Linkwarden user here. Can confirm - it’s a great tool to dump links for later. I’ve setup an iOS shortcut that lets me share links directly to linkwarden. Super handy

I’m definitely going to raise my kid on older games (maybe not the Atari 2600 per se, but same idea). Newer games don’t teach you how to think or persevere, but adjust feed your dopamine receptors so you’ll keep buying the next game.

Look at Pokémon. Green / Red / Yellow: tough as shit. Grinded my Pokémon so they’d level up so I could beat the gym boss; and learned that some strategies were better or worse against various problems - ie. certain types of Pokémon were better against other types. Now? You can walk into a gym with a level 3 Magikarp and win the game.

There are some exceptions like Dark Souls / Elden Ring, bbuutt the general trend for the industry is to make the games trivial, flashy lights, and include day 1 DLC for all that mmoonneeeyyy

Hunger is a pretty powerful motivator, so I’m sure people will find a way

Source: me snacking while I wait for my SO to get ready so we can go grab lunch

If it were a 2, I think the left side of the 2 may have been cut off

Very crude markup:

• Green: The dots I think were included
• Red: The dots I’m assuming you’re referring to (in which case I would agree with you)
• Blue: Showing the (extremely rough) alignment. Based on the 7, there’s a max of 5 dots across for a given character. Indicating there is a potential row on the left that may either be the actual left side of the character (in which case it would be red and you would be right), or it’s also a misprint (which then it ccoouulldd be green)

2 or 5. If I had to guess, it would be 2

1: no 2: Possibly 3: no 4: no - no examples, but I don’t think any format would have the 2 dots at the bottom left corner 5: Possibly - no examples though 6: no 7: No 8: no 9: No - no examples, but same reason as 4

I’m actually ok with this one. There wasn’t much intelligence happening in that department anyway

I’m not in a country with the age verification thing, but has it been turned on for Lemmy servers?

No idea what Pvz2 is

DLC on launch? lol no

There’s another option…

The problem is that it’s believable at this point

No plz. Don’t give them more ideas…

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I was thinking OP could give everyone their own VM to use as a workstation so they could access the files on the server easily, and/or run programs based on their work. When their coworkers leave, OP can easily destroy the VM and the resources would be automatically reallocated (depending on the servers configuration). With a physical device, the storage on that device is only allocated to that device and can’t be shared when it’s not in use

Me, personally? I have multiple VMs for different contexts: my teaching job (super clean, video sharing tools, presentation tools), gaming, media server (has scripts to download stuff off of YouTube), server management (just a regular Debian install), and a fuck around box (I just use it to try new OSs like Fedora, or try breaking OSs like deleting the system32 folder on windows)

I know this isn’t exactly what you’re asking for, but I’d recommend also looking into a VM OS such as proxmox or unraid (I’m running unraid)

They’ll let you create/destroy VM instances you can access remotely. So in theory, you can give everyone their own VM to use and access the files on the server.

However, unraid / proxmox may have performance issues running in a VM on a Mac mini…

This is why I’m not going to buy RAM / Dodge / Chrysler/ Jeep / anything Stellantis owns, and this is why I’m not buying any new car with “smart” / “built-in” junk.

I don’t know of any car that has an actually good head unit. Its either garbage because its a giant touch screen, making it super difficult to navigate without looking (that’s why all the controls in an airplane are different shapes and sizes), or its just a hub for you to run Android Auto / apples equivalent.

Now ads? Ffs…

To add onto that: dots are short, dashes are long. So if you’re using a flashlight, or something else, it would be:

short, short, short, long, long, long, short, short, short

Then include a small pause (1-3 seconds) once you’ve sent the SOS before repeating. You want to continuously repeat this for as long as you can until you know someone’s received your message.

As much as I want to see Lemmy and the rest of the fediverse flourish; at the same time, I hope it doesn’t.

Once the fediverse becomes popular and gains main-stream attention, the billionaires and political twats will flock towards it and try to monetize it; Morons will flood the fediverse with memes and AI slop worse than !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world (you know what you’ve done); corporations will start spamming ads for their shitty products; and scammers will start setting up bot nets to coerce users into sending them money to their new AI waifus.

The unbearable weight of all the garbage entering and attacking the fediverse will drive moderators out the door, leaving servers as wastelands of junk. No longer interesting, no longer human. Just trash, like how Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, etc… are today.

So yes, I’ll welcome friends and family into the fediverse with open arms. But I really hope we don’t start getting too many shout outs