nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions Planning to propose in a few months, what should I look for in a good value engagement ring?
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    My wife and I picked out her ring together. She has to wear it all the time. I think she should have say in the matter. Ask your partner to help you pick one out.

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    I agree. It's not a contest, we are in this together.

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    Thanks so much! <3

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    We're looking for GoLang Contributors

    cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/8349829 > Hello, > > We're looking for GoLang contributors to help with the federation service. We're happy to have people that contribute code or help with code reviews. > > If you know anyone or if you're interested please reach out! > > Email: hello@sublinks.org > Mastodon: https://utter.online/@sublinks > Online form: https://sublinks.org/join_organization.html > > Thanks, > jgrim

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    We're looking for GoLang Contributors

    Hello, We're looking for GoLang contributors to help with the federation service. We're happy to have people that contribute code or help with code reviews. If you know anyone or if you're interested please reach out! Email: hello@sublinks.org Mastodon: https://utter.online/@sublinks Online form: https://sublinks.org/join_organization.html Thanks, jgrim

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    Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations https://x.com/LinusTech/status/1793428629378208057

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16013932 > Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations > > There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest employment and labour law firms in Western Canada.” They work with both private and public sector employers. > > To ensure a fair investigation, LMG did not comment or publicly release any data and asked our team members to do the same. Now that the investigation is complete, we’re able to provide a summary of the findings. > > The investigation found that: > > - Claims of bullying and harassment were not substantiated. > > - Allegations that sexual harassment were ignored or not addressed were false. > > - Any concerns that were raised were investigated. Furthermore, from reviewing our history, the investigator is confident that if any other concerns had been raised, we would have investigated them. > > - There was no evidence of “abuse of power” or retaliation. The individual involved may not have agreed with our decisions or performance feedback, but our actions were for legitimate work-related purposes, and our business reasons were valid. > > - Allegations of process errors and miscommunication while onboarding this individual were partially substantiated, but the investigator found ample documentary evidence of LMG working to rectify the errors and the individual being treated generously and respectfully. When they had questions, they were responded to and addressed. > > In summary, as confirmed by the investigation, the allegations made against the team were largely unfounded, misleading, and unfair. > > With all of that said, in the spirit of ongoing improvement, the investigator shared their general recommendation that fast-growing workplaces should invest in continuing professional development. The investigator encouraged us to provide further training to our team about how to raise concerns to reinforce our existing workplace policies. > > Prior to receiving this report, LMG solicited anonymous feedback from the team in an effort to ensure there was no unreported bullying and harassment and hosted a training session which reiterated our workplace policies and reinforced our reporting structure. LMG will continue to assess ongoing continuing education for our team. > > At this time, we feel our case for a defamation suit would be very strong; however, our deepest wish is to simply put all of this behind us. We hope that will be the case, given the investigator’s clear findings that the allegations made online were misrepresentations of what actually occurred. We will continue to assess if there is persistent reputational damage or further defamation. > > This doesn’t mean our company is perfect and our journey is over. We are continuously learning and trying to do better. Thank you all for being part of our community.

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    fediverse Fediverse Is Lemmy growing or shrinking?
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    Yeah, we also call them communities

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  • announcements Announcements (vger.social) Introducing vger.social: A lemmy instance for Voyager supporters 💙
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    It will work with Voyager. I also use that app and will make sure. All apps that work with Lemmy should work with Sublinks.

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    Nice! Thanks a lot!

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    Thanks!

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    I don’t have a twitter account. What does it say?

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    Lemmy.World isn’t developing it. Some of their team members are contributing but they didn’t start it. I did. I’m the admin of discuss.online

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  • sublinks Sublinks [QUESTION]: what are the working Sublinks instances?
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    This is correct, thanks a lot!

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  • lemmyworld Lemmy.World Announcements Feedback from all moderators
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    It's actually extremely buggy. Not sure if we'll fix it or find something else. Perhaps something you suggested.

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    I setup https://github.com/deck9/input on polls.sublinks.org. We’ll use this next time.

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    I setup https://github.com/deck9/input on polls.sublinks.org. We'll use this next time.

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    It's a reputable web development language and Spring Framework is very robust. I knew it would make development very quick and easy. Also, everyone learns Java just a little so I feel like it's easy for the average person to contribute. Rust is certainly fun but Java is tried and true. The organization of the Lemmy project's code vs Sublinks is night and day. It's so easy to extend and grow Sublinks.

