Maybe im misinterpreting the situation but I've seen mods straight up delete comments they dont agree with and im curious about how common this is.

in the interest of throwing some positivity around, how has joy found you recently?

I'm not going to put a time limit on "recently." I personally have been struggling, so I thought it would be nice to see some other people's enjoyment of things.

for me, I've got a couple small things. it's nice out, finally, so I've started taking walks again (I like to go for about three miles at a time) with music to listen to and I'll chat with my friends too. additionally, I've handwritten some of my friends and my partner letters, with stickers inside for them to have. I'm really looking forward to them getting them.

lastly, I know I've posted before on things like linux and selfhosting, and I've been doing more with that. nothing too spectacular, but I recently spun up a Ghost blog container... that only took me 5 hours to troubleshoot, hahaha. I think it's my setup, but I'm just glad I did it. I use it as a private journal that my partner reads and comments on. I'm hoping to try again with some other services, like Calibre Web Automated and a bit of the *Arr suite.

So, I'm trying to calculate the theoretical max wattage of everything plugged into my outlet. (Only have one wall socket in this room and need to carefully manage what's connected.)

I've currently got a 1000VA UPS (which is rated for 600W at full load, which, despite using for three years, I've recently discovered firsthand is already too low) which I use for my PC and monitor.

Since I'm going to need to be upgrading that soon to at least a 1200VA or 1400VA UPS for a new PC build (and probably should before a the new build anyway), I'm curious about how to calculate total usage for everything drawing power.

My question really is, when calculating how much power is being drawn from the wall outlet in addition to the regular stuff (chargers, etc.), do I only calculate the UPS, do I not include the UPS in the calculation, or do I calculate all three (PC PSU, monitor, UPS)?

Obviously, not everything is at full load, so I won't be drawing that much, but this is just a theoretical calculation of potential full load.

It seems odd to me that it's not banned outside of medically necessary situations or for when the person has informed consent.

Lately I have been thinking a bit about how commercial and governmental satellites impact my life, so that I'm mentally prepared for life if they end service. This isn't a doomer post, it's solar punk or whatever. Practical.

The first time I remember interacting with a commercial satellite was in the late 2000s when I got a device with GPS. I don't entirely know how satellites are involved in my current cellphone, but I know it does use them for GPS. Never had sat TV or sat Home Internet.

• The internet would still exist, people would have less access though especially in remote places

• Weather Service would be impacted, I think? But much of that is also done with radar.

• I don't know anything about air traffic control! Does that have satellites?

• Those ugly TV dishes would still be ugly, but maybe they could be ugly spider plant planters or something.

• I don't care about how nations spy on each other, but it's funny to me that would be impacted.

What about your individual experience? What about the world experience am I missing?

*edit 1 Apparently it would mess up crop rotation in a lot of places and environmental monitoring would be broadly impacted.

Good day! First post 🥇 Hello, thanks for having me, people of beehaw.org 😄

What a cool idea, to have a social media site organised like this ––– I love it!! I've been without the algorithm (IG, FB, X, etc...) for quite a while now, and I think the Lemmyverse will be much fun to explore 🔍. I write explore, because the other week I was watching TechnologyConnections new video on the ~ 𝚊 𝚕 𝚐 𝚘 𝚛 𝚒 𝚝 𝚑 𝚖 ~ where he was talking about how many users are feeling more and more alienated by it, wishing for a more self-curated experience. I couldn't have agreed more, and then I remembered Lemmy from an old MentalOutlaw video, back when Reddit turned 💩 for good (I was never a user).

Anyway, I just have a couple of questions, which I hope, I am posing in the right comm... 🥴

• I want to post to Hexbear's DIY community – as far as I can tell, it's the biggest one by far. However, Hexbear is not federated with Beehaw. That means, I'd have to create a seperate account for Hexbear. Correct?
• Do you 🫵 make an account for every instance that you're interested in, which is not federated with Beehaw?
• Is there a way to see which instances are federated with Beehaw? The /search/ page is helpful, but I have to search manually, whereas I'd like an overview type of thing.
• Do you use an app on Android? I like Thunder, you?

