My guess is it’s for the next guy

Lol, yup. The ol’ .NET Optimizer background task.

At a prior job, one of the junior admins updated the master image for our VDI linked-clone desktops. They snapped and deployed that without waiting for that background task to complete. The next day, when people started logging in and the desktop pools started spinning up, we got 70+ complaints that every virtual desktop was un-usably slow. Those were coming in as we were watching our performance monitors say almost every VMware host was at max CPU.

Some UIs will treat anything in the title in brackets like a flair: “Enough Musk Spam [Rant]”

I believe Photon will let you filter based on those.

So it’s possible now (apps that don’t support flairs will just have [Flair word] in the title), but it would require community rules for it. And from seeing what gets posted to a lot of communities, good luck getting people to actually read the rules before posting.

I don’t care about how long it takes to boot up, but I do care how long it takes from login to the desktop environment being usable.

Dealing with servers, I’m used to long boot up times since the low-level lifecycle management takes forever. But, once it’s booted, I expect it to be ready to go. I have no patience for “Just a moment…” or “Getting things ready” after I enter my credentials. All that shit should have been taken care of during the boot up.

Thankfully, I mostly use Linux at home/work, so that’s less of an issue, but it does make it all the worse when I have to remote into a Windows server.

I run a custom build of Nginx with a few extra modules compiled in:

• ModSecurity
  • https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity-nginx.git
  • https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity
• Nginx GeoIP2 Module (https://github.com/leev/ngx_http_geoip2_module.git)
• OWASP Core Rule Set: https://github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset/tree/v4.10.0/rules

Some guidance can be found here: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-waf/admin-guide/nginx-plus-modsecurity-waf-owasp-crs/

That guidance is for NginxPlus, but you can compile the dynamic module yourself with the community versions.

Ski Free. Came with most installs of Windows 3.0 back in the day.

When the player passes the 2,000-meter mark, the Abominable Snowman appears and starts to chase the player, eating them when it catches them.

JFC we really are at the “Paper, please” point in history, aren’t we?

Eh, those are fine for some people, but I’ve always preferred to let my instance grow organically. Basically everything that shows up here is something someone has subscribed to and wants to see. Quality over quantity and all that. I develop Tesseract and use that as the default frontend, and it makes it very easy for users to find and subscribe to communities (can browse remote instances, search them for communities, and one-click subscribe).

Saying “Luigi” or even that you agree with him: ✅ (Fine)

Using “Luigi” as a verb and/or dog-whistle call to violence (which is a TOS violation on LW and other instances): ❌ (Not Fine)

Edit: Added text in case the emojis don’t show up.

Yeah, it took me a while to fully divest from ml and get my instance subscribed to alternatives, but it’s been worth it.

hex, .ml, and ‘grad’

Yeah, OPNord has 15 support now, but just haven’t gotten around to it.

Doesn’t matter. First step would be an immigration detention facility. If there’s no country to deport her to, she just stays there, I guess. And while she’s there, might as well dig a hole, build a wall, or assemble furniture or something to cover the cost of housing her or some shit.

Oh, no, it doesn’t work that way for them. See, if a natural disaster strikes a blue city/area, it’s god doling out punishment for their wickedness. If a natural disaster strikes a red city/area, it’s god testing their faith because he loves them so much.

The real mildly infuriating is wasting resources on countless Lemmy servers with drivel from chatgpt.

You know what the bible also says, Elise?

"I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.

– 1 Timothy 2:12

Please STFU Elise Stefanik as is your biblical right, nay duty, thus sayeth your lord.

NP.

Just FYI: The Fossify suite of applications are open source / maintained forks of the Simple Mobile Tools suite before they got bought and started putting ads in the non-paid verions.

Fossify Gallery? I’ve been using it, and enjoy it. FOSS, no ads, Android 14 (Lineage 21). Granted, most of what I need to do is just basic cropping and the occasional useless red circle, but it does all that.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fossify.gallery/

Fair point. I wasn’t considering instance ethos, just relative size and federation policy.

There at least used to be, and I got royally screwed by it.

The employee hooked the wrong “orange” syrup up to the dispenser, and what I thought was 32oz of Orange Crush (caffeine free) was 32oz of some Orange energy drink. Needless to say, I was up all night and ended up having to call off work the next day because I was so exhausted and useless (I’m very sensitive to caffeine).

Probably also less common due to liability. Panera got into hot water with their highly caffeinated lemonade.