In Jedi Outcast and Academy having your saber off meant that you were currently chatting or AFK. In good servers you’d get banned for killing someone who had their saber off.

Broadcasting fees in Germany can only be deducted quarterly. I hate that. Take that money at the same rate as I get money or I will get confused. That’s why I set up automatic monthly payment. And they send a quarterly letter reminding me that I owe them a monthly payment.

This quarter they sent a letter informing me that they’d stop sending the quarterly letter and that they have a third of a payment too much in my account. And that I should create automatic payments.

I’m looking forward to their next letter.

I just googled something. Don’t remember what I ended up on. Probably some blog post combined with rspamd’s website. It depends on your mailserver anyways.

It’s hard to find anything VLC doesn’t support. Just try it. It’s great on any device.

rspamd is used nowadays. Add sieve filtering to automatically move mails with a 7.0 or higher to a spam-folder. Manually move mails there that haven’t been detected and move mails out of the spam folder that have been falsely detected (personally don’t have any false positives with rspamd).

Then set up bayes learning with rspamd, either when mails are moved between folders or every few hours.

Jellyfin on the PC.

Or using Windows file sharing and running VLC on the TV and tablet.

It’s even in the FAQs of piracy forums. It’s awesome how far Linux gaming has come!

I use Nextcloud. Of course that only makes sense when you use the other Nextcloud stuff as well.

Why do you think the flowers let the bees have their nectar.

Bold strategy.

Signal doesn’t send anything in the payload. They just use it to wake the phone up and then download all messages that are waiting to be delivered through the usual encrypted means. All Google knows is that something happened at that time. They don’t know anything else.

But they only instruct Signal to wake up and download whatever is waiting. They don’t contain the message contents.

I was once driving to work while listening to Shine on You Crazy Diamond. It was a gloomy foggy morning and I couldn’t see shit. But then the first sunrays began to slip through in perfect sync with the intro until I emerged from the fog exactly at the crescendo to the sight of beautiful sunlit meadows. It was divine.

Honestly, that’s what most web API’s are. You are just pushing data around. The “hard” part is that everyone has their own opinions on how it should be formatted.

And of course the minor inconvenience of having to give the user a way to make data entry easy, convenient and consistent.

But deep down it’s all spreadsheets. The faster you can wrap your head around that the easier programming is for you.

I’m more concerned about the Umbrella logo.

I don’t have a 486. I don’t know anyone who has a 486. I wouldn’t know what to do with a 486. I know full well that all versions before 7.1 will be fully usable forever and that someone would fork the kernel if they actually needed to run modern Linux on a 486.

And still this makes me a little bit sad and angry.

Switch and Click had a video about that recently: https://youtu.be/M9qJI2u_be0

Reminds me of the time I was working on something for Mercedes but they couldn’t supply me with the computer for testing. I had to go into the super cramped actual car that was parked in a super expensive secure garage.

Left the company and when I went there for a visit I saw that the new guy actually got to test and develope on a computer they had ripped out of a car.

I was and still am on HDD. The CPU was upgraded as well. I migrated to a new server.

The main culprit was the database. As far as I’m aware Lemmy is missing some indexes and due to the ORM they used didn’t always have optimised queries. Now with 64 GB RAM the whole database (almost 30 GB) fits in there fixing most of those issues.

The real fix will probably come with Lemmy 1.0. They radically changed the database layout and queries.

Image proxying wasn’t bad for performance. Just storage space. It was growing really really fast. Now that only I am using it to host the pictures I uploaded it is still much too large (24 GB). But its directory structure is so convoluted that I can’t really debug it. My stuff really shouldn’t be taking up more than a few hundred MBs.

I am the only one using this instance. I am subscribed to a hundred communities or so. I am always pretty up to date with my Lemmy versions.