TORFdot0

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[–] TORFdot0 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I believe what he is saying is that he can’t load Reddit results because Reddit blocks his VPN, so blocking Reddit from search results is useful to him

[–] TORFdot0 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To me office is the bonus to the cloud storage and syncing. Yeah I know it’s easy to run a NAS but the UX of having to manage it is a headache and quite frankly it gives me more piece of mind to pass the buck of getting pwned to Microsoft or Google

[–] TORFdot0 8 points 1 week ago

Todays Mac’s are tomorrow’s Linux machines.

[–] TORFdot0 12 points 1 week ago

I deleted my Reddit back in the API debacle (well I deleted all my content, still squatting on the username since I use it else where as well)

Being here shows that there really is no reason to go back to Reddit for the default subs which are just absolutely useless karma farms. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze for niche subs, I do hope that the fediverse will grow enough to support the niche interests without falling into the enshittification pitfalls of corporate social media

[–] TORFdot0 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The whole point of federation is that content is coming from all sorts of different sources all with different levels of trust.

The default sharing behavior should be the cached version of a post, because the instance you’re on should be trusted to defederated from harmful instances and so that trust should carry over to those you interact with.

[–] TORFdot0 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s like 8 total games. They are probably going for their stupid drip release strategy.

[–] TORFdot0 3 points 1 week ago

That must be the statue of Wade Jones

[–] TORFdot0 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

What’s wrong with technology connections? He makes easily digestible if not a bit snarky videos on classic and popular tech. It’s not really appropriate for this community though so I can see why you wouldn’t care for it being posted here

I think I missed a bit of sarcasm here…

[–] TORFdot0 6 points 2 weeks ago

If someone really wants to use the contribution of the expelled maintainers they can just make their own fork. Part of the Free in FOSS is the freedom to associate or not associate with contributors.

[–] TORFdot0 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

SML2 is pretty easy but the floaty/slipperiness of Mario does take some getting used too. I love it for the music. Especially in space zone!

[–] TORFdot0 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] TORFdot0 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The children all later died because a freak gasoline fight accident

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Opening Day! (self.kcroyals)
submitted 7 months ago by TORFdot0 to c/[email protected]
 

Royals and Twins. Currently top of the 8th down 2-1, Royals need to find their bats if we are going to pull of a W on opening day

 

I conquered Koholint island finally! I really enjoyed my time playing Link’s Awakening. I can’t believe they fit a whole Legend of Zelda game on Gameboy! I really enjoyed it

I ended up getting stuck trying to get the bird key. I could not figure out how to get the flying rooster. I tried bombing the weather cock, lifting the weather cock, pulling, using the hook shot, using the magic rod, digging every tile in mabe village, getting the boomerang, giving back the boomerang, tried every key item I could think of. I ended up beating level 8 before level 7. I even made this map of the entire game in google sheets to try to figure it out.

Tap for spoilerTurns out you can just push the statue

Oh well, I don’t count it as time waste. If anything else it was a great excuse to keep playing. I’ve never played a 3D Zelda before so I am looking forward to OoT

 

I hope a little self promotion is ok. Thanks to all of your help a few weeks ago, I was able to get an RSS feed set up for my blog. For reasons I still don't fully understand, a year and a half ago, when I moved my personal website from github and Azure App Services to Google Sites; I decided to just hack Google Sites into a blog rather than do the logical thing and start a blog on Wordpress or Blogger.

As I was documenting the process of hosting a feed using Google Drive and automating it with Google Apps Script, I decided to turn it into a full blog post on the journey I took to get things working.

If you do have some morbid curiosity on the actual steps to take to host, automate, and update RSS using Google Apps, I do have a full guide with instructions but can't say I recommend doing things this way to anyone but the truly delusional.

The whole post is about a 20 minute read. Despite having started my blog 18 months ago, this is only my 11th post, I'm still kind of new. I'd appreciate feedback for anyone that would be willing to offer it.

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NFL Free Agency Mega Thread (self.fantasyfootball)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by TORFdot0 to c/fantasyfootball
 

Free Agency is here and today has been crazy so far and it’s just the legal tampering period not even the official start. I’ll try to list all the fantasy relevant movement as I can. Be sure to put updates, and discussion in the comments.

Russel Wilson to the Steelers.

Josh Jacobs to the Packers

Saquon Barkley to the Eagles

Deandre Swift to the Bears

Tony Pollard to the Titans

Baker Mayfield Staying in Tampa, Evans resigned as well

Kirk Cousins to the Falcons

Ekeler to the Commies

Gus Edwards to the Chargers

Pittman resigns with Indy

Minshew to the Raiders

Brissett to the Pats

Antonio Gibson to the Pats

Devin Singletary to the Giants

Gave Davis to the Jags

Calvin Ridley to the Titans

Higgins tagged by Bengals but requested a trade

Mixon TRADED to the Texans

Zack Moss to the Bengals

Aaron Jones to the Vikes

Darnold to the Vikes

Gesicki to the Bengals

Darnell Mooney to the Falcons

Derrick Henry to the Ravens

Dionte Johnson traded to Panthers

Jerry Jeudy to the Browns

Mike Williams CUT and on the market

 

Lemmy.world finally updated to v19 and I see that I have the option to do scaled sort. Typically I sort by “Top 6 hour”, “Top 12 hours”, and then “Active”.

None of these options are really like the old “Hot” sort on Reddit. So how does the scaled sort work? Is anyone who has been on v19 a while using it much?

 

I've never dealt with RSS before on a personal level. I've pretty much always used social media to discover blog posts. I'm wanting to set up RSS for my personal blog but since I have no experience, looking for some guidance for best practices. I'm currently setting up a script to automatically update the xml when I publish new posts.

Am I supposed to include the entire post in the description field? Or just a summary? How do I handle the markup and formatting of the post?

Am I supposed to delete items from the feed or do I just keep appending items to the bottom of it?

Its it good practice to include a thumbnail image or anything with the item in the feed? How is that possible.

How do I distribute the feed beyond adding a button on my site?

Thank you in advance to anyone for their advice.

 

The app is available in the US now. It links to appropriate Apple News articles, Streaming services, has scoreboards and more.

Makes me curious if we see Apple lean more into live sports for their Apple TV+ packages, especially with the NBA contract coming up to match their current MLS and MLB offerings

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by TORFdot0 to c/retrogaming
 

As a big Zelda hater as a kid, I skipped the series completely. I’ve been going through to experience them all in order now. I really enjoyed the first two games of the series so I expected to like this one too. What I didn’t expect is was that it really is one of the best games on the Super Nintendo if not one of the best games of all-time.

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AppleTV+ 2024 Reccomendations? (self.apple_enthusiast)
submitted 9 months ago by TORFdot0 to c/apple_enthusiast
 

We recently subscribed to AppleTV+ (you get a pretty decent trial from just download the app on a playstation by the way). And are looking for exclusives to watch on the service. Of course everyone recommends Ted Lasso and we have started that. My wife, has already watched through "The Morning Show" and liked it.

Especially looking for good movie suggestions as those don't require as much of a time investment for me.

What does everyone on Lemmy watch on the service?

 

Do you self-host it using FOSS tools? Use Wordpress? Design your own using PHP frameworks such as laravel? Just curious what those that do it use?

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