I’m using Boost (and Vger but preferred Boost from Reddit days too). I got used to Infinity on Reddit after Boost ended and wish they’d make a Lemmy version of that now.

Not allowed anything in food that isn’t food. I guess it does makes sense, especially if you’re in a nation of fuckwits.

Username hopefully doesn’t check out

Kinderegg, which are banned in the US for being dangerous

Currently have an old 2.8kw system and I export back to the grid at 44c/kw (South Australia) which pays a lot back towards my overall electric prices. But I will be updating it soon to about a 16kw system, a 24-32kwh battery and hopefully an EV which does V2G. Should pay for itself within 7-8 years. Meanwhile, I’ll also be running my pool heatpump and all the appliances during the day.

You can set up a lab if you want. Grow something in a petridish.

As a geologist, I completely understand

A1: Less bots, mods aren’t malevolent, no Karma points just a simple up/down.

A2: Federation isn’t easy for newbs to understand, communities are often too quiet, I still have to visit Reddit as any tech-related questions I have actually have answers there and there’s SEO so it’s found. I did also enjoy reddit “badges” for some reason. If your instance gets defederated, or goes down, you lose everything on it. Bots that are here are Reddit scrapers rather than new Lemmy content

This is why, as an Aussie, I’m very disappointed in our subservience to the US all the time. It’s honestly pathetic. We abandoned our initial plan for, admittedly not cutting edge tech, french-built submarines to go with far better-specced US-built subs but who knows if we’ll ever actually get any of them.

Honestly, I don’t trust the sepos not to hamstring them somehow.

A decade? I had a Windows ME upgrade disc - M$ has been at this for a long time.

It’s funny. As much as I detest DJT and all the terrible things he’s brought to the world order/markets/general stability, I do have to be thankful that he’s helped spur on digital sovereignty and sparked a revival in independence rather than US hegemony. It’s also a shame, but the US has proved itself too volatile and an unstable partner.

This isn’t something I’ve seen online either tbh. But the UK thing was certainly very popular having talked to people in their 30s-40s, though admittedly this was about 25 years ago. Nowadays life is much harder so just the idea of maybe one day affording a house and having survivable wages is more of concern! The dream of owning a pub is so far above what current 30yos could reach. Plus, pubs are all owned by breweries these days so the of the old freehold pub has died.

In Japan, it’s something I’ve seen several times in Japanese documentaries on NHK, which have been translated. Again, I don’t know if this is still the dream of the younger folks - it was 50yos that wanted to do that previously. The US equivalent was “the American Dream” that people still wish for, even though it’s unlikely. It’s a similar feeling, or hope, that for most won’t come true, no matter what they do. These aren’t “specific online spaces”. These are the hopes and dreams for a better future - if you need to have those, you’re making a statement.

You don’t need to read the language to understand what they’re meaning by it (I don’t speak Japanese) and there’s examples in other countries of this too, including English (in the UK it used to be the dream to run a pub). Anyone who “has a dream” where they escape the rat race and/or becomes their own boss and/or moves to “the country” or even out of the country is making a political statement with every one of those thoughts/dreams.

THAT is the subtext, not the actual text. It requires no deep understanding of verbal/written language, just an understanding of human communication which is more nuanced than simply what we say or write.

Everyone complains about their own country. The Japanese complain about Japan all the time too - the whole “salaryman running off to start a ramen shop” dream is a complaint about th country. Just because you can’t see it means you’re not understanding subtext.

It’s not about the physical size, it’s about its oversized influence especially in online spaces. Plus we’re all writing/reading English at this moment so there’s an anglosphere bias.

Runs perfectly. Arguably better than the Steam version directly (though that’s where I bought it through) which kept crashing for me. Add on the mods recommended in the Steam community page and it gives it a big boost too. Highly recommended.

I use it for The Longest Journey. Means you can add mods to make text more legible for example

visiting an english store, in a broad Scottish accent

“IT’S LEGAL TENDER”

I had to update my Elgato Stream Deck software and it pointed to their new product - the Stream Deck + Lever.

Admittedly I did do a WTF at first but then remembered what day it was. I didn’t check more, but I have to assume! There’s no way it could be real.

Oh, that and today was the first I heard about the scope of the Artemis II mission, but it turned out that actually was real even though it seemed like an elaborate joke. Cue the conspiracy theories

Hey now, don’t kink-shame downed pilots. It’s just the way they like their lovin’

Sauce: pielot