Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on How customer service jobs be 2 days ago:
Well if you get 50 from a large fries, isn’t it feasible they got 100 from two large fries?
- Comment on This song, it's infectious 3 days ago:
Haha yip that’s the top album for me, this checks out.
- Comment on Regular Animals(2025), Art Basel Miami Beach - Mike Winkelmann(Beeple) 3 days ago:
I just took the info from the article, what is wrong about it?
- Comment on Regular Animals(2025), Art Basel Miami Beach - Mike Winkelmann(Beeple) 3 days ago:
In case people are wondering, from left to right in the bottom image:
- Andy Warhol
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Elon Musk
- Pablo Picasso
- Beeple, real name Mike Winkelmann (the artist who made them)
There is also a Jeff Bezos one not in that image but seen in the other images.
- Comment on lemmy.world down... 5 days ago:
I am under the impression it’s dedicated hardware not a VPS, but it’s leased from Hetzner they don’t maintain the hardware themselves.
- Comment on I like kiwi 1 week ago:
And kiwifruit doesn’t even grow on a tree.
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 2 weeks ago:
Ah yip, makes sense, thanks!
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 2 weeks ago:
Ah haha, I actively avoid using google so don’t log in to an account. If you don’t mind me asking, if corporate surveillance isn’t what you’re avoiding, what’s the main reason you’re using a VPN?
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 2 weeks ago:
No it’s a paid VPN, and it starts fast but after the first 500GB or so it slows right down.
I do suspect many of the issues are from activity on the VPN rather than specific VPN blocking, but that doesn’t change the issues.
How do you handle the Google Captchas that never end? That was the worst part for me.
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 2 weeks ago:
I have, thanks. The impossible to complete captchas are the worst for me, so many sites that are basically broken.
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 2 weeks ago:
Browsing lemmy is probably fine, but the general internet is a god damn nightmare to browse on a VPN. Can’t load that one reddit search result with what you need. Endless google captchas making you do traffic light after traffic light on sites you didn’t even kniw used google. Downloading games from GOG is capped at like 0.5Mbps. And I’ve had plenty of instances of cloudflare blocking VPNs to certain sites.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 3 weeks ago:
Stealing is quite a different crime from rape. If people are stealing, remove their need or desire to steal rather than locking them up and putting them in a position where everyone they know is a criminal. It’s a cycle that’s hard to break and we should be more careful about who we thoughtlessly throw in jail.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 3 weeks ago:
Can I argue that increasing punishment generally doesn’t decrease crime long term, only short term. The change we need is to address the root cause not to increase the size of the stick.
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 3 weeks ago:
Hmm I haven’t seen this option before.
I definitely make use of controlling which apps buzz, and the priority setting which makes them go bz, bzzz, bz bz, etc. I don’t know where I get this trait from (it doesn’t seem to be a generational thing) but I feel it’s rude to have a phone’s volume on when others are around.
Being in a room with a bunch of people all watching things on their phones with thr volume on annoys me to no end. I feel bad even having it ding when others are around.
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 3 weeks ago:
Do different apps have different notification sounds? I’m a vibrate only person but I thought a notification sound was a notification sound, not some custom ring tone.
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 4 weeks ago:
They have definitely had third iterations of things, but have they called them 3?
I mean there are at least 5 half-life games, they just called the third one 1 and the fourth 2 and the fifth wasn’t numbered.
- Comment on Aeroplane 4 weeks ago:
If it has autopilot and autobrakes, surely all those other buttons aren’t needed?
- Comment on Anon gets his life in order 4 weeks ago:
Yeah buy the advertisers don’t want to be associated with that language so he’s gotta censor it.
- Comment on How far you've fallen 4 weeks ago:
PC - fans blasting, groaning under the workload Me - not even using it
Checks processes, steam web helper using 100% of CPU.
- Comment on Microsoft in damage control over Copilot bundling bungle 4 weeks ago:
I was similar. I have had a self-hosted Nextcloud for years but had a OneDrive family subscription that I had a bunch of family on. When I got this notice I still had 6 months before renewal, so cancelled and made a plan to move everyone across to Nextcloud. That was completed some time ago, no complaints from anyone.
- Comment on Microsoft in damage control over Copilot bundling bungle 5 weeks ago:
I’m glad to hear something it happening. It was discussed all over lemmy what a shitty thing it was that they were doing.
Basically they told everyone that the annual cost of the subscription was going up significantly, and shortly after they announced that the subscription was getting Copilot included. Then if you went to cancel, they offered you the old price without Copilot.
Plus it was a dumb Copilot offering because if you were on the family subscription only the main person would even get access to it, not the other 5.
- Comment on Sounds about right 1 month ago:
The first line says the boss lives across the street
- Comment on Are you sure there aren't any ... ?? 1 month ago:
- Is it like anything else I might be familiar with to help me understand better? (Note: almost 70 so may need old references.)
Reddit was mentioned, but that explains the format of this site, that people post stuff and people can upvote stuff they like to make it more visible to others.
But I haven’t (so far) seen anyone mention something similar to answer the question as to why there are so many different sites here. People from lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, lemmy.nz, and others are all participating here, all on their own sites but all somehow connected.
The old (and still well used) equivalent here is email. Email is a federated service, it’s not hosted by one company, anyone can operate an email server and jn fact it’s very common. Emails look perhaps like dave@gmail.com or dave@company.com or dave@something.com. the part after the @ tells your email provider how to reach the server of the person you are emailing. You’ll notice user names can look similar to an email address, but have an @ at the beginning to identify them as separate from email addresses.
But yes, as others have mentioned, lemmy.world is the largest lemmy website, run by some people called the Fedihosting Foundation. Anyone can sign up there, and anyone can create a community there. It seems very unlikely there is an official relationship between Lemmy.world and Perchance.
- Comment on It's good to have goals. 1 month ago:
He wants to be the guy getting paid to put stuff in the microwave.
- Comment on Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program 1 month ago:
Oh shit it is, and is owned by a Microsoft subsidiary that owns all sorts of games on GOG. Elder scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Quake, Dishonored, and more. GOG would be screwed if they pissed them off enough to get all those series taken off!
- Comment on Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program 1 month ago:
Ah that’s cool, 15 year copyright sounds good to me.
- Comment on Living his best life. 1 month ago:
Maybe the committee doesn’t like calling people and is hoping they won’t answer.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 month ago:
Fixed now?
- Comment on Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program 1 month ago:
So you post a selfie on Lemmy and the next thing you know, you’re the key subject in a new Facebook ad?
I think we need some level of IP laws, but current copyright periods are way too long.
- Comment on Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program 1 month ago:
Is it possible they got an ultimatum by an important company they work with?
E.g. imagine the damage Bethesda could do to GOG by refusing to allow their games on GOG any more.
