Making friends as an adult is harder than I expected, especially online. I'm hoping to meet some cool people here on Lemmy, so I'm curious how you all met your closest online friends.

Was it through a random post, a multiplayer game, or some ridiculous conversation at 2 AM? I'd love to hear how it happened!

I’m starting to get annoyed with Lemmy. None of the posts I delete seem to disappear from the internet. My profile still shows up in other communities, and everything I delete—posts and comments—still seems visible to people. It’s really annoying. Sometimes I want something to disappear for good, but it’s still there for people to read or see. Am I the only one who thought I’d actually deleted it? -_-

Okay so for example:

Playing video games: we got AI shenanigans and cost of computers rising (not just gaming computers but electronics overall), its possible that in 2030, nobody could afford a computer so the one you got could be the last one you ever have (lets hope not, but like its not impossible)

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I do wonder tho: What hobby is actually shielded from turbulent times.

@asklemmy @ask is there any lemmy platform where l can post entire blogs for people to read ?

Curious about the overlap. I wonder if its actually that much of what appears to be a consensus on Lemmy, or just a loud minority.

I switched to Linux a during the year of the Linux desktop (tm) and it's been great but I have one small issue maybe someone knows how to fix.

I have tried 4 different distros so far (currently using bazzite and kachy on two different machines) and they all do this: every time the computer restarts, numlock turns off by default. I use keyboards with a numpad and the numpads do nothing it seems unless I hit numlock first. This is compared to every windows or apple machine used previously where numlock is pressed once after buying the computer then never needs to be again.

Is this the most minor inconvenience ever? Quite possibly. But I still find myself trying to enter numbers often and being frustrated I don't notice right away. Probably doesn't help I have a bunch of them in my unlock password after every restart.

Tl:dr; how to get numlock to activate on startup

On reddit tons of people are like "hurr durr it was caused by a configuration error that propogated down causing failed health checks and remaining non-updated servers got overloaded durr" and that's the "techy" explanation.

Maybe that's enough for MS IT guys and no shade but, with e.g. crowdstrike we knew pretty quickly exactly what the cause was - an array out of bounds read because of an extra malware definitions file (or something to that effect i do not recall exactly).

It is suspect to me that this outage went on for this long, despite how much it affected, and how the recovery went along so haphazardly it seems. They are probably not done with RCA yet but i also wonder if it was a more negligent fuckup they want to keep under wraps to avoid bad rep and e.g. UK 999 system choosing a different tech corp to work with next time as some european govt agencies have already done.

What do you think?

I'm on my second year of CS on southern Spain and I want to move to another country when I get my diploma. I also have low level autism and a B2 English level, in addition to native Spanish, and in the future I'm also thinking of getting some certs.

I want to see wether place I can just have a better future and if possible to make a startup

Me personally? I did not care for Game of Thrones.

As of thirty-ish minutes ago ALL commercial air traffic in the US is grounded until further notice.

Anyone got any idea what’s going on? There are very free details about the situation I can find online right now.

Hi all!

I am a northern American gal (I know that sounds cheesy) but I visited Canada 5 months ago and I just can't stop thinking about it!! Fun fact I actually have distant relatives that are from Canada (prior to settling there were from Norway and Sweden) . I am actually very interested in the prospect of moving and settling in Canada. I am in the medical field (in the process of becoming a doctor) and really want to know the honest truths and feelings of Americans moving to Canada. It's no secret that we are a shit show. But I resent visited (only for 1 week) but I couldn't find a damn thing to dislike about the place!

If there anything to consider or opinions that I should be aware of? As much as I would like to migrate, I wouldn't want to move to a place where I would be unwanted.

BTW one of my fav bands is Fion and I CANT WAIT for them to have a concert in America so I can go.

Thank you for the honesty in advance!

so yeah... idk why most people buy flagships phones only to open tiktok, facebook, etc.

I mean does anyone actually game on their phone regularly? Like an entire pubg mobile gaming session on it?

Or is it primarily a camera thing.

Every major agricultural product has failed. Animal products aren't well sold either. American wool was an entire industry. Tobacco we know why. Alfalfa is too expensive and killing feed. Crop after crop has gone away. We have corn and soy left which we have industrialized. They make extremely low quality sugars and oils. The lowest quality of those products tbh. They're excellent for nutrition in third world countries. Not so much for developed ones and we can all look outside at our neighbors to prove that. They're huge. Obese. Horrible health markers.

The cars are overpriced and not a good product either. The manufacturers had their lunch ate in the 1980s and now they look for ridiculous margins by selling the most oversized and inefficient vehicles possible to keep themselves alive. The government is the only thing stopping their full collapse, but the consumer is still demanding small electric cars from a different country. The government can't control consumer choice.

The great wave of cannabis got zero people raised up from low wages even though it was selling like crazy.

Software engineering and hardware manufacturing are long gone and we don't need proof on that.

Music simply isn't sold on a mass scale anymore unless it's generated by a hive and sung or performed by a person who is only a prop. Absolutely zero record stores around.

Furniture? Non existent.

Clothing? Only made for Hollywood and the rest from Bangladesh or Vietnam. Haven't seen a tailor shop in a few decades.

Toys? We don't have kids that "play" anymore so toys and toy stores are long gone. Even online.

Everything my eyes point to was made better somewhere else. I think it's time to admit that the system won't get us ahead. It's not doing anything for anybody. Give it whatever name you want but its our system and it doesn't work.

Been thinking about this and want to know if it bugs anyone else.

It's crazy to me that Twitter, Reddit and Facebook all cut off API access and people just went quiet on it. There was noise and complaints but no solutions. Usually when stuff like this gets locked down a counterculture shows up around it. Workarounds, open alternatives, people who make it their thing to keep it open. Like file sharing or ad blockers.

That didn't really happen this time and I can't figure out why. With all the propaganda and fake stuff out there right now, wouldn't being able to see what's spreading be important to understand? And isn't them shutting it down a pretty large signal that it is important?

Maybe there's a boring explanation I'm missing. But the part that gets me is the other possibility, that there's some kind of suppression force we might not even be aware of.

Is that terrifying to anyone else or am I overthinking it? Just curious what people who were around for it think.

My cars always just had a lever for how hot you want the car to get. These new cars have specific temperatures you can set. What do you set it at for heat?

Bonus points for examples from English and bonus points for any personal stories.

Linus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi. If you've ever watched a Peanuts cartoon, you've heard it, but have you ever listened to the whole thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zypc_LhnM