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What hobbies did you pick up during the pandemic and have you been able to keep them up?
  • Parenting, since our first child was born in September of 2020. Still giving it a go. We just had a 2nd child this July, so I guess you could say things are getting pretty serious.

  • How does multiplayer gaming fit into your life?
  • I love games, but even when I was playing a lot of multiplayer, it was never really a strong competitive thing for me. We hit our stride right after school because we were all spread out across the country, but nobody had too serious of a job or relationship to devote much time to. We would all lobby up, and just use the voice chat to bust chops and generally chat while the game was happening in the background.

    Now, most of the people I played with don't really have games in their life anymore, so they're all at least 1 console generation behind. I'm married with 2 tiny children. I still play a bit, but it's not organized, scheduled time.. It's basically whenever I can squeeze in an hour or so (usually either after everybody goes to sleep, or before anybody else wakes up). For this reason, I usually play single-player games, or if I'm playing multiplayer, it's online with randos.

    Now that you mention it I would REALLY like to get some of my friends playing Deep Rock. I've had nothing but good times playing with randos, but MAN it would be good to mess around with good friends.

  • HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing
  • Yup! I had a little difficulty communicating with the computer, but all I had to do was add my user to the "dial-out" group and it worked like a charm.

  • HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing
  • I don't know what CUPS is, but I had 3 major reservations about switching my barely functional computer to Linux:

    1. Ive never worked in Linux before
    2. My dive computer only uploads to proprietary software using a proprietary cable.
    3. My Brother laser printer was working SO well wirelessly. It's the first time I've ever not hated my printer

    Turns out some amazing people made open source dive logging software so I can still download my dives.

    And for printing, I meant to get around to setting it up, then one day I forgot and accidentally printed something and it just worked. I was so shocked that for a bit I assumed that reformatting the hard drive and changing operating systems must've somehow preserved my printer settings.

  • Good morning my lovelies!
  • I had an apartment in Indiana. When I gave directions to my house I used to say, "turn right at the traffic light. There's corn on the left, my house is on the right. If you hit the soy you've gone too far."

  • Rainbow Six Siege cheater sentenced for swatting Ubisoft Montreal offices
  • I read the article expecting to find some mitigating circumstances, like maybe he was underage. Turns out he's 22 and that sentence includes the punishment for other swatting calls, and DDoS attacks against French government sites. This seems like a shockingly lenient sentence, but I have to acknowledge that almost everything seems shockingly lenient when you come from a place with the largest incarcerated population in the world.

    3 years of community service and mandatory mental health care will probably help this dude a lot more than locking him up for 5 years with violent criminals.

  • Previous passengers recall ill-fated Titan: 'I 100% knew this was going to happen'
  • I kinda want to make a sign out of that (with proper attribution and a watermark of the Titan sub) and put it on our manufacturing floor.

  • it's Friday night, what's everyone doing this weekend?
  • Thanks! Yeah, I just meant it figuratively. We walked to the church bazaar and she's been gardening and trimming roses here and at her mom's. We have an almost 3 year old so even sedentary time is very active.

  • it's Friday night, what's everyone doing this weekend?
  • Nothing is planned because I was almost sure my wife would be in labor by now. So, I guess just more sitting around and waiting.

  • While you're waiting on a kbin app, you should know the mobile site is entirely functional as a mobile app. Just make a shortcut for your home screen
  • You can, you just have to scroll to the bottom of all the comments.

    My apologies, I don't know if you never saw it, there, or if you saw it there and just didn't like it.

  • Who owns the Fediverse? I mean who owns and runs the hardware that runs this system?
  • But Lemmy and Kbin can't just "go corporate" because there is no Lemmy LLC with a CEO and shareholders. Lemmy is open source software that a whole bunch of people have been contributing to (although admittedly, I have no idea who's in charge of approving changes, or how that works). But one thing that MIGHT be true (I'm still figuring this out myself) is that if you and I are excellent coders and we know that lemmy 3.0 is nothing but a corporate cash grab, we can just go back to Lemmy 2.99, and Save As... call it Jemmy, and then anybody who follows us is part of our cool new anti-corporate club.

    I think, maybe. I'm not actually sure at all.

    The biggest corporatization risk I see is that if one instance, like lemmy.jrubal gets SO big and awesome and concentrated that it would be really painful to leave and start over, then whoever operates lemmy.jrubal would have the leverage they need to be greedy, until they make it painful enough that people leave.

  • Reddit admins have gone off the deep-end. Banned for "sexual or suggestive content involving minors" (!!!), coincidentally 1 hour after making a critical comment on r/ModCoord
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  • Reddit admins have gone off the deep-end. Banned for "sexual or suggestive content involving minors" (!!!), coincidentally 1 hour after making a critical comment on r/ModCoord
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  • Is there a way to make instance-agnostic links?
  • I thought it worked if you just linked /c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
    With the only caveat being that users on kbin will need /m/asklemmy.ml

    I would normally test the crap out of these before posting since I really don't know what I'm doing, but I'm on my phone and mostly busy at the moment. Sorry if it doesn't work.

  • FYI the mods of r/dndnext, r/rpg, and r/dungeonworld have created a Lemmy server
  • A missed opportunity to create dungeon.social, a shared place for ttrpg players and bdsm enthusiasts.

  • kbin is growing on me. you guys are great! I'm staying here. never going back
  • It's better than "no censorship". It's "whatever censorship you and your instance agree on".

    Don't like the rules at beehaw? Cool, leave beehaw! Too many boobs in your "all" feed? Cool, block the domain or join an instance that doesn't federate with them. It's just SO much better this way for everybody.

  • The best way to protest against reddit is simply to not interact with Reddit
  • Specifically, when I google stuff about how kbin works, I see the only answers are on Reddit and then I'm in a real pickle.

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