I have spent a few years learning Spanish, and that’s something I use pretty much every day. I can understand it almost as well as English, but my speaking lags much further behind.

I would like to learn Mandarin, but unlike Spanish there is pretty much absolutely zero relation between English and Mandarin. And because I wouldn’t use it nearly as much unless I forced it, I’m sure I could spend over a decade studying it as hard as I have Spanish and be worse at it. So Mandarin is my answer.

It’s existence alone didn’t bother me, but the day I went to install something with APT and it force installed the Snap was the last day I ever used Ubuntu.

Snap - fuck you

But why the supposition that games hosted by Communist led countries are “bad” like the Nazi games?

How are those things at all equivalent

Hey there, do you have a Matrix account? Most of the active Lemmy instance admins have a group chat. Well two actually, one for technical chats and such and one where we ping each other about spam/problematic accounts/etc.

DM me @bdonvr:matrix.org and I can get you an invite (unless you’re already there under a different name and I missed it)

From speaking with other instance admins it seems the head admin is not currently able to be contacted…

There is another lemmynsfw admin active in our chat but they do not have access to any database backups.

The posts will stay on your instance forever. But as long as the instance is down no new posts will ever come.

Images may or may not show up, depending on if they were externally hosted, got cached, etc.

On S3 storage it’s a monthly cost, so it’ll add up over the years.

I’m a small instance.

In 3 years my pict-rs S3 bucket has grown to over 1.2TB

Yeah disable it. I’m not sure why I didn’t before.

Turning it off completely means that theoretically I could expose a users IP. Say I DM them a unique photo URL. Zero click and I got that. Lemmy’s default UI blocks that but some apps like Voyager don’t. Or you could reply to an old comment which makes it very likely they’ll be the only ones to see it.

I turned on proxy-ing.

Unnatural. Should be illegal.

The group organizing it is Progressive International, they have a solid track record.

If you can donate, please do. Things are really bad right now with Cuba.

https://nuestraamericaflotilla.org/

But no oil?

I guess they’re still making the “”“sovereign”“” decision to stop sending oil.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/sheinbaum-does-not-deny-report-mexico-halted-oil-shipment-cuba-2026-01-27/a

Absolutely disgusting

There are tools nowadays that share communities around to smaller instances through bot accounts that auto subscribe.

https://lemmy-federate.com/

It also makes it easier when you create a community, now it will automatically show up on most instances.

No, I never did. But maybe low end Motorolas are different than their flagships

They, like DVDs, have a lifespan of ~20 years but can last a lot longer if kept in a cool and dry spot.

But also you can rip the discs and store them digitally on hard drives or whatever :)

Source on that?

Blurays are better quality than streaming.

4K Bluray is the highest quality you’ll ever get in your home by like, a lot.

Streaming is a regression.

I think !movies@lemmy.world would be a much better option if you’re going for wider reach. It’s orders of magnitude more active. Keeps topics less fragmented too.

Yep. In my country 3G is shutdown. Without 4G and VoLTE you cannot make calls.