To me that's a benefit. Stays steady on the hob.

Same. Goes to show how much thought and care has been put into it.

For some reason decided to give Kenshi a shot. Big mistake. What a timesink!

FWIW - starting a reply allows you to copy the original text.

OpenRC represent!

That shitstain has been such a shitstain for at least 14 years!

For those already owning one - try setting up pihole or an equivalent. Sony could be serving ads from a domain used by something like a cdn, but I bet they don't.

Will try to catch up on sleep. That hand mouth foot nastiness is finally behind, hopefully.

You won't win this one here. Lemmy is disappointingly facebook-like in terms of their seemingly endless desire to be told what to do every step of their lives.

I realise the numbers are sort of made up, but in general I fully agree. I do sometimes think that politicians regulate for the sake of it, as if justifying their existence.

What is it about owls that make them so adorable? 🤩

At The Moment

Of all the things you could've said you chose one of the dumbest.

It's easy to shit on everything, so I'll try to avoid doing that.

I do genuinely not understand the blind "minimum wage should be this" angle. All raising the minimum wage does is raise expenses for everything. It's pretty much like fuel costs: price of fuel goes up - your bakery, pharmacy, grocer, etc all raise prices and in the end it is those on the lowest income that get impacted the most.

A bit of a mind dump:

• Most of us live in a capitalist system. You can dislike it all you want, but as someone who's seen what happens when ownership is shared, everyone is equal, a cook should be able to run a country - fuck that. I'll take bad capitalism over that nonsense any day.
• Everyone should strive to improve themselves. Every day. Doesn't have to be monetarily driven improvement - it's the mindset of constant improvement that I want. And when that happens - aiming for minimum wage becomes a thing of the past.
• Everyone is not equal. Everyone must be given equal opportunity. We're good at different things, we absolutely suck at different things. Doesn't mean we're bad/wrong/mistreated if we try those things. What is wrong, however, is someone claiming they deserve something (great salary) when they suck at doing whatever they're doing. Just go do something else; preferably something you're good at.
• Deep inside - we're apes. We need to keep ourselves busy as otherwise brain starts overcompensating for lack of activity and we end up being idiots on the internet. Given enough time that leads to us being idiots outside the internet as well.
• Mental health issues are real. They're abused waaaay too much as an excuse to rot in the basement. Been there, done that. Start small, increment daily. Small, iterative steps. Everything takes time. Your choice on what gets your spend.

I do see a bit of a correlation of slow modlog and scheduled tasks being run at the same time, but even with that it loads in 20-30 seconds. Which - yes - is atrocious, but at least it fits into tcp timeouts. 5 minutes is straight up mental, can't say why that's happening, yet.

I believe it's been re-stickied now!

I have seen a similar problem reported on sh.itjust.works matrix chat - in their case what helped was toggling the sticky post. I'll ask there to do that for this community. You might also want to reach out to mods directly - they might get to do it sooner.

Supposedly this is a known federation bug, but I haven't seen a bug report mentioned.

Alright, a quick update - I have decided to throw a bit more money at lemmy. Database VM has been upgraded from a single core 2GB RAM to dual core 4GB RAM.

The inbound votes are also somewhat funny. Do people outside lemmy.cafe think that it's slow? Did they miss the sub and thought it was about their instance?

In general - lemmy software is very alpha. It's also possible I have done something wrong on the setup side, however unlikely. I don't want to send any users away, but if you do get fed up with lemmy.cafe - would please let me know at some point if the other instance is substantially better? I could reach out to the admins and ask about their setup.

I'm aware it's not the fastest, but there's only so much spare money I can throw at the problem. Lemmy is unreasonably resource intensive for baseline functionality.

Nexus 5 represent!