I’d actually caution against buying suspiciously cheap drives. There has been an epidemic of scammers selling (heavily) used drives as new.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Fraud-with-Seagate-hard-disks-Dealers-swap-Seagate-investigates-10274864.html

Why in Germany and Austria far-right (AfD, CDU, OVP) are against

I guess a combination of contrarianism and the control not going far enough.

Does FMD require the Android device to be rooted?

If anything, getting the logs from that server would be interesting, to see if Lemmy’s long-term stability can be improved.

huh. That comment didn’t federate properly then.

The link to the article leads to a 404.

No more FemShep on Liara action, that’s banned now. Future ME games will only feature the Quarrians, because they are already “veiled”.

PayPal is part of the problem though. They too have forced Patreon back in the day to clamp down on certain stuff. That’s one of the reasons why SubscribeStar got bigger.

I am aware that someone let their coding agent delete their database. I am not looking to vibe-code. I want a “Clippy”, if that makes sense. Not an agent that does stuff for me, but that answers my questions.

This looks horrible. I love it.

Season 4, Episode 6

We know why. Because Trump sees no value in anything beyond being right. He is right to tariff Canada, because the Canadians are mean. And he is right to have national parks stripped bare, because Canada is tariffed. It’s just flawless logic. /s

In 200 years people will ask in disbelief why such old forests were logged down.

The artist’s impression would more accurately convey the danger of hippos though.

Get ready for Grok to do automated performance reviews!

I’d take that yeet instead of return…

The UI isn’t the problem? The attached screenshot shows people talking about federation. Federation is very confusing, but also the core part of how the Fediverse functions. The only thing you could to is to provide an entry portal, where all servers are categorized by the type of content they provide and you can check and uncheck the type of content you want or might want to interact with. Based on your choices, the portal could recommend a random Lemmy or Mbin instance that has a track record of being reliable and allows you to interact with most content of that type. So if you’d want to see porn for example, the portal should choose an instance that is federated with lemmynsfw.

The idea is that I’d recognize a compromised system. Not perfect, but good enough. I don’t need to log into my bank account every day. But I will log into lemmy daily. So if a credential stealer + encrypter gets onto my system, I will most likely not have my sensitive passwords stolen. If the malware keeps a low profile, this won’t help, but most malware won’t.

Well, I guess with so many people recommending syncthing, I’ll have to look at it as well.

Lemmy.world is the most mainstream instance. You may find small instances that have more political center types, but for all the “issue” is that the fediverse is federated. So lemmy.ml users can comment on your post on lemmy.world as well.