Good news! It works! You can indeed use old backups, and it (so far) works without issue

And it is glorious!

Everything is gorgeous :)

It’s like coming home after a long trip.

I have found a bug though. Logging in to sh.itjust.works seems to cause crashes that other instances don’t (so far). Lemmy.world, ttrpg.network, and sopuli.xyz haven’t crashed at all so far. Haven’t tested any others yet since I want to take a bit to just enjoy the app.

Seriously, Dawson, thank you for this :)

Edit: found a very minor thing in the comment markdown menu. The >!spoiler!< markdown on lemmy is different than reddit uses. The >! Doesn’t work here.

Spoiler is weird on lemmy. It’s

::: spoiler

Text

:::

Supposedly. However, it doesn’t actually work at all in most apps.

The reddit >! Works in sync, but not elsewhere.

Depends on what kind of zombie you’re working with. There’s so many basic versions now that it’s impossible to be generalized in weapon choice. Ever just the split between slow and fast zombies makes it difficult.

But, if you go with the classic slow zombie ala night of the living dead, you want something like a machete in size and weight. Mobility matters in that kind of fiction, and when you start doing weapons training (regardless of origin), lighter weapons always let you move the most. Single handed weapons are almost always lighter.

Something like a katana is better reach, but you sacrifice a free hand for a bite shield with that type of zombie something to shove in their face at a bare minimum.

Baseball bats are vastly exaggerated in the damage they can do with a single hit. Living people can be killed like that because our brains are more vulnerable to coup/contracoup injury and the affects of skull traced fracture. Zombies don’t get edema or the other problems from superficial TBI, you gotta get the brain stem at least damaged. Even with Walking Dead scenarios where the zombies don’t follow human physiology, the one hit kills by a bat are bullshit. It just doesn’t work like that outside of the hand waving of fiction. And, imo, zombie apocalypse thought experiments like this should have a basis in at least semi-realistic scenarios, otherwise I’m casting magic missile every time.

So, stuff like axes and maces that would be great in war based on history fail vs zombies because you can’t reliably destroy the parts of the brain that keep zombies moving in non-magic scenarios. Not in one hit, anyway. And if you’ve ever chopped wood, you know that tool axes are not something you can swing from the “hip” with. You use gravity and muscle to make them effective. A hatchet would be better than a wood axe because at least you can kinda chop sideways with one and have a chance at a zombie finish in one hit.

Plus, if you’ve done weapon training in more than one type (even at a casual level), the bigger the weapon, the faster you run out of steam. You do a dozen reps of the same technique in iaido, and you’re feeling it. Same with kendo, and shinai are lighter than even the aluminum versions a lot of iaidoka use.

If you’re on the run, fighting zombies up close, they don’t run out of gas, but we will. And nobody has the gas to both run and swing a fire axe every time a zombie gets close without eventually exhausting themselves, and that’s a bad scenario.

You gotta remember, most swords and such weren’t used for sustained fighting historically. Infantry carried spears and polearms, and there was still attrition due to fatigue. But those aren’t good for skirmishes (which is the only smart choice vs zombies if you’re alone or in small groups). Spears work, but you’d be better off with shorter versions like the zulu are famous for. They take precision for zombies though, and that’s not ideal.

Nah, you want one handed blades with just enough weight to damage or destroy the brain stem. Nothing bigger than a machete, though you’d ideally want something with a better steel choice and less proclivity to deformation than the typical machete. You’d want to invest in a good one of those.

And, if we go after fast zombies ala resident evil, the problem gets compounded. You don’t have time for precision, but hits that slow them are useful, so you’re having to hit more often per zombie. And you’ll be doing it on the move with higher speed because you can’t just stand there and step from zombie to zombie without being swarmed hard.

Even in training with “practice” weapons, two opponents is a nightmare. Three becomes a very dangerous situation no matter how long you’ve trained. I’ve seen pretty skilled dudes with advanced training get negated by numbers of much lower ranked partners. Three is about where anyone ends up in a position where survival would be difficult if things were real

Zombies roll deep. Dozens, hundreds of the fuckers depending on the writer/scenario.

I dunno, I was up and running in five minutes. You pick an instance, you sign up, you verify the email, and you’re good to go. What server doesn’t matter much, barring it closing unexpectedly and without warning. There’s not enough users to need more than a handful.

Have you ever fucked around with any weapons? Like, not training, that’s expensive and not applicable to everything, but really taken something out to a quiet and secluded place and fucked shit up with things.

