I built my first (and so far only) ebike in 2013. Thing was a death trap (did not upgrade the brakes 🤦‍♂️) but I loved it, and it was crazy fun to ride.

Lived too far to e-bike to work but would bring it with me to do around-town errands on breaks at work. Every time I had to park it outside to run into a store, I felt exactly like the meme. The battery alone was $700 sitting out in the open.

More often than not: “OP deletes account and content, haha suckers”

The sign of a quality meme is me feeling both attacked and validated at the same time lol. Well done.

I do a spam sweep every morning and follow that up with a look at the modlog from overnight. If an account is actioned a lot or for some egregious things, I’ll review its profile and modlog history to see what else they’re up to and decide if that’s someone that should be kept around or given the boot.

Honestly all admins should do that.

Hell, half of Tesseract’s feature set was built around making it easy to do that kind of cross checking without having a bunch of tabs open or losing your original place in the app. So if you’ve ever wondered why you can do so much from the modals when you click on a user, community, or whatever, that’s why.

Are screenshots of other platforms like Reddit, X, Bluesky ‘off topic’? Or, do they count as memes?

I’m not a fan of them but they’re not something I would report as off-topic. But given the chance to voice an opinion on them, I’d say they’re more appropriate for the “people Twitter”-style social-media inception communities.

2. Does a meme require an attempt at humor?

I would say yes. I don’t subscribe here to be preached at. But there’d be some potentially awkward judgement calls for the purposes of enforcing that.

3. What about news? (What if a headline is funny?)

There’s !nottheonion@lemmy.world and similar for those and news/politics permeates everything. It’s nice to have a place away from that.

4. Is an image required? Should a picture of text (not from another platform) be removed?

That’s a tough one. I’ve seen pictures of book text being presented, but that often (but not always) bumps up against #2 (attempt at humor)

From federated user to the community’s local instance, yes. From the community’s local instance to federate) mod accounts, no.

They’re apparently still not except from Piefed. (Thanks PoVoq for clearing that up).

Well shit. You’re right. All those reports I got were from Piefed users only.

What’s Lemmy’s excuse?

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I remember both of those going downhill in real time but the one that hit me the hardest was Discovery Channel. One day it was Bill Nye, Mythbusters, Shark Week, and science documentaries and the next it was Pawn Stars, Swamp Loggers, and American Chopper. At least we got a nice meme template out of that last one.

Fuck it, it’s Christmas Tuesday.

Not before sleep, but sometimes I’ll wake up from a dream with a deep feeling of inspiration. On the few times I’ve written down what I dreamed and thought was so insightful/promising/solution to a problem, I read it in the morning and was like “this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read”.

I’ll have to check for that.

For work, the only thing I typically configure via the console is the iDRAC settings and do everything else from there. But in my homelab, I’ve got a bunch of late model Optiplex USFF PCs (rising electricity rates forced me to downsize from the PowerEdges I used to run). Configuring a recent batch of those was a complete exercise in frustration, and I don’t recall seeing anything like an advanced mode listed, but TBH, I wasn’t looking for it either.

First of all, take my upvote because the meme is funny and I’m definitely the old guys at the bottom.

As for modern UEFI config utilities, they are, IMO, a huge step backwards in usability. Yeah, modern UEFI configuration utilities look flashy and provide more context / capabilities / help info, but most are a nightmare to actually use and practically force you to use a mouse.

Which would be…fine, I guess, if all mice were treated equally or consistently. Most don’t respond to the scroll wheel, so you’re dragging the scroll bar like a neanderthal. Some mice work fine, others will only move the cursor around a small area of the screen, some only move in the Y axis, some only in the X axis, some mice move the cursor at a glacial pace, others zoom it at something approaching light speed and basically just teleport the cursor from one edge of the screen to the other. And a mouse that works fine to configure a Dell may or may not work fine with an HP or even a different Dell. It’s just an obnoxious crapshoot that shouldn’t exist when we have standardized HID specs for input devices like mice.

Even on laptops, the UEFI config is often a PITA to use with the built-in pointing device(s). e.g. My ThinkPads treat the touchpad and trackpoint very differently, and neither is comfortable to use, just differently awkward.

Using the keyboard is also annoying since it’s similar to navigating in a regular GUI and having to tab through every checkbox to get to the next settings section. And (at least) Dell UEFI designers freaking love their massive arrays of checkboxes.

To wrap up my “old man yells at cloud” diatribe, I’ve always appreciated function over form and generally prefer a good TUI to a flashy GUI.

I like the energy, but I don’t think that’s a thing lol.

Uh, a good chunk of that is non-Americans posting just to shit on Americans. And I take offense to your sweeping generalization.

I mean, I added that feature to Tesseract long before any other app did 🤷‍♂️

[Dons my hipster hat] I was silently judging before it was cool lol.

How was the satellite

This was pre-Starlink, so kind of crappy. Bandwidth was decent for the time at 12 Mbps (I think upstream was 3?) and the latency was what it was (~900ms round trip). The draconian 10 GB data caps were what got you, though.

You could RDP in a pinch to put out a fire, but you would not want to be working remotely over it on a daily basis.

When I commented, I completely missed the 2007 part. Was thinking back to Napster / Kazaa days.

I had 128k DSL in 2007 (I think it was called iDSL or something because it was the same line rate as ISDN but could reach further than regular DSL – I lived out in the boonies).

Between then and 2019, I struggled with various connection methods: worsening DSL, satellite, and 3G). Best I managed was a cell phone signal booster and an old phone with semi-unlimited data where I got a steady ~5 Mbps at a reasonable latency on 3G.

In 2020, right before COVID hit, I finally moved to civilization and had decent cable until I got fiber 2-3 years ago.

Oh, and yeah, we had very similar broadband grants to nowhere. The fiber I got in 2022 was likely what we paid for in 2015.

yeah…I had to earn by gigabit fiber.

Bonus stat: Your dad picked up the phone 7 times while you were doing the internet.

In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

— Terry Pratchett

— Michael Scott