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    Great summary!

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    Easier but not what I thought was needed. We need more choice!

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    That's not true, I wrote a blog post about it: https://jasongr.im/blog/why-i-started-sublinks/

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    I tried that the but API lacked a lot of features that they were too busy to add, like proper pagination to find the latest changes, etc. I started a project like that first called socialcare.cloud but have since shut it down in favor of Sublinks.

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    Java isn't my preferred language. I did learn Rust to try to contribute but found the code base in less than ideal state and the process of contributing to risky. They don't always accept all PRs. I also have low faith in the success of Lemmy due to it's poor QA process and it's major lack of features.

    I believe Java is the best option for this type of application, I almost did it in PHP. My goal was to attract as many people as possible to want to contribute. It's worked, I have a ton of people contributing in some way, Sublinks roadmap is clear and organized, and we have a super-motivated and driven team.

    We won't fail.

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    I was hoping not to have to host it myself. I won't need it often. I was mostly curious about a Saas. Thanks though!

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  • jgrim jgrim 6 months ago 100%

    Is there a better form service to be used? We used it because it comes free with our email.

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    Thanks so much for sharing it!

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    Thanks so much for filling it out!

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    Yeah, that's a good callout. Thanks, we're working on redoing reporting and have a more traditional table/grid like layout for mulit-select.

    cc: @kenvald@discuss.online

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    Mostly the v0.2 release which has a major focus on moderation enhancements. Some things might be delayed, removed, or added to releases due to the feedback.

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    No, it will help our development be more focused on the highest-impact items. It should allow for a more organized and targeted release timeline.

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    Lemmy Moderation Tools jgrim 6 months ago 88%
    Feedback from all moderators

    cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/6776820 > The Sublinks team has written up a little survey, which we feel is both thorough and inclusive. It covers a wide range of topics, such as user privacy, and community engagement, along with trying to gauge things that are difficult when moderating. > > Also please be aware **the information collected by this survey is completely anonymous**. As many of us in the social sciences background know, if you want the REAL feelings of individuals, they need to feel safe to express themselves. > > **[👉Moderation Survey HERE👈](https://forms.office.com/r/bEwUgpmcWW)** > > Please feel free to comment in this thread, we will do our best to respond to any genuine questions. > > We look forward to hearing from each and every one of you! > > Sincerely, > The Sublinks Team

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    Feedback from all moderators

    cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/6776820 > The Sublinks team has written up a little survey, which we feel is both thorough and inclusive. It covers a wide range of topics, such as user privacy, and community engagement, along with trying to gauge things that are difficult when moderating. > > Also please be aware **the information collected by this survey is completely anonymous**. As many of us in the social sciences background know, if you want the REAL feelings of individuals, they need to feel safe to express themselves. > > **[👉Moderation Survey HERE👈](https://forms.office.com/r/bEwUgpmcWW)** > > Please feel free to comment in this thread, we will do our best to respond to any genuine questions. > > We look forward to hearing from each and every one of you! > > Sincerely, > The Sublinks Team

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    Sublinks jgrim 6 months ago 90%
    Feedback from all moderators

    The Sublinks team has written up a little survey, which we feel is both thorough and inclusive. It covers a wide range of topics, such as user privacy, and community engagement, along with trying to gauge things that are difficult when moderating. Also please be aware **the information collected by this survey is completely anonymous**. As many of us in the social sciences background know, if you want the REAL feelings of individuals, they need to feel safe to express themselves. **[👉Moderation Survey HERE👈](https://forms.office.com/r/bEwUgpmcWW)** Please feel free to comment in this thread, we will do our best to respond to any genuine questions. We look forward to hearing from each and every one of you! Sincerely, The Sublinks Team

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    Improvements to Discuss.Online

    Hello, I made a lot of adjustments to the infrastructure to Discuss.Online. Please let me know if you notice any strange behavior or federation issues. Thanks a lot, jgrim

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    Hey, I'm the founder of Sublinks. It's a huge collaboration of several major Lemmy instances like lemmy world, beehaw, discuss.online, programming.dev, and quite a few others that wish not to be named until the release.