Half of what’s on there will get you killed because you can’t move them with agility and speed. Which you have to have vs multiple opponents.

Why do these always exist before the internet? We can order bullion online now. It’s almost midnight in a fairly rural area

But yeah, I know a guy that will sell certain things for cash that normally require legal hurdles. But if you show up, cash in hand, he’ll backdate things on his end. One phone call, I could buy out his stock in fifteen minutes because I’m a regular customer he trusts. He’s usually got a few hundred thousand of goods in place.

Barring that, I’m kinda screwed at this time of night.

I know a couple of farmers that would let me buy livestock in cash like this, but that’s only going to be a few thousand bucks.

I know a weed dealer that would be able to give me a few pounds if he’s got it in, but I would have to call and ask how much he has.

Do services count? If so, I’ve got an idea for a cheat lol. Hire my wife for a back rub.

So, I just took a second and sent a text to an acquaintance and explained the scenario. Turns out you can buy a car in an hour or less. It’s just a matter of paperwork to make the sale official. So, if you know a car dealer, and they have enough on their lot, you could easily get rid of most of that million in time. Most of the time wasted isn’t really necessary. If the dealer and the buyer are already on the same page with the price, you could get as many cars as you have time to sign for.

As bat shit crazy as it sounds, I don’t. I let the name “come to me”, or wait for the critter to pick its name.

It isn’t literal woowoo hippy bullshit, but it looks like or when I try to explain it lol.

But it’s a matter of letting the subconscious mind have a chance to percolate with the personality and “nature” of the pet.

But it just kind of pops into my head at some point. Might be the second I meet the animal, might be weeks later. And it never fails me because when I let that happen, the animal immediately recognizes the name as theirs. That’s held true for anything but invertebrates and most fish, even a pissy iguana and an unusually smart oscar.

What sucks is that sometimes the name isn’t very cool lol. For every shaitan and samson, there’s a sugarplum and a cricket.

Eh, if it were easier to block an instance as a user, I’d be 100% with you instead of 95%.

There are instances that are batshit crazy. Since blocking an instance as a user just ain’t possible yet, I can see why defederation before trouble gets going is useful. Once the nasty side of the internet gets snowballing, it’s much harder to manage.

Troll, or serious extremist, some things are just cancerous.

Element and fluffy. They’re kinda the default, and I don’t use matrix enough to merit hunting around

Crikey! This heah sasquatch is a hairy bugger!

Eh, mostly sms and telegram.

The only people I care about use sms, and I’ve convinced them to use telegram for thighs sms can’t do, like file sharing.

I have and use matrix for specific tasks, and I got suckered into discord for gaming and reddit. But neither get used much nowadays. There’s one discord server I stay vaguely active on because internet friends use it. Post reddit implosion, the matrix isn’t very useful since they were for mod chats and I’m only modding one sub until the end of the month, and that’s mostly solo (no need for chats lol)

Yeah, it’s decent. The aesthetics are iffy, but it works well

::: spoiler test testing

Aha! That got it. Three colons. Spoiler, then the text for the spoiler listing, an enter, n closing `::: and then it works. It doesn’t work without the enter before the spolied text, which is just confusing and annoying imo. The >! Markdown is so much better.

But! You can enter anything after the initial ::: spoiler as the text to show before clicking

It’s working on mobile browser for me, but not on jerboa. Jerboa doesn’t seem to recognize several markdown notations.

that’s a screenshot with the spoiler entry from the little triangle with an ! In it from the entry box

Edit: and the jerboa update didn’t bring full markdown support lol

Redundancy is never a bad thing

Worst, up until the current fiasco, was having told a very deeply personal and unique story, but being torn to shreds because I wrote it pretty. That meant it had to be fake.

It taught me the lesson to never waste effort on reddit.

But the best was kinda the flip side of it. Similar thing, talking about death and dying, which was a large part of professional life, and despite writing it pretty, it resonated with people and I got some really nice conversations commiserating about the way that can change you.

That’s why you duct tape them before you fuck them. You know, like hamsters or babies.

That got dark fast

I’m not seeing a problem with that statement

Legit?

Nothing. Spez may have the reins, but the board has final say. Yeah, this is all his stupidity causing the drama, but he has their backing.

Anyone new is going to have to suck their dick from the beginning, so nobody new is going to be anything but a puppet.

Mind you, they pay me enough, I’ll puppet for them :)

I tried both.