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Joining Pavel in the 2024 class are:
Shea Weber
Jeremy Roenick
Natalie Darwitz (US Women's National team forward)
Krissy Wendell-Pohl (US Women's National team forward)
David Poile (builder category)
Colin Campbell (builder category)

Congrats to the Magic Man!

Hey everyone, I recently acquired the 4k77, 4k80, and 4k83. However, the 4k80 one looks grainy. 77 and 83 look clear in comparison. Did I just get a bad copy, or does 4k80 have issues?

Hello Citizens! Has anyone tried Virpil and VKB flight sticks in Linux? Will the software run in Wine to configure the sticks? Looks like SC itself will run in Proton, so the next step is peripherals.

How about head tracking with TrackIR or Tobii?

Been a while so I checked in on PlutoTV to see how it looks after being bought out, and it seems they got rid of all their geeky and quirky channels. Now the majority of their channels are dedicated to one show instead of a genre. The train channel for instance was always relaxing and fun to chill. I don't see any of the tech channels they used to have. Anyone know if those channels are still around on another service? I noticed the Plex Live TV channels are mostly dedicated to one show instead of a genre, so I'm not sure if this is an industry wide change. Too bad, PlutoTV seemed like the 90s cable niche channels before the major networks bought them all out and turned them into reality TV dumping grounds.

So if they don't release Pyro at CitizenCon, how far out can they say it will be released without being yet another 2018 announcement?

If they say sometime next year, count on at least 5 years. They really need to be CLOSE with the way they've hyped Pyro.

Are we going to block Meta's Threads.net? I get it if people want to keep things open. However, Meta is a proven bad actor. They claim they didn't put in ActivityPub because it was too complicated to get it done at launch, and they can't get EU approval of their service because of the rampant and invasive data they gather. IMHO, they are going to attempt to muscle the fediverse out of the equation.

This evening as I'm browsing Lemmy, I'm getting nostalgic for the other, past experiences of something new and rough around the edges. I open a tab to We Distribute, and find an article on Radio Free Fedi.

I read it and click the link to Radio-browser.info. I click around exploring some music. Notice there is a Home-Assistant integration. Then I fire up my instance of Home-Assistant to install it. LOL, I already have it installed. I click around exploring radio stations. I'm reminded of the early internet days of icecast streams playing in Winamp. New, exciting, rough around the edges. I pull at threads of memory.

I browse to SomaFM and fire up Groove Salad in WinAmp. I listen, I chill, I pull at threads farther back. I pick up my Kindle and open up the book, Neuromancer. Reading, grooving, chilling. I'm remembering a past that didn't quite exist, reading about an imagined 80s future that never quite came to be. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

Noticed my memory usage steadily increasing when I leave my Lemmy tab open after interacting with everything. I'm using Firefox on Win10.

There is a GitHub issue on it here. If you're even slightly tech savvy, keep an eye on your memory usage and see if you can reproduce it. So far it looks like a Firefox/Lemmy issue on both Windows and Linux. But keep and eye out even if you don't use Firefox.

If you do run across it, please report it in the link above.

Edit: Forgot to add, the workaround is to close your Lemmy tab in Firefox, and wait for the memory use to be cleaned up (~20 seconds), then you can re-open it.

Ahhh, had a night of rain and thunderstorms. This morning it is cool, crisp, with a feeling of the air cleansed. Sipping warm, comforting coffee like it is going to be a good day.

How's your Friday starting/ending/I'mtimezonehandicapped? :P