Their marketing department is lagging it seems. They are running Chinese language ads on YouTube to US audiences.

It has a still frame of someone skiing or snowboarding, a QR code and the Chinese language description. Wut?

Have you ever considered not paying attention to what people say back?

I have never considered doing that at all. It happens naturally in the middle of conversations.

This goes in the “shit UM would say” bucket.

Yeah, it’s a common pattern with the “victim” crap. Same stuff I was just testing, actually. (Check my comment history with UM over the last day or so; re: define propaganda)

Very nonsensical responses, no discussion and just absolute crap posts. If it is LLM assisted, it’s tuned to respond to people like they are hating on the acual article and UM. It’s an easy formula: post a shit article and just argue with everyone about anything while assuming they are commenting against the post.

But I have met people just like that IRL and it usually comes with some serious mental disorders or poorly prescribed medications. (I am being extremely serious with that comment and no joke is intended, at all.) It’s probably for that person’s benefit to get kick-banned at all turns. Assuming it’s actually one real person, social media is not where they need to be spending their time.

It’s showing up on Lemmy fine. However, I think I need to create a post filter for hashtags or cross-site posts somehow.

#If #I #wanted #to #see #shortform #socialmedia #posts #i #would #use #the #proper #site #for #it … #testicles #wwjd #nascar

Everything else aside, my biggest gripes are with service control. Instead of just “service” they had to invent a new name that was super close to an existing function (systemctl vs sysctl) and reverse the switch order. (service sshd stop vs systemctl stop sshd.service)

Besides that, I absolutely hate that all the service configs are not in a standard location. Well, you get things like sshd.conf which are still in etc, but the systemctl configs are who knows where.

There are more important things to hate on with systemd, but I went for the superficial this time and I absolutely hate service management with systemd now.

Its probably more accurate for me to say that I think there is a gradient of people between instances. Using politics as an example, and without details, people seem to gravitate to instances where they are with like-minded folk. Combine that with local or global filter preferences, and echo chambers start to form on a per-instance basis. Communities of higher interest will likely be on the users home instance, after all.

But yeah, I am fairly sure most of us browse /all and see content from all over Lemmy. We still mix and mingle, but are still lightly bound by our own filter preferences. See above paragraph.)

(I am not trying to dictate hard rules of behavior, btw. Lemmy is too diverse for anything definitive.)

Personally, I try to only block specific communities and not entire instances. That has seemed to keep my personal feeds fairly open.

Lemmy is a perfect replacement for Reddit because it’s not Reddit. The feed was curated and not as organic as the voting system made it seem. As time passed, it became more of an algorithmic engine for dopamine extraction. Sure, I had some great times there, but times change.

Lemmy is not a perfect copy, but it is a healthier replacement in some ways. Separate instances do amplify echo chambers, but, they mildly serve to keep different groups separated. Some personality types are just not compatible and that is OK. We still have common spaces and can still be civil, mostly.

For now, there isn’t as much room here for business. Sure, we have plenty of porn but this platform isn’t as easy to exploit for money as Reddit was. No centralized advertising structure is awesome, IMHO. (Some clients still leverage ads, but I don’t use them.)

Build a live boot USB for windows: https://monovm.com/blog/how-to-create-a-windows-live-usb/

There is a chance that the exe is just a wrapper for a compressed archive that contains the app to flash the bios and also the image. If the bios actually supports flashing manually, that would be super convenient.

It depends on what kind of IC you need. If you need an authentic part that has been tracked and verified through every step of distribution, you pay a premium.

For hobby products, sure. Spend 30 cents on that 5 dollar part.

However, a bad batch of fake ICs could potentially cost a company millions of dollars in returns, or worst case, liability lawsuits. (It has personally only cost me a few bucks and some wasted time.)

My personal trust in any Chinese sourced electronics is zero. It’s less than zero if I attempt to buy a proper name brand IC. I ain’t salty about it since I know my odds of getting defective or improperly labeled (or relabeled) parts: Expect about a 30% failure rate or parts that are way out of spec.

Simply put, QA is generally poor and the supply chain is sketchy. If that doesn’t matter to you, so be it.

What happens is it chips do come from the same Chinese manufacturer, you can get spectacularly different grades of parts depending on how you bought them.

I just checked and behemoths can’t reach it to make significant damage. It seems like overkill, but I have repeating blocks of three guns, four laser turrets and 4 flame throwers. Each set of guns is fed with a requestor chest for ammo and each subsection is in range of my bots for repair. Just the wall itself is 6 tiles deep, 2 tiles deep for a plain wall and 4 for “standoffs”. It’s been impenetrable so far.

My walls are biter-proof unless they are supposed to evolve any more and could probably create an attacks per minute metric. The double-cross pattern that I am almost finished implementing for the outer wall seems to break their logic enough to minimize damage and gives the flame throwers more time to work.

Honestly, I just ignore pollution and all of the attacks. I just assumed I was eventually supposed to be fully enclosed by biter nests.

The auto-names for train stations are awesome.

As I learn more, I’ll stick around a bit to re-org my base or something. The more I learn, the more resources I need, so it forces me to expand by moving my walls and pushing the biter nests further out.

My train network is way to small, I have found. I’ll 10x the scale of it next time. Sigh.

I have kinda been doing that as well. If there is anything that is going to kill my laptop it’s bots, me thinks. I have just hit 10k bots and send them out to do mass paving jobs every once in a while. (no reason, it’s just cool to watch.)

Are you talking about my experimentation with trains and signals? I did a deep dive into trains and signals today and wanted to play with a “complex” roundabout.

I keep learning new aspects to the game. For example, I am learning circuits now to manage nuclear processing. The Kovarex process is neat, but I want to keep a few centrifuges running while pulling out the extra uranium.

For the most part, I have been tackling all the basics of Nauvis before I go to other planets. I have been learning trains, train signals, building and managing busses, etc. etc.

I have been to other planets, but there is just more I want to master on Nauvis first. (I have two space platforms and three rocket solos already, but there are just more aspects to this game then I ever thought possible.)

Big Clive has a voice to sleep to. If you are not familiar, he does electronics teardowns and reverse engineering. While I usually just watch his videos to actually learn things, his voice will knock me right out if I need a nap.

NSFW filter works for me.