In their defense many people are exceptionally dumb.

Can someone please validate my decision to pay $23 a year for this dumb corndog.social domain just so I had something fun for my Lemmy instance.

People think that frame rate isn't very noticeable until you give them access to a toggle that lets them double it.

Nihilism is for suckers. I'm going to make the world a better place and have some fun along the way too.

I've had exactly this happen to me. It was my own fault but it took a bit of work figure out.

I take no delight in killing but Russian forces could leave Ukraine at any point and put an end to it.

Backups need to be reliable and I just can't rely on a community of volunteers or the availability of family to help.

So yeah I pay for S3 and/or a VPS. I consider it one of the few things worth it to pay a larger hosting company for.

unless they open source their code and/or provide some public interface to test and validate feed content

This honestly seems like a good idea. I think one of the ways to mitigate the harm of algorithmically driven content feeds is openness and transparency.

I like a lot of FFXII even though I get why it isn't as beloved as others.

I'm from the Midwest US and I know there are words and sounds I pronounce with a Midwestern accent but I can still type and spell them correctly.

If'n I typ lik dis den o'course people gonna think I hev the big dumb or that I'm a mole from a Redwall book.

Look upon what thou has twat and ponder it.

Yeah the golden age of streaming has long passed. Now it's an expensive, ad-ridden fragmented mess of data harvesting.