And Fediverse instances are similar. But that only works when you know what a car actually is.

Yes, as I said 🤷

When building you own servers from consumer hardware this is a bit difficult, but getting a PSU that actually fits to the power use profile of the server seems to make a difference. Sadly it is hard to get small PSUs with sufficient SATA power connections.

Sadly this. I have a graveyard of nice server boards that I got cheap before realizing how power hungry they are.

For CPUs basically anything older than gen 6 intel is too power hungry (although be careful with Xeon and xeon derived cpus, that are sometimes older gens rebadged as gen 6).

You sound a bit like someone who demands to be explained what a car is when entering a car shop 😅

Probably not, as the compatibility for Mastodon api using apps is experimental and not included at all in Misskey itself.

But if you want to host a server for a specific community that would apprechiate the more playful features of it, it is definitly a good alternative.

Works here 🤷

XMPP chat account integration.

I am not into “social VR” so I can’t really comment on that (but it does seem like all junk), but there are plenty of good single player PCVR games these days. In fact I have quite a backlog of good VR games I can’t seem to find the time to finish.

IMHO with the hopefully soon release of the Steam Frame and other (shitty) vendors scaling back their involvement, a refocus on actual VR gaming is coming and that is a good thing.

Look, you don’t need to explain the details to me, as I am a scuba diver myself and have seriously considered getting into commercial diving 10-15 years ago. Hence me knowing some people that actually do this.

As I said, it is difficult to get into it and there is a lot of certificates you need to do, but at the end of the day it isn’t super difficult to do and the job itself is mainly relatively well paid because there is a certain risk involved and you spend a lot of time away from home often even cramped into small submersible habitats.

A doctor is a very bad example indeed, because most doctors have fixed jobs they can’t easily leave for longer time periods.

I thought this is farewell? Can’t have someone else get in the last comment? 🤡

You’re the one who thought that underwater workers were little better than common laborers.

Please don’t put words in my mouth which I never said nor implied.

Sadly this discussion was not very fruitful as you just ignored all the facts and misinterpreted a historical source to fit to your faulty analysis of what is actually happening. But I am not surprised as that is the usual state of things when you try to argue with facts and not vibes and make-believe with strangers on the internet 🤷

What even happened to group support in Mastodon? Wasn’t that promised to be nearly finished and about to be released like some years ago?

I didn’t say that it is an unskilled job. But once you have the necessary certifications (which don’t take years, although you can get additional certifications over the years while doing the job), it is a risky but not especially complex job. The payment is according: good for a job like that, but not crazy level money.

And anyways, the point was that “regular workers” jobs still exists that allow you to only work a few months a year, but they have become more rare and hard to get, partially because of bureaucratic red tape.

Its funny how you try to keep arguing when your point was entirely based on vibes and substantiated by nothing but make believe on your side (and a failure to understand basic economics and inflation).

This is taken out of context. Anyways, the Rolling Stones in the 1970ties were like Justin Biber in the 2010s. Top of the charts, but not very well liked outside a fan group that doesn’t have a lot of disposable income, so the concerts were/are priced accordingly.

Are you having trouble understanding what you read? I never claimed that the Rolling Stones were not a top act in the 1979ties 🙄

You evidently failed to understand what is described in that book 🤷

Putting historical sources into context is a skill and comparing it to today’s situation can’t be done 1:1.

And how do you know I wasn’t alive in the 1970ties?