I fear we’re going the idiocracy route. Lower and lower intelligence of the population in general.

The removal of the custom thumbnail is refreshing. No more wired reactions with an arrow pointing at something.

I’m going to give this a try. The sponsorblock people have great ideas!

I’m realizing that a few weeks ago I wanted a lot of people to flock to Lemmy and away from Reddit. At this point I just don’t think about Reddit anymore and find myself hoping Lemmy doesn’t get too popular because of everything that comes with that (trolls, meme posters, bots)

There’s currently a bug with “hot” and “active” where old posts remain at the top. I don’t remember the details but it’s getting fixed in v.0.18 (which is already in release candidate 4).

There are two solutions until the fix is released:

• get your server admin to reboot the server everyone in a while. This seems to temporarily refresh the content.
• use “new” or “top day”. That’s what I’ve been doing.

If I’m not mistaken, you can download your logs directly from the dashboard under manage > troubleshooting.

I know I know. Just thought it was interesting that they had the same thought process in the article too. 😄

Is it giving you any kind of on-screen message? What about the logs? Is this Direct Play or Transcoding?

I know some players don’t handle HDR very well, but that’s usually related to bad tonemapping.

How does Proton VPN compare to Mullvad? I’ve been using them for years and they really are anonymous. You don’t even provide an email to create your account.

The article did address this:

The internet loves roasting “boomers,” the shorthand term for the Baby Boomer generation born in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Admittedly, most boomer shooter fans are likely Gen-Xers and Millennials, but they’re still co-opting the term in a sarcastic but positive way that conveys the old-school nature of this niche genre.

It all comes down to it rolling off your tongue better.

Great article! All to say that if it wasn’t for indie devs, genres like this one would have stayed dead. I’m glad they brought it back. If there’s a market for it, they should make the game. AAA studios only want the highest ROI so they were always unlikely to take the risk on something like this.

I’m not too sure which story is true. I’ll stick to both sites as a reference to be safe.

I believe it’s related to privacyguides.org. The team behind it lost contact with the domain owner of privacytools.io and to continue the project needed to create a new domain.

I believe that’s the story if I recall correctly.

Your second to last point really rings in for me. You’d think with all the posts and traffic on Lemmy that there would be ad clutter or push for other internal paid brands, but it’s just so clean and only about the posts and comments.

Also a Plex lifetime user. I tried jellyfin not too long ago to see what the fuss was all about. I had heard that they handled her tonemapping better.

The interface is different but more or less just as good as Plex. It’s definitely more for the person that likes to dive in the details of the config of their server. For example, you need to setup your own domain for external users to connect to. It’s not done automatically like on Plex.

The focus on your content vs the “free” content Plex shoves in our face is nice I must admit.

Just a question of preference. In the end I stuck it out with Plex… For now.

I hope the traffic logic gets an improvement. I remember having a lot of weird behavior with lane changes where every car would decide to change lanes at on specific spot on the road and line up to get to that spot.

Looking forward to see what else they’ll be improving on.

Large, well-funded organizations

Never heard of these orgs but this sound like they’re funded by foreign entities trying to destabilize our democracy. All theoretical of course.

Shouldn’t the government prevent this kind of funding? Or at least investigate it? This seems unlikely that they would be funded locally.

Better than Lemmons or Lemmurs I guess.

I remember reading that there is a bug with Hot and Active at the moment where older posts keep a high priority for too long. It’s supposed to be addressed in the v.0.18 release in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, I use New or Top Daily. Not perfect but it gives fresher content.

Shhhhhh 🤫 we don’t talk about the other use.

Rewatched it recently and found it didn’t age so well. The homophobic slurs are really jarring. Different times I guess.