middle-aged single dad who lives rural. nerd.

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • so what’s the full specs of the machine? would building one of them and then running it at home from an NBN connection be viable, or would it lag to hell more than lemmy’s world about 12 hours ago?

    btw when it’s time for money, i’ll put one hand up and the other into my pocket. this is the sort of thing that i would be happy to fund.












  • spotify, believe it or not. for the genres of music that i nose around in it has an amazing catalog, i can listen all thru the house thanks to alexa, and i can favourite or skip a track with voice commands. i pay for the premium version because i hate ads and also because i want to listen to music at higher quality than 192kbps

    shazam is one click away from being opened after i unlock my phone at any point. holy shit that’s been a good resource when i’m out somewhere and hear something i like.

    after that, however, i spend a lot of time on bandcamp hunting for obscure and decent sounding remixes of popular songs. THAT’s what i dump on a dancefloor full of hippies. if you get the girls dancing then the boys dance with them and with charismatic music you can turn it into a party instead of just a bunch of people dancing to music

    oh, and when you’re listening to music that you’re thinking about DJing with, you absolutely utterly NEED an enormous subwoofer and a surround sound hifi so you can hear it the way it’s supposed to sound


  • general user experience is more important for a userbase leaving a website. mods are a vast minority in those numbers, and people don’t notice them gone until the shit hasn’t just hit the fan but has splattered everywhere and they’re looking for whoever the fuck is going to clean it up, or to put it another way a few days during which the mod in question has been sipping wine and sunbathing my the pool instead of, well, cleaning up shit

    excuse the rant. as far as i’m aware, most mods i speak to use a desktop with the mod toolbox extension installed



  • personally i ran my sub thru the protest, opened up as planned afterwards because the users were spamming me with requests to join the sub as approved users, and then started thinking about what the next step is going to be. i’ll take a day or two to make that decision too, because it’s not a tiny community over in that subreddit and those users are who i work for, not the reddit admins.

    figuring that we’ll shut down for two days every week for the rest of the month, and depending on what the users opinions are i’m not sure if the sub is going to continue operating. i DO know that if the sub moves website that i don’t want to moderate any more. i lost interest in the topic of the sub a few years ago and have only been moderating out of generosity and simply to keep the place operating. i would have done it if nobody else did, but someone did, and they can have fun with the role.

    “fun” /s

    my priority is the user experience and making that as pleasant as possible before doing anything else. i asked the users of the sub whether we were going to do the protest and followed what their answer was. not sure how many people realise that experienced mods are kinda vital to internet forums actually working and not descending into shitfights and nazi recruitment zones. the number ain’t big, i know that.