So one pihole would be on the router, while the other runs on another piece of dedicated hardware?

The text was probably original, but it’s become a copypasta, so this evil Snoo is definitely a shitpost.

Lol, depends on the group and mod level. Yeah, the overall Tiktok and Insta moderators get paid (poorly) to do their job, but do subreddit and individual sever Discord mods get paid?

If we’re talking about Fediverse, maybe the mods of an instance would get paid, but I can bet most Fedi mods rn aren’t being paid, they do it for love.

The biggest point is this:

a team with tonnes of support from the get go, both each other and mental health services etc as a bare minimum

There was a post the other day about protesting Tiktok mods who talked about the horrifying amounts of gore and NSFL stuff they had to remove from the service, getting no support nor concern for their well-being from Tiktok. So you can absolutely pay someone (although not well probably, even for a billion dollar company), but all the money in the world won’t erase looking at 300 beheading videos.

I think the biggest thing helping the Fediverse is the fact that it’s fragmented and not meant to get too big per instance. No one is ever gonna have to moderate millions of accounts like big tech does. Mods can suspend sign-ups and set their own limits. We could make a pretend scenario where each instance is only 1K people, which is far easier than what YT and Insta have to do.

Direct message, basically when you message someone privately.

Sad thing is, I knew the meaning of DM, but had to check what the actual abbreviation was…

TLDR: I probably wouldn’t suggest playing 3 unless you’re willing to play/watch the side games. The conclusion will not hit hard at all if you didn’t play the side games.

I literally just played through all the games (besides Re:coded, watched it) and I have conflicting feelings about it. Storyline wise, I didn’t love or hate it, as some parts were really nice and heartwarming to see (I really loved the reunion of the other two trios) and certain worlds are nice to meet your fave characters (Toy Box my beloved). But the main plot feels both satisfying and meh. I watched the fandub of union x and got really excited to see the lore be teased more in 3, but because 3 tries to appease everyone (crowd who played all the games vs crowd who only played 1 & 2), they don’t get to dive as deep as I wanted. I am more willing to ignore some of the bs and laugh rather than cringe, but I do understand why many find the plot corny.

The combat… I’ve basically hated the combat in every KH game, BBS is the only one where scrolling through the skill menu didn’t feel like ass, meanwhile DDD executes flowmotion beautifully (while it feels useless in 3), and yet CoM had my favorite system overall (might be my favorite game honestly). 3 controls are far better than KH 1, but the actual difficulty is non-existent and makes blocking feel almost useless. The attraction attacks are there I guess (my mom liked them lol). KH 1 normal mode had me near tears (Even the fucking Traverse Town Armor), CoM was frustrating but satisfying, 2 was boring besides the impossible super bosses, all of 358/2 was just awful overall, BBS was very normal until final boss, and DDD was slightly frustrating but beating the final boss was satisfying. 3 was a snooze fest besides final bosses that just made me go, “oh, I guess I won. I kinda just mashed x.”

IDK, I’ve had a KH shaped hole in my heart over these past two days, wondering what I want to play now that I got through my 2 month marathon. I both miss the games but also acknowledge that they get very repetitive and tiring over time. My mom only played 1,2 & 3 and has basically said KH and Square are dead to her.

CoM, BBS, and DDD are a must to watch/play. 358/2 is only worth it if you like challenge missions (I skipped them, hated the gameplay), Fragmentary Passage is only on the 2.8 disc and is literally 4-5 hrs, and Re:coded is supposedly good gameplay but the plot is just “what if data simulation Riku and Sora went through KH 1 together?” And Union X is gonna be vital to watch for those preparing for KH 4.

Not sure now, as I stopped using it months ago, but no, they give you annoying teasers and force you to make an account to see more than the cropped pic. So people are actually signing up for this.

Sorry, corrected my post as I have confused several people lol. Proton has killswitch on mobile and PC, just not Fire TVs.

This guy cheated on 35 different women for gifts and you go:

Also, what a legend.

I hope that’s a /s 😔

Yeah, definitely could be making faster improvements, and it’s disheartening considering Pixelfed hasn’t had major improvements either. But I’m not a coder, so other than the fact that I donated to the spring Kickstarter, I can’t complain much.

