Another one: steam has some sort of multiplayer integration for devs, so they don’t need to host their own servers and you don’t need to expose ports; instead you can add people using your steam friends. Found this out to my sadness when I bought risk of rain 1 on Gog and the multiplayer was completely gutted compared to my friend who bought on steam.

Microsoft

Ooh can I suggest games? There are definitely a bunch that are great to play sitting down, or standing up but in place. I haven’t bought new VR games since alyx came out, but I def have plenty

Not an expert by any means, but I’d guess that has to do with the distinction between being on top of something, and having boarded something. You are on top of a (small) boat or motorcycle, but within a car. These examples refer to position. You can be both in or on a bus, plane, or yacht, because you have boarded the bus, plane, or yacht, and thus are “on” it, but are located physically within the vehicle and so are also “in” it (in the case of a yacht, that may depend on whether you’re inside it or on top of it). These examples refer to both position and state of existence.

This is totally conjecture so I’d be very curious to hear from an actual expert.

I’m shocked no one else pointed this out. This isn’t a rule of grammar — this is a style rule, which isn’t actually part of the English language. Different style guides recommend different things. This happens to be specifically delineated by American/Canadian style guides vs British/Australian style guides; however anyone could publish a style guide. If USA Today decided to make and publish a style guide that they used in their articles that said there should be periods both within and after a quote, that would be valid by that styleguide.

Do you say hetips for HTTPS?

No but now I want to start (though I’d go hittips instead, and its insecure alternative, hittip). HTTPS has always been a mouthful lol

Some excellent content this week. Some of my highlights:

• Plex continues its BS, alienating the users who want to actually use their product
• Fun “fediverse for dummies” writeup

Some really good content in there this week!

• The Plex monetization continues to be concerning, although it’s a good thing they’re almost profitable
• Cloudflare security breach was interesting to read about
• Morphos server seems like good software - I never thought of self hosting a file converter, but I’m always so sketched out by the free online ones
• Might finally set up tailscale, who knows!
• Never heard of watch - always thought I had to write a watcher (e.g. with a node library). That’s massively useful honestly

This made me go down a rabbit hole of server names and I now have a super long list of names from mostly Greek mythology that I’m going to use next time I have a chance

You should reach out to the creators and let them know! https://selfh.st/contact/

FYI user mentions in Lemmy are done with an @ not /u/, e.g. @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml

Not exactly what you’re asking for, but GhostText might be useful. It lets you use your preferred text editor to write in any browser text field.

Sucks about VMWare, that’s a blow for sure

It is running 0.18.5, you can see at the bottom of the lemmy.world homepage

So happy about the performance fixes for comment images, makes such a huge difference!

Whoa, just looked them up. That’s an unimaginable size difference. She must be like a doll to him…

I don’t remember exactly, it was around 2 years ago. It was easy to set up, but I found the feature set to be lacking some essentials, and I ran into a couple of big bugs. Couldn’t really replace my airtable setup yet. Happy to give it another try though!

Anyone used NocoDb recently? Last time I tried to get it running, it was too buggy to be useful

You mean Squarespace? https://support.google.com/domains/answer/13689670

Update: I finally installed RYOT, and wow is it slow, and resource intensive. It’s using more than 20% of the CPU on my NAS when it isn’t even open! Might switch to Media Tracker…