Glad to see all of Ross’s effort wasn’t in vain :)

Debian’s documentation can be pretty awful. The Nvidia Driver install guide in particular could use a revamp.

Good to know. Thanks for the summary!

For others reading, be aware that acquiring a HAM license will assign you a callsign that, if looked up on the FCC website, reveals your full name and home address unless you take measures to avoid that, such as getting a PO Box.

If you only plan on using a HAM radio during times of emergency, such as the type indicated in the video, obtaining the license is more of a formality than a necessity. Though learning how to use HAM radio, and which frequencies to avoid, would be fruitful either way.

Unless you are being a jerk on the airwaves, or are actively jamming a HAM frequency, the FCC will not bother to ensure you are licensed, for HAM or GMRS.

Most repeater stations are sticklers for rules though, so you’ll likely need a callsign to be able to use them.

Found that the book mentioned in the video on how to configure and use these radios is available for free on Archive:

https://archive.org/details/ncscout-the-guerrillas-guide-to-the-baofeng-radio-2022

but he is more worried if my sister gets to see this that she will simply quit my brother in law.

Thankfully he doesn’t have to worry about that, since your Sister already saw these texts last month.

I see you’re tweaking things this time though, refining the wording to… I don’t know, get the right sorta engagement?

Baffling why people go to this effort to create these little pieces of false drama, since there doesn’t seem to be a profit motive.

Just bored, I guess?

Cheers for keeping the community alive! :D

I can’t wait to drop that on some unsuspecting fellow.

According to him, it came out tasting like a somewhat below average lightly carbonated beer, with little bitterness without any hops. I think he did it mostly as an interesting experiment.

Cheers for hearing me out! :)

I think there would still be a desire for the relative in-between setting of just opting out of the bundling. My reasoning is that a community may want to be open to be viewed and commented by anyone so that they continue to grow and have more participation, either by search or random encounter from the /all view, as that allows slow organic growth with relatively few people wanting to go in there and derail conversations.

With bundling, that community will be seen by far more non-members than ever before if a popular link is posted around to multiple communities, inviting a significant amount of outside participation, and the potential for a much increased need to keep things on topic, or to step in and moderate drama from other communities with wildly different perspectives.

Without the ability to opt out of bundling, this leaves only the two extremes of potentially unwanted isolation, or potentially unwanted increased outside participation.

The only other option would be for a community to request their admin defederate from the troublesome community, or from the outside instance entirely, which is using a mallet to solve something that could be done with scalpel.

I do think the bundling is quite nice overall, and I don’t foresee a problem with it being the default, but I do strongly see the need for that middle ground option to opt-out, personally. The way Lemmy currently operates by default is effectively that middle-ground option that is missing from Piefed.

A piefed migration allowed the possibility of backing up every post, but it only shows up on the piefed instance itself, the old backed up posts don’t federate out.

Had Perish migrated to a Lemmy instance, there would be no backup at all, and we’d have to start from scratch. The only backup of the community would exist as the old posts from lemm.ee that exist on other instances.

!fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social to visit it from your own instance to subscribe ^^

Thank you for keeping it alive over there, and all of your efforts!

Out of curiosity, can a community opt out of its comments being bundled with others?

After seeing it in action, I think that’s actually a nifty feature that most communities and the threadiverse as a whole would benefit from, but I could also potentially foresee a minority of communities not wanting to increase their comments exposure to that degree.

Y’all got a cool ass logo, too :)

Any activitypub enabled software that mimics the Reddit style of longform thread/forum style social media with distinct topics.

Which at the moment is Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin.

Kind’ve an odd suggestion, but if you like more arcade-y type games, and think you’d an enjoy a more advanced sorta spiritual successor to dig-dug, I’d recommend checking out Mr.Do! On the SNES. Weirdly good.

Sunset Riders is a fun and short western arcade shooter, as is Wild Guns.

There’s also a pretty neat Shadowrun RPG on the SNES.

Trillium Notes Next is a good open-source obsidian alternative without the bullet points of logseq.

I decided to throw Mega man Legends 2 on my miyoo mini, as I had fond memories of renting the first game as a kid, and never tried the sequel.

It’s an odd spinoff of the Megaman series that turns it into a 3rd person dungeon delving shooter, complete with story and fully voice acted 90’s anime style in-game cutscenes!

Thoughts on the sequel:

It has some improvements over the original, such as the ability to fly around the main ship on a world map! I liked the globe trotting aspect (the OG takes place in one city), and the art style and controls were pretty good.

It held my attention for about 4 or 5 hours, until I came across an underwater level, where things went downhill.

Even equipped with a missable underwater specific speed upgrade ability, movement speed underwater was cut to about a third of normal speed, and this was combined with large open spaces and the need to throw around some finicky boxes to reach high ledges sometimes were dead ends.

I just don’t have the tolerance for that sort of thing like I used to, so I deleted it and finished it by watching the cut scenes on YouTube! The ending is pretty cringe, so I’m glad I bailed, honestly.