~$10/mo currently but since I recently switched to Linux, and it’s working very well for me, I feel like upping it a little.

I’ve long considered donating to Mozilla since Firefox is by far my most used open source software. But they don’t seem to lack money. So, huh.

Yeah, same. Previous years it was cars driving around with flags, posters for events, etc. This year I saw absolutely nothing. Feels a bit glum tbh.

Fresh clear water when you’re alarmingly thirsty.

Beer-drinking European living in 'Murica here. For certain styles, the US has fantastic beers available. In particular IPAs (which don’t always have to be mega hoppy!), pale ales, pilsners, amber ales, and stouts. Plenty of great choices to be found here, if you discover the right breweries. That’s key, because there are a lot breweries with imo questionable taste.

What’s harder to find are good beers of other styles, such as Belgian or German beers. US breweries try, sometimes, but they aren’t succeeding.

Put on Tom Lehrer’s We Will All Go Together When We Go

I unfollowed Alec on Fedi because every other post would be him complaining about his interactions on there. Reply guys. Trolls. Lack of algorithms which raise some of the better comments out of the drek. Insufficient moderation. Etc. This got boring and depressing to read about honestly.

However I think he’s totally right. Mastodon/Fedi works well for certain kinds of people. People with limited engagement, people posting mostly uncontroversial things, and perhaps people who just don’t give a shit. But for high-visibility folks like Alec the old-school unfiltered discourse seems really uncomfortable.

It has little to do with federation itself, I think. But if Mastodon ever added the choice for users to enable “modern social media algorithms” for their view of their feed I suspect it would work a lot better for many people.

Commenting as a radio amateur. Carr is a proponent of handing over any and all public use frequency bands to corporations. This may not be relevant to most people, but it’s one more little “fuck you” to the American public.

Sleep - Sonic Titan. Put some headphones on and listen to the incredible bass lines.

Or anything else in their discography really

Yeah, as low as $61 on Amazon for 1TB. Pretty amazing if you’re old like me and remember diskettes.

A 1-terabyte MicroSD card

Dealing with 6 different media companies is exhausting. You have no idea. When they finally merge my staff will only need to pay one of them. More time for everyone to play golf. Win-win.

Who considers Patrick a trusted source of information? He’s basically doing comedy news with a focus on finance. Entertaining, interesting, but not like a full-on serious reporter.

I enjoy opamps. Texas Instruments LME49723 is one of my favorites :P

By asking this question you’re already ahead.

Be your genuine self. Share your wisdom. Love your child.

What alternatives are you using? I’ve only tried Lemmy after Reddit. I don’t find it overly negative here either btw, but I’m interested to compare.

Azorian: The Raising of the K-129

One of the secretive, over-engineered, and ridiculously expensive Cold War spy projects which inspired fiction like James Bond and Metal Gear Solid really happened.

I think Dostoevsky is a good place to start when you’re ready for an adult book store.

If you’re happy with your instance, there’s arguably no need to switch. Just follow people anywhere on Fedi and interact with them. Before you know it you’ll have a community.

I ran my own Mastodon instance for a while, and it didn’t matter I was on a server with only one user (me). It’s all about following, followers and interacting. The instance itself fades away quickly.

Yeah Lemmy, besides news and technology, is very quiet and I think it suffers from having communities fractured between instances, so niche interests get even less traffic than they would on Reddit. But my Mastodon feed is always busy and interesting. If it isn’t you’re not following the right people yet. I recommend some hashtag searches for things you’re interested in.

Ah, I see what you mean now. Yeah I’m guessing there are code sequences where it’s more efficient (either in clocks or code size or simple convenience) to operate on these 256 low addresses than repeating load/hit/store.