    Some admins are directly working on the project while others are providing other types of support. @Ategon@programming.dev is certainly a major contributor and has helped develop the new front end in many major ways. You can follow some progress updates here: !sublinks@discuss.online

    We have several different teams of developers:

    1. API / Java
    2. Front-end / JS/CSS/HTML
    3. Federation / GoLang
    4. Libraries / JS
    5. Requirements gathering and organization
    6. Design & Graphics - UI/UX
    7. Lemmy to Sublinks migration tools

    There is an active community on Matrix where all of us chat: https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks:discuss.online if anyone is interested in joining. We also have weekly touch bases to discuss progress and next steps. There are tons of people contributing.

    We are currently taking donations only through Github: https://github.com/sponsors/sublinks if you're truly interested. We're all working on this part-time in our free time and making fantastic progress.

    Let me know if you have any questions!

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  • sublinks Sublinks How is the micro blogging part of sublinks gonna work out ? Is it similar to mbin? if so how would lemmy app be compatible with it ?
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    Not that I'm aware of. We will support all Lemmy apps when we launch though.

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    There is talk of having post types. This would allow for further fediverse integrations to function better.

    To answer your questions:

    1. Sublinks isn't a copy of Lemmy. There used to be a greater focus on multiple post types, but now it's not a main feature to work on. Sublinks is an alternative to Lemmy that adheres to the Lemmy API to capture the client base for that API. Sublinks has its API for its front-end and any apps being developed for Sublinks.

    Being long-term compatible with Lemmy isn't a priority either. We set our first milestone to be parity with the Lemmy API contracts to allow for apps to work from the start. As we grow our footprint Lemmy would have to display it the best they can. We don't plan to add support for Sublinks into other applications.

    1. Yes, we're building our federation service to include as many services as possible.
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    It's not dead, perhaps you joined at a slow time. We were just chatting a bunch in there about cursor pagination. There are several rooms if you didn't notice. General, Frontend, API, & Federation. Along with Announcements and Support.

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    I'm the founder of Sublinks. I'm happy to answer questions. You can find me on Mastodon @sublinks@utter.online. You're right about the dev blog. We have a weekly Sublinks team meeting, the results of that could go into a weekly dev update. I've just been more focused on coding than community stuff. I'll do better.

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    My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog https://jewy.blog/2024/03/04/my-love-hate-relationship-with-lemmy

    cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/7623713 > I made a blog post discussing my biggest issues with Lemmy and why I am kind of done with it as a software.

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    New Communities jgrim 7 months ago 100%
    Sublinks - A place to get Sublinks updates

    [!Sublinks@discuss.online](/c/sublinks@discuss.online)

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    I think there should be a separate community for it though.

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    I don't have a problem with it.

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    ATTENTION: There is a known site issue

    ATTENTION: There is a known issue with the database cluster for discuss.online. It's a managed cluster by #DigitalOcean. They are working on resolving the issue. I'll update you once the issue is resolved. You might see strange errors like the inability to log in or view specific posts. Update 03/01/2024 @ 9:40 pm ET: The database has been migrated to a new server. Please, let us know if you experience any issues.

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    linus_tech_tips Linus Tech Tips (Unofficial) NVIDIA is Worth More Than Canada - WAN Show February 23, 2024
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    Why did this video get so many upvotes? That's not common for this community? I haven't watched it and don't really plan to :-p

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    We had a lot of debate about the license. I'm curious if you can argue why MIT is wrong and why we should use AGPL. AGPL was the original plan, but I was convinced to change it to MIT by @lazyguru@discuss.online.

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    What is an example of a good reason to start a new project?

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    That’s an over simplified version. For the record, I couldn’t downgrade without data loss.

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    Announcement of Sublinks

    We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Sublinks, a groundbreaking Link Aggregation Social Network, joining the Fediverse. This innovative platform is designed to revolutionize how we share and discover online. Our dedicated team of volunteer contributors has worked tirelessly, utilizing technologies like Java, Go, TypeScript, and HTML to bring this vision to life. Sublinks promises a user-friendly interface and robust features that cater to diverse online communities. Stay tuned for our launch date, and get ready to experience a new era of social link sharing! Sublinks will have a fully compatible API with Lemmy so all current Lemmy apps will also work with Sublinks. In fact, discuss.online will switch to Sublinks to fully replace Lemmy once we reach our [Parity Milestone](https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1/views/6). For more information, visit [GitHub - Sublinks](https://github.com/sublinks) and [sublinks.org](https://sublinks.org). Stay tuned for more regular updates as we progress.

