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I'd have probably thought the same thing except a group of girls played/sang it during the high school talent show, so I already knew it was a real song.

FWIW, they did a kickass cover of it.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

Unrelated to the thread, but love your username (took me a minute to get it)

Also, yeah, love the "good intentions until proven otherwise" attitude. Two years here have nearly beaten that out of me (despite me knowing better).

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

I'm the dev of Tesseract.

New accounts have badges that show their age if they're between 0 and 30 days old (among other tricks up my sleeve)

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

LOL, please tell me there's a "let's play" of that

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

Gracias!

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

I didn't say I had a problem with any of that. But spinning up a burner, posting, and deleting everything afterward takes other people's conversations with it (and those don't currently come up in search results because the post is deleted). Granted that's a platform limitation, but it is what it is. Posting from various alts but leaving things intact...go for it.

Imagine being a legit new user and being shunned because your account is not 30 days old.

That's part of my complaint against the ones doing that "hit it and quit it" bullshit; it makes people wary of interacting with new accounts.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

Not a shit meme at all ! In fact, I want to convert that to ASCII art and have it as the MOTD when I sudo -i or console in as root.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

Having had to manually white-balance the cameras in broadcast journalism classes in college, I love this question. Wish I knew the answer, but commenting so I will remember to check back in.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

Often, they just spin up a disposable account, post, and delete the whole account w/content after they're done. It's annoying AF and incredibly selfish. For a while, it was the same person doing it, though not sure if that's still the case.

Regardless, those people have ruined things for everyone (especially legit new users) and I will not engage with accounts newer than 30 days. Lemm.ee evacuation notwithstanding, I kinda wish other people took a similar stance and maybe these people will knock that off.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

I worked at a Walmart in college, so...yes.

I guess my favorite one (meaning it was more funny than aggravating) was this lady trying to return a Nintendo Wii. She said it was broken and wanted to exchange it (so far, so good). She said she lost the receipt (later claiming it was a gift), but for an exchange, that's usually not an issue (we record the serial numbers for things like video game consoles, computers, etc and those are tied to the transaction which lets us pull up the sale info).

So, we scan the serial number, and it's not in our system. This could mean one of two things:

It's stolen
It didn't come from our store

So, to rule out #1, we sent the serial number to the loss prevention people to see if it was on their report. (It wasn't.)

But we didn't even have to wait for them to respond because I took a look at the box, and it clearly came from GameStop (had their stickers on the opposite side).

So I tell her that this console wasn't purchased here, and she needs to take it back to Game Stop for service.

She did not like that. At all.

She demanded the manger, who, thankfully, was nearby. Manager took one look at her, got on the radio, and seconds later all three loss-prevention people came out of their little security room and escorted her out (with her yelling obscenities / threatening lawsuits the whole way).

Apparently she was a frequent-flier who had already been banned from the store (and neighboring stores) for return fraud.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

For me, if I can reach it, it's "here". If I can't reach it without moving, it's "there".

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

Family Guy: Star Wars Elevator Music

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

Yeah, that's me failing to update the readme. lol. Good catch.

The CORS handler / upload proxy was removed completely a good while ago (I think in 1.4.0 when I dropped support for 0.18.x API). I'll make a note to myself to clean up the readme.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

Depends on your definition of "phone app". I use it on my phone as an installed webapp (Add to home screen on iOS / Install on Android). Look and feel-wise, it's indistinguishable from an "app" app. Only thing it lacks is system notifications (which may or may not be a dealbreaker for some).

Lemmy World runs an instance of it, but it's locked to .world.

I run an unlocked hosted instance at https://tesseract.dubvee.org/ which is configured to allow login to any Lemmy server.

Selfhosting is also an option; I believe it also works fine from localhost (there used to be issues uploading images, but I think that went away as of 0.19.0).

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 6mo ago

Can confirm, but depending on the VPS, your traffic may only be metered in one direction. Mine only meters egress, not ingress, so it's not too bad if I want to use my media server.