Sounds like plant management needs to enforce lock-out tag-out procedure. That's rule 1 of working on heavy machinery, no matter how safe you think it is.

I know storage is cheap, but nearly half a terabyte? I'm already giving any game the side eye if it takes more than 50G of space on a disk, let alone nearly 10x that.

Car dealerships shaking and crying

The original intent was good. You make something, you can legally ensure people can't just copy your work and slap their name on it for profit. People could make creative works without fear of someone else ripping it away from them.

Then Disney just kept bribing politicians to extend it to a ridiculous degree so they wouldn't lose Mickey to public domain until they moved his likeness into their trademark, which lives as long as it's being used actively.

And then you have DMCA, where everyone is guilty until innocent and that whole can of worms, and DRM which is technically illegal to circumvent no matter how much time or what reason. Corporatization and the Internet turned that relatively simple and good ideas into an utter mess.

I think Dwarf Fortress is going to hold the crown for ultimate fantasy world simulator. I don't think ES6 will allow for systematic breeding and killing of mer-children for their valuable bones.

Dude on the top looks ecstatic because he's gonna see his friends again soon.

Google and Chrome really need to be broken up. Maybe people should start writing (physical) letters to the FTC asking to review Google's recent actions as monopolistic behavior.

It wouldn't be the first time. But showing the interest is the best way to get the ball rolling that we can do.

Won't someone think of the shareholders?

I have the same experience, but I consider it to be a positive. Lemmy isn't trying to force an algorithm on me and retain my eyeballs. I subscribed to what I want to see, I scroll through new a bit, top day a bit, leave a comment here and there, and I do other things.

Before, I found myself bouncing between Reddit and YouTube, doing usually nothing else fun or productive. Since then, I've been doing more varied things, playing different games, working on programming projects. I find that I'm much more satisfied with how I spend my time.

I do still have a YouTube problem, but a lot of the stuff I watch is related to my interests and good background listening material anyway, so it's not really stopping me from doing other things.

Looked it up, apparently someone datamined something out of the app that said you could earn money for getting karma/gold on posts.

Fake internet points are finally worth something!
Now redditors can earn real money for their contributions to the Reddit community, based on the karma and gold they've been given.
How it works:
* Redditors give gold to posts, comments, or other contributions they think are really worth something.
* Eligible contributors that earn enough karma and gold can cash out their earnings for real money.
* Contributors apply to the program to see if they're eligible.
* Top contributors make top dollar. The more karma and gold contributors earn, the more money they can receive.

This is absolutely going to get gamed to hell if it really happens. It also reeks of desperation.

Not wanting to answer a question is fine, but doing that by just being pretentious isn't a good way of going about it. Being forthcoming about not really wanting to talk about your music preferences is fine, changing the subject politely is also fine so you don't leave the onus of carrying conversation entirely on the other person.

Acting like your music choices are too out there for anyone else to understand is a good way to not have them relate to you in any way.

They'll be devastated when they find out my closed instance with 2 users, 1 of which is inactive, also pre-emptively de-federated them. I shudder to think they'll ever recover.