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NerdyOldGeek, (edited ) in What series did you rewatch most often?
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Halt and Catch Fire, Stargate-SG1, Stargate Atlantis

saba,

same for me with SG-1 and Atlantis. I’ve also watched SGU a couple times. I really liked where they were going with that show and wish it would have continued. I check every once in a while for news of new series or movies. Sometimes I’ll see things that sound interesting and then for some reason it never happens. Recently there is this: gateworld.net/…/fourth-stargate-series-would-intr… I’d watch it!

edit: not as recent as I thought, that was last July… but still would be interesting

Computerchairgeneral, in Is it worth to read Star Wars novels?

Maybe? There are a lot of them and the quality varies depending on the book. You can't go wrong with the original Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and Last Command were considered the unofficial sequel trilogy by some fans and they started off the entire Star Wars Expanded Universe, which got rebranded to the Legends continuity when Disney took over. Besides the Thrawn Trilogy, I'd also recommend the Revenge of the Sith novelization. I went in not expecting much, but it really expands on a lot of things the movie brushes over, and witnessing Anakin's story from his viewpoint was a lot more compelling than what we got in the movie. From there, it really depends on what you want to read about.
The Star Wars book finder is a neat tool that lets you search by author, topic, or genre if you're looking for something specific.

Kettellkorn,

ROTS novelization was dope. It expands every aspect of the story in such a cool way.

jeena, in What gaming console / platform do you prefer?
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PC

Poob, in Do you think Federated networks are the future or do you think Peer to Peer networks are the future? Which do you think is better?

All three in combination will be the future

65gmexl3,
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agree, this is not a “hit 2 birds with 1 stone” situation

CatBusBand, in What gaming console / platform do you prefer?

PC. For the price of a single console game, I could buy 5 pc games. Nothing can beat that pricing.

chaogomu, in What goes good with American Cheese?

American cheese is just normal, cheddar style cheese but with the addition of some sodium citrate.

Sodium citrate is a fun little food chemical that give the cheese a slight citrus bite, but more importantly acts as an emulsifier. It keeps the oil and water inside the cheese bonded together. This means the cheese melts and then never becomes greasy.

You can abuse this. You can make a super creamy cheese sauce for a higher brow mac and cheese by using some shredded cheese, a couple slices of American, and a few splashes of the pasta water.

Neato,
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This person emulsifies.

American cheese, like sliced bread, is an amazing achievement of food science. And then people shit on it because they don't understand it's purpose.

grabyourmotherskeys,

Same thing for tomato ketchup.

basskitten,

yep i have been a sodium citrate convert since i watched an adam ragusea video on the topic. piped.video/watch?v=KcM_MZoJWOo

i picked up a bag off amazon for cheap and it really is magic.

zeropublix, in Do you think Federated networks are the future or do you think Peer to Peer networks are the future? Which do you think is better?

The problem with peer to peer is that it would require you to have stuff saved on your device and my sister can’t even keep her phone “empty enough” with 256GB so I think local “hubs” is the better right now.

Isn’t it essentially similar to the dark net that has been going like that successfully since forever ?

TauZero,

With distributed hash tables it is manageable. You do something like “store three copies on three peers” and as long as one of them is online the post is accessible. This is actually better than the way lemmy does it now. In principle each lemmy server stores the posts from its communities, and a copy of each post from communities its users are subscribed to. But since all instances are federated so well, in practice each of the 1000 lemmy instances stores a copy of almost every post ever made. That’s like 100GB x1000. With a DHT, the amount of space used on each user’s device is on average the amount of posts one user makes x3, no more.

Lmaydev,

Yeah I have serious concerns about how it will scale.

Luckily storage is the cheapest thing generally.

Maybe down the line they can start using varying degrees of cold storage for older content. Cheaper to store but more expansive to access.

mrmanager,
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I’m not worried. Text is tiny to store and any image posted remains on the source instance and is not duplicated, just linked.

shrugal, (edited )
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We could also just delete stuff after some time. Nobody really needs the 1000th repost of a meme from 20 years ago.

demesisx,
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If they’re storing it right, it is content addressed, meaning that their servers are aware of duplicates because each file is hashed.

muddybulldog,

Storage is cheap but most of the instance operators that are setting up right now aren’t prepared for how much storage they’re going to need and it’s associate costs. I’m not talking the big boys like .World, but the hundreds of private and semi-private instances being set up on $12/mo VPS and such.

After 30 days of running my single user instance I’m at 23GB of storage. Since I’m using on prem equipment I have the lowest cost per GB possible and am not the least concerned. We’re going to see a ton of attrition with hosted instances as the costs of ownership goes from 10, to 20, to 40, to $50+/mo. due to storage. Many aren’t in anyway prepared to tackle the topic of moving PICTRS off to object storage or engage in other mitigations.

golamas1999, in Do any of you guy happen to remember the name of that discord server that would share links to random publicly available security cameras?

Don’t know but on iOS there is an app called iSpy that does this.

odium, in What gaming console / platform do you prefer?

PC. I just love mouse and keyboard too much.

brightpants, in In which game did you spend the most hours?

Dota 6k hours hahaha

DrQuint,

Yeah, at 7k+ hours, my Dota time dunks on pretty much 90% of the people in this thread. And I’m still not tired of it. It’s a daily ritual type of game.

Thing is, the time I put isn’t even close to the time of several of the people I’ve met.

Revan343, in What are your favorite "ugly" games?

Hardly ‘hidden’, but there is always Nethack

kratoz29, in What are your favorite "ugly" games?

Jump Ultimate Stars, not everyone is fan of the sprites 🫤

To be fair I have seen better, but they have their charm.

Tushay, in In which game did you spend the most hours?

There are two games that I have spent a considerable amount of my life playing Planetside 2 and Path of Exile.

Planetside 2 released it was exactly the game that I was looking for. The experience of playing in an organised outfit was the best multiplayer gaming I’ve ever experienced.

Path of Exile is like a sledgehammer of a learning curve. Never had played an ARPG before this but once I got to maps my soul was taken indeed.

Before this left4dead 2 was the game that I had suck many hours into - what a game!

Mikurei,

+1 for Path of Exile, thats indeed a digital form of crack.

SendMePhotos,

+1 for planetside. That game was a trip for sure.

DrQuint,

+1 for Left 4 Dead 2. I just want to feel included.

Ganbat, in What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

Me: Suffers from severe depression and anxiety as a teen

My family: You’re just gonna have to deal with it!

They’ve since gotten my brother treatment for the exact same thing. Meanwhile, I’m still severely depressed and totally untreated because I can’t fucking afford it.

WarmSoda,

I had a stroke and the neurologist told me that being exhausted and sleeping 16 hours a day is my new normal.

I’m getting a second opinion soon.

axolittl,

Wow, your family is being really shitty. You deserve better.

Proofofnothing, in do you guys shop on places like aliexpress/Temu and if you do what items have pleasantly surprised you?

I’ve used aliexpress for bootleg lego and have had mixed results. Some sets were perfect copies with all pieces, and others were missing some. I was also able to get some discontinued sets which was nice. The quality of the pieces themselves were pretty good. It is a bit of a risk but hard to beat the price as its wayyyy cheaper.

CmdrShepard,

As an AFOL, this comment made me shudder.

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