CumbrianCucumber

joined 3 weeks ago
[–] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally

So in other words, if you only use Discord as a messaging app and for small servers between friends, this won't affect you?

I honestly have no idea why Discord started trying to push itself as some normal social media like Facebook, and why people started treating it as such. Discord was a glorified telephone line with gifs and web links. I don't need some manufactured sense of "community" among thousands of people who happen to watch the same YouTuber as me.

Honestly I'd love to set up a big "default" instance myself, but as soon as you become a big advert for everyone else to set up their channel on your instance, server costs will go through the roof. I'm in England and Peertube.wtf generally works better for me, but even then it seems to randomly crash and reload on longer videos like stream VODs, so maybe it is a geography thing.

[–] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Last I heard, Trump's own actions were tanking the popularity of his European equivalents across the board. Reform UK for example peaked in the polls about a year ago, and have been dropping ever since.

[–] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah lol. That and wanting to lash out because he's mad Europe called him out on his Greenland threat

[–] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And when the European finally closed his YouTube account, he wept, for there were no more US products left to boycott

[–] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Update: It's fully back up again thanks to those who checked, and thanks to the admin if they read this!

[–] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The Chagos deal was going to be Starmer's favour to Trump. The UK was going to pay to keep using it, just to host the US base there. It was essentially another conservative mess for Labour to clean up, and another example of Trump having a strop about something that he had previously been in favour of. I say go ahead and pull it: this is the perfect opportunity to have another bill and keep the US out of this one.

[–] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

OK it's kind of back up, although really slow and most of the UI doesn't work. I suppose it's just low on server space or something now

[–] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I migrated to Ubuntu from Windows 10 when it became end-of-life last year. I had a major head start beforehand because my work allowed me to dabble in Linux for a good 2 years beforehand, though! It's been great! Pretty much everything that you "can't do" on Windows has some sort of open source alternative. Can't have Microsoft Office on Linux? Download Libreoffice for free! Can't have Adobe Creative Cloud? Just download Krita and Kdenlive for free! Can't have Microsoft Edge? What on earth do you want it for?? You don't really need to use the terminal for most things, but it can make a lot of things much easier and quicker if/when you do get your head round it.

The only notable weak point is a few specific online videogames. Valve Anti Cheat really doesn't play well with Linux (which is really dumb because Valve are so well known for supporting Linux). I've managed to get Left 4 Dead 2 playing online using "Steam Runtime 1.0 (scout)" but I haven't found anything that works for Team Fortress 2. That being said, most other online games like Bloons TD6 and Worms WMD work perfectly natively, 90% of games released last year were natively Linux compatible, and the CEO of GOG said they'd like to support Linux more too, so even this is an improving situation!

[–] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Damn... Thanks though, at least I know it's not just me!

 

It's been down for me for a day now with a 502 Bad Gateway error, citing an openresty (nginx) issue. Is this an OSA-related regional thing to the UK, or is it down for everyone else too? It'd suck if it's permanently down because I have a channel on there.

[–] CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I have something of a game going on where every time the US peeves me off, I delete something that profits them.

Trump threatens Greenland? I delete Deviantart

Trump threatens Canada? I delete Reddit

The ICE shooting? I delete Instagram

After hearing about this I just deleted Brave Mobile and switched to Vivaldi. If it stays this consistent I'm going to have to save up for an Ubuntu Touch phone.

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