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newtolemmy·New to Lemmybymegane-kun

How to Archive One's Own Posts and Comments?

Not exactly new to Lemmy, but my search-fu has been noobish at best.

Lemm.ee would be shutting down at the end of this month, and while I've already moved to a new instance, I'm yet to do any archiving on my posts and comments. Is there an automated way to save my posts and comments.

Ideally, I'd want the archive to be:

  • a full copy of all the posts including
    • the full OP text
      • any embedded images will be saved and included in the OP
      • outward links are left as is
    • all of the comments, including any deleted ones (deleted by the user and deleted by mods/admins)
  • a full copy of the comments including
    • the full OP text of the thread in which the comment is made
    • the full tree up to the top-level comment
    • optionally including any deleted comments in this tree

Is this already a thing? I don't think I have the skills and the time to make one before June 23 (one week before the instance shuts down on June 30), so that is not an option. I doubt anyone can make it upon short notice either.

Is there any other method I can do this without resorting to manual saving? And if I have no choice other than to save each and every post and comment manually? How should I be doing it?

If anyone can suggest anywhere else I can crosspost this for better visibility, that will be welcome as well.

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outofcontextdnd·Out of Context DnDbymegane-kun

"Can I process this into white crystalline powder and pack them into small sachets?"

:::spoiler Context and explanation

I was playing a utility bard who has become the sole healer in the party. The DM was kind enough to give me a few homebrewed tweaks to help me play this role better, including but not limited to some tweaks and spells (Healing Word tweaks, Beacon of Hope, and such, but most importantly for this story: Revivify) and I'm extremely thankful for that.

Now, there was this session where we got our hands into quite a hoard. I no longer remember the details, but there was a sizeable quantity of diamonds. Me, ever being the dutiful healer, asked the DM if I can have the diamonds ground into what I described as "white crystalline powder" and then have them individually packed into small sachets, ready for when I need to cast a revivify spell.

Cue the rest of the group looking at me as if I were a weirdo. Not realizing what I've just said, I went "What? It's for revivify, is there anything wrong with that?" to which someone helpfully explained the unfortunate drug-related implications. How I intended to package the diamonds: small sachets containing roughly 300GP worth of diamond powder pretty much resembled how some illegal drugs are sold off in the streets. I tried explaining my reasoning: the diamonds in the haul are too large, and cutting them into 300GP portions is too much work. It's better to have them ground into powder and then weigh individual 300GP portions. However, I might have dug an even deeper hole for myself because of that.

What made this story even funnier in hindsight is that my bard had this backstory of running away from a small-time crime group (bards in the morning, burglars in the evening--my bard playing the role of the lookout and field medic) which turned out to be a part of an even bigger crime syndicate, which our DM kindly reminded me about.

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photography·Photographybymegane-kun

[OC] Sunrise peeking through the hills

Sorry for the title. This post is just me really for me to show off a selection among the photos I took from that trip. I don't think I did the place justice though, as it was really awesome experiencing it in person. At any rate, if there's a better place for posting photos like these (casual cellphone photography), please let me know.

More photos from the same trip below. Please click on the thumbnails for the full-size version.

I used my phone camera (Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G [2201116SG]) for these pictures. Some editing was done via GIMP in an effort to correct some photos' alignment.

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philippines·Philippinesbymegane-kun

Using Lazada Philippines on the Web Browser is a Pain Recently

The accompanying screenshot is taken from a chromium browser. The URL is indeed correct: "punish." It's as if I'm being punished for not using the mobile app.

I've already accepted that I will encounter such a window, and that slider prompt almost constantly when I'm using Librewolf, but having tried accessing it via a Chromium browser, it's the same. Did I break any of their "necessary" trackers?

I try not to use the mobile app because it's such a resource hog, on top of its UX‌ being annoying and confusing, and I'd rather just ditch Lazada than to use their mobile app.

I've got no love for Shoppee either, so I guess I'd just end up saving money (rather than buy stuff), lol!

Anyways, is it just me or is your Lazada.ph's web experience as bad as mine?


Edited post title to remove the unintended link.

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