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What do you consider "expensive"? And like others asked, where are you going to be commuting to, and what do you consider "too far"?
I don't know if I'd agree with the people on Reddit who told you to avoid Tacoma. It's certainly cheaper than living in Seattle itself, if you can deal with the commute time. Also keep in mind that Seattle is one of the safest large metro areas in the country, so pretty much everywhere is "safe" compared to other large cities.

The easiest would be to unsubscribe from two of them. Or even better, if people could stop cross-posting.

Except cross-posting has a purpose. In that example, one of the posts was to beehaw while another was to lemmy.world. Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world so users on beehaw are only going to potentially see two of the three cross-posted posts. If they also defederate from lemmy.ml, those users would only see one.

So yeah, the solution is to unsubscribe from two of those communities because they're essentially 3 completely different groups that just happen to have the same name and general focus. Either that or just get used to it.

Star Control has a complicated IP situation and was never owned by Activision, anyway. You need to look to Stardock for future Star Control games. Do you mean StarCraft instead?

Define "finished". A lot of the games I enjoy are ones that don't have an "ending", like Crusader Kings or Civ.

In general though, I try to finish games I'm enjoying and quickly stop playing games I'm not enjoying so that I can move onto something else.

If I'm buying an AMD card, I buy PowerColor or Sapphire. If I'm buying an Nvidia card, I buy ASUS or MSI (quality isn't as good as ASUS, but tends to be cheaper). No real reason for those picks other than preference and good experience over many years of using them. Just remember that it's possible for any card to break regardless of brand so take reports with small sample sizes with a large grain of salt.

Of course PHP is still a relevant language today. It's actively developed and there are several very high profile sites that use PHP, including Facebook, Wikipedia and Wordpress. If Ernest knows PHP well, there's no reason for him not to use it. Developer familiarity trumps language trendiness every time.

This is one of the most ridiculous things I've seen lately. I assume whoever is behind this is relatively new to the Internet, because the "small web" has been how the Internet has worked for decades now. We've been able to have our own web presence nearly since the web was invented in the early 90s, and affordable self-hosting has been available since the late 90s. Furthermore, the claims on that site that "all our developer tools and technical infrastructure comes from Big Tech and the Big Web" is so divorced from reality it's astounding. The Internet largely relies on open source software and frameworks that have been developed over decades by volunteers.

If you want to have your own "small web" presence on the Internet, there's nothing that's stopping you. You could've set that up a long, long time ago using open-source software on cheap hosting providers. The problem with the so-called "small web" is that you usually also want to interact with other people when online, and that's why things have gotten centralized over the years.

The Fully Metal Ones

That's the important part there. I have an older set of OXO tongs and the clip that holds it closed was made of plastic and eventually broke off. The OXO tongs I have that are all metal have that clip also made of metal and they've been rock solid.

There are larger macroeconomic issues at play here which are a big contributor to it. High inflation and an uncertain US economic situation has caused tech companies (as well as others) to lay off people and is making it harder for startups and smaller companies to raise capital to keep the lights on. So yes, there is something bigger going on that is indirectly causing all of this.

Frankly, I think anyone bashing kbin while promoting lemmy just has some kind of agenda they're trying to push. I have both a kbin.social and lemmy.world account and I have experienced about the same amount of server instability on both. I've also seen reports of federation problems with both kbin and lemmy. Neither are "production-ready", but both had to deal with the sudden scale issues because of Reddit's API change drama and the ensuing Rexxit. They both have their issues (although they tend to be different issues). Fortunately there are many people working on both projects now, since they're both open-source.

Yes, they will continue to coexist for the foreseeable future. There's a reason why people choose one or the other since they each have their pros and cons, and the fact that they do federate with each other (even if it can be buggy at times) means people will continue to be able to pick whichever one they prefer without having to lose out on most content from the other.

As for your experiences with federating, you do need to make sure federation is getting triggered. For instance, I created a magazine on kbin.social a few days ago but it was taking forever to show up on lemmy.world (I have accounts on both). I had to specifically search for the magazine URL in the lemmy.world community search before it triggered federating that magazine and created the mirrored community on lemmy. Once I did that, it showed up just fine. From what I've seen, federation of new communities/magazines doesn't happen automatically. It only occurs if someone specifically searches for it by URL in the other software. Hopefully that's a bug and will be fixed at some point.

I don't think you quite realize how much craziness is in the world at large. There are have been instances of pizzagate levels of craziness in my home country, as well as in the other countries whose news I follow.

You also don't seem to grasp how discussions on the Internet work. People will post about things that interest them. Telling people not to post things that are of interest to them because you don't like it is counterintuitive and borderline offensive. I told you the reason you're seeing much more US-centric posts. You have quite a lot of options if you don't want to see that stuff, but telling everyone else not to post it is not one of those options.