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    MX-5 Miata jgrim 9 months ago 76%
    She’s all tucked in
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    Retro Gaming Enthusiast jgrim 9 months ago 85%
    I tried Pokemon Red on Advance... didn't finish it

    I bought the game on eBay and have been playing it on my newly modded Gameboy Advance. IPS screen, new case & buttons. It's very nice; I'll post a picture later. It's not explained too well on what's best to battle with. How do I know when to use an electric vs. fire without trial and error? Or is that the point? I wonder how people figured this out before the internet was so huge. I'm struggling to stay interested in the game. I couldn't quite figure out the purpose until later in the game... got to catch them all. But catching them all is just kinda boring to do. Maybe it's because I'm 37 and not 12 haha.

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    Neurodivergent jgrim 9 months ago 88%
    How is everyone?

    Today is a good day. I'm feeling talky... what's going on?

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    MX-5 Miata jgrim 9 months ago 80%
    Sad to winterize

    It's time to winterize my Miata. Makes me so sad when she goes into hibernation. I drive her daily if the weather isn't too bad and I don't need extra room. Is anyone else winterizing?

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    Announcements jgrim 10 months ago 100%
    November 2023 profit/loss

    This is the first of the monthly financial reports. This one is short and sweet; I'll provide more details next time. ## These costs include hosting for: 1. [discuss.online (lemmy)](https://discuss.online) 2. [discuss.online (matrix)](https://element.discuss.online) 3. [wiki.discuss.online (open wiki)](https://wiki.discuss.online) 4. [utter.online (mastodon)](https://utter.online) 5. [social.photo (pixelfed)](https://social.photo) 6. [Sublinks.org](https://demo.sublinks.org) (sublinks) 7. [participating.online](https://participating.online)(wiki) ## Expenses for November - Hosting: $575.32 - Github: $436.16 - Email: $21.45 - Total: $1,032.93 ## Income for November - OpenCollective: $65 - Patreon: $15.11 - Total: $80.11 ## Year-to-date - Year-to-date total expenses: $4,087.63 - Year-to-date total income: $454.77 - Year-to-date balance: -$3632.86 ## Donations... if you can spare it - [Patreon](https://patreon.com/discussonline) - [OpenCollective](https://opencollective.com/discussonline/donate/)

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    !IMPORTANT! Please Read

    Lemmy doesn't provide any analytics. Give this post a like and/or comment if you use this instance. I'm trying to gauge usage by humans. I'll let this census run for about a week to gauge usage. Results might cause different changes to the services. I'm doing this because the cost of running this instance is higher than most other instances due to reliability and disaster recovery implementations. I'm curious if I should back down many of these costs if we're not used fully. I don't see much activity directly in this instance. I know that discuss.online wasn't listed on join-lemmy.org for about a month due to a bug with the Lemmy crawler. They just recently fixed it with their redesign. We are now listed but no longer featured. tl;dr; is this instance dying? Let me know if you're here.

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    Linus Tech Tips (Unofficial) jgrim 11 months ago 100%
    Has LTT been impacted by the controversy?

    I haven't watched any of their videos since all that came out. Have they mentioned any impact on their business after all that came out?

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    Announcements jgrim 12 months ago 100%
    We are running a Lemmy release candidate; there may be issues

    We are running the latest release candidate for Lemmy, version 0.19.0-rc.1. This release candidate includes many changes. Every release comes with its own challenges; however, it resolves previous ones. We hope this release will resolve a longstanding issue with sync not working, causing a lot of manual work from the admins to keep things in sync. Please let us know if you experience any weird behavior. Some known issues so far are: - HTML entities characters in posts bodies (Changing &amp;amp;amp; to &amp;amp;amp;amp;) - The `spoiler` tag crashes the site if used in the sidebar - [Mobile apps are borked again](https://discuss.online/post/1294119) **Update 10/25/2023** - We are now running release candidate 3.

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    Linus Tech Tips (Unofficial) jgrim 1 year ago 84%
    The youtube autoposter... should it be disabled?

    I see a habit of people downvoting every post from the Youtube auto-posting bot. This bot posts each video from select LTT Channels when they are released. I've noticed a habit of people downvoting them all. I assume from the issues brought to light. I'm not sure that downvoting is productive, as it may not represent the actual quality of the content. I'm not a fan of brigading but I'm also not a fan of posting content that no one wants to see. Please, leave your comments on how you feel about the posting bot. Thanks, Jason

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    How to Move Your Instagram Feed to Pixelfed, the Photo App That Doesn't Track Your Every Move www.wired.com

    Seems fitting to share this now that [Social.Photo](https://social.photo) is live. It’s our newest addition to the fediverse. We launched a new Pixelfed instance. This is a newly growing community. Most Mastodon Apps work with it if you already have a favorite app like [Ivory by Tapbots](https://tapbots.com/ivory/). They have a [PixelFed official app](https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps) that is about to launch. Checkout [Social.Photo](https://social.photo) today!

