This is an option.

The problem is, while faster on paper, its not really any faster than my 3090, especially in spots where I need its performance most. It’d be a downgrade.

I could get a second 3090, I guess, and have some redundancy in case one fails. But I’m on an ITX board with 1 slot.

I’d be WAY more interested in a roughly equivalent 9000 series or Battlemage card, but alas, there is none.

Yeah, this is generally my philosophy. I have exactly 1 user blocked, as well as a pure bot community or two.

But the problem for me is magnitude. With its sheer number of upvotes, /c/politics is blotting out my sun, reducing diversity; it does no good leaving it in my feed.

Oh, I know. I bought my previous GPUs in the peak of cypto busts.

But I need 24GB… My plan was to eventually buy a used 4090 when they get cheaper, or 24GB Intel/AMD card. But it doesn’t feel like AMD/Intel are interested in big GPUs anymore, and the 4090 just keeps going up in price.

Eh. Firefox is fine.

The only FF fork I’ve ever used for some time is Cachy Browser, as it shipped with my distro and was ostensibly amore optimized. But even they depreciated it in lieu of vanilla Firefox.

And Firefox gets faster security patches anyway.

I’m more interested in Chrome forks because it’s Google spyware. And, as much as I don’t like it, I find Chromium-based browser to be faster. That doesn’t matter so much on desktop, but the difference is pretty dramatic on Android.

Ungoogled Chromium does not support full uBlock Origin. Last I checked, it wont auto-update itself on Windows without a 3rd party tool, and I remember it having some other “quirks” from the stuff it strips out. The delay for security updates seems pretty minimal, too.

And personally, I like the bangs feature, now that I’m using Orion on iOS anyway.

But its based on ungoogled-chromium, so if you prefer to use upstream, that makes a lot of sense. Helium’s main pitch seems to be an “easier to install” ungoogled chromium anyway.

Orion syncs cross platform, DuckDuckGo does as well. And I believe you can sync with extensions.

So I FOMO bought an SSD and SD card when all this started.

Not regretting it.

…But now I’m considering hoarding a spare GPU. Is that nuts? I don’t need it, I don’t want to hoard, but If my old Ampere card suddenly dies, is it gonna take $2000 to replace?

I like Lemmy as a “zoo”

I like seeing nuts and weirdos and niches and stuff when I scroll by. It feels like the old internet. And I also find that lemmy.ml has good discussions outside tankie politics, so I don’t want to block that out.

Problem with the main political subs is that they’re so big they flood post sorted by Active, Rising, or New Comments. Their tabloid garbage crowds everything else out.

Imagine where Epic would be if they had just censored Tim Sweeney’s Twitter account.

It’s like he’s hell bent on driving people away from Epic. I’m not sure I could be more abrasive if I tried, without losing the plausible deniability of not trying to troll.

Orion is mobile. So is Cromite.

DDG is pretty good too. I like its approach, with a UI that encourages whitelisting sites.

Supernatural and Smallville were… too long. I can’t even remember where I dropped them, but it was way too far in already.

I do have a hotter take:

NATLA (Netflix Avatar, the last Airbender) is fine. It’s not bad! It’s like an AU with scenes we never got to see.

I see some people rage that they suffered through the whole season, and don’t get the fuss.

That’s not universally true. What about Fallout, The Boys, Invincible, Vox Machina/Mighty Nein? And more that escape my mushy brain.

Andor is a slooooow burn. But worth it.

I’m watching it with my Dad, who hasn’t seen it, and he almost fell asleep more than once in the first half. It’s slow. It’s dense. But it’s setup; those details come back.

Like others said, you have to watch the prison episodes. If you don’t like it after that, you can definitely drop it.

This is fair.

Firefly is straight up my alley, and I liked it, but it’s not in my top sci fi TV.

It’s addictive. It’s not like I haven’t steeped in it either.

This is what I keep hammering; people can’t help themselves, especially under stress. Perverse engagement incentives need to be fixed structurally to give us a fighting chance, otherwise Lemmy/Piefed will end up like Voat and all the other Reddit clones.

On the contrary, I’ve made a few (not a ton) of what I thought were interesting news posts, but they don’t seem to gain traction.

I think the deeper issue is ragebait works, very well. The community seems to be content with that, and Lemmy/Piefed devs aren’t structuring the site the counter it.

I have some posts/interests that I think would get some visibility. In my case, it really is executive dysfunction, heh.

Not that you’re wrong. And, unfortunately, its a ludicrously profitable highway outside of the Fediverse.

Lemmy doesn’t assume anything. Sorting is done by votes or activity from all communities; the intent is for the user to subscribe to communities to curate their feed. But blocking works too.

I don’t know precisely how Reddit works now, but it used to be like that as well. There was no interest algorithm, no suggestions, other than a bit of vote count nonlinearity. It just had the quirk of defaulting to a few select subs in “hot,” instead of “all” like most Lemmy/Piefed instances do.

Yeah. The .world news community mods don’t seem to care about clickbait, misinformation, calls for violence or doxxing or rape, as long as they’re the “correct” politics. Calling for Ivanka Trump to get shot? Serious deepfake meme? Perfectly acceptable, apparently, in spite of the admins’ pushback.

But make a comment like yours, and the moderation is… that.

I haven’t even blocked the tankie communities or anything, but I had to block /c/politics, as they’re so active they pollute my feed.

I’m fine with leaving that part of Lemmy permanently blocked though.

Yeah. We have monkey brains, and overcoming intertia is hard.

I think the site could be better structured to address this, specifically by organizing communities into a “taxonomy,” so posts from niche interest automatically filter up into bigger subs. Thus, participation would feel easier/more enaging, and folks would have more focused and active niches to participate in.

Making that suggestion on the Lemmy/Piefed repos is on my messy todo list.