NoRezervationz @lemmy.website I'm an IT pro of 25+ years, former streamer, friendly sort, foodie, and Chef.
You can also find me on Mastodon
You seem to be hung up on the whole "education is a leftist ideology" mentality. It might be true, but the facts tend to have a left bias.
A good education doesn't mean going to a very exclusive or expensive university. A well-educated person can come out of the local university or college. It really depends on the person. Being from Texas and having traveled to and lived in other states, I've met plenty of well-educated people on the right, left, and center. The problem is, people who disparage education either have something to gain from uneducated folks or those who've been convinced by those who have something to gain (and from what I can tell tend to be lacking in education themselves). It's a long-known fact that educated people are harder to manipulate. Don't get me wrong, very smart people can do dumb things too, but being manipulated is much harder.
As far as book burning, the last one of note in the US was in 2022 and reported here. Also, if child protection was a thing on the right, they'd really keep them out of church, although the Bible has been banned for being inappropriate reading material for children.
Germany has months of parental leave for both parents, and a month's vacation written into law. So yeah, there's that...
It's been a while...
I'm sorry y'all, I've been away for a bit doing things and trying to find a job. It's been rough with highs and lows. If anyone's actually hiring for remote admin or data entry, hit me up! I'll be eternally thankful!
Anywho, I'm still alive and kicking. I've upgraded to the latest and greatest Lemmy version 0.18.4. Fun times! If y'all need me, I'll be playing on my 3DS XL.
--NoRez
That's great news! Lemmy is a great, if but a little buggy, replacement for Reddit. I'm sure the bugs will be ironed out in due time. I'm enjoying the federated community. The more the merrier!
My experience on the Fediverse so far...
Hmmm.... Well, I've met some really nice folks, and some not-so-nice folks.
The nice folks are great! They post things I'm interested in, and I'll post replies back. It's a party of sorts. I love these exchanges and it's what most people want on the net, even the new "wild west" of the Fediverse. I've found a lot of them on my Mastodon instance, and it's been a blast!
Now, there are the not-so-nice people. It all started when I blocked a bot because was advocating r4pe culture, then users from that domain/instance decided to troll me with racial slurs. I ended up blocking that domain. A few others decided to join in from other domains. I blocked 2 more users and decided to have my own troll-fest with the last one. I essentially used logic against him until he was just a sad puddle of a human being. I know it wasn't nice, but he wasn't very nice and left me alone after that. Maybe he'll seek the type of mental help he needs. I hope so.
Anyway, that's been my experience so far. I keep looking at my lemmy instance (where I'm posting now) and wonder if I should promote it even a little for a limited amount of users. Let a few hundred in and see what happens. lol
Stay safe, it's a jungle out there. -- NoRez
Meta sending out free Q2 Elite Straps
I got a legit email from Meta tonight for a free Q2 Elite Strap. I'm guessing it's to get rid of stock because they can't use them with the Q3. Thoughts?
Musings From a New Admin
I'm a bit torn. I run this site on a semi-beefy VPS, as far as VPS' go, and I want to invite people to join, but... If I advertise, my poor VPS will die terribly, but there's no local content other than my own drivel.
Discoverability is actually not that good on lemmy, so if there's no one else on your lemmy instance, you have to go to one of the bigger instances to get find groups with the content you want. Then you have to do a search and subscribe on your main instance. Even at that, I've noticed that not all comments come over from federated instances. In essence, there are a lot of manual processes that have to happen in order to get federated content to show.
I also have a Mastodon instance up and running. It's a bit harder on the server, but the discoverability is much, much better. I hooked it up to a few relays and boom! Lots of posts coming through. I've even participated in some hashtag games across instances.
It looks to me, if I wanted the best of both worlds, that I'd need to run a kbin instance. Twitter-like Microblogging (Threads in kbin speak) and communities (Magazines, as they call them) are its main feature set. The problem is, I can't install the thing. It's not for a lack of trying, but the instructions for installation are fragmented and the configuration file isn't documented much at all. Do I need a URL to store media? They refer a LOT to the symfony documentation that doesn't explain the kbin specific configuration options. I don't know. They really need to work on their docs.
Anyway, just my morning musings and frustrations rant. I have an interview to get ready for. Have a great day y'all and I'll see you in the fediverse!
NoRez
The Fediverse Ain't Easy...
I spent 3 days trying to get Mastodon working and had to nuke it each time. With each different way of installation came new and unseen issues. Most of those issues are permissions based.
The closest I got to having it work properly, the public directory permissions were borked. The last time I followed the official documentation and the mastodon user somehow lost permissions to bundler... and pretty much ruby altogether. I guess I'll keep trying. If anyone has a good tutorial that works with Ubuntu 22.04.
Yeah, it took me an entire weekend to get Lemmy working, but at least it's working, and quite well at that! It would be nice if I could count on adding a theme of my own and it not disappearing with the next update, I'd attempt it.
I looked at kbin and the documentation is bad... Like, really bad. To top it off, no one has made any videos and I haven't found really anything on it outside of the main support page. I'm going to let that one cook a bit longer before trying it again. Again, if anyone has a link to a good tutorial on kbin, I'd be quite interested to try it!
Anyway, that's it for now. Have a good weekend!
NoRez
Also remember there are "free market" apologists that think a business should be able to charge whatever they want, whenever they want. Charging so much for access that it drives servicew/apps to shutdown is not ok on any level.
Then I'll definitely be playing it. Didn't realize it'll be on gamepass, and I have it for Wondows. Niiiiice!
Yep! I'll be adding Starfield to my rotation. It may or may not become my main game for a while. It all depends on how good and interesting it will be. So far, I like what I see!
Hi, y'all! I think federated users count in the numbers, and I'm one of them. :)
He's absolutely right. 48 hours and it'll all blow over like it never happened. If I'd organized it, it would be no less than a month, and indefinitely if demands weren't met.
Thank you! I can't wait to see what happens as well. We're all in this together, so let's make it work!
Welcome to The Lemmy Website!
I know, the name is quite generic, but it is a general purpose lemmy site!
I'm still learning about lemmy and the fediverse, so bare with me. We all have to start somewhere!
That being said, my admin experience goes all the back to the venerable BBS days in the late 80's and early 90's. graduating to my first webpage back in 1997, even running a quite successful niche community site for Appalachian Clogdancing! (Don't judge! lol)
Anyway, I hope to help nurture and support you, this new community, and the set of communities, that have sprung to life! It's my intent to give my 100% to you and see this through to wherever it may lead.
Thank you for simply being here. I'm humbled you visited our little section of the fediverse.
NoRezervationz Admin