forestbeasts
@forestbeasts@pawb.social
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 1 day ago:
Ooh nice!!! Good luck out there!
– Frost
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 1 day ago:
We should be taking a shower and eating. (Unfortunately we can’t do both of those at the same time but both have to get done.)
We are doing neither and also have to pee. So yeah, this is going well.
– Frost
- Comment on Is it possible for someone in America to not know who Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi is? 2 days ago:
We were born in America and literally have zero clue who you’re talking about. So, uh, yeah.
– Frost
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 2 days ago:
Yeahhh. We’ve got a PS4, and no PS5, initially because of the whole “you cannot back up your saves, at all, except with a cloud subscription” thing but now with this shit… yeah, nah. We’re good with Linux PC (and our PS4 for a very few things).
– Frost
- Comment on How come people have so called "sex addiction"? So much they have rehab places for it. Why not just masturbate and be done with it? 1 week ago:
Honestly, from what we hear, “sex addiction” is made-up bullshit by puritans to try and keep people in line and feeling properly ashamed about getting off.
Sex is totally normal. Porn is totally normal. Being horny is totally normal! Some people are just naturally hornier than others. (Some are less horny than the norm, too.) Being horny all the time isn’t an “addiction”, it’s just having a different baseline horniness level. But even besides that, how much of “sex addiction” is people with perfectly average horniness looking at porn or whatever a perfectly average amount being shamed for it, combined with everyone else around them hiding their own wanking/porn/whatever because “oh it’s shameful”, making the baseline look artificially low?
– Frost
- Comment on It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post) 1 week ago:
Consent, for one thing.
There’s a HUGE difference between me posting stuff of myself and someone else posting stuff of me without asking me.
But also, the restrictions aren’t about the kids. They were never about the kids. “Think of the children!” has always been a convenient excuse to make people shut off their brains and agree with whatever surveillance/control thing they’re pushing.
– Frost
- Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed? 1 week ago:
Swift is also memory safe without a GC, by the way! It uses reference counting instead.
– Frost
- Comment on uj/ any advice for first timers? 1 week ago:
We do have multiple accounts other places, b–
[Frost, don’t bother replying to them. They’re a troll and/or an asshole. And would almost certainly call our existence a “weird RP thing”.]
- Comment on uj/ any advice for first timers? 1 week ago:
You can see our username. You CAN’T see who’s talking. That’s why we sign our posts.
– Frost
- Comment on uj/ any advice for first timers? 2 weeks ago:
Wait, this is about sex?
I’m confused why all three comments (that we can see over on our instance anyway) are talking about lube and stuff, and not like “here’s how Lemmy works” or whatever. Heh.
(Not actually that confused because apparently everything is about sex, always, but yeah.)
– Frost
- Comment on How does a server work? Is it like a hard drive where it can fill up with info? or does it recycle it some how? How much does one cost and does lemmy.world need more servers? 2 weeks ago:
A server is just a computer. We run our own Mastodon instance, the server for it is literally an old desktop sitting under our desk! (It was running on our gaming desktop until we bought an old small office PC for dedicated servering and moved our stuff over to that.)
It does have a hard drive, and it can in theory fill up, but like, text is TINY. Really tiny. and hard drives are big. You aren’t gonna fill anything up by posting a ton.
Pictures and especially video take up a LOT more space. On our Mastodon, 99% of the space is the remote media cache, which can be cleared out without issue (because the other server it came from still has a copy of it, presumably), and it has a procedure for clearing that out. The actual stuff we’ve uploaded ourselves doesn’t take up nearly as much space (but it’s a server just for us, if we had a lot of random people on it we’d probably need way more disk space).
Things get significantly more expensive if your server is a VM in “the cloud” (someone else’s computer in a datacenter). They charge monthly for that, and usually don’t give you much storage (we have a small VPS mostly as a bounce point but our email is also there, and it has a 20GB disk, compared to the 500GB disk that’s in our physical server machine). You can buy extra storage but they charge monthly for that, too.
But all that is stuff for the instance admins to worry about. If they need more infrastructure costs they can always ask for donations or something.
– Frost
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 2 weeks ago:
26 here, I’m partial to ｢🙃｣. Not 100% sure I can put into words what it means though!
