Ok, fine. I’m not critiquing their directive. Just saying what it was at the time. Ergo, I’m not making the news, just reporting it.

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Ooof, this also has terrible implications for 2027:

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Playing without the quest markers is definitely different, and I try to do that once in a while though it isn’t a strict rule for this play through. To complement my “no fast travel” rule this time, I’ve been relying heavily on the road signs while also trying to minimize my use of the map (feels too much like GPS for the level of immersion I’m going for).

The main reason I don’t always/fully turn off quest markers is sometimes it expects you to stand in a certain spot or the objective will be so hidden in plain sight that even with the marker I’m still not sure what I’m supposed to be picking up.

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EPUB (encrypted) means you have to use their reader app or maybe Adobe Digital Editions or some other walled-garden horseshit to read it. It seems to be up to either the author or the publisher on whether to offer it DRM-free. I haven’t found much rhyme or reason, but it looks like the ones from Simon and Schuster are available without DRM about 5 years after it’s been published.

I only buy DRM-free since I like to read on multiple devices (Kobo, Phone, or CalibreWeb in a browser in a pinch) and get tired of jailbreaking them myself. I’d gladly pay more for DRM free than not be able to read it without asking for permission every time or being locked to specific reader apps.

Oh yeah. I forgot about that side of it. I was assuming personal taxes and the self-employed bit was just an afterthought on how he has his W-9 so early. Good catch!

Lucky Ned for getting his W-9 by New Years Day. I don’t usually have mine available until close to the end of January.

Though he is self-employed, so maybe putting together his own W-9 is what he means?

We never had one growing up but we did have a home PC. Like with AOL, all of the dial-up numbers were long distance so the costs to use it for any length of time would have been crazy. We basically had to wait another 2-3 years for a local dial-up company (basically 3 guys in the area bought a T1 line and a bank of modems) before there was a non-long distance number we could dial to get online.

The real crime is that rag existing at all.

I thought they were a cool idea, at least conceptually. In practice, no one really wanted to read web pages or email from across the room on a fuzzy CRT.

That would be cool. I didn’t dive too deep into it, but the server project for it seems like you can configure the menus any way you want since they’re just HTML. You’d probably have to do server-side rendering or otherwise put all the HA API logic in the backend, but that could work!

I loooove that WeatherStar 4000 emulator and run a copy at home. It seems like it relies on Javascript so sadly may not play well with those old set top boxes. But if you get it working, please share.

Depends on the device.

Some I flash LineageOS which requires an extra step to install MicroG or the Google Services. I just skip that optional step.

Some that aren’t supported by LineageOS but are able to be rooted: I just remove / disable all the Google services and apps.

Even on stock phones that can’t be rooted or bootloader unlocked, you can still disable things like Google Play Services. You may have to deal with and manually silence notifications saying Play Services are unavailable.

In the latter two cases, you’ll often need to find alternative apps (like the phone dialer, SMS messenger, etc) before you can disable the built-in Google ones.

Years ago, before I de-googled, I set the language in Android to “English (UK)” so the assistant voice would be British. The side effect of that was minor UI labels such as my “Flashlight” quick action changing to “Torch”.

Okay, care to elaborate on its shortcomings?

Are screenshots of other platforms like Reddit, X, Bluesky ‘off topic’? Or, do they count as memes?

I’m not a fan of them but they’re not something I would report as off-topic. But given the chance to voice an opinion on them, I’d say they’re more appropriate for the “people Twitter”-style social-media inception communities.

2. Does a meme require an attempt at humor?

I would say yes. I don’t subscribe here to be preached at. But there’d be some potentially awkward judgement calls for the purposes of enforcing that.

3. What about news? (What if a headline is funny?)

There’s !nottheonion@lemmy.world and similar for those and news/politics permeates everything. It’s nice to have a place away from that.

4. Is an image required? Should a picture of text (not from another platform) be removed?

That’s a tough one. I’ve seen pictures of book text being presented, but that often (but not always) bumps up against #2 (attempt at humor)

8 PoE ports. Nice. I’ve got a separate 5 port PoE switch currently and wouldn’t be sad about getting rid of that.

Definitely looking into it as my spring project.

I’ve been wanting to dive into the 10" rack space for a while now. Even saw there were some designs I could mostly 3D print. I recently decommissioned my last 19" rack appliance, so I guess I’m closer than ever now though I’d need to find a 16 port switch that would fit (would prefer that to linking two 8-port switches).

Haven’t really hosted anything on a Pi (except Kiwix on a spare Pi Zero W2) since I have a bunch of thin clients that I got dirt cheap in a bulk drunk eBay purchase. They’re more capable (though the Pi 5 is close if not entirely surpassing them now) and a bit easier to shove together.

How are the Orange Pis? I’ve not messed with them, but the specs look too good to be true.