VinesNFluff

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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 8 points 7 months ago

My (family's) Homeserver is my dad's old gaming rig from ~2014

I just put an 8 TB Hard Drive in it and set it up as a combination Emby Server and ghetto "NAS".

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not as salty about EGS as a lot of PC gamers seem to be.

......... But god damn is their default client trash.

Thank fuck for Heroic Launcher on Linux (I think it even got a Windows version?)

But honestly, people complain about exclusivity, and seem to not realise (or care?) that certain games would not exist without this kind of funding deal. They are only funded by the platform that pays for their exclusivity. If you want to be mad at something, don't be mad at the devs, don't even be mad at Epic, be mad at Capitalism as an institution, which rules that art needs money to exist.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

What a cute dragon(?) boi

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 10 points 7 months ago

you're in my walls?

Ok then mate. Have fun suffocating in a tomb of solid concrete I guess?

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not really. I think the whole internet should be accessible to everyone.

Do I think Americans are often obnoxious online? Yes.

Do I know for a fact their big tech corporations are equally as evil as the Chinese ones, no matter how much their propaganda tries to convince me China is worse? Definitely.

Is Xwitter a blight on society that only got worse since an out-and-out fascist bought it? Of course it is.

But closing ourselves off from the world is not the solution.

What I would support would be stricter regulations on data collection and algorithmic manipulation, because those things are bad no matter who is doing it.

I would support heavier tariffs on foreign big tech, because if they're going to use our people as a resource, they should at least pay up so we can put that money towards taking care of our own.

And I would support a government program to incentivise home-grown technological solutions, because digital sovereingty is a concern, and the only solution is having our own shit.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 20 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Depends on how you feel about communists

As far as far left instances go, ml is actually pretty unspicy, despite the bee in their bonnet people got.

So like, if you can't stand hanging out with em pinko commies, avoid it. If you're fine with that, don't.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 0 points 7 months ago
[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago

As I understand it (thanks technology connections), the sockets linked to light switches are made that way in case you want to have like a floor or desk lamp and turn it on when you enter the room

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 16 points 7 months ago

Void

Get it? Because a vaccuum is a vo--

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago

And not to make this even longer, but the people with the means to move to another state much less another country are the wealthy. The poor, who are the ones who might benefit most from moving, are unable to, trapped in the cycle here.

I will say you are mostly right, but also note that all the refugees that have been going everywhere (including into Brazil! We get lots of Haitian and Colombian refugees mostly) since before I was born were exceptionally poor people.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 4 points 7 months ago

I have a coprolith.

It's part of my bathroom's decoration.

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