There’s a really interesting Ted talk from about 13 years ago that talks about this exact issue. It’s all about how our brains respond to porn, how and why it kills our libido, and how it creates this spiral where we need more crazy porn and fetishes to get off. The good news is that it’s usually reversible. Check it out: https://youtu.be/wSF82AwSDiU

Youtube on the RPI5 drops frames and is stuttery. If that’s fine for you, great. But I’d argue it’s not what people consider a good viewing experience. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBQosbjl9Jw&t=278s and https://youtu.be/nBtOEmUqASQ?si=VXFGVBid5wCrhu-u&t=797 if you’d like more info.

The accessories I mentioned for the RPI5 are the bare essentials just to get the thing to power up, boot to a web browser, and connect to a monitor to try to play YouTube, which is the foundation of your original comment. Please show me where a $120 used laptop or desktop tower needs additional hardware purchases to boot and plug in an HDMI cable.

You’re picking the wrong fight with the wrong guy, friend. I’m a huge RPI advocate and I think they are great tools for specific use cases. I simply want to point out that if folks are considering it in the hopes that it’s a small and cheap way to watch YouTube, they’re gonna have a bad time.

Yep. First of all, the person who said an RPI5 can show YouTube HD just fine is lying. It’s still stuttery and drops frames (better than the RPI4b, but still not great). Second, you’ll end up dropping well north of $100 for the RPI5, active cooler, case, memory card (not even mentioning an m2 hat), power supply, and cable / adapter to feed standard HDMI.

You can find some really solid used laptops and towers in that price range, not to mention the n100 NUC. And they’ll all stream YouTube HD much better, as well as provide a much smoother desktop experience overall.

Don’t get me wrong, I love me a RPI, I run a couple myself. They’re just not great daily drivers, especially if you want to stream HD content.

Essentially, when your log file reaches a configured size, it should create a new one and start writing into that, deleting archiving the oldest

FTFY

I need to figma resume and get out of here.

You can still use a controller on pc although you are often at a disadvantage in most FPS style games.

The opposite is true these days. Many of the most popular FPS games like Call of Duty provide aimbot aim assist for controller players. So even PC players use controllers to get the aim assist, which puts them at a huge advantage over MnK players in close and mid range engagements.

Ah yes. The unintended consequences of mandated code coverage without reviewing the tests. If you can mock the shit out of the test conditions to always give you exactly the answer you want, what’s the point of the test?

It’s like being allowed to write your own final exam, and all you need to pass the exam is 90% correct on the questions you wrote for yourself.

Hey since we’re doing these, how about the years-old bug where ff won’t remember which bookmark folder you were in previously when opening new bookmarks. If you have bookmark folders (especially nested ones), try opening a bookmark inside one of those folders. Then go back into your bookmarks, you’ll see you’re not in that folder anymore, you’re at the root level and have to traverse your folders to get back to where you were. It’s super annoying if you’re opening bookmarks one after another.

I had a similar experience. I was giving away a wooden table top organizer free on CL. Some guy said he wanted it, so I put it outside by our front door and said he could just grab it once he got here. When he arrived, he took it, then hung a bag of goodies on our front door knob, shouted “thank you!” and left. When we checked it out, it was full of hand-made organic soaps, bracelets, and other random trinkets. He even wrote us a note and said thanks, he makes these things and sells them at farmers markets, and to have a good day. It was such an unexpected and cool thing to do, and so much more pleasant than trying to go through the gauntlet of selling that organizer for $20.

You’re a very grown up and productive child, unless you’re still rocking sleepovers in your 20s and 30s. Either way, do you man, and pour me a cup.

Pandora is cheaper than Spotify and arguably better at picking new and random content based on your input. But it won’t play specific songs that you request like Spotify does. And Pandora works via Bluetooth, car apps, etc.

I feel so seen!

If I made a few people get minor PTSD from that level and hear his voice in their head for a moment, I’m happy.

RAMIREZ! Go to burger town and meet someone online and then get married in real life! Ramirez, live happily ever after!

You just accurately (and accidentally?) summarized all religions.

What part of that interaction makes you think they’d want to work there after their contract expires?

Companies do not use valuable metrics to run their… ah screw it.

LJ, first thanks for doing this and bringing us here. You’re a big reason for the spike in lemmy traffic recently and it’s very promising.

I just wanted to add my $0.02 that the pricing to remove ads seems prohibitively high. I think you could encourage more lost redditors and former reddit Sync users to try this out ad-free with a very low price point. Give it some sort of marketing hype term like “Founder’s Premium”: a one-time payment of $8 gets you sync for Lemmy with no ads, forever. Available to early adopters until Sept 1st.

Maybe add higher priced tiers for those who have the cash and want to essentially donate / thank the author, and give them bells and whistles like fancy custom name and flair styles to show off.

Lemmy is new and unknown to a lot of folks. Sync feels like coming back to sit in your favorite comfy chair, but in a strange and foreign house. So people are going to be wary. Asking them to either subscribe or pay a huge one time premium is going to discourage folks at a critical time where they should be encouraged instead.

Totally agreed. Encourage more lost redditors and former reddit Sync users with a very low price point. Give it some sort of marketing hype term like “Founder’s Premium”, a one-time payment of $8 gets you sync for Lemmy with no ads, forever. Available to early adopters until Sept 1st.

Maybe add higher priced tiers for those who have the cash and want to essentially donate / thank the author.

Lemmy is already strange and unknown to a lot of folks. Sync feels like coming back to sit in your old favorite comfy chair, but in a totally new house that feels very foreign. So people are going to be wary. Asking them to either subscribe or pay a huge one time premium is going to discourage folks at a critical time where they should be encouraged instead.