pfft. ive cut better lines than yours before.

host instance is using mbin, not lemmy. its more reddit-like than lemmy but has access to all the same content…also natively connects to the the twitterverse (mastodon).

https://moist.catsweat.com/

im not going to bother you seem trollish… your rep precedes you

g’day!

haha wow its been awhile for you hasnt it?

i like not having to have a microsoft account to utilize it.

you know whats really awesome? being able to decide if i want updates. or a tightly-integrated piece of shit llm.

being able to modify literally every aspect of the shell.

windows 3.1 was more theme-able than win11.

linux works out of the box for all the old people i repurpose machines for and i dont have to think about cloud-connect bullshit. fuck, half of them dont notice its not windows until i mention it.

better question is why the fuck would you use windows without being paid to?

i looked into this awhile back… i think it was either vlc itself or maybe audacity

just checked, i paid ‘frugal usenet’ 35$/year… bit more than i remember at just under 3.00/month.

thats scented sticker money

sure but usenet access is stupidly cheap. i think im payin like 1$/month.

i spend more on stickers.

youll have the best luck by adding a nzb indexer… ive enjoyed nzbgeek

its cheap and has decreased my time-to-mediacenter drastically… the public torrent indexers kinda pale in comparison.

i like to have them all in there, but the usenet/nzb stuff seems to flow the fastest as theres generally more likely a matching file of %quality.

ive been buildin ‘solutions’ like this for 30 years. what the llms have done is reduce my time to maybe a few minutes, and lowers the barrier to entry to the technically ignorant.

lowering that barrier still leaves a non-insignificant portion who want it bundled up and handed to them with a bow on it. plenty of people are happy to pay for a supported product and have no desire to attempt resolving the underlying issue/resource themselves.

but zmodem can totally restart an interrupted tx!

entire nas (~24TB used) is replicated to another nas in another building (2 actually). i like having 3 copies.

did you take your meds today? it feels like you didnt.

fyi, he who dies with the most optimized machine does not win.

is that person suffering a stroke? are they ok?

wrong sub, clearly meant for /c/theonion

500$/day? fuck that shit. it should be a whole fucking number % of your salary per fucking day

deep pockets? im suckin up ~25GB/month… and im not even kind of getting everything.

traffic volume is already a serious consideration, but theroetically its what you request. its not like an instance comes up and suddenly needs to interact with 500 other servers.

if you on your personal instance decide you need to subscribe to thousands of communities on thousands of servers… isnt that kinda on you? i mean… how could you personally ever expect to consume that volume?

if youre on a community instance and the instance itself is drawing a metric fuckton of traffic… scale up. the good platforms will scale.

that said, ive kinda tried to sub to every server i can find just for giggles… it ‘pre-loads’ the content on my instant for new users in the ‘newest’ queues.

there are mitigations you can put in place for rate-limiting other servers also… your server would just fall farther and farther behind

personally, i think it scales better than other options. bluesky doesnt scale at all

yep. i wanted a reddit clone and lemmy just wasnt doin it… plus it interacts with microblogs natively (mastodon)

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