Still nothing compared to Roman design. Penises, penises everywhere.

There’s a funny candle holder in my local museum in the form of a naked man. I’ll let you imagine how the candle is being held up.

PS: The German word for candlestick is “Kerzenständer” (candle + stand). However, “Ständer” also refers to a boner, so “Kerzenständer” is the best description for that object.

With Mastodon being a German non-profit company, it’s natural that Germany is also well-represented with a federal instance social.bund.de, instance for the state of Baden-Württemberg bawü.social (both since 2020), world’s largest public broadcasters ARD ard.social and ZDF zdf.social, and AFAIK the first news publisher to officially launch its own instance, Heise social.heise.de. There are probably loads of other instances and accounts I’m missing.

PS: The production company behind ZDF Magazin Royale (late night comedy and investigative journalism show, think Last Week Tonight ) is also running a private instance edi.social and a public instance det.social, named after the Mainzelmännchen.

Did he cause the crash, or is he just ecstatic to have rescued his sewing machine order in time for the wedding?

There are a few more settings you can tweak than your standard messenger (e.g. message bubbles or timeline), but the day-to-day interaction should be fairly similar. Chat rooms allow you to chat with any number of participants. Matrix doesn’t really differentiate between “direct” chats and group chats, as you can always add more participants later. Spaces are a way to organise rooms, like a folder.

There are many different types of bridges, but the most seamless one is a type of Man In The Middle (MITM). You give the bridge full access to your other services, which allows them to copy everything to Matrix and vice versa. Naturally, this circumvents E2EE as the bridge needs to access and manipulate the content somehow (E2EE only exists up to the bridge, not the whole way to your client). The bridge can theoretically do anything, as it is a MITM. However, because most bridges are open source and you can host them yourself, the risk that unauthorised parties can gain access to the data is fairly low. If it’s hosted by a third party, you have to trust them that they won’t abuse their power.

I learned about it from the reports that too many people were sending top secret information to .ml domains instead of their official .mil counterparts.

I don’t think you can from Lemmy, but /kbin has a microblogging feature where it’s fully integrated.

Some people like cats more, because they leave you alone for most of the time and aren’t smothering you with love. Others prefer dogs, because they want to be smothered. If you go with your stereotypical tech person, they would be introverted, so more likely to be a cat person. That’s just my theory 🔬

No wonder the doctor is sweating. That guy is heating the whole room!

If AI makes art, you have more time to do something productive. Now get back to work!

Speaking of loopholes, I’d install a game engine and create all the games I want to play myself. There are a few of them on Steam and IIRC, the Switch has a game to teach game development (basically a simple game engine with tutorials), so technically it wouldn’t be cheating.

I don’t know how to categorise these types of players. If it were a board game or TTRPG, they would be casual players (e.g. the people who only heard of Monopoly), but the average playtime would make them hardcore gamers. It’s weird.

Mods are great! I’m really interested in projects like Skywin or Skyblivion. Recreating the whole modern Elder Scrolls franchise within Skyrim is just crazy.

I also like to switch between games, depending on my mood. Although, currently I’m mainly playing Cyberpunk 2077 again.

PS: I prefer the story and setting of Oblivion to Skyrim anyway, but Skyrim did improve the mechanics of the game significantly.

Is it the competitive multiplayer aspect that draws you in, or is it something else?

You just inspired me to play Stardew Valley again 😄

Honesty, it’s just a matter of framing. Don’t think about the things you’re missing, think about the things you could do. See the enormous amount of content as potential adventures you can choose to have, instead of chores you have to complete. If you miss things, that’s okay. I love games where I discover new things years later. It makes them feel much larger than they actually are.

I’ve been playing it since the beginning :P It runs surprisingly well on the Steam Deck (no stutters, crashing, etc.), although it’s best left plugged in. Unfortunately, the most recent update introduced a number of glitches again, but nothing game breaking. The story is very good, although not on the level of The Witcher series, and there are a number of interesting easter eggs and hidden quests you can find. If you can look past some of the (sometimes hilarious) bugs, it’s a very cool game. :)