I went back to it and am really enjoying it, using my existing characters. The servers they were on are gone, but was easy to find a new one. And after paying my housing upkeep, all my stuff is still there.

I’d stopped playing before Angry Earth was released (and when watermarking was still a thing). Almost all of the issues I had with it at fixed, and some great QoL and story updates.

Still getting used to the increased gear levels, level adjustments in some zones, and such.

I assume all the bot farms are paying for the privilege.

So, the Internet of Shit is not just a euphemism now. Great…

As with every legal topic on the Internet: depending on your (international) jurisdiction.

Nice. Thanks for sharing that.

As much as I’d like it to be, it doesn’t have the network effect/popularity that Reddit does. It covers maybe 70-80% of my Digg+ needs, but there are many topics/subs I want that Lemmy just doesn’t have.

“Be the change you want to see” is always there: if a topic/sub doesn’t exist, you can always create it yourself. But no good deed goes unpunished, so you’re now the owner/moderator…

This makes me think of the Sikh community’s charity/giving (can’t remember the term) food giving that happens in most towns globally where there a Gurdwara.

There has to be a better way than waves hands everything, really.

I have Netdata running in a container, which has a useful all-in-one-pane view, and it does a good job of auto detecting other containers and the host OS. Its essentially zero config.

It also has alerting capability, which is not zeroconf (configuring it properly is a bit of a chore). 😅

They try to push a pro/paid version, but it’s subtle and completely optional (a bit like the way Portainer does it).

I was dragged along to see it at the cinema in the (then) new 3D format (versus the old red/blue glasses).

Took me 10 minutes to realise the story is Pocahontas, so I’ve always thought of it as Pocahontas Smurfs. And the 3D, while a cool novelty, gave me motion sickness something fierce.

While clearly no money was spent on the script, it did move animation technology and adoption along quite a bit.

Gobsmacked a sequel was made.

Quokka on Rottnest Island (Western Australia)?

Followed by trying to stop fuckwits from playing “quokka soccer”. 🤭

The clock on my PVR (01:59) and the light switch. It’s time for bed…

To add to what others have replied, Amazon have an institutional belief that everyone who makes it through the Loop is better than 50% of existing staff.

It could be post-hoc rationalising of back-loaded share vesting, hire-to-fire, and their other many practices, but that’s the position. With that kind of thinking, it makes this behaviour, including it’s consequences, a no-brainer win:win to them.

That’s a fair point. I shouldn’t have generalised your entire country, as it has so many linguistic differences.

Even outside of the whole pop/soda/Coke thing. 😄

It’s regional. I grew up in Australia, where it’s pronounced as it is in the US: dah-tah. But I now live in the UK, where it’s pronounced day-tah.

The same is true of “router”, the network device (but not the woodworking tool): rau-tah vs roo-ter.

Working in IT made it a ballache for a while until I remembered to always change my pronunciation for them. 🙄

I asked this question many years ago on a Usenet group, and the answer was along the lines of what we’re seeing is many millions of years after those orbits began, and that they all eventually flatten out due to the gravity of the other objects in orbit.

So you could have 2 objects at roughly the same orbital distance but perpendicular to one another (eg. one orbiting the star’s poles and the other around it’s equator), and over time the small amount of gravitational force they exert on one another will bring them roughly into the same plane.

Hopefully someone better versed in the topic can come along to explain it better than I can.

Netiquette

Now there’s a term I’ve not seen in many years.

And dates both of us, I expect… 😄

Yeah, but also: you couldn’t be more wrong if you tried.

They’re going for the FX artists.

Agree. It’s definitely popcorn hour.

Been there. Christ, it was hard. But the vet team left us alone for the end. The best of the worst situation, so to speak.

Ten years later and I still tear up at the memory of it.

Knowing I have the same experience coming in the near future sucks. But it’s better than the alternative, I guess…

TIL that version appears to be on the AUR: MicroEMACS/PK 4.0.15 customized by Linus Torvalds.

Last updated in 2014, it probably has serious cobwebs now. Even the upstream hasn’t been touched in 6 years.