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If I remember correctly, there were mods that made the settings go below the lowest available ones.

Suddenly feeling like my Skyrim mod knowledge is some complex ancient fading lore in parts of my mind I haven’t used in years.

…No? I’m pretty sure that was the first massive wave of relatively diverse active users. Lemmy was pretty fringe before that happened. I think there are tens of thousands of us.

In the same vein, I’ve been doing crosswords on my phone on the shitter instead of browsing. First few times felt like I was remembering words that I haven’t been using often, but after a while I stopped feeling like it was helping me with anything.

I’m going to tentatively say that racking your brain for specific words (or otherwise learning new ones) might be marginally better for you than the average pure time wasting game.

Kia Pride. First generation. Falling apart, basically a soda can with wheels. Clutch so atrocious that I basically had to relearn how to drive during those fifteen minutes. Allegedly someone I knew got one that didn’t even have a gas pedal, just a relatively high idle.

Only the finest public property here in Lebanon.

The superior plug is clearly having no standard and having like four different types all over your house. French plugs at the kitchen counter, German plugs in the living room, Italian plugs everywhere else, combo Italian/American (German/French compatible) plugs wherever the panel has been changed in the past ten years. I even fucking have one of these and I don’t know the fuck why. Never seen it used. Didn’t know what it was until I saw it on Wikipedia 20 years after noticing it as a curious child. Let’s not get started on the abhorrent copper phone lines or the coaxial TV connection that fried multiple TVs with lightning (we just unplug them during storms now).

Also, I bring half of my small appliances/electronics from the Gulf which uses UK plugs, so I also need a fuckload of adapters.

All ungrounded and haphazardly breakered for maximum flavor. Imagine having electrical standards laws in your country. This isn’t a nightmare at all. What are they gonna do, throw my adapter in jail? Subpoena the contacts for being at the wrong angle? /s

I know this is what the solarpunk space is for, but it really is frustrating to have to separate prepper weirdos from actual self sufficiency discussions.

At least for me the frustration is that it isn’t always easy to explain why a certain image or idea gives you bad vibes. The modern petty fiefdom obsession with lawns and land and wasted urban density is very very icky to me, but these illustrations, some of the other posts on here, they do speak to a certain fantasy that I myself have.

It might help that where I am, a lot of rural housing is smaller 4-5 floor apartment buildings where each floor is typically occupied by one sibling and their nuclear family. So a homestead for me, conceptually, wouldn’t be my prepper enclave with 3,000 each of guns, cans, toilet paper packs, and flashlights, it would be a family area with a whole lot of fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs, composting, a few chickens, and pleasant places to sit around.

And it’s not a fantasy for me at all, because I have pieces of that, so I know how it works. Chickens, solar panels, herbs. A bit more than that in my family home, where my relatives live (I just visit).

Cattle is a bit far fetched for me, lol. Chickens will eat most organic waste and give you eggs, they’re great and convenient. Cattle are a whole other thing.

This is the missing middle I hear people online (especially from the US/Australia/Canada) complaining about. This makes so much more sense to me than borderline nonsensical suburbia.

I keep seeing people make fun of it online but that sounds like something I’d enjoy. My drink of choice for a few years now has been the depressing combination of whatever carbonated water is available with whatever better-than-rotgut-but-only-just vodka is available.

Rotgut-tier is also fine in a pinch. But the bad stuff here will make you blind.

(I’m also a fan of “give me your sweetest, fruitiest, girliest drink”, which was great fun back in uni when all the dudes around me were ordering bitter beverages they clearly didn’t enjoy. By trying to project masculinity to the girls around us, they were actually betraying an underlying insecurity about it - and by ordering my girly drink I was gently lampshading that idea. Fun times.)

I have not been on an instance that federates with it, so personally, I don’t know what the culture is like. I’m all for building bridges with ideological cousins - modern social media is one giant machine-propelled incubator of fascist sympathy nowadays, so I really do feel strongly about having a meaningful, robust, community-driven coalition of good people with good politics. I personally believe something like BlueSky has been a big black hole vacuuming up potential fediverse users, but you could make the case as well that it puts off our eternal September for more time. Maybe it’s not the worst thing that could happen.

That said, I do hear much worse feedback about grad than I do about .ml or Hexbear. At the same time, I understand that it is one of the main instances tied to the software’s development, and that alone makes it relevant to a big instance with a tech slant like ours, IMO.

I have to abstain. I think I’d like to vote Yay, but I don’t have all the information. I don’t know enough about grad to feel capable of making a judgement.

FWIW a lot of the .ml and Hexbear bashing is ridiculous, IMO. All the complaints about a “triad” and subsequent positive interactions on these two instances have made them seem unfairly maligned to me. Maybe it’s because I live in a part of the world where politics and political violence is even more messy, and the concept of “critical support” is much more clear to me. I don’t have west-as-default baggage. So a lot of what comes off to others as apologia for states that do bad things doesn’t necessarily bother me as much as it would bother someone else. I’ve seen more frequent egregious takes on .world and ShJW. Some of those guys legitimately want Israel to turn my home into a parking lot.

I’m always amazed at how we interpret “fake” games differently than other art. There’s something there about how familiar we’ve become with interactive media that makes us process a scene like this a bit differently.

Yeah. Since I would want to log into personally identifying accounts, I want something that’s “known” as a VPN, but in a jurisdiction that doesn’t block off half the internet from me, if that makes sense.

I remember a small wave of this style of meta meme in around 2012ish, all about seeing who can break the format of whatever was popular at the time in the most meta way possible. The joke always being that we can understand these weird image arrangements even after tearing out half of their content.

This one is just as satisfying as those were when they were still a novelty.

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