Hey there, do you have a Matrix account? Most of the active Lemmy instance admins have a group chat. Well two actually, one for technical chats and such and one where we ping each other about spam/problematic accounts/etc.

DM me @bdonvr:matrix.org and I can get you an invite (unless you’re already there under a different name and I missed it)

On S3 storage it’s a monthly cost, so it’ll add up over the years.

I’m a small instance.

In 3 years my pict-rs S3 bucket has grown to over 1.2TB

Yeah disable it. I’m not sure why I didn’t before.

Turning it off completely means that theoretically I could expose a users IP. Say I DM them a unique photo URL. Zero click and I got that. Lemmy’s default UI blocks that but some apps like Voyager don’t. Or you could reply to an old comment which makes it very likely they’ll be the only ones to see it.

I turned on proxy-ing.

Hell yeah. Cheap and underrated cut. Need to do it more.

I honest to god do not think it’s any harder than Windows. You’re just used to the quirks and skills necessary to deal with Windows shit.

The group organizing it is Progressive International, they have a solid track record.

If you can donate, please do. Things are really bad right now with Cuba.

https://nuestraamericaflotilla.org/

But no oil?

I guess they’re still making the “”“sovereign”“” decision to stop sending oil.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/sheinbaum-does-not-deny-report-mexico-halted-oil-shipment-cuba-2026-01-27/a

Absolutely disgusting

Check out https://docs-os.mainsail.xyz/

If you have a 3D printer where you just take an SD card out, put it in the computer, put your STLs on, put it back in the machine, then print… You’ll like this. I have my Pi set up with MainsailOS and what it does is basically control your printer. It even integrates into my slicer so I just slice my file then hit print and it starts immediately over WiFi.

If your printer is WiFi connected already this may be less useful but Klipper is pretty powerful for tuning and stuff so it’s still a benefit.

Edit: Pi5 may not be supported by MainsailOS but you can set everything up in a more manual way. It’s not too hard. https://youtu.be/LImiFmhMAB0

Do you have a 3D printer?

They, like DVDs, have a lifespan of ~20 years but can last a lot longer if kept in a cool and dry spot.

But also you can rip the discs and store them digitally on hard drives or whatever :)

Cowbee can you just be wrong for once? I’m good and damned tired of seeing you be right all the time.

Source on that?

Blurays are better quality than streaming.

4K Bluray is the highest quality you’ll ever get in your home by like, a lot.

Streaming is a regression.

Yep. In my country 3G is shutdown. Without 4G and VoLTE you cannot make calls.

8 bucks is definitely 10 bucks in my book. 6.99 is 5 but above that and I start thinking 10.

I was confused too. This comment doesn’t look too bad but given it’s a 7 hour old account it made several multi-paragraph comments like this in a formulaic outrage-bait kinda way. This comment looks fine but the full comment history is pretty AI like

Full comment history: https://files.catbox.moe/uf48if.png

Sure I get that just not sure why cats are the 2nd best Gandalf (with tits).

I feel like the 00s and 10s and 20’s all had pretty distinct aesthetics, music, etc as much as the 1900s decades.

I don’t have Gandalf with tits in my photo library but if I did I’m sure my Immich search would bring it up.

Edit: I now have it in my library and it comes right up :) it then only pulls up cat photos after that for some reason

Yeah it’s a joke, it would all depend.

Can you imagine if you had a 4D cat and it just presented normally most of the time then one day rotated or moved along a 4D axis? It would be terrifying.

I’ve played 4D golf so I feel like I’m qualified as an expert in this space (seriously though great game and really helps with understanding this kind of stuff)