I hope I did okay for my first post 😄
Much love and thanks in advance,

A.

With the writing on the wall with firefoxes own version of "don't be evil" being removed I was curious what people on beehaw were switching to.

I'm looking for a song video clip which features a very close up shot of female lips. At a certain point it becomes sexual without being explicit, and it is suggested that the woman bit off a mans penis.

I started to notice some people posting NYT, Bloomberg or other websites with hard paywalls, that leads to people in the comments that are unable to read the article to discuess the headline without any analysis and some times spreading misinformation, which cannot be countered by the article, due to the paywall.

Which bring me to this: Why does no one thought about blocking hard paywalled articles for the sake of quality of discussion?

As some users are correctly pointing out, the midgame of the rise of fascist powers in the colonies would appear to involve private space corporations equipping the Trump regime with nuclear armed satellites.

Hypothetically I am a middle-aged white guy in average health with statistically solid odds to have another 15 years of time on this earth, and then we'll bell curve my life expectancy based on that (30 years likely, 45 years likely not). I live in the colonies, but hypothetically I'm not cut off short by the regime personally, either 😜. However feel free to include me in hypothetical MCEs or extinction events in your guesses.

My guess is that I am likely to live to see cascade events leading to a pretty significant manifestation of the Kessler Syndrome.

Here are some things I am considering:

• Private Space Corps, especially Space X, are prone to frequent accidents and pollute at regionally disruptive scale as a regular course of business

• Even from my very limited vantage point on the "Western" English-speaking internet, it is clear that U.S. & USD Based Private Space Corps are only one of a handful of highly space capable powers, and nuclear powers number in the double digits

• Satellites seem comparably easy to destroy and non-state powers are probably capable of it

• Seems like it wouldn't take a whole lot of nukes going off

Anyway keep it light^1^ let's keep in mind that we are discussing a hypothetical model of the author, not the poor slob who wrote this post, so it's cool if he gets exploded by a hypothetical man-made trash asteroid or whatever.

1. "What do you mean, 'keep it light?' This seems like a doomer post!" No, this is a Godzilla 2 on NES post. This post originates from my deep deep meditations on the manifestations of King Ghidorah, and whether the JDF would be able, under any circumstances, to mount a successful defense against them^2^. In my unfathomable ponderings I realized that humanity is in fact manifesting King Ghidorah by allowing the demon TESCREAL to manifest its space hydra. So it isn't doomerism, I'm trying to beat a Nintendo game.
2. "What do you mean 'against them?'" King Ghidorah is a plurality, so I use they/them pronouns when contemplating their destruction.

*edit 1 just to be clear i am an anti-fascist and i think these outcomes are bad

**edit 2 added citation for TESCREAL so people don't think I'm bonkers

(Is there a more appropriate community to post this in?) Thank you in advance for any advice/help!

I've come across this build on PC part picker, but I was hoping someone could help me customize it a bit better for my needs. I'm going to be streaming, gaming, and editing videos on this machine.

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/guide/ZpkcCJ/enthusiast-amd-gamingstreaming-build

I would like to future-proof the PC as much as I reasonably can (10-15 years' usage would be great).

My budget is probably around 2-3k CAD? I am over extending myself slightly, but I have used my PC daily for 12 years, and I figure if not now, when?

The only other thing I might consider is new monitors, but otherwise, I'll be reusing all my peripherals as those are more recently upgraded!

I was also thinking a better Nvidia card might be worthwhile? The main thing is I'm not familiar with how the parts work in terms of compatibility. That and electrical usage/needs from the power supply

Edit: are prebuilts any good nowadays? I'm not opposed to the idea. I know I could figure out assembly myself, but if there's something worthwhile, I wouldn't be opposed either.

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Category/DesktopComputers?FilterID=2e413559-0182-1014-4547-d1dbca418ecd

Edit: Just want to say thank you for all the helpful advice and information. I ended up finding a PC that met my needs and then some!

