jgrim

I bought the game on eBay and have been playing it on my newly modded Gameboy Advance. IPS screen, new case & buttons. It's very nice; I'll post a picture later.

It's not explained too well on what's best to battle with. How do I know when to use an electric vs. fire without trial and error? Or is that the point?

I wonder how people figured this out before the internet was so huge.

I'm struggling to stay interested in the game. I couldn't quite figure out the purpose until later in the game... got to catch them all. But catching them all is just kinda boring to do. Maybe it's because I'm 37 and not 12 haha.

Today is a good day. I'm feeling talky... what's going on?

It's time to winterize my Miata. Makes me so sad when she goes into hibernation. I drive her daily if the weather isn't too bad and I don't need extra room.

Is anyone else winterizing?

This is the first of the monthly financial reports. This one is short and sweet; I'll provide more details next time.

These costs include hosting for:

1. discuss.online (lemmy)
2. discuss.online (matrix)
3. wiki.discuss.online (open wiki)
4. utter.online (mastodon)
5. social.photo (pixelfed)
6. Sublinks.org (sublinks)
7. participating.online(wiki)

Expenses for November

• Hosting: $575.32
• Github: $436.16
• Email: $21.45
• Total: $1,032.93

Income for November

• OpenCollective: $65
• Patreon: $15.11
• Total: $80.11

Year-to-date

• Year-to-date total expenses: $4,087.63
• Year-to-date total income: $454.77
• Year-to-date balance: -$3632.86

Donations... if you can spare it

• Patreon
• OpenCollective

Lemmy doesn't provide any analytics. Give this post a like and/or comment if you use this instance. I'm trying to gauge usage by humans.

I'll let this census run for about a week to gauge usage.

Results might cause different changes to the services.

I'm doing this because the cost of running this instance is higher than most other instances due to reliability and disaster recovery implementations. I'm curious if I should back down many of these costs if we're not used fully. I don't see much activity directly in this instance.

I know that discuss.online wasn't listed on join-lemmy.org for about a month due to a bug with the Lemmy crawler. They just recently fixed it with their redesign. We are now listed but no longer featured.

tl;dr; is this instance dying? Let me know if you're here.

I haven't watched any of their videos since all that came out. Have they mentioned any impact on their business after all that came out?

I usually update right away to the latest versions of stuff; however, I’m afraid that things will break. Apple has been making greater and greater changes each release that are breaking stuff I’ve used for years.

For example, the GPGTools won't work on Sonoma. See: https://gpgtools.org/sonoma

We are running the latest release candidate for Lemmy, version 0.19.0-rc.1. This release candidate includes many changes.

Every release comes with its own challenges; however, it resolves previous ones. We hope this release will resolve a longstanding issue with sync not working, causing a lot of manual work from the admins to keep things in sync.

Please let us know if you experience any weird behavior.

Some known issues so far are:

• HTML entities characters in posts bodies (Changing & to &)
• The spoiler tag crashes the site if used in the sidebar
• Mobile apps are borked again

Update 10/25/2023

• We are now running release candidate 3.

I see a habit of people downvoting every post from the Youtube auto-posting bot. This bot posts each video from select LTT Channels when they are released.

I've noticed a habit of people downvoting them all. I assume from the issues brought to light. I'm not sure that downvoting is productive, as it may not represent the actual quality of the content.

I'm not a fan of brigading but I'm also not a fan of posting content that no one wants to see.

Please, leave your comments on how you feel about the posting bot.

Thanks, Jason

Let’s have a two-week contest for a new community banner!

The current banner on this community is a photo I took. I want to open it up to community members to submit a photo. You can put your logo in the corner or a link to your site.

You can vote to keep the current one; however, I’d love to rotate the community one monthly with a monthly contest.

Submit your photos to this thread. The photo with the most votes will be made the banner.

The content ends at the end of this month. The winner will be made the banner for September. Mid-September, we’ll start the contest for October, etc.