I don’t know about bears, but I wouldn’t it put it past a bonobo…

Edit: Dolphins are also famously kinky and some of them would probably do it if they could.

Haven’t played it personally, but discussions on VNDB suggest it’s an average to good nukige.

We use VPNs at work a lot for protecting traffic as it passes over the public internet between distant sites. From a security perspective, it’s better not to give devices direct access to the internet if they don’t actually need it. That’s stuff we’re running ourselves though; not a commercial VPN service we’re paying for.

I liked the UI when I first encountered it, but it being invite-only killed what interest I had in it pretty quick during the 2023 reddit exodus. Seems to still be invite only in 2026.

I use container tabs for that. Makes it easy to keep two logged in accounts side-by-side.

I wonder how they’d take to being called “morbidly rich”? 🤔️

If it’s running as a snap, you might be able to configure snap to allow access; I’m not sure how to do that though – I moved to Mint because I didn’t want to deal with snap crap…

Doing some searching, I found this reddit thread which suggests that some of the distro shipped qbtorrent versions aren’t very good; people there suggest using the developer’s PPA on Ubuntu instead. The developer’s site includes instructions for alternate ways to install on various Linux distros.

You could try uninstalling the version you have and then running:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qbittorrent

if you’re comfortable with the security implications of using their PPA.

Are you running the downloader as a sandboxed/containerized app? (Flatpak, snap, etc.)? Those can have weird issues with accessing the file system due to the isolation they implement to try to make things more secure.

Depending on which distro you’re running, you might also check to see if there’s something going on with SELinux or AppArmor; sometimes those security