Bill

joined 1 year ago
[–] Bill@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was playing Baldur's Gate 3 shortly after release and got a popup from Bing over the game asking if I wanted to enable Bing in Chrome. I immediately blocked bing.com on my network. Never looked back.

[–] Bill@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We all forgetting Maggie just straight-up murdered someone for trying to take her lollipop?

[–] Bill@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Pretty attached. My parents picked it.

If I could just be "Bill" everywhere I would but it really only works on the fediverse.

[–] Bill@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Veeam Agent going to a NAS on-site and the NAS is backed up nightly to IDrive because it's the cheapest cloud backup service I could find with Linux support. It's a bit slow, very CPU-bound, but it's robust and their support is pretty responsive.

[–] Bill@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah it does kinda matter, which is problematic for onboarding new users. Personally:

  • I read the rules/TOS.
  • I checked the Instances page to make sure instances I wanted to access were linked and not blocked.
  • I looked for any introduction posts to see what the backend infrastructure was like.
  • I checked the username I wanted was available.

It should not be that complicated, but it also has to be unfortunately. I had to make sure all those things matched what I personally wanted. This much choice is great for heavily-invested tech nerds with free time but sucks for anyone else wanting to join in.