Damn, I thought they were going out in a blaze of glory weekendgunnit style on the first glance. Self-immolating a sub instead of just returning to the new status quo is more effective than this blackout will ever be.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Planning on building a PC, anything I should know?English
1·3 年前Also don’t forget to remove the plastic film(s) they put on the CPU/Cooler and everywhere else!
I feel like we need a Redditor’s Anonymous community lol.
Hi I’m Swintoodles and I’ve tried to open reddit 3 times this morning. The site is sparse, so I only browsed for 20 minutes, but I know I can get better!
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Technology@beehaw.org•In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout
3·3 年前Wouldn’t be the first time a corporation says one thing to the public and the complete opposite to its shareholders.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over
5·3 年前Find me a community that doesn’t persist primarily on the same small set of jokes.
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Finance@beehaw.org•Personal finance: how much are you putting on your kids? 529 account?English
0·3 年前with the recent ability for kids to convert to a Roth IRA up to $35k with no penalties if they don’t use the funds, has that become the new golden number?
Unless your kids are getting close to college right now, I would not put much faith in any specific program being present in the future. Those sorts of deals tend to come and go with the political tide.
Personally I put less and less emphasis on colleges with each passing year of life. Unless your child has aspirations to be a mover shaker or aims for a highly specialized field, just about any accredited bachelor’s degree in the right field will work for them, ergo a cheap online/community college will get the job done, and possibly also fast if they’re a strong student.
I’d put a modest sum in, perhaps around your number, and then subsidize each child based on their goals. You might nurture a child with strong entrepreneurial aspirations, in which case that 529 is probably not going to help them, whereas 30k in seed money could set them up for great success.
Teaching and nurturing a child early on in life will pay far greater dividends than a college fund ever will in any case. Giving them the tools to advance spectacularly and have a drive to achieve their goals is going to make any other obstacle surmountable.
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Factorio
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Deep Rock Galactic (lower difficulties)
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Risk of Rain 2
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OSRS (stay tf away from the general community, skill n’ chill)
Games I used to play more for that comfy feel
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Minecraft (discovering cool new things in overhaul mods is just neat, probably need to figure out how to get my account back after the Microsoft stuff)
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TF2 Community Servers of the hyper casual variety, running in circles all day shootin’ dudes is just fun.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Timeline of total users at the top 10 Lemmy instancesEnglish
3·3 年前He also had a bit of controversy several years back when it came out that he was stealth-editing other people’s comments.
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Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.@lemmy.ml•Reddit Exodus: Welcoming the Selfhosted Community to Lemmy - Migrating to Freedom!
0·3 年前Only becomes a problem if commenters/posters get out of hand. On a more mild topic like self-hosting it’s probably not a massive issue for the foreseeable future.
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Privacy Guides@lemmy.one•Thoughts on this Reddit post claiming 'Lemmy doesn't care about privacy'?English
3·3 年前I was about to say, it’s the same system Reddit has just about, except instead of a corporation having your data, it’s just some rando with a server.
I haven’t dug into the Lemmy system at all, but would it not be possible for the server owner or other users to run a lemmy version of reveddit? Might not be a system by default, but I’d assume any system with direct access to the data can copy it over to a 3rd party no problem.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•French Senate gives green light to surveillance through cameras and microphonesEnglish
2·3 年前How would that even work? I assume that there would need to be a built in backdoor somewhere, since it’s clientside rather than the oldschool data pull from centralized servers.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is something many people believe but is not true?
3·3 年前That always confused me as a child, since it was super easy to just test it for yourself. Turned out salt tasted salty regardless of where on your tongue it was, the same for the rest of the flavors.
But at the same time, deflating the sales of the product has the risk of prompting the company to not continue with a franchise or employ those developers in the future.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Timeline of total users at the top 10 Lemmy instancesEnglish
16·3 年前Only reason I didn’t go to lemmy.ml is because their top post was “please go somewhere else.” Lol
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Technology@beehaw.org•Reddit CEO (/u/spez) is going to hold a AMA about the API update
15·3 年前Isn’t Spez the guy that stealth edited some user’s negative comments about him?
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Technology@beehaw.org•Any of y'all have a NAS? What's your setup?English
3·3 年前Was going to make it a sort of central computer that could centralize all the computing for several members of the family. Was hoping to get a basic laptop that could hook into the unit and play games/program on a virtual machine with graphics far above what the laptop could have handled, plus the aforementioned spin up of more machines for friends. Craft Computing had a lot of fun computing setups I wanted to learn and emulate. I would have also had the standard suite of video services and general tomfoolery. Maybe dip into crypto mining with idle time later on. Lots of ideas that somewhat fizzled out.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Any of y'all have a NAS? What's your setup?English
1·3 年前Yeah, I was trying to go all the way when I should have compartmentalized it a bit and just had two computers instead of one superbeast. The server PSUs aren’t super expensive relatively speaking, 1U hotswap 1200W PSUs with 94% efficiency are like $100. Problem was that the power distribution board I had didn’t have GPU power connectors, only CPU power connectors, and tired me wasn’t going to accept no for an answer and thus let out the magic smoke in it. I got lucky and the distribution board seems to be the intended failure point in these things, so the expensive motherboard and components got by unscathed (I think, I never used the GPU, and it was just some cheap Ebay thing). Still a fairly costly mistake that I should have avoided, but I was tired that night and wanted something to just work out.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Android’s distribution numbers remain as depressing as ever
9·3 年前I really should get a new phone… didn’t realize they drop old OSes so fast from security patches lol.


Yeah, that seems like it would have too much perverse incentive for admins to ban users they don’t like, both to remove them and get money for doing so.