empireOfLove2

empireOfLove2, 44 minutes ago

“‘Freedom’ of religion!”
“No wait, not like that!!!”

empireOfLove2, 3 hours ago

Per the legal US definition, almost every SUV is a “light truck”, including my 1999 Subaru Forester…

empireOfLove2, 6 hours ago

We’re sorry.

empireOfLove2, 20 hours ago (edited 20 hours ago)

you’d think they would learn from Bloomberg’s billion dollar boondoggle that you can’t just throw personal money at a campaign and magically win when you have no other redeeming political qualities to make people care

empireOfLove2, 2 days ago

Correction: They already listen to all of your calls and have been training their models on it

empireOfLove2, 2 days ago

You already do that by using any Google product at all.

empireOfLove2, 2 days ago

Are you sure that’s not just an abnormally large, anthropomorphic goose?

empireOfLove2, 3 days ago

Might have also realized after Arrowhead got fucked on the Helldivers 2 fiasco that Sony is an unpredictable bear of a corporation that will instantly chew up and leave their “partner” studios hanging out to dry at a seconds notice.

empireOfLove2, 3 days ago

Peak blue collar welder humor there

empireOfLove2, 3 days ago

Here before Nintendo files a cease&desist for daring to make a way better service than their shitty phoned-in subscription emulation service

empireOfLove2, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

It’s always been on ml. It just doesn’t get out to the normal communities that often…

I’m sure the CCP made some direct deposits lately though.

empireOfLove2, 4 days ago

Oooh, tangled. Thanks for reminding me about them. Having all US produced product is a nice plus and if they can keep it that cheap domestically, I’d happily buy it for all my bulk printing that doesn’t care about color. $15/kg is about as good as it gets these days.

empireOfLove2, 4 days ago

The bulk 10kg options look good. I might stock up on those and packrat a few colors since they dont’ really go bad

empireOfLove2, 5 days ago

not even a hot take. the only people who seem to hate ubuntu are the hardcore linux nerds who like custom building kernels and shit- which, honestly, more power to them, but i have the big dumb and want click button make work.

Admittedly I don’t really like how they’re handling packages these days, it’s a bit messy with the whole snap vs flatpak vs apt thing, but whatever.

I currently run ubuntu alongside my windows install just because I needed linux to experiment with AI models, and the only AMD drivers that work for ROCm support are Ubuntu only (packages are permanently dependency-broken on other distros).

empireOfLove2, 6 days ago

you are now banned from lemmygrad.ml

empireOfLove2, 5 days ago

Just exist for a while, if you’re a reasonable person in a comment thread, chances are you’ll get preemptively banned anyway!

empireOfLove2, 5 days ago

let’s also not forget that they tend to infect all other connected instances too, there’s a high number on .ml that are basically Hexbear satellite offices where almost every single commenter is a hb user.

empireOfLove2, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

It’s funny how butthurt they always get about the simplest shit. It’s kinda hilarious.

Their instance has always been blocked on my end since the second lemmy added the instance block feature, but since that only gets rid of posts, my individual user block list has grown to about 40 hb users by now. Life gets better every time I add one to it. I hopped over there for a second and saw them gloating about banning you from their instance like it was some huge win. And then shitting on db0 because they’re “not real pirates” because they… don’t support dictatorships or something? Lol wtf?

Do not ever try to reason with them because you are burning your breath. I am surprised you have tolerated them this long. Quite literally, the only thing that can ever be done with hardcore radical trolls is blocking or defederating. Removing their voice always hurts them the most, because their only source of energy is controversy.

I think the rest of us reasonable folk really love what you do here db0. This has been by far the most stable, cleanest instance I’ve been on so far, and i’ve tried 3 or 4 of them. don’t let the assholes try and pull you down for not kowtowing to their weird ideology. Keep it up!

Edit: And as expected, the downvote brigade is monitoring this post, lol.

empireOfLove2, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

There are a lot of dickheads, but a lot fewer of them intentionally reach outside their instance to harass other people. The problem arises when the originating instance’s mods/admins take no action to control their brigadiers.

empireOfLove2, 5 days ago

It is a reasonable sentiment, but unfortunately it has to be dealt with if hb is gonna keep triggering said drama, because it’s a common recurring theme across multiple instances.

empireOfLove2, 5 days ago

HB doesn’t want to defederate because they lose more of their power as trolls and propagandists if they do.

empireOfLove2, 7 days ago

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/024/965/well.jpg

empireOfLove2, 9 days ago

If its just for her, I don’t really care what content I host for family unless it straight up nazi/gay hate shit. New age “found christian” movies are massive yuck, but innocuous otherwise. She’s gonna consume them regardless of whether you host them or not.

Move it to its own library, make sure to rip in low quality (480p low bitrate) so you’re not spending too much disk space in her, and let it be. It’s not worth driving a rift in the family over.