Real life experiments: https://youtu.be/ZQdlFfSq1kw?si=XZiMVvPBxiZemYwd

I’m pretty happy here in our corner of Lemmy. Why would I want to know what’s going everywhere on the internet all at once?

I’m guessing if you have to pay the government, you can get government approval.

Keeping sending the checks to inflate their balances.

Just read the Mormons have some cash laying around. Maybe tax that a bit?

Sounds a bit like the topiary scene in The Shining. (Book version)

If a piece of hardware can’t run doom is it even hardware?

Won’t someone think of the Irish people on beaches?

Maybe the easiest method is to create the fusion reaction in space because then you don’t need to worry about containment. Have a big ball of fusion going nonstop and then beam that energy to earth.

Then have collectors which receive that beamed down energy. You could put them everywhere… Maybe close to where you need the energy like directly on top of buildings and houses.

Man I remember when KDE came out and us young naive kids thought “this is it… It’s virtually identical to win95/98… But without the bsod”

I feel old.

Nah I’ll stay with liftoff. Never used sync… came from baconreader and liftoff has the same vibe.

It feels good to be home

Have you checked your carbon monoxide alarm? Maybe it was you?

In Australia some local councils use aerial photos to check for structures and developments without a permit. Built a new deck without the right paperwork, put in a big shed without approval, expect a knock on the door soon.

Star Trek ships at home. And Game of Thrones characters at work.

Yeah. Who is going to risk a downvote with real money on the line. Actually I can see brigading wars to “ruin someone financially” being a thing.

There are several tools out there on GitHub already which allows you to export all your settings and import it elsewhere.

It was the first to throw some real money behind it’s server infrastructure. A month ago most Lemmy instances - even the “big” ones ran on $10 a month 2 vCPU VPSs.

There was another influx early in June when the API changes were announced but before the blackouts even happened.

Most instances with public signups started struggling but Lemmy.world launched and Ruud upgraded the server hardware almost daily to keep up.

Other instances even had to pause signups from time to time but world kept working and so gobbled up most signups on those days.

Once it got to be a top 3 instance and then top 2 and then first it became a self sustaining snowball as a lot of people chose the biggest instance by default.

And before that Slashdot

Your point stands, but just wanted to point out that the lemmy devs have been working full time on this for the last 3 years, funded by https://nlnet.nl/