boydster

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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Je suis American and only just learning some French, I'm glad you came along with better notes. Gramercy, in fact!

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Gramercy, in lieu of "thank you very much." I don't know why, but it's something from Mallory's King Arthur stories that always stuck with me and I think it deserves a revival.

ETA: for those unaware, it's a conjunction of the French gran merci, which translates the same way you probably suspect: big thanks, or grand thanks, or in other words, thank you very much

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I mean, it's not like that at all, but it's ok to not care for it still. Lemmy is a federated platform, just like Pixelfed is, and Mastodon, etc. Those would be the providers in the example from before.

Edit to add: Literally every time the word "instance" comes up in the manner noted above, it's woth regard to a Lemmy instance, or a Mastodon instance, and rarely if ever have I noticed a reference to a "fediverse instance". I have no clue where your comparison comes from.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago (11 children)

I would think the jargon would be "I chose fedia.io as my Lemmy provider," or similar for other federated platforms.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 38 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks, this is a little difficult to parse while I'm looking at my seeds uploading at ratios well over 1.00 but just the same I'm running a new VPN tunnel with port forwarding enabled to see what difference it makes.

Plex works for the people I share with outside my network. No port forwarding. I just don't get what I am not getting, and every explainer I get is basically what you posted (no offense) and it doesn't match what my experience is showing me.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You keep posting this and I haven't been using port forwarding at all but torrents keep coming through. What am I missing here? Serious question, because I do not know what I'm either doing wrong or missing out on with port forwarding and I have not been experiencing what I would call a degraded experience as far as I can tell, but there's a whole world of things that I'm entirely ignorant to.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It's as if with each passing day, Proton wakes up and chooses to wear a slightly different red flag for a cape than the one they wore yesterday. I'm obviously being hyperbolic here, but I'm also a bit upset with myself for having decided to get an annual subscription with them last November.

I've heard good things about Mullvad for VPN and Tuta for mail. I've got my own domain that I can start using with whatever mail host I land on.

I'm in the U.S. What other mail providers are people using, and what other VPN providers should I be considering?