Hotwheels is a thing.

I wanted a Ferrari growing up, dad had sense.

In my possession are two, what I’ll call “master” drives. Two 16TB hard drives, exact clones of each other. They hold the bulk media, old photos, an entire library of books, backups with full emulator and rom sets, games, movies, series, Wikipedia backups, encyclopedias, cookbooks, plant guides, carpentry, mechanics, howtos, compressed into the tiniest dots my processor can manage.

Aside from being a backup for my personal files and configurations, It’s essentially an arc of knowledge for societal collapse, granted laser-focused around what I find important, but still, important to someone.

My cousin, who I consider my brother, has a copy of this drive in a small, foam-padded pelican case in his closet. He keeps it for me just in case of a house fire, displacement, or any dangerous situation that renders any of the data at my actual home inaccessible.

While the drives aren’t a perfect clone of my network’s configurations as-is, that backup runs locally, the drives are 80% of the content I serve and would get me 80% of the way back to complete if anything ever happened. They would individually be invaluable if anything ever happened here or I had a Donnie Darko situation, especially if it’s some authoritarian hellscape and the content isn’t even available anymore.

Btw if you aren’t ramping up your data collection due to the Trump goings on, you better be. Download EVERYTHING.

NOW.

RIGHT NOW.

Those tiny, single-person tubes in Japan where one just pays rent for a tube to sleep in and a storage unit would do me fine.

I’d sleep in a hollow log if it meant not sleeping there with another person.

…because you’re an adult who sees the bigger picture and don’t have the lens of an 8 year old, but the focus of a man who’s lived a few odd but hopefully even years?

You can just play Halo 2 multiplayer.

It’s right there. They’re stabbing and shooting all day long just waiting for you.

I have a friend like this, well, he was like this for years and years, and I get it. You want to follow the hype and excitement of the greater gaming public when a game is new, but it’s just so fleeting when you could go play nearly anything similar with an active playerbase basically… forever.

My parents blew up any inheritance I would’ve ended up with due to bad decisions and shit luck.

Now my mom depends on me during her final years as we cruise the stars in a two-bedroom apartment.

A lot of my friends live together and share rent. Some with their parents, and a minority got hitched and live with a spouse. It seems like a lot of people depend on small family groups these days.

Changelog: we renamed it

They hate any color that isn’t white scaled to a slightly off-peach beige.

What you actually are has nothing to do with their perception. There’s stories of Mexicans and Indians after 9/11 getting killed because some idiot thought they looked like Arabs.

I’ve been referring to sexual predation as pulling a Gaetz for a while now.

people who hate Jews voted for a guy who took all restrictions off of Israel

inhale

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Better is subjective.

Simpler in a more streamlined sense, yes. Plex is more hands-off, and is doing a lot behind the scenes to automatically configure itself to your hardware for the best transcoding experience and such.

Jellyfin needs a little more work but can get there, it just needs to be shown the hardware and be configured correctly, but I find Jellyfin to be simpler and less cluttered overall when properly finished, with less strings attached to a parent company.

My headcanon:

Leftist: One who supports the general ideas of the Democratic party and supports the people at the head and their usual goings-on, voted Harris, enjoy the color blue.

Liberal: A Leftist, but they don’t think their party speaks for them enough, or aren’t extreme enough on certain issues they don’t think are represented enough, so they think the party has abandoned or doesn’t speak for them. These can be anyone from lgbtq+ activists to worker unions to Bernie Sanders. The idea that the left has left you, or whatever you stand for, and you are the liberal left.

Liberal(2nd definition): Someone who’s into traditionalist communist ideals, Lemmy calls them “tankies”. These tend to… not be what most people are talking about when they say liberal, despite arguments to the contrary.

Correct me if I’m wrong, this is in the context of the USA.

There’s a Spanish guitar strum after that openinng first paragraph, I heard it.

“nothing to see here folks, just the mythical harbinger of doom, yes yes, move along.”

Mr. Blue Sky?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQUlA8Hcv4s

Because Trump won?

…we’re jumping to conclusions a bit, aren’t we?

Why bother?

Reddit isn’t Lemmy. Lemmy is Lemmy.

Enjoy who’s here. Hi. I’m GhiLA.

Easy.

Nazis aren’t people. They cashed out their people card the second they picked up that flag.

I do support Ai.

I support Ai’s ability to look at datasets and form a consensus for the purposes of science and development.

Most of the mice in this experiment died due to a lack of oxygen…

“…fascinating.”

I do not support Ai’s ability to exploit the poor for personal gain, or for marketing, or for… horrors beyond all human comprehension.