screaming in digital

dont discount the utility of running containers in an abstracted Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) away from your physical hardware. it expands your testing surfaces and sandboxes immeasurably.

little wins and small victories is very low volume, but wonderful to see pop up in your feed.

honestly, I have always had pretty decent experiences with non-oem lead-acid batteries. my local battery place has a decent supply and longevity is roughly the same as the oem ones (3-4 years). I have never had any issues (type or frequency) that were not also an issue with oem batteries.

almost no UPS mfcr makes their own batteries, so if you strip off the labeling from the oem ones, you may even find an exact replacement.

edit: another advantage of a local place is the core-return rebate and disposal of your old batteries.

I felt that deep in my soul. :-/

spaghetti is delicious for a reason.

in-line all your code and avoid the linker :-)

agreed, upvoted. for our current reality, this tracks.

x👏off👏… x👏on👏… x👏off👏, x👏on👏…flowcontrol.

pure. internet. classic.

sending LoL!

You shouldn’t be getting downvoted.

agreed. a tad snarky, but it was an honest opinion. lemmy will grow and communities will fill out.

HAHA HaHa haha… * cry *

got this one right away. now, get off my lawn!

federation certainly allows the bubble to close - {dot}world is an example; zero hate, people can absolutely choose to ensmollen their PoV if that makes their world safer. the nice thing is, interesting, thriving alter-views are only a federated instance away :-)

I tend towards the democratic socialist point of view as a default, but damn-me if hexbear isn’t both entertaining and informative, even if I disagree with some of their more… spicy(?) positions (sometimes vehemently).

lemmy{dot}ml is one of the most widely federated instances around, primarily because its a pretty diverse mix of lefty and lefty-ish ideas. lemmygrad{dot} hexbear{dot}net and blahaj{dot}zone and others equality as infuriating/interesting are all accessible from lemmy{dot}ml. its a pretty ideal instance, for me at least.

one thing I do try to make a point of doing is preferentially interacting on non {dot}world posts and comments. many peeps will post across community instances to encourage engagent diversity. keeping things active on non-{dot}world communities helps everyone.

this is an important observation. lemmy users are pretty damn protective of our signature drive-by commentary and federation makes it easier to enforce “small world graph” etiquette.

holistically, I have never seen any situations where federation, on net, did not make things objectively better.

used to use anysoft keyboard, but development seems to have died a while ago. so I got on the heliboard train like many others. preferred anysoft because of flexibility, but heliboard is open and works well enough.

sounds like things have come full-circle.

some might say… a perfect circle.

not quite neckbeard, but…

its not, really. and its something you get used to and come to appreciate.

the city analogy is a great one - every town has its own flavor. many towns build roads (federation) between them so all inhabitants can easily travel to each other… as a city.

some towns self-isolate or are isolated from other towns (defederated) for all sorts of reasons and, if you want to see what they have to offer, you can set up a house directly in that town or another town with a road to (federated with) that town. it really does allow some very cool places to thrive - like the internet was before it was purchased.

lemmy{dot}.world chooses to keep things pretty… bland? thats their right, but there is quite a bit of quality spiciness out there if you have a house in a well connected (widely federated) town or decide to set up a few additional houses in some of the more exotic towns.

does anyone have a federation graph up and running right now? should be easy-ish based on instance published federation lists.

small pond :-(

big fish :*)

p.s.

It’s one step up from a single-player game.

I gotta remember to steal that!