Didn’t realize you just wanted to scroll. Yeah, almost no instance requires registration to scroll. Once again, I think Loops is just requiring registrations now because the project is unfinished, and probably can’t handle a large amount of users. They also need easy feedback from users.

But the virus will be removed when you install proxmox

Oh yeah, if I do use it I was gonna fully wipe windows into oblivion

I currently have 3 laptops in various degrees of old and broken being used as a proxmox cluster.

Oh so you can cluster multiple devices? I’ll have to check that out.

I definitely plan to used RAID for my drives.

To follow 3-2-1, have the working copy, a copy on a SD, and a copy on cloud (encrypted of course). Depending on the size of the snapshot it will go to Proton or Google Drive (Sticking to Google is silly, I know, but I don’t have a second location to have secure my data lol). 2 is met by having it on SD and Cloud. 1 is met by saving encrypted snapshot on cloud.

Interesting article, and I feel that it’s pretty fair. At first, I thought they were talking about this checklist, but I see they’re different. The version I followed doesn’t seem to have the same issues (lists jurisdiction but doesn’t give it a rating, doesn’t list or rate encryption methods at all, no summary at the beginning, etc.).

I think checklists/matrices still have their place, as listing all the branches/options might get too cluttered for a diagram, but I do understand why flowcharts (or the neat venn diagrams that get posted here often) can express information better. I don’t think checklists are inherently biased, I just think you need a good decision maker behind the list.

Loops is still in beta, so there’s no other instances yet, but it’s gonna use ActivityPub like everyone else does so it can federate with Pixelfed (and probs mastodon). Also, like 90% of Fediverse instances require registration, usually to prevent spam and other crazy shit (CSAM, literal gore, etc.) from being posted. Just gonna have to wait a bit.

I think we’ve got an old MacBook with a broken screen, and a Windows laptop that slowed down because got a virus on it. Didn’t think I could use something with a broken screen, but I’ll try it maybe.

Edit: Not sure if I have their chargers though…

Specifically talking about the FireTV, 99% sure the app doesn’t have a Killswitch, I’ve checked. I use it all the time on PC and Mobile though :)

Setting up the VPN on the router sounds great, but can home routers (I have Cox) flash VPN software on them (thought they couldn’t)? Also is it MAC or IP filtering (would I have to set a device to static IP) for deciding which devices use the VPN tunnel? How good is it about switching servers (like if a server I’m connected to is on maintenance or is overloaded)? Not too worried about the web issues, can always hop back on the regular Wi-Fi and use the app.

value proposition isn’t great for long term unless you constantly play new games.

This. I never understood why people bothered with this mess in the first place, you need to be playing a new game like every two-three months to make this worth it/cheaper than just buying a $60 game. Which I think would be extremely hard for some games like RPGs that might take 100hrs to beat, especially if you have a life/obligations. I was busy with college, so Metaphor Re:fantazio took me like 5 months to beat, so a gamepass would be more expensive that buying the damn thing.

I was just gonna say shitty Facebook meme but r/im14andthisisdeep is about right too.

I stopped playing before Sumeru came out, but I keep up by looking at social media posts and watching the occasional YT vid. Fontaine ended up being pretty beloved, while Natlan is still in the trenches rn for being the most hated region so far (but everyone always hates the new region anyway). The characters are pale as hell, which is an insult considering how the region is based on African, South American, and Pacific Islander cultures (which is an insult of itself, why the fuck would you mix 3 very different regions like that? Literally none of the other regions mix completely different cultures, they’re usually just influenced by one, maybe two countries) and a character with a native name will literally be paper white (Mulani… RIP girl).

The head writer got fired or smth and now the guy who was in charge of Honkai 3rd is trying to get Genshin to go back to its roots (read: waifu fest) so we haven’t had a 5 star male character in like a year or some shit, and they keep pumping out bland looking waifus. Why would he try to return to the roots of a game that didn’t do nearly as good as Genshin, I don’t know.

Exciting! I’ve made an effort to let go of Insta for both privacy and hatred of Zuck’s policies, which left me stuck on Tumblr to look at any fanart/fandom content. Hopefully this could replace people’s need for Tumblr in a few years, especially since they also do a shit job of caring about their users.

Edit: Knowing the context of the name is hilarious, wish I was there for the Tumblr exodus. I will be sure to spread to other platforms about this wonderful service.