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    More fediverse to explore! We now have a Pixelfed instance

    We now have a [Pixelfed](pixelfed.org/) instance. Check it out! [Social.Photo](https://social.photo). Signup is open!

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    Join the Discuss.Online Matrix Space https://matrix.to/#/#community-channels:discuss.online

    Did you know that Discuss.Online has a Matrix server? If you're not familiar with Matrix you can read more here: https://matrix.org/about/ Matrix is a federated real-time chat server. Join the community space! Go to: https://matrix.to/#/#community-channels:discuss.online. **Need a username?** Contact [@jgrim@discuss.online](https://discuss.online/u/jgrim) or comment on this post. A registration code will be sent to you for [yourhandle]@discus.online **Matrix Clients** Discuss.Online provides two web based client options. You can find more at: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/ Here are the Discuss.Online hosted ones: - https://element.discuss.online - https://cinny.discuss.online See you there!

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    Announcements jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    Welcome lazyguru to the admin team!

    Please welcome [@lazyguru@discuss.online](https://discuss.online/u/lazyguru) to the discuss.online admin team. I’ve known lazyguru for over ten years. He’s a close friend. His skills are like mine. He will be able to help contribute to all projects of the discuss.online ecosystem. lazyguru will help with moderation, system administration, monitoring, and development of new features. Joe has already improved some monitoring and is working on some changes to the infrastructure to make it more scalable. He will soon be helping with SocialCare.cloud once the first beta is released. Please, take some time to welcome him! Thanks, Jason

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    Neurodivergent jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    How do you motivate yourself when you're down?

    I have these really low points where I cannot do anything, no matter how hard I try. For example, I have a bunch of notifications on Lemmy that I've not responded to. No reason other than that I cannot do it. For things like mod reports, I act quickly. But the other stuff has been difficult for a couple of days. What do you do to get motivated or get that drive back? "Just do it" doesn't work for me.

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    announcements
    Announcements jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    Trouble with email and new account verification

    ## tl;dr; We use SendGrid to send our emails out. By default, SendGrid enables link tracking. Link tracking was causing issues with allowing users to verify their accounts. In short, I disabled link tracking, and links should work for all new emails in the future. Contact support if you need your account activated. [hello@discuss.online](mailto:hello@discuss.online) from the email you used to sign up. ## Issue When new users sign up or when existing users reset their password, an email is sent to verify ownership of the account. These emails are sent from us through a service called SendGrid. SendGrid, by default, will mask all the URLs to enable what they call link tracking. It's a marketing thing to track engagement with email. I have no use for it, but I didn't disable it before. The issue is that sometimes this link doesn't resolve. An HTTPS error is shown to the user. ## Resolution The quickest and most logical resolution was to disable link tracking. I never use it. I did just that; however, any previous emails sent will still be broken. I will continue to investigate the issue in hopes of resolving previous links. **If you are unable to verify your account, please email [hello@discuss.online](mailto:hello@discuss.online) from the email you used to sign up. We'll manually verify each account that hasn't been able to be activated.**

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    announcements
    Announcements jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    Small outage from the update this morning

    The small outage from this morning was from a planned update to Lemmy 18.3. Let me know if you notice any issues!

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    neurodivergent
    Neurodivergent jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    I find it hard to focus when music isn't playing

    If I need to concentrate, I must have music or a conversation in the background on TV or something. Does anyone else need something else pulling for their attention when they're concentrating? My mind will quickly wonder if I don't have music.

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    Retro Gaming Enthusiast jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    Has anyone else modded their GB or GBA?

