Djokkum, did you see that Beehaw just defederated with us?

Edit: I just saw your post about the bot signups a few days ago. I think this was the driving force behind the defederating. But it sounds like you already have resolved the issue with removals and captcha. Beehaw said in their post that admins can email them to discuss, so maybe you can persuade them to refederate us since you’ve taken countermeasures against the bots?

The more I have read about this, the more disgusted I am. This company generally, and the CEO personally, took all sorts of shortcuts to build this thing.

The CEO stated that he didn’t want to have any ex military submarine experts as part of the team, because they were “uninspiring” and “50 year old white guys”, and he’d rather have young college grads who are inspiring. The real reason: the college grads were simply cheaper. He didn’t want to pay the ex military experts. That’s it.

The CEO lied to CBS news in their CBS Sunday morning report and told them that Boeing and University of Washington consulted with them on the design of the submersible. Both organizations told the NY Post today that they had no involvement with it. So that was a fucking lie. All he did was use the UW lab after hours.

The use of a Logitech PS3 style controller to navigate the vehicle…what the actual fuck.

Because this was a submersible in international waters, there are virtually no regulations. That needs to change. If the UN needs to draft a treaty for countries to ratify to regulate these things in international waters, then that’s what needs to happen.

TIL China has a PM.

If you truly want to see “everything”, it’s best to join a small instance that is federated with everybody. I joined an instance called Rammy. It’s nothing special in and of itself, just one guy nice enough to host the server. But I can interact with Beehaw, Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world, Lemmy NSFW, all of it. So if that’s what you want, join a small instance.

I think our generation will definitely have consoles set up in nursing homes when we are elderly. No doubt about it.

Just to give perspective on how rapacious the textbook industry has become:

When I was in nursing school (graduated in May), even though I “purchased” the textbooks, it turned out what I purchased was only a license to access the textbook through their proprietary e-reader app for the semester. As soon as the semester was over, my access to the textbook disappeared.

This is the model that the textbook companies want. No more reselling used books to even recover a small portion of funds.

This is why piracy of textbooks is thriving.

So far, the highlights for me are Super Mario RPG remake, and a new Dragon Quest Monsters installment!

Jesus, is that really what they’re using? 😳

And just to add to that, anyone who has installed Linux before knows that everything isn’t guaranteed to just work out of the box. Laptop WiFi cards, for example, frequently have driver issues. So it’s not quite as simple as OP is saying, even with PCs.

If a community doesn’t yet exist on the Fediverse for a given topic, can we create a community on Rammy, or is community creation limited to the admin?

I’ve been having trouble trying to search for [email protected], which seems to be the “main” PS5 sub. No matter how many times I’ve searched for it, I can’t get it to come up. Is anyone else able to? I haven’t had any issues searching for other communities.

Thanks for making this instance! I was originally on Beehaw, but they just defederated from lemmy.world and shitjustworks, which took away a bunch of content that I was subscribed too.

Is Rammy federated with everything? That’s all I ask for in an instance!!