cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/9638787
Source with more images and info: The Playboy Land Yacht Concept by Syd Mead (1975) - Blog
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11,263 lbs, huh? It's not a kind estimate, but not unrealistic either.
The Beehaw admins made this choice, and documented their rationale here: https://beehaw.org/post/567170
Two tips:
I have not tried running WINE yet but I plan on doing so soon.
Steam "just works" on Linux, you can install it via flatpak (which I use) or from their deb repo. It includes "Proton", which is a fancy bundle of wine and some extra open source valve sauce to make it nice and easy to use. Any game that runs on the steam deck also runs on Linux via proton, and there's no messing around at all. It looks and feels just like steam on Windows, and thousands of games just work with no setup or config beyond clicking the big blue and green buttons to install and run. Not EVERY games works, but tons do. I'd heavily recommend this over raw wine to a beginner.
The second tip is not to ask what you can do on Linux. The answer, to a first approximation, is that you can do everything on Linux that you can do on Windows or OSX. I daily drive all three, and mostly do the same stuff on them. Instead, ask YOURSELF what you WANT to do on Linux. Then Google and ask us HOW to do it... or what the nearest approximation is if the precise thing you want to do doesn't work on Linux.
This, but desktop linux users are on the step for 193rd place while excitedly screaming and holding a third-place sign. Steamdeck users are on the 3rd-place step while calmly playing their deck.
This looks weird to me.
I would consider reporting this to info@mastodon.world. If someone is actually sockpuppeting 10-20 accounts and profile stalking, that sounds to me like bannable abuse and something the admins might be interested in looking into. Now, of course, if you're the one who has been harassing people in old comments, moderated comments, deleted comments, or DMs... admins might decide to ban you all. Two wrongs don't make a right, and often result in two bans. It's also possible that admins have bigger fish to fry and won't have time to investigate... but if I were admin I'd be interested in early instances of mass-sockpuppeting so I could think about ways to detect and react to it.
Edit: As an aside, the animated profile icon is pretty annoying and it may be that people downvote just for that.
I thought that was the first rule of rendering web content? Or was it protocol parsers?
I remember, it was first rule of video game character creation screens:
Folks should not use lemmony to bootstrap their subscription count. It's not that hard to hit lemmyverse.net and just manually sub a bunch of stuff you're actually interested in, or to visit a big instance and browse their all feed unauthenticated.
But if you really want to automate community bootstrapping, lemmony is the worst of the scripts that doit because it defaults to subscribing to EVERYTHING, including all the porn, piracy, and hate communities on the most absent-admin'ed under-modded instances in the lemmyverse. Then your instance will mirror all those questionably legal communities and re-serve them to the public unauthenticated internet, creating hosting liability for you. Not to mention being a bad fediverse citizen and creating massive amounts of federation load on the instances forwarding you posts and comments from 20k communities that you don't read.
These two subscription bootstrapping scripts limit you to top subs by default... So you're more likely to be in well-modded territory and just the number of subs is smaller you you can review them and back out of anything sketchy. Subscriber-bot's docs do a good job of explaining the risks and problems of mass-subscription so you know what you're getting into.
From https://tfltruck.com/2018/03/truck-rewind-semi-steinwinter-supercargo-20-40-concept/
The Steinwinter Supercargo 20.40 Concept was an all-new way to solve the issues that heavy, un-aerodynamic and difficult to maneuver tractor trailers suffer from. Designed by Manfred Steinwinter in 1983, the Steinwinter Supercargo 20.40 Concept debuted at the 1983 Frankfurt Motor Show. Measuring a scant 1,170 mm (about 46-inches) tall, the Steinwinter Truck Concept was lower than many sedans of the day.
This is the concept vehicle that formed the basis for the Highwayman truck in https://lemmy.world/post/1493858
Edit: I guess according to https://silodrome.com/the-highwayman-truck/ the Highwayman truck was a modified Peterbilt, but it's hard not to see it as a design nod to this.
I blame unfederated subscriber counts. If you look up any community from an account on lemmy.world and there is a local version and a remote version... the local version LOOKS bigger when it's about half the size because the remote version only shows subscribers from lemmy.world whereas the local version shows subs fediverse-wide.
If sub counts were apples to apples for remote and local communities, people would much more frequently sub to the bigger remote comminity. But lemmy.world is so big, that when people are subbing locally because they're confused about which is bigger... the lemmy.world community actually becomes bigger very quickly. So it's winning the community scaling races consistently on pure confusion. The resulting community centralization is not all that healthy and they often overtake better run and more established communities for no meaningful reason.
Sadly the formatting in this post gave me terminal cancer. As my final act, I've fixed the formatting. OP, please, only you can save the others. Fix the post formatting.
This is a terrible idea, and borderline irresponsible. One of the key reasons that Lemmy doesn't subscribe by default is to avoid forcing servers with many communities to waste time/CPU delivering messages to servers where no one will read those messages. By subscribing to everything, you're telling all those overloaded servers to waste time sending content to your server that you'll never even see.
It is much MUCH better to just hit lemmyverse.net and subscribe to 10-100 communities you care about. If script accepted a list of community-urls and automated subscribing to those, that would be super nice. Subscribing to the entire lemmyverse is terrible for your server, for your hosting liability, and for the lemmyverse's performance.
The more normal transfer path is to offer to take over a specific community or communities by:
This is better than mass deletion because it keeps whatever small list of existing subscribers and post content intact across the transition. For moderation, Lemmy world admins will get notified of reports and can address anything that violates instance rules.