Given the principle, the used based preblocking + explainer will work better then 👍

I suppose nudging it on to the user also does a bit of self-filtering of good users from bad. Those who don’t use the tools aren’t really getting into Lemmy as it should be, are unlikely to contribute much, will probably have a bad experience, and then wander off. Vice-versa applies.

The pre-blocking itself pushes that principle, but in your position I think it’s a pragmatic choice and a difficult one to balance. Can’t say I envy your position!

Thank you for all your work. I must remember to toss some coin your way.

improving Zippy to be much more talkative when something goes wrong with it

Crash recovery could be improved with a single flag/bool. Set when started. Unset as the last action before graceful shutdown. When starting, notify of crash if the flag is already set - or give normal start notification if the flag was flipped on normally by zippy.

That would make it less ambiguous.

blocking hexbear and lemmygrad (as two suggestions) upon account creation

I would wholeheartedly support a complete defed from hex, grad and ml if it’s possible. From what I have seen, their users bring little of value and much discontent.

Maybe even lemmit.online as well, considering it tends to just drive traffic away from Lemmy with no way for unified communication between Lemmy and what their bot has hauled in.

Make choices for the instance as a whole rather than per new user. Blunt, but effective. Would probably want a community vote - I talk a lot of shite.

There has also been talk of banning X links, another thing I would support.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36114134

Given the current political backdrop and recent video of Elon Musk performing clearly identifiable Nazi salutes at the Presidential inauguration, some communities have started banning all links to X/Twitter.

Great stuff.

The more places that ice out that chucklefuck service the better.

Back in the day it just worked because you bought a card with a supported chip… or you had to do some ungodly things with ndiswrapper to get the Windows driver loaded.

I think back then I was using wicd as well.

It’s come a long way.

Weebl (Jonti Picking) is a national treasure.

Check out Savlonic, his band, too :)

The first BloodRayne game (after the intro level, which is plain bad and almost nazi-free) sees a lot of bitten, shot, dismembered, burned, possessed and exploded nazis.

Honestly the gameplay is a bit clunky even for its time, but if what you need is dead nazis then it very firmly ticks the box.

Also remastered: BloodRayne: Terminal Cut

No sympathy for ghouls.

The moral highground is utterly useless today - something the R’s have learned well.

For the unaware, this is hilariously true.

Sounds like he’s on death’s door when he speaks too. Or he’s already dead and the roaches are good ventriloquists/puppeteers.

Our language is the offcuts of several others stitched together, to make some sort of coherent garbage.

Never feel bad about getting something wrong - most of the natives butcher it in their daily lives without a second thought.

The accents are wild too. I feel so sorry for new speakers that are confronted with Scots. The further north you go, the more unintelligible it gets to the basic English speaker.

I’m from Angus originally (not the very top, but close enough), but moved to Wales. There was a period of time where I could understand everyone, but found myself not understood by others.

Eventually my own accent settled into some sort of “Scwelsh” that works, but it’s difficult for listeners to place me geographically.

Have a few bonus Welshisms for your trouble:

“I do do that I do” - I also do this

Whose coat is that jacket? - Who owns this coat?

Now in a minute - Could be immediately. Could actually be in a minute. Could be an hour from now.

I just treat their letters as scrap paper or kindling. They are very carefully worded to give the illusion of power where there is practically none. Capita are masters in mismanagement, so I’m not surprised your declarations have been ignored in the past. Just don’t bother.

If you’re truly not doing anything required to have a licence, then they can’t prove you do. Licence dodgers are usually clever enough to not give it away too.

Don’t answer the door to them on the rare off chance they come prospectively calling. If you do, just close it on the scum without a word, and go about your day. No warrant = no entry.

Downsizing from an ex biz full fat tower server to a few Pis, a mini PC and a Synology NAS was the best decision ever here.

The new hardware was paid for quickly in the power savings alone. The setup is also much quieter.

You don’t think about power consumption a lot when working with someone else’s supply (unless it’s your actual job to), but it becomes very visible when you see a server gobbling up power on a meter at home.

You’re right about the impressiveness of working creatively within constraints. We got to the moon in '69 with a fraction of the computing power available to the average consumer today. Look at the history of the original Elite videogame for another great example of working creatively and efficiently within a rather small box.

Sounds like a good way for Mr Pirate Fire Stick Man to sell more of his £50/year IPTV packages.

It’s already easy enough for the average joe to do this. Having the BBC double-dip their Netflix sub may well be the push that has them cancel subs & go ‘elsewhere’.

If we want a public broadcaster, it should be recognised as a national service and funded directly through tax. Unfortunately, that would put a lot of Crapita licence fee collector dogs out of a job and we simply can’t have that(!).

Just look at the crap you get shoved through your door if you decide not to play their game: http://www.bbctvlicence.com/

Before anyone mentions that you can submit a ‘no licence needed’ declaration - they’ve got no business even knowing my name, let alone my media choices.

Visible on lemmy.zip

Well done :)

Not on Steam? No direct release? Steam released, but with a bunch of bolt on EULAs/Denuvo/3rd party launchers?

The seas will provide.

Same with IRC for chat.

Ah the chaos of netsplits, trivia bots and XDDC. Good fun.

Best of luck :)

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17- Don’t worry too much. I am from Scotland and moved to Wales aged 10. Welsh is next to useless in the South and only really heard in school.

Learning is compulsory up to age 14 (Year 9). At age 14/15, kids get to pick their options for further study for the next two school years. If Welsh is not actively taken, it reduces to one lesson a fortnight, that then turns into a basic qualification that may be shamelessly flubbed.

At least this was the case 20 years ago. Things may have changed in school, but in daily Southern life there will be no real life application.

Message me if you need any help, I am local to Cardiff and Newport, the two major places near Swansea.