No seriously, what does love mean to you? The love of your child, the love of your partner(s), monogamy, polyamory, (non) consensual non-monogamy, infatuation, limerence, heartbreak. The love of one's hobby, the love for an object, the love of an idea, et cetera. Whatever it is that comes to mind goes.

Photo credits: Gaelle Marcel on Unsplash.

I have some issues. I ignore most of them and cry when I want to. Is it healthy? Fuck no. But it keeps me going!

Today I’m soliciting feelings because I’m ultra disappointed that the person I thought wanted to shape their life to be with me, to match the shaping I’ve done to accomodate them, really only wants compromise when it’s mine! Super fun! We were looking at building a life and now I get to figure out how to do the big life goal things I want on my own! Super!

So, beehaw, what’s the most painful relationship thing you’ve been through? Bonus points if it totally upended your life plans. Extra bonus if they said they were “doing it for you”.

I have seen so many different approaches to ingress be responded to by Lemmings as inappropriate or creepy, much of it hypocritical to other responses, but I digress: is there ANY appropriate way that everyone can agree on for convincing humans to invite you past their threshold?

From the collective consciousness of Lemmy comments I have read, my impression is that the only appropriate thing is to be born into a coterie with thralls already and never make any moves or even so much as look at a human in your unlifetime.

I have seen so many different approaches to dating be responded to by Lemmings as inappropriate or creepy, much of it hypocritical to other responses, but I digress: is there ANY appropriate way that everyone can agree on for men to approach having a relationship with women?

From the collective consciousness of Lemmy comments I have read, my impression is that the only appropriate thing is to be born into a marriage and never make any moves or even so much as look at a woman in your lifetime.

I'm currently doing research to cover 50 years of history for a student union.

Most of the documentation comes from primary sources - minutes, photos, student newspapers. It's so many documents. 50 years is a long time it turns out.

I'm currently managing sources using Zotero and putting information down in Microsoft Word. I currently divide my sources by decade.

Do you have any tips from doing similar types of research?

What is the Fediverse analogue of blogs? Specifically, which facet of the Fediverse provides the features that blogging used to provide:

• long-form posts (without character limits)
• embedded images and other media
• perma-links and RSS / Atom feeds and other features so that content remains linkable into the future
• commenting and engagement and associated moderation features
• re-blogging and sharing
• community: blogs self-organising into interest areas, pollinate other blogs, link to each other, direct their readers towards each other, etc.

And, most importantly, the ability to create, grow and nurture a following or audience?

I'm on Mastodon and on Lemmy and, in my opinion, neither of those quite hit the mark.

• Masto is too close to bird-site: character limits (nearly always), shoddy threads, and the fact that one is invariably just firing toots into a torrential onslaught of public toots unless one actually already has a following. Hash-tags and other topic-related features seem ill used, throughout, so discoverability is pretty low unless you already have a platform. Engaging with others in replies earns a lot of boosts and favourites but zero followers no matter how well your reply-toots are received.

• Lemmy is too close to anotheR site. It's great for being a refuge from that and replacement for that but really not a blogging platform.

I'm happy with both of the above for what they do. I really like the discourse in Masto's reply threads, actually, but it seems useless for actually building a following for one's self. I'm rather new to Lemmy but I like what I'm finding, so far.

Imagine there is someone that cares about everything an equal amount.

Meaning that they care about every person, animal, plant, microbe, rock, etc. equally. They take all of their values at equal consideration (including their own).

How would they react to one thing harming/oppressing another (like a parasite harming its host or invasive species crowding out native species)?

How would they help one thing if they knew it would harm/oppress another thing?

Also let's say for the sake of argument they don't

• Sacrifice themselves to help something else out
• Kill themselves due to analysis paralysis

Seriously why? Discuss.online has horrible moderation and open-signups, and Lemm.ee isn't very much better. If lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works were completely nuked to avoid the moderation headache or risks from two large open servers, why aren't lemm.ee and discuss.online banned as well?