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[Serious] Am I really the ONLY PERSON who thinks Elon Musk is just absolutely sexy?
I once ghosted a guy after a date because he looked too much like Elon and I couldn’t unsee it.
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[Serious] Am I really the ONLY PERSON who thinks Elon Musk is just absolutely sexy?
I once ghosted a guy after a date because he looked too much like Elon and I couldn’t unsee it.
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Can Lemmy have distributed communities
I think it might be a better approach to have communities link together and if you post to one, it goes to all of them. However we should probably focus on making sure the basics work correctly first before dreaming big.
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If you could plant a single thought in the minds of everyone on Earth simultaneously, what thought would you choose to share?
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Used to have this as the only rule for my Discord server, and it obviously wasn’t clear enough for people to get.
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Why do washing machines prevent opening the hatch just after the washing cycle ends?
Mine doesn’t do this, but it does do a few slow spins right at the end so that everything settles to the bottom. Maybe yours is also doing this by waiting?
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Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?
I already owned my own home server that I built for running a file server and other random things. Currently all I’m paying for is $2.50/month for a proxy server on Google Cloud so I don’t have to expose my stuff directly to the internet.
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What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
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Their argument has a lot to do with people not establishing context upfront unlike your example with “someone called”. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had a conversation with someone talking about a non-binary person, only to realize five minutes in they weren’t talking about a group of people. It’s super jarring when it happens.
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what messaging app you have quit and rejoined?
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You can adjust it in settings so it only sends you notifications when someone DMs you or specifically mentions you in can.
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Be honest, do you still use reddit?
I logged in once to look up something I had saved, but the mobile site is so irritating to use I gave up.
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Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?
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Well yeah, that’s the whole point. It’s harder to learn another workflow when you’re already in the mindset of the other.
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what do you do when you're alone in an elevator
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Yeah, most of the elevators I encounter are at hotels while traveling, so it’s usually the first place I have a moment to breathe after going non-stop for hours and hours. I’m not practicing karate, I’m trying not to collapse from exhaustion.
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Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?
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It’s a bit of a janky solution, but I’m just running an openvpn server on the lowest tier vps which my home server auto-connects to on boot. From there it’s just iptables rules to reroute the external traffic through the VPN. I’ve also used it to proxy Minecraft servers and a few other things.
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what’s the benefits of using Lemmy compared to the others? I found this picture on Google.
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Normal mastodon posts you can’t, but if they post a specific way then it’ll show up. Theres one in my comment history.
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Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?
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Yeah, that's originally why I had it set up this way because I was somewhere where I wasn't able to open any ports.
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What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
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My dog absolutely hates being outside in the yard, but she loves walks and hikes. Unfortunately the nearest place that’s safe for us to walk is a long car ride away because I live in a somewhat rural area. So she only ever gets these on weekends when I’m able to dedicate several hours to it. If I were to live in a city she’d be getting a ton more stimulation daily.
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Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?
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Yeah the choice of VPN doesn't really matter here. I would just configure it to not push a default route to cut down on the amount of traffic going through. You could even use something like ZeroTier if you wanted.
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[@asklemmy](https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy) testing whether I can post to this magazine from Mastodon. Can someone reply and confirm?
Looks like it worked to me.
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How many of you are actually chatbots?
Sorry, I can’t get the answer to that on iPhone.
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Is there a line from a movie that really resonated with you but when you say it most people don't get the reference?
I constantly say “I'm doing my suduku, okay?” and people just think I’m an idiot who doesn’t know how it’s pronounced. (from The Heat)