    I bought these mod kits to replace the screens and cases for my GB and GBA. - [Retro Pixel IPS LCD for Game Boy Pocket ](https://www.retromodding.com/collections/game-boy-pocket/products/game-boy-pocket-ips-lcd) - [IPS Laminated 3.0 LCD (with text) for Game Boy Advance ](https://www.retromodding.com/collections/game-boy-advance/products/ips-laminated-lcd-for-game-boy-advance) I already have a GB; however, I ordered a GBA on [eBay](https://www.ebay.com/itm/256148619880?nma=true&si=Jcxthx1MhzyZLsBCtpLHsLN9NVQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557) with some games that will arrive next week. I plan to mod that one when it arrives. I want a backlit screen; however, I tried to use the Everdrive GB x7 and noticed huge drops in contrast. Like the system cannot handle the extra voltage needed by the device. I'm concerned I'll have this problem with the screen swap.

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    Retro Gaming Enthusiast jgrim 1 year ago 80%
    I'm thinking about designing a GameBoy game box...

    I've been looking for a GameBoy game box to print with my 3D Printer. I've not found anything I like so far. Do any of you know of a good case to store games? Are any of you looking for the same thing? I'm thinking about designing it and giving the design away for free on printables or something.

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    flipperzero
    FlipperZero (Unofficial) jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    What do you think of the new app store?

    I think it's great! I installed a bunch of stuff. What about those on 3rd party firmware? Do you care?

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    Retro Gaming Enthusiast jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    Are the original Pokemon games worth a visit?

    I didn't have a Gameboy until I was... too late. Are the original Pokemon games worth visiting for the first time? I know there is some nostalgic reasoning to play them, but should I try it as someone who hasn't ever played one? Have any of you done this?

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    Lemmy Moderation Tools jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    I'm working on a PHP SDK

    I'm building a PHP SDK for the Lemmy API. Here is the repo: https://github.com/jgrim/lemmy-sdk Here is the packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/jgrim/lemmy-sdk It's still in early development. It works; however, it's missing some tests, CI/CD tooling, and examples. Feel free to use, contribute, or ask questions.

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    announcements
    Announcements jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    What to do when communities die?

    Hello, There is a unique problem of the fediverse. When an instance goes offline, its communities will never sync again. Recently, vlemmy.com shutdown. Quite a few communities synced with discuss.online and other instances. Because vlemmy.com is not longer brokering communication, these communities will never be in sync again. We have a several options: 1. Leave them there. Do nothing. 2. Leave them there but make a post that it's dead and hope people see it. 3. Purge the communities. Act like they never existed. 4. Build some elaborate system to work around vlemmy being gone. This would take a lot of work and collaboration with other instances. Let me know what makes the most sense to you as users. Are any of you still using vlemmy communities? What about long-term planning? Maybe this isn't an issue now but what if lemmy.world vanished? Please, let me know what you think. I'm torn on this one. Thanks, Jason

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    Announcements jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    What do you think of the design?

    I'm looking to get member feedback on the design of the site. Lemmy comes with many default core themes. Some parts of these themes are broken with dark mode. For example, upload boxes might show white if your system is set to light mode. I want to set a decent default theme. If unaware, you can change your theme in your account settings. There are 10 different themes currently. There are 12 different theme options: 1. Browser Default - When this is set, it uses Darkly or Litely depending on browser settings 2. Browser Default Compact - When this is set, it uses Darkly Compact or Litely Compact, depending on browser settings 3. Darkly 4. Darly Red 5. Darkly Compact 6. Darkly Pure Black 7. Litely 8. Litely Red 9. Litely Compact 10. Vaporwave Dark 11. Vaporwave Light 12. i386 I currently have the default set to Browser Default Compact, which should set dark or light mode depending on whether your browser is dark or light. I use Vaporwave Dark, personally. What do you use? Which do you prefer? I could make something new. I tried some new ones that broke with an update. I didn't fix them after the update, so I removed them. I could create new ones again. Let me know what you think. This is a discussion/poll on what I should do as a default. Thanks, Jason

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    Retro Gaming Enthusiast jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    What are you all playing right now?

    What game(s) are you playing now? What are you playing on? I have a couple of handheld emulators I typically use or my SteamDeck. I prefer to the miyoo mini+. I've been playing a lot of NES Tetris as of late.

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    newcommunities
    New Communities jgrim 1 year ago 100%
    Retro Gaming Enthusiast & Retro Gaming Enthusiast (BST)

    1. [Retro Gaming Enthusiast](/c/retro_gaming@discuss.online) - !retro_gaming@discuss.online - https://discuss.online/c/retro_gaming 2. [Retro Gaming Enthusiast (BST)](/c/retro_gaming_bst@discuss.online) - !retro_gaming_bst@discuss.online - https://discuss.online/c/retro_gaming_bst

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