reporter called Phil McCann to report from outside a petrol station
Yeah, it sounds pretty bad from the title, but this is pretty much just an internet cafe with extra steps
Remember it’s not just ads. This info is sent to insurance companies too
Most people wish that game could be erased from the timeline IRL too
Use your browser’s reader mode, it usually bypasses any popups like this
Japan also has 2 incompatible power grids, with the north running on 50Hz and the south running on 60Hz
Ah yes, the vagina nostrils
As far as I’m aware, alpine isn’t designed for regular use, but as a minimal distro for container environments. Of course there’s technically nothing stopping you from using it on a desktop but you’re likely to be on your own in terms of support
The server should still support mods fine. You’ll need to find a launcher that supports your OS, your mods and drasl-based authentication.
Texture packs will be fine, you can change them in game
Something that may influence your decision: Minecraft by default requires a Microsoft account.
Look into Drasl if you want to set up a Minecraft server without needing one
Does this mean they’ll finally be adding calls to the web version?
A level of Bible fanfiction Danté would be proud of