– Frost
- Comment on Are separable verbs a thing in ENG? 2 weeks ago:
Wow, this is ridiculously prescriptivist.
Also, huh? put on, take off, take out, pull over, there’s plenty of separable verbs that are perfectly normal in formal use.
Also also, as one of those “educated” people, dialect differences are cool actually and “stamping them out” should not be a goal.
– Frost
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 2 weeks ago:
Nah, coffee shops are also a great hangout space in general.
We sometimes get a coffee, sit down with our laptop and chill for a couple hours, just to get out of the house. It’s pretty cheap and a nice change of pace compared to sitting at home.
Not being loud or anything.
– Frost
- Comment on Looking for a game where reading an immersive in-game manual is one of the main gameplay aspects 2 weeks ago:
Tunic!!!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This’d be fun to get intentionally.
– Frost
- Comment on Death by dissin' Terry 😞 2 weeks ago:
I thought this was gonna be about people shitting on Terry Pratchett.
Turns out nope, it’s a pun!
– Frost
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Hm? Like, lack of disk space or?
If it’s potato in the sense of CPU specs, you don’t need a non-potato machine for this stuff.
Also if you’ve already cloned a project you’ve already got the history (unless you specifically told git not to do that). It generally isn’t huge. So like, you don’t even need tons of disk space unless you want to download a metric buttload of projects and/or they’re weirdly huge and long-historied (I bet the linux kernel repo is pretty big for instance).
– Frost
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Why not just keep them locally? It’s a full copy of the project, independent of the copy on Github. Git doesn’t need, or even have the concept of, a Big Central Server. It’s just that you can push/pull to/from other computers, and Github is one of those. Your local repository is on equal footing with Github (except for the fact that the project devs don’t consider it official, obviously).
– Frost
- Comment on Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam? 3 weeks ago:
all nations have a form of VAT
Is all sales tax VAT though? Or is VAT more of a specific thing?
(we’re American so we’re used to sales tax being randomly added onto everything, and know other countries generally don’t have that because they’re more, uh, civilized places; not super clear on how VAT specifically works though.)
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 3 weeks ago:
Our laptop runs Linux. I kinda wonder what would happen if someone tried that on us. :3
(not that Linux is inherently more secure, it’s just way more obscure and they probably wouldn’t have a hack prepared for our particular setup)
– Frost
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
LineageOS isn’t quite as hardline about the hardware having specific security features, and works on a BUNCH more phones. Maybe even your current one. If not, it’s a lot easier to avoid Google buying for Lineage support than for Graphene.
– Frost
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Termux is on Fdroid too! So you’ll be fine on a custom Android.
- Comment on Sony 3 weeks ago:
The pirates have been wearing archivist hats for a good while now, I think. At least in the movie space.
– Frost
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Honestly even if you weren’t using “AI” for stuff, coming in to spam (this post is already ad spam) isn’t a good look. Stacked with saying Reddit banned you for spamming and that’s why you’re here and, yeah.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I got bad news for you: spamming shit here will probably get you banned FASTER than on reddit.
Real people run this place, not bots, and real people don’t tend to take kindly to spammers shilling their slop.
– Frost
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 3 weeks ago:
Hey, I’d burn the entire box set of Debian (yeah, ALL OF DEBIAN! 27 discs!) to some DVD-Rs if we had any DVD-Rs! All we’ve got are CD-Rs and those ain’t big enough.
– Frost
- Comment on End of an era? 3 weeks ago:
How I wish it actually worked that way…
– Frost
- Comment on Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ??? 3 weeks ago:
They don’t post the bad stuff.
Personally we’re about to be homeless in like 2 months, we have a job but it doesn’t pay enough to get a room for rent (not even an apartment. just a room in somebody’s house.) and a car at the same time (and I’m kind of leaning towards the car because if we get sick and lose some income and can’t make rent it would be… a problem, and a car would be more affordable / easier to cut back on).
But nobody’s gonna post that kind of stuff on Instagram.
– Frost
- Comment on What's the weirdest thing in english? 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: “Love I apples?” and “Apples, I love not” are how German works, and English used to be like that (back when it was still turning into English)!