It frustrated me when Reddit made the initial decision to screw over app developers. Having done dev work in the past, I know the time that goes in to them so someone asking for a little money in return is the least we can do. But no, Reddit just say "Screw you guys"!

As if that was not enough, they are now showing that they really don't care about the many moderators that have painstakingly put years of 'free' time in to building these communities, the same communities that are the foundation of Reddit!

I am sure we are going to see a lot more of these admin takeovers in the coming weeks and it is the very reason I am over here and why Lemmy is seeing the incredible growth curve. Long may that continue.

This is an interesting one. I worked for a digital marketing agency several years ago who had an office in Leeds and London. In Leeds everyone would say hi, have the occasional chat over a coffee and say bye at the end of the day.

Working in the London office was so different, only greeted by the receptionist, no real pleasantries, no chats over coffee and a deadpan look when you get up to leave.

I found it a strange vibe. To be fair, in the same way I realised quickly it is every man for themselves on the tube. Leave the Yorkshire charm on the platform when heading to London.

It has already been said but the company is complying in the sense that it is providing a solution whereby you can delete your account. That said, where you are unable to follow that process, they should offer you the same ability via email. Each company does things slightly differently but I would hazard a guess that an email stating that you find it more reasonable for the action to be carried out via email, they would be likely to comply.

The reasons why companies put these in place is simply to avoid mass requests for deletion and, as stated, to also protect you.

While email spoofing has been mentioned, it is somewhat unlikely anyone would send a request for deletion after spoofing your email, yet, it is not impossible.

You may have to be persistent, could use services that support or even get some pointers from the ICO. Here is a really good link https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/your-right-to-get-your-data-deleted/

I wish you luck

Shame it had to come to this as the instance was really picking up pace. That said, great work on those involved in structuring a solution. Appreciate the hard work going into it.

As a moderator of a few groups myself and an advocate of Lemmy (especially our homegrown instance), I would be happy to support where I can above just moving the groups over, so feel free to reach out or let us know where the wider community can help.

Cheers.

A number of games over the years have had that. The only one I witnessed myself (and feel is was more the console release) was Halo. I attended a midnight launch and that was just crazy. I was also working for a retailer at the time of the original Modern Warfare launch which was pretty hectic. We had some people that had be queuing for nearly 7 hours.

Others have been the release of the Wii and the PlayStation 3 which I was also present for.

After the Xbox escapade, I vowed never to bother with those releases but just ended up working for a retailer where it was part of my job.

While I have loved the innovation of Sony over the years, this one is a little odd. If Sony had thought about this, they would have realised that most people these days already have a viable handheld device, a smartphone. Microsoft got that one right by making remote play work so well on most mobile devices with connection to a pad. I just feel Sony should have done the same.

That said, I get there are some benefits if you have a shared screen and cannot always get on your PS5 but is that worth the money? I am not too sure.

Still, this is the early days and Sony will likely have a bigger vision for it. I mean, being able to connect to any network and play games remotely would be a huge step.

I have been using Infomaniak services for a few years now. I have my email with them, several domains and use Kdrive almost exclusively these days. Talking about Kdrive specifically, it is fast and has all the typical features you would expect from these types of services. The cloud side with the office integration is really good too.

If anything, the only negative I can find at the moment is that the app does not offer a lite mode (download as you need) feature for Linux so you have to download everything. That said, it does offer a WebDav feature which integrates well.

As for the kSuite, I would say you only need that if you are using it for business. Otherwise the solo or family package would suffice. I have kSuite too and it has some additional features but nothing you would need as an individual.

Morning.

The one thing I really don't miss since the kids grew up is the stream of parties. Like they are never ending. So I feel for you there.

My daughter, now 20 and still living at home, is likely nursing a hangover today so I do what any good father does in that situation, I am off to see my parents. My dad had a stroke a few months back so Sundays have really become a day for me to pay back the years by helping out around the house, garden, etc.

And while this can mean doing anything, I would still rather that than a kids party 🥳

I bought and finished the Mafia Trilogy a month ago. Forgot how good it was. I have since been playing Starfield so nothing else complete for a while I would think.

I have a stack in place built around Tailscale. I mean, this may not be the best route but, hey, it works for me.

So I have Tailscale running across my devices. Within Tailscale, I have enabled Mullvad Exit Nodes for some privacy control. Then I have overridden the default DNS setting with NextDNS.

Within NextDNS I have a standard profile with some ad and telemetry blocking which is typically for the family devices and then I have a disgustingly pimped up profile for my main devices with a hell of a lot blocked, including domains that I do not care for (facebook for example).

The pros are that I can control all connections easier, even when out of my home network. That said, it takes some setting up to ensure I don't bork connections. And, yes, I learnt that the hard way when I blocked all 'meta' tools across my whole network and the kids lost it!

Wow... so many choices. Skyrim is a great shout.

I remember hearing the Halo soundtrack for the first time was incredible so feel I have to go with that.

Other worthy mentions:

• Street Fighter II
• Civilization (theme tune to be fair)
• Horizon

WOW! I thought I was the only one who did the sequential colour order... Man, I feel normal finally.

I could not agree more. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy the sunny climates but sometimes that break is just needed. Plus, sounding really old now, my garden needed the rain!

Hard to choose but, if there are any that stand out it would be...

• Frank Turner in Leeds (2019). I had seen him for the very first time, supporting Blick-182 a couple of years before. He is an entertainer for sure and paying to see him as the main act just made it way better. Would definately go to see him again!
• While vastly different in genre, one of the best experiences would be when I went to see Andrea Bocelli (Leeds). My mum had always wanted to see him and I like classical music so it was win-win. I was never expecting the spectacular evening I was in for! Yeah, tickets were not cheap but it was worth it, if nothing more than to see my mum clearly experince a once in a lifetime evening.

My tenure in attending gigs is short as was never really in to gigs when growing up. It has only been the past 8 years or so I have attended them. Prior to that it was purely stage shows.

This is amazing! It has been great to see more and more communities, posts and comments over the past few days.

A few in there I have not heard of but a good list. Sleep Token are really good and was only introduced to them a few weeks back.

Wow, I bet that was amazing!

Cheers. I thought I had seen mention of banner sizes somewhere but could not remember where. Hopefully this does come in handy.

Ginnel (Yorkshire) or yob death run, depending on where in Leeds you live!

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