Yeah. On the surface it seems like it would be a positive. But in practice, it shields people from criticism of their behavior.

Yeah, yeah, “use your words” and all that, but some comments are just so brain-dead or trollish that they’re not worth a response, and even a downvote is expending far more effort than the comment is worth. So the person who made it sees 3 upvotes but not the 50 downvotes, so their takeaway is that “wow, 3 people liked my braindead comment” rather than everyone except 3 people hated it.

I get the appeal of disabling downvotes, but if I say something stupid, I wanna know.

The number of upvotes on this post (and it’s xpost in c/politics) is extremely disheartening and shows why getting news from social media is doomed to spread crackpot shit. People will like and share anything they agree with no matter what tinfoil rag it links to.

Humanity makes me sad.

I mean, if you’re not shitting your guts out after drinking a glass of tap water, then it’s clean enough.

Pure water tastes like…nothing. The minerals and such give it the good, crisp taste.

That said, my water is so hard it has comparable calcium to a glass of milk.

I call that “Keller Williams style” and yes!

• https://tube.dubvee.org/w/2UK9ztiBvywM97aYi3xxuz
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulyoxdhHrIs

Also, gawd-damn, she’s the real deal. So many artists only sound like that in the studio, and there she is just being awesome.

The good ol’ Ferengi Rule 34 (seriously).

Though I prefer RoA #76: "Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies. "

I’m so glad they made it when they did then lol.

The mother plant is always special. Even with a black thumb they’re usually pretty easy to care for. Here’s hoping it lives another 37 years.

Oof. I literally know your pain.

I want to go solar so badly, and yeah, the heat pump model was toward that goal. I may still go ahead and put money aside for it (they’re like $1500+ and this gas one was $500). I could probably Craigslist the gas one and get a little bit of money back I suppose.

I just got the old one disconnected and pulled out and the new one unboxed, and thankfully everything is in the exact same spots and same sizes/threads as the old one. After I eat a quick bite, I’m gonna clean behind and around where it goes and should have the new one installed shortly after. 🤞

Pothoses are pretty resilient and easy to propagate if even a small part of them is still alive. Glad yours is bouncing back. One of mine is from a cutting from my grandmother’s pothos. Hers doesn’t have any sentimental value, but I laugh because I know she most likely prop-lifted it from Lowes or Walmart or somewhere 😀

Yep, at least according to the images of the one I just bought so here’s hoping this goes smoothly. Hopefully the intake/output connections are the same size too. It didn’t list them and I didn’t have time to read the manual without missing the same-day delivery cutoff.

That’s basically me. Wake me when it’s time to:

• Eat
• Hand out gifts
• Go home

My friend got me into it, and it was the first and only MUD I ever really got into. So kind of loved it by default. I tried out a few others but never really got very far beyond the first few levels in each.

Beyond that, it was intuitive as far as MUDs went, had a massive world and lore, and was well “modded”.

Two in the same vein:

1. Someone once assumed that I used a code prettier by asking for my .prettierrc. Nope. I just write pretty code and was legit offended at that.
2. Multiple times I’ve been called an AI because I (checks notes) write out my thoughts in full sentences.

There’s been worse, but I’m quick to block, and I don’t dwell on things. It’s actually pretty easy when you step back and think about the kind of person who would go online make personal attacks like that. Once you have that mental image, you quickly realize you don’t give a flying fuck what that person has to say about anything.

RNode and Meshtastic cannot interact.

I did ask in the Reticulum Discord if it was possible to run Reticulum over Meshtastic by using the serial transport in Reticulum connected to the serial module in Meshtastic. It is technically possible but inefficient. The person who answered my question said you’d need to use Meshtastic in ShortFast mode to make it even remotely practical.

Essentially it was using the serial transport connected to a Meshtastic node in place of the RNode thus allowing the Meshtastic device to perform the role of both.

[Reticulum] --Serial Transport---> Meshtastic Node's UART1 ---> Meshtastic Serial Module --->Meshtastic LoRa  ---> Remote Meshtastic Node's Serial Channel --> Remote Meshtastic Nodes UART1 --> [Remote Reticulum Client]

They also pointed me to a Github project of theirs that basically did just that, but I cannot for the life of me find it to link it.

https://www.autoweek.com/racing/nascar/a1872056/dale-earnhardt-dale-jr-both-opposed-confederate-flag/

I used to play the crap out of A.V.A.T.A.R. As of a few days ago, it was still alive and active.

avatar.outland.org:3000

You can use telnet or a more capable MUD client. I used to use zMUD back in the day, but it hasn’t been developed since 2008. The last time I sat down and played, I used Mudlet.

In my city, they just keep paving over the old asphalt, so the manhole covers are like 6 inches deep in some places. Hitting one of those in my sedan is not pleasant.

Dude! Awesome! On all fronts, awesome.

Yep. Works great, at least for my small instance.

You have to install the ffmpeg-vaapi plugin and then under Config->VOD set the profile to the vaapi one it creates. I’m not using remote runners, but from what I’ve read, this doesn’t work with remote runners since you can’t install plugins on those. You may be able to shim in rffmpeg instead, though.

The only sticking point is I cannot get the peertube user (inside the container) to consistently have permission to write to /dev/dri/renderD128 .

Eventually I’m going to tweak the image so this isn’t necessary, but for now have a startup script that brings up the stack and chmod’s the device endpoint to allow any user inside the container to write to it:

#!/bin/bash
cd /opt/peertube
docker compose up -d
docker compose exec peertube bash -c "chmod o+rw /dev/dri/renderD128; ls -lah /dev/dri/renderD128"

Rather than have Docker engine manage the stack’s lifecycle, I have that startup script called by a systemd unit (ExecStop just does a docker compose down).

Edit: The other sticking point I ran into is the video studio not working well (or at least the few videos I tried). I haven’t really tried to pin down what that problem is.

Edit 2: I did have to build a custom image to include the Intel drivers/modules.

# http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20251117T000000Z
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian
Suites: bookworm bookworm-updates
Components: main non-free
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

Types: deb
# http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-security/20251117T000000Z
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian-security
Suites: bookworm-security
Components: main non-free
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

FROM chocobozzz/peertube:production-bookworm
COPY debian.sources /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources
RUN apt update && apt install -y --no-install-recommends vainfo intel-media-va-driver-non-free

I should probably add the step here to setup permissions for /dev/dri/renderD128