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PlzGibHugs

@ PlzGibHugs @piefed.ca

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  • What YouTubers have you watched for a long time and still find worth returning to?

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  • Man, people here have a very different sense of "A long time" on YouTube. I was hesitating to include TimeGhost because I've only watched them for about eight years.

    For stuff I've been watching for less long, the creators that come to mind are:

    Timeghost - they do history documentaries, focusing on chronological "real time" content, such as their current series, the Korean War Week-by-Week

    LEMMiNO - does deep-dives into supposed mysteries. His older stuff isn't great, but shifted towards higher-quality long-form content about 8 years ago, and he does a good job on them.

    AHOY - does documentaries on the history of games, and adjacent tech and culture. Not usually super deep, but well written, produced and animated.

    Desync - makes stupid gaming videos, usually abusing bugs or just being silly. Doesn't post often, but on the rare occasion he does, it'll be well produced and funny.

    For stuff more at the age I was thinking of originally, 10+ years:

    John and Hank Green - cover a whole range of topics, although nowadays, it tends to be a mix of advocacy, science, philosophy, and just sillyness.

    The Yogscast - Just a plain old gaming channel, albeit with unusually frequent and higher production quality videos. Nothing extraordinary, but consistently good and fun, despite the fact that they've been making videos for nearly 20 years.

    Tom Scott - short video essays, explainers and documentaries on a variety of topics. Primarily, videos on different interesting places.

    TomSka - The ASDF Movie guy. That said, just as good or better are his other skits, and now even his long-form content and videos essays.

  • Aloo Matar, curried potatoes and peas

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  • This looks really good. Do you have a recipe?

  • it is a point of no return

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  • Where do you think all the aforementioned hard drives came from? Lol. Its just that so many of the other parts are proprietary/old that I can't mix-and-match to make something more useful. For a breif period, I had four separate working desktops, and not one had a standard power supply or mobo. I swear all of that should be made illegal.

  • it is a point of no return

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  • That's basically what I did, along with the new PSU, but thats still a lot to spend on a hobby/luxury, unfortunately, so I can't really afford to tinker with it more than that.

  • it is a point of no return

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  • With this sort of thing, I'm always left wondering what I'm missing in terms of the hardware. Like, I've been collecting bits and bobs of old hardware for years, but it feels like if I want anything more than an absolutely basic raspberry-pi-level server, I need to buy dedicated hardware. For example, I want to put together a nas, especially since I do have a collection of spare, old hard drives, but would want raid for that. Unfortunately, its rare to find a mobo that has more than four sata ports, and all the power supplies I have available to harvest from other systems are either too weak, or are proprietary, meaning I'm halfway to buying a new PC anyway. Is there something I'm missing, or do others just have more disposable income?

  • What are some of your favourite niche or hobby-based Lemmy instances, and which ones should be avoided at all costs?

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  • I know Rimu has some really weird opinions about how a social media network should be designed, such as believing that the 90-9-1 rule should be prevented and being against memes, and tends to be overly pushy about implementing these """features""". That said, so far as I'm aware, its not so much problematic as just stupid design decisions.

  • Hippity Hoppity

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  • Dota as well, and IceFrog is still there, now leading development on Deadlock from my understanding.

  • Do you feel like it was easier to talk to folks 10 years ago?

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  • I've noticed a very notable dropoff. As you said, people are angrier, but more-so I've noticed that far fewer people are willing/able to be open and empathetic, especially towards others. It feels like all that's left is surface-level talk and shared activities, with no real care or consideration for those you're with. For example, within my own circles, the things we used to do to mutually support one another have almost entirely stopped, and as no one discusses anything deeper than what they did today, connections are starting to die off.

  • What actionable steps can you take to build community?

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  • How tf is this question controversial?

    Weird to frame it that way.

    More the specifics that can be controversial - for example, moderation policies, broad appeal versus exclusivity/specificity, which forms of outreach work or don't, how power structures should be organized, ect. Obviously its not all heated debate, but there often are strongly held opinions for or against different methods.

    What are u asking op?

    I am intentionally leaving it broad, but generally looking for more specific answers. For example forming/participating in interest groups is a good start, but also: How do you structure them? How do you fund them? How do you expand it beyond the limited scope of the hobby? I'm hoping to get meaningful discussion on not just broad suggestions, but also specifics.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    PlzGibHugs @piefed.ca

    What actionable steps can you take to build community?

  • Poll finds 90% in favour of social media age ban, while advocates urge action for online harms

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  • While support for restrictions on social media use is widespread, what people want is far different from what governments are implementating. For example, while a large majority support restrictions, a similarly large majority also believe said restrictions should be managed by parents. (Angus Reid, 2026) At a more practical level, these polls are also extremely vague about the restrictions, and I expect would receive very different results if the questions were about the policies governments are actually trying to implement. Having an "Are you over 18?" popup is still an age gate, but is a very, very different measure than the ID verification most governments want.

  • ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers "illegal" in Stop Killing Games hearing: "We consider it piracy", we have lawsuits.

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  • Additionally, there are "offline servers" that use mods to patch out all communication with Microsoft/Mojang/Minecraft systems, and various other pieces of code that attempt to enforce only paid players joining a server, ultimately allowing people to connect without having actually purchased the game.

    Not sure if this is still the case, but at least a few years ago, it didn't even require any mods. It was just a boolean toggle in the standard config file.

  • The YouTube Scene Right Now

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  • Is YouTube actually at this point? I know a couple channels I follow have started using AI more widely, at least in thumbnails, specifically because it gets more clicks.

  • Today’s kids don’t have to worry about turning off your PC before you can unplug your mouse or keyboard

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  • Just because some companies sells USB butplugs it doesn't mean USB standard is necessarily a pain in the ass overall.

    No, but it does mean that the USB standard allows for being a pain in the ass, compatibility-wise, which kind-of defeats the point.

  • Today’s kids don’t have to worry about turning off your PC before you can unplug your mouse or keyboard

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  • On the other hand, I have a USB-C charged laptop, but it only accepts one specific spec of 45w, and one specific spec for 60w. This means that 90% of usb-c chargers don't work for it, including chargers that support 45w or 60w charging. This means that even if you buy a charger with the right wattage, its effectively random whether it will work or not.

  • RFK Jr. is now handling snakes. What does this mean? Decoding the latest manly video from our secretary of health and human services.

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  • This kind of "I am immune to snakebite because of my religion" thing has a history of getting people killed.

    Was this a case of overreliance on faith? Seems to me more likely that its just that the idea that a snake could bite him and it will hurt that is too complex for him to understand.

  • Flipper Unveils New Flipper One Modular Linux Cyberdeck: Flipper One hacking multitool offers 5G, Wi-Fi 6E and Linux on ARM

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  • And we all know how easy it is to buy an ARM board, install Linux and add all the ethernet ports one desires.

    We do?

  • Anyone else think this Ukraine photo looks AI generated?

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  • Notably, this photo is listed as being in Russia, and the source is Moscow regional governor Andrei Vorobyov. The source isn't a particularly reliable one, but I'm also not seeing any definitive evidence that the image isn't real. Theres no weird alignment/disjointing of the bricks, no identifiable logical errors, and no watermarks. There are a bunch of elements that look weird, like how the bricks end on the second floor wall, whatever it is in the middle window, how the smoke curls very evenly around the roof piece, and the uniformity of the concrete rubble, but given the low resolution, none of this is clear enough to be definitive.

    I also notably tried to track down the original copy, but it was in a telegram channel, not anything easy to verify.

  • What does AI Slop mean to you?

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  • I'd put the distinction around the same place as the distiction is between copyright infringement and transformative work. At a certain point, the AI output becomes less of a "piece" of the work and more of an ingredient unrecognizably blended, with a similar amount of care to any other element. For example, if a Vending machine asset is generated by AI, its slop. Add flavour text to it, and its still slop. Replace all the contents with theme-approprate contents, and and clean up the topology, and it finally starts to become distinct enough to (potentially) not be slop. Basically, it needs to be distinct enough to have a unique, human author and/or no longer fill the original """role""".

  • What Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin clients do ya'll use

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  • Boost (for Piefed). I know its not free, but everything else is either missing too many features, or uses a UI style I don't like.