Reddit never banned me, and yet here I am.

Maybe there’s something missing in your analysis?

That… doesn’t really explain anything, but good luck anyway.

What made you choose this particular community to post your story?

It sounds more like you want to create a new community on an existing instance.

Setting up a new community can be as easy as clicking the new community button and filling in the fields.

Setting up a whole instance of Lemmy (like lemmy.world, which you’re on, or aussie.zone, which I’m on) is way more involved than you’re probably thinking - buying a domain name, figuring out hosting, installing the Lemmy software, and a whole lot more.

Why would you post this article here, in this community?

Did you cross-post your blog to the wrong place?

OK, follow-up question: what does ‘lovies’ mean?

What is this and how is it relevant to the community you’re posting in?

I like using word association as a game. It’s quick to learn, doesn’t need any equipment, and it’s no problem to join or leave the table whenever you like.

Try to get from some word (eg HOME) to some other word (eg SUMMIT) taking only small, obvious steps.

Each step should make a pair of terms that “obviously” fit together. They can fit together because they sound similar (HOME -> ROAM), or they are written similarly (HOME -> HOLE), or have an obviously-related meaning (HOME -> AWAY)… anything that makes sense to the group.

You can take turns around a circle. When it’s your turn, you announce the next link. If anyone thinks the link isn’t small enough or obvious enough, they can object and you’ll need to pick a different link. Then it’s the next person’s turn.

You can play competitively if you like (the person to reach the target word wins) but it also works fine without announcing a winner.

In a technical context, yes, a GIF refers to a specific image format. However, plenty of people now use “gif” to mean any short soundless video loop, regardless of how that video is stored.

It’s silly, but I can see how it happened.

And now the cropping is fixed, so the comments deriding the cropping don’t make sense anymore.

Those caps are meant to affect the way you read it.

In this post, the capital letters (plus the “How To”) suggest a title, like a book or something.

What does Willow (1986) have to do with data? Isn’t it, like, a sword-and-sorcery fantasy movie?

Oh I bet there’s a character with a name that sounds like the word “data”.

[email protected] discussed long-term storage:

https://mander.xyz/post/26896717

(dunno if linking to a post is going to work, let’s see)

Syncthing may not have its own Web-based file browser but a regular Web server (like Apache or ngninx) can show a list of files in a directory without much configuration. Just point it at a shared folder. You could configure a fancier file browser like Filestash, File Browser Quantum, or even Nextcloud if you feel it’s worthwhile.

Likewise, Syncthing may not have its own concept of a “main” hoster, but it doesn’t need to: you can decide what “main” means to you. Perhaps the one you designate “main” has different ignore patterns, or a longer retention policy.

“Keeping some files remote” can be simply making sure your ignore patterns are set how you want them, if that works for you.

I like it!

Quesadilla looks like there’s room to mangle it further:

KWEZZ-ah-dill-ah

or even

kwe-SADD-l’a

like there was saddle in there

MODE=0022 sounds like user perms are different from group and other.

0022 in octal perms corresponds to u=rwx, g=rx, o=rx.

I don’t know if udev “MODE” is the relevant thing here but you could try 0002 so the user part and group part are the same.

Do you mean you want to put the resulting image files into a particular folder on your computer?

I would have thought anything to do with folders and stuff is up to your scanning software, not the scanning device.

Is it possible for a game to read two mice separately? Sure. It’s not common, but it’s possible.

The game “Lemmings” was ported everywhere in the early 1990s, but the original Amiga version supported two mice at the same time (two mice, two players, two cursors).

That’s a rare example of a game that designed in some support for two mice, and that support was specific to one platform.