I didn't even know they still made them. Used to see the packs of the transfer sheets everywhere but either haven't seen them or haven't noticed them. I also don't have an inkjet printer to use with them, but if I was going to do a batch of shirts, it'd probably pay off to buy a "disposable" one and use the ink that comes with it.
The only thing with those, though, was that I always forget to turn the shirts inside out before washing them so the print never lasted very long.
That's basically my take. I used Twitter way back in the day before it went to shit, and there were some legit good accounts that could make witty, well thought out takes in 120 characters (which was the point of the platform). The others I followed were either news orgs or security researchers where they just linked to their main platforms proper.
But the way most people use it, ugh!
Ordering them is not cheap it seems. It would almost be worth it to buy a cheap inkjet printer and use those iron-on transfer sheets (if they still make them?)
I just searched a custom sweater website where you can upload your own graphics. Was like $59 for a single adult medium, so it became a meme rather than something I'm going to own.
Any silicon vendors (NVidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Realtek, etc) should have open source drivers / firmware. I can't imagine what, if any, benefits there are to keeping that secret, and it seems logical that sales could/would increase if people were easily able to adapt them for their use cases.
And also the huge reduction in ewaste by being able to keep smartphones up to date or repurpose them without having to spend years painstakingly reverse-engineering binary blobs that only work with ancient kernels.
I'm shutting down my instance (dubvee.org) and leaving the platform. Just wanted to pop in one last time and bid farewall to you amazing people. Ten Forward has been the one consistent bright spot in my time here, and I will never forget you all.
If you feel you need to know why, my post/comment history sums it up (or see this post ). I don't like goodbyes or getting all mushy, so in lieu of those, and if you must, I'd prefer shitposts lol.
And since I don't like goodbyes...
Yep, yep, and yep to all of that, and some of it I've said for over a year and was dismissed with "just give it time".
The Lemmy network in general is comprised of a lot of people who are here (I'm sorry to say) because they are too poorly socialized even for reddit,
I've always referred to that as the "elephant in the ~~room~~ fediverse". But yeah, I fully agree that's definitely a major contributing factor to the current environment. I even made a joke post about it the other day: https://dubvee.org/post/3789665
Here's the gist of the post to save you a click
Title: "We are not the same"
The first 6-12 months here (during/right after the Reddit API drama) were great. After that....not so much.
I still believe a critical mass of more ah, well-adjusted people can improve the culture, but that day gets further and further away as long as the existing culture remains in the state it is in.
Like I said in my shutdown/meta post, I want the concept of the fediverse to succeed. I really do. But exactly as you just said (and others have said and I have said), the more well-adjusted people need to arrive in a critical mass, and I don't feel there's an environment here to welcome them let alone attract them or entice them to stick around. Maybe that will change. I hope it does, but I'm not optimistic enough to stick around and find out.
I do feel we started out on the right foot back in mid 2023, but as we've grown, we've just turned into a refuge for people who have proven too toxic to remain anywhere else.
At the end of the day, aside from the people like you, ValueSubtracted, and other friendly ~~faces~~ names I've come to enjoy seeing around these last couple years, I'm going to miss the idea of this place far more than the place itself.
Right, but we had the opportunity to be better here.
While Lemmy and the Threadiverse existed before the Reddit API exodus, it really took off around then with dedicated, passionate people working together to build something new, something better. I was one of them and was in real-time communication with admins of many of the popular instances today. There was passion, drive, and determination to make something great. And for a while, we did.
Somewhere along the line, though, the old toxicity started creeping back in, it was left largely unaddressed, and eventually metastasizing to where we are today.
So while there can be debate as to whether that means Lemmy ultimately succeeded or failed, in my view, still holding on to the original desire to make something better than what we crawled out of, I see it as a failure.
That community now has one less moderate centrist.
I know where you're coming from, but I cringe when I hear that term because of the straw man arguments that get thrown around here.
Like, if I were to post a spreadsheet here with all of my views laid out in detail, 99.9% of people, regardless of their local Overton window, would be like "Yep, he's a lefty."
But because of the purity testing / extreme positions around here that I do not agree with (mostly related to violence, revolution, and "burn it all down at all costs"), I've been called a Nazi, a sympathizer, a fascist, a bootlicker, an "enlightened centrist who only wants to do a little genocide", and worse.
Nuance here is dead. Godwin's law is dead. Most of the top-level comments for posts related to current events go straight to some Nazi reference, and where do you even go from there if you want to have any kind of discussion? Conversations are derailed before they even have a chance to get started.
Fair enough; 'extreme' is as relative a term as "hot" or "cold" is.
I guess I'm just using "would the average person say this in polite conversation?" as my reference point.
Lemmy, from my observation has more of a reputation to outsiders as being a lefty-safe-space
Truth be told, I don't want this place, or the Threadiverse, to be considered a lefty safe-space any more than I'd want it to be considered a right wing safe-space. Honestly, I just wish people would leave their political ideology at the door and just interact as people.
Though I'm not naive enough to think that will ever happen on any platform - it's just a wish lol
But the problem with any ideological safe space is the extremes. That's what I feel is not being addressed.
I know it was buried in one of the longer comments I linked, but one point I made was this:
Take some of this rhetoric from Lemmy, replace the proper nouns, and it's indistinguishable from what you'd read on an extreme right-wing board.
That's just not the kind of atmosphere/environment I want to be associated with.
Heh, thanks. It's proven difficult to condense a little over two years worth of behavioral observation into succinct comments, so I've tried to just build on what others have pointed out with my own experience.
I've decided to shutdown Dubvee, so that means this community is going away. I'm not aware of any other 30 Rock community to recommend, but if someone wants to start one on Piefed and take over, I am open to assisting with a community transfer.
It may seem dirty doing this while Jen is out of action, but we talk IRL, and she's known for a good while that my interest in Lemmy has been fading, so I know she understands.
For full details, see: https://dubvee.org/post/3788765
The first 6-12 months here (during/right after the Reddit API drama) were great. After that....not so much.
Note: Edited to add to the title and replace the image link with one that won't be going offline in 2 weeks.
End of the road. Wish I could say it's been a fun trip, but that would be a lie. Running this instance started out as a fun project, but it has been nothing but a nightmare for a long, long time. I'm looking forward to the freedom I will have after being shackled to this mess for the last two years.
This instance is shutting down for good on 7/31/2025.
If you want exports of anything, let me know. After that, I'm pulling the SSDs and going full Office Space on them.
Edit 07/12/25: Thank you all for the kind words, understanding, and appreciation. While I have been consumed by the negativity here, I never forgot about the positives. Unfortunately, the negatives can and do become overwhelming.
If you appreciate what I've been trying to do, then please do not let the efforts die with my departure. The toxicity I've described cannot be solved by any individual alone and requires a group effort.
Original plea below, though it's superseded by the above.
I'm gonna get right to the point: I'm burnt out, I ~~kind of~~ hate this place, and I really don't want to be here anymore.
I started it not because I kept getting banned from elsewhere but because I wanted to do and be part of something better. Well, two years in, and I cannot say this place is any better, just differently bad if not worse. Too many people here seem to think that because it's not "corpo social media" that anything goes, and boy do some people really run with that.
The average Lemming has the nuance of a wrecking ball and the maturity of a junior high edge lord, and trying to keep the peace here has become more than what I want to deal with. The worst part is that they're so caught up in their own self-righteousness that they can't see they're just as bad or worse than what they're spewing violent rhetoric at; trying to talk sense into anyone or de-escalate things is immediately met with "bootlicker", wild accusations, and/or worse.
I need help. Well, really, Lemmy needs help, professional help, but barring that, then I need some more referees to keep this place under control.
This instance has a mission, and I am no longer able to deal with the volume of toxic shitheads who do nothing but call for violence, take people out of context and jump to insane conclusions, and just act like petulant fucking children. Seriously, the demographic here is disgusting and needs to grow the hell up.
~~So this is it: Either some people step up and help to keep this place sane, or I'm shutting it down. Clock is ticking~~
Nothing better to relax you after a stressful 11am to noon meeting than going out into the garden and ripping some weeds out. It's like nature's bubble wrap.
S7E01: Descent Part II + Family Guy: Blue Harvest
Well, "we" only did the first move because it was more convenient. The latter is being forced on us.