Right now: Witch Image by Ghost. I actually created a playlist to keep track of all the songs that get stuck in my head a while ago, and I’m up to ~36 hours of songs so far. Shuffling that playlist never disappoints, because they’re all songs I’ve been listening to in my head anyway.

$2000 should get you something pretty nice. Do you have anything specific in mind that you’re planning to do with it? Important stuff to keep in mind up front, in no particular order: do you play games? How big should the screen be? How long do you want to use it on battery? Any operating system preferences?

I’m expecting the usual Bethesda bugfest for the first month or two, but the game itself seems like it should be pretty entertaining and immersive. My plan is to see what the Steam reviews look like in a month or two.

This goes for any game, but especially Destiny 2 because of the way Bungie lets players interact with different menus during loading screens: I hate getting kicked out of menus when I finally land on a destination, especially if it’s a social area. It’s pretty obnoxious if you’re tweaking parts of your loadout and then have to dive back into the menus to get back where you were.

Can you elaborate on that? I can’t really come up with a good reason why I’d need to know who anyone is here.

I have a feeling the real answer is “why not?”

Do whichever lets your thoughts flow more freely. I type because I don’t have to think about how to do it, whereas handwriting takes a lot of extra brainpower since I do it so infrequently. There’s no wrong answer though!

I thought the name was cool, and I liked that it was a relatively smaller instance. I tried a few other instances just for the sake of shopping around, but Lemmy.zip just seems nice. Admins are cool, too.

Welcome aboard!

Anyone out there remember the Megadeth forums back in the mid 2000s? I met a lot of amazing people through that site.

At an old job, I used to work the early shift from 6am-3pm with an hour lunch whenever I wanted. One winter, I thought it’d be nice to try and commute home with plenty of sunshine, so I “took my lunch” at 2:00 and went home. This ended up going on for a couple months until other people started doing it too, and finally management started telling us that we couldn’t take our lunch breaks during the last hour of a shift.

Sure was nice while it lasted!

Nice, thank you!

Out of curiosity, what are you doing for hosting? I’m interested in hosting an instance, but I’m not sure what kind of hardware to throw at it.

There’s definitely a sweet spot in terms of size for online communities. When I think about the subreddits I enjoyed engaging with the most, they were usually on the small-medium end of the spectrum.

I feel more engaged with the fediverse because the communities all feel a lot smaller right now. Even when/if things get bigger, it’ll be possible to run smaller communities that can coexist within the same larger system. It’s a pretty novel idea, especially with how (relatively) simple it is to implement.

Such a shame. I understand not wanting to compromise on details and graphics, but 60fps should be the bare minimum any developer is happy with in 2023.