Now that the email’s been swapped over, is the warning on the aussie.zone sidebar still needed?

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Yeah but AMD’s performance claims are a coinflip of “approximately true” or “complete bullshit”, so until the third-party reviews are done there are no useful performance numbers available X_X

I didn’t realize the count of active users was that low, though whether I should really consider that a positive or a negative overall is a bit unclear haha.

I guess my biggest gripe is that I was sold the premise of “be the change you want to see” in terms of getting a community more active. I’m something like a thousand posts later and it’s not clear whether all that effort made much of a difference. Looking at the front page (default sorting) from a year ago and engagement is only up modestly. It’s good that it’s up rather than down I suppose, but I kinda thought there’d be more peeps pitching in by now, even if it was just a handful of hardcore talent-specific fans posting exclusively about that respective talent.

Onlookers probably see my activity here and think I’m some kind of hardcore fan completely immersed in holo, but I identify as a hardcore casual fan, and don’t usually follow things that closely unless it’s for a specific reason like when I’ve been finding stuff to post. If the community was already moderately active before I got here, I’d probably only post a little - I just stepped up because I wanted an active community to participate in without resorting to reddit/xitter/discord for it. (plus I already have a history in fanart communities, so starting out just sharing recent fanart that I liked was easy enough)

It feels hard to discuss it without coming across as pretty whingy, but if all the effort seems to barely move the needle, it does make me wonder if it’s worth it. And while it really is nice that you (and I’m sure some others!) appreciate it perhaps more than I do, doing it does suck up a not-trivial amount of time and effort from other things I want to do - things where I actually know that at the end I can get the result I want (which as above is unclear here). It’s hard to find the time to do things like make an entire poorly-optimized shitpost-website anymore :(

I do kinda worry that if some unknown threshold of post diversity isn’t reached then people won’t find the “sub” useful (that’s why ages back I diversified away from just posting mostly fanart), but since I’m not satisfied with the status quo right now either, I guess I might just scale back for a while and see how it goes.

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Well now I kinda am proper-back, but looking back on the under-a-rock period and it’s still almost just MentalMoe MentalEdge and me - idk, it’s a bit disheartening that if the two of us (and I guess hal_5700X in third place) all got hit by a bus the posting activity would die with us, even in a community of >1000 people. Somehow we seem to be doing worse than the 1% rule, which is already not a very high bar. Maybe it’s hard to compete with the presumably-numerous Discord communities :(

RIP squishies, we barely knew ye

So far I thought the change would be two 3D tiles on the 16 and 12 core products, given the last gen struggle.

Apparently that’s happening too, it’s just news (still unconfirmed, afaik?) from a month ago: https://www.techpowerup.com/327057/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d-and-9900x3d-to-feature-3d-v-cache-on-both-ccd-chiplets

The XT I guess I can understand, but I’m kinda surprised they bothered with the T.

Are there really that many 5600-class chips that meet the 5600T spec but not the 5600X spec? It would’ve thought that market (consumer) confusion over naming isn’t worth introducing SKUs that aren’t sufficiently different enough to existing products.

If your scope of concern is primarily aussie.zone / lemmy users, then are the spoiler tag things (like what’s used in the sidebar of !asklemmy@lemmy.world for example) sufficient for what you have in mind? The formatting won’t work on some non-lemmy platforms, but I assume the activity on aussie.zone is overwhelmingly from lemmy users.

Roses are red
Gura is blue
One time she said “A”
So now I must too

On the off chance anybody cares despite it being two days late, here’s the original xeet: Xitter

Other than you (if you have notifications turned on) there’s gotta be close to 0 people who’ll ever see this, but here’s a link to the comic: https://falseknees.com/comics/247.html

Hope to see you around again in the future if/when you feel up to it - will miss you a little in the meantime!

Chaser’s got something pretty close: Indigenous elected official slammed for daring to speak out against unelected British man in Australian parliament

I heard last week that we lost Baku

:(

edit: more context for anyone interested

Art of Fauna appears on the screen,
My kami-oshi, in black and green.
 So my braincells go uuuuuuuuuuuuu,
 Then my fingers do too -
Just ordinary sapling routine.

Frustrating how hostile markdown is to poem formatting 🫠

edit: I spent half of the time writing that figuring out the last line, and I think I now prefer:

Another comment left for my queen

Since it makes more sense / links better with lines 3+4.

Without ever directly watching the talents themselves, someone could watch / read / play / listen to well-made fan content as a full time job and still be pressed for time. It’s genuinely nuts!

😬 not proper-back yet (just a brief lull), but thanks haha

Sorry, I’m not sure - I’ve had a stack of work to do so haven’t been using Fedia much in the past month or so :( This is the first image post I’ve made since your recent fixes!

I just got a 503 after submitting an image (it submitted successfully though):

Error 503 first byte timeout

first byte timeout

Error 54113

Details: cache-fra-etou8220095-FRA 1728922276 2611087250

Varnish cache server

Yeah (Y)