Everyone commenting seems to be missing your point. Regardless how people feel about pets and fireworks, people should be aware that the 4th of July revelry can be extremely difficult for some veterans suffering from PTSD. There's one I know personally who was in combat in Iraq and saw really terrible things. You can tell talking to him it deeply effects him to this day. I think of it a lot when I hear illegal fireworks. At least with the official fireworks shows they know when to expect it. The illegal fireworks are just random out of the blue and could easily trigger a PTSD episode. Maybe the guy in the screenshot talking about patriotism should consider that.

Lemmy.world isn't for sale, Elon.

There's a lot of bullshit being posted about Lemmy over there, but lots of folks spreading the good word of the Fediverse as well. I'm doing my part until Bacon Reader stops working.

Except much like your comment, they aren't actually trying to have a good faith discussion.

They've demontrated their evil nature in the past, promoting divisive and inciteful material and anything to drive engagement for the sake of advertiser dollars. I don't think we need to wait for them to do it again in the Fediverse. Better to head that shit off right up front.

Thanks for letting me know! I certainly hope that's true and it wasn't actually the sub mod team as the message indicated. That's really slimy for Reddit admins to do that and make out as though it's the mods, but it's definitely not surprising at this point.

Unfortunately it is currently broken with lemmy.world. For those of us that are already signed in it seems to work ok, but new users will need to use something else at the moment. Connect for Lemmy is a good alternative on Android.

People have bots doing that but it's actually pretty lifeless and doesn't add quality to the site. The organic OC here is high quality, as is the quality of discussion. We don't need Reddit content posted by bots.

I've been seeing this on Firefox on the desktop for some time now in the form of a sponsored Amazon link on new tabs. It sucks and I wish they could promote something better than such an evil corporation, but I don't begrudge them too much as I know they have to make a buck somewhere. I know I've never donated to Mozilla.

Sort of. If I understand correctly something in 18 broke captcha so they can't use it without being swarmed by bots. It will supposedly be repaired with server version 18.1. The Connect app for Lemmy doesn't seem to have an issue with the older server version if people want to give that a try. Jerboa is broken with lemmy.world currently.

I'm not getting that impression from the comments in the threads I'm in.

Another Nextcloud user here. If you setup a Nextcloud server you will see many benefits, with the Talk app being just one of them. Install OnlyOffice and you can even collaboratively edit documents in the web browser similar to Google Docs or o365. I really can't recommend Nextcloud enough. Anyone who is into self hosting should at least give it a try.

It was the first one I was able to join. Beehaw didn't accept me. They're too exclusive for me.

What do you think of fdr8.us? Then I could do some subdomains off of it like lemmy.fdr8.us and mastodon.fdr8.us.

I appreciate the suggestion. It's been great hearing about the exciting new regulations coming out of Europe, such as USB C on iPhones and replaceable batteries on mobile devices. It's great that the European government looks out for the people like that. Sadly here in the US many of our lawmakers are beholden to corporations and special interests and there is very little in the way of enforcement for anticompetitive action.

Well played, Sir!

Avoid spoilers if it hasn't already been spoiled for you. Story mode is a masterpiece!

I like pickling things. Pickled Red Onions are delicious and easy, and Pickled Green Beans are probably my favorite. Fresh Green Beans can be had by the big bag for about two bucks. Throw in a couple Habanero peppers for spice, maybe $.50 worth of seasoning, $.50 worth of vinegar if you buy it by the gallon, and you have some delicious cheap snacks that are also relatively healthy. The worst ingredients would be salt and sugar, but you can minimize its use to taste when you make them yourself. I guess it's all relative, but to me a few bucks for a quart jar of quality homemade pickles checks all the boxes when it comes to cheap, healthy, and delicious. It does take a bit of prep work though so it's definitely better if you enjoy that type of thing.

It was once great, back in the glory days. Gnome 2 and Compiz, baby! It's still OK too, but not my preferred choice.

Thank you, that SQL command looks like exactly what I'm after! I'm going to give that a shot. I appreciate the help!