BallsInTheShredder

Yess.. teach me about the federation.. my Lord

I'm with you on the 30 year old cars bit! I don't really want to own anything built long after 90 tbh, but have been looking longingly at some trucks from the late seventies to early eighties.

I just feel like, in general, automobile designs and engines have been going downhill for a while but it also could be that I'm poor and like to actually be able to repair my stuff. Some of those trucks from between the 70's to 90's? Easy as pie to repair, finding parts is the issue. Everything after around 2005 that I work on just gets increasingly complicated, with redundancies all around, meant for progress but breaking setbacks along with them.

Almost a dozen dozens!

Can't lie I still love tropic thunder sooo much today. I get that the climate has shifted and understand why but I still feel like we've lost something valuable in the process. Robert Downey in black face was.. wrong but at the same time felt perfect. It wasn't the black face that got me, he really could've been dressed as anyone and I would've laughed the same. What got me was his inability to break script, even when not filming. Can't remember the full context but the scene in which someone is calling him out on not breaking character and, in iirc the only time he breaks character throughout the movie he breaks down and says "I don't break character until after the DVD commentary!" Idk why but it broke me and I can't help but chuckle about it today.

That movie is full of "no-no's", sure, but so was Chappelle's show, Sanford and son etc.

Hmm.. but what if I'm on the federated instance in theory? Assuming I'd see it then sorry I'm still figuring this place out

Things like that amaze me, how such a little change can effect so much. Hope you can find them soon! Other than that how's she running?

The U joint bearings? Glad it's figured out either way and thanks for updating me! At least it's a minor fix, just wish I could've helped more. Hope it's resolved quickly and cheaply amigo

I miss back in the day. Used to be able to store all my stuff on CD-R's, hell before that it was floppy's. File sizes have grown exponentially, programs/apps all have huge sizes. Pictures and videos is my biggest issue, but I'd also like to backup games that I've downloaded so I don't have to download again. I can backup old games no problem, but modern games? Many are 100+ GB now, and in time they all will be and 200GB will be the standard, then a terabyte and more.

Anyway, until I can afford and find a 20 tb sad I'm just using DVDs for everything but games and large programs. Quick to write, solid, tangeable etc. If I could afford a bunch of flash drives I'd probably do that instead.

If you can afford it and it's important data I'd ofc recommend backing up to a large SSD, THEN to a cloud (or more) as a failsafe.. then also using flash drives/DVD's etc. For an additional failsafe for the super important stuff.

I mean, if it's important backup all you can.

I've got priceless memories in my Google photos library but ofc Google removed being able to view them on my native photos app and download easily.. so instead I either have to backup and save ALL of it in Google drive or download specific albums.. idk so I wouldn't personally recommend google as a true backup as you never know, personally I'd just use DVDs and flash drives for that stuff

https://lemmy.world/c/mechanicadvice

It's still getting it's bearings but should be g2g in a little bit

There's a mechanic advice community that's not memey..

Hey I have a question because this actually interests me and contrary to popular opinionn on this sub I think this idea would work!

Since migrating I've found myself wanting to search Reddit dozens of times for content I needed but was too damned pissed to provide them with any traffic.

My input is: it seems that the main beef of most people here is the lack of engagement, making Lemmy seem like a ghost town. Would we be able to comment on the mirrored posts (on Lemmy) thus solving the engagement problem? I'm no techspert but feel like allowing comments underneath mirrored posts for Lemmy, not Reddit would be possible I guess? Or at least some equivalent?

I'm also interested in this because I have my own little feed I'm setting up, and it would be cool to be able to add more content very easily. I don't really want it to be from Reddit but, just anything different I could do would be nice, and hey if there is something important I'd like to add from there or even just to take notes that'd be nice so I for one would use it.

A bridge that allows us access to reddits content, driving up their traffic (and server costs) - the whole reason for the API changes WHILE refusing them any engagement? Sounds like a win-win to me.