Sure, I’m not sure why we’re arguing about backup strategies. My wife is the same way; she’s got two 12 TB externals of just backups for exactly the same reason. You implied that you would need to back up your drives specifically because you’d be installing a new OS; that’s all I was commenting on. You do you.

Presumably you’re backing up important files as a matter of course, not only when installing a new OS…

As a point of interest, you can partition an existing HD, install a new OS on that partition, then when on the newly installed OS, move your files around to the new filesystem and format your old drives / partitions as convenient. Installing a new OS doesn’t need to be a “Backup everything, blow it away and start over” process.

Worth noting that it was also 16% cheaper, as well.

To get a fair comparison, you’d need to poll people who are the same age that you were at the time you’re comparing to. I bet you’ll find that they’re just as into gaming as you were at that age. What’s happening is that you’re getting older, and you aren’t enchanted by the same things that you once were. Basically, this is a ‘Back in my day…’ rant about the ‘good old days’.

Never been to Germany, but this makes me want to go, not going to lie.

This would unironically be awesome at the end of a cosmic horror themed campaign. Some elder god the PCs have antagonized turns to the players and addresses them directly - not their characters, but the players - in a fourth-wall-breaking moment, acknowledging their existence and directly threatening them. Then the DM breaks out health and sanity bars for everyone at the table, and starts ticking off damage on them.

Haha… Yeeaaah, I suspect this instance might have a somewhat higher concentration of those folks than the average.

I don’t know… I know quite a few folks whom I’m sure would be into that.

I mean, also the way he imagines, really, if I’m interpreting his poorly worded statement correctly. ‘The Government’ (that is to say, Trump) should be held accountable for instigating J6… but so should everyone who participated.

These companies want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want it to be legal for them to use AI to jack prices up to the absolute limit we’re willing to pay, but don’t want to let us use it to find a better deal. Fuck 'em. Especially fuck Amazon. It’d be funny if the result of this was that Perplexity specifically omitted Amazon from that search, so their users were always directed to competitors, instead of sometimes.

Why not both?

I have a bucket, but not a cow. Pretty sure someone with a cow but no bucket is closer to being ready to milk a cow than I am.

Cheers, mate. New wording is great, IMO.

If you didn’t watch the above-linked video, that’s basically the conclusion he comes to. He went into it planning to do an experiment and see if he could turn a profit off of 3 storage unit auctions, but by the end he just ended up feeling icky about the whole thing, once he realized what you pointed out. He ended up tracking down the prior owners of one of the units and returning their stuff after finding a lot of deeply personal items there, and he got their story, too, of how the unit fell into arrears. He came out of it with a much different view of it than he went in with.

I suppose that’s what I’m afraid of. We’ve done just fine without having an (enforced) rule governing it up until now, and the community hasn’t devolved into anything. I think we’ve all experienced cases in the past where a new mod has come into an existing community, started to enforce the rules in different ways, and it’s caused the dynamic of the community to change. We have a good thing here, right now; it’s (IMO) the best of the ‘Comic’ related communities on Lemmy; I just don’t want to see that change because of some overzealous censorship.

If you look back through the past few months, upvotes/downvotes are a pretty good indicator of what’s good content and what’s not. Beep’s posts that specifically omit attribution get downvoted; there’s sexist boomer humor comics that got downvoted; the few NSFW comics that got posted were upvoted. Body shaming, negativity… all downvoted. Can we perhaps just use community sentiment as the benchmark, except in cases where something is clearly an off-the-rails violation?

Woah, look at Satan over here trying to corrupt the youth with his raunchy comics. Glad we had someone on deck to remove that before anyone saw it.

Graphic content of any kind will not be tolerated. This includes gore, pornography, or violence.

This still edges out Oglaf, as well as some of the other things that have been posted even within the last few weeks. “Violence” is also extremely open-ended. Is someone slapping someone else violence? Is Lucy pulling the football out before Charlie Brown kicks it violence? Is Snoopy pretending to be the Red Baron violence? Even on a very generous interpretation, ‘violence’ edges out a lot of comics that both have historically been allowed and would by any reasonable metric be fine for anyone old enough to use Lemmy to view.

Edit: Maybe it would help if you pointed out some things that have been posted in the last month or two that you would consider to be in violation of this rule? If there are none, then we probably don’t even need to be having this discussion.

As a point of interest, it’s been a very long time since there was an active moderator here; anyone could have posted anything and it would have stayed up, and yet… it hasn’t happened. The sub has been fairly clean and organized, with only the occasional, I’d argue tasteful, adult-oriented comic. None of us want it to devolve into a cesspit of low-effort NSFW content; we just want the status quo that has been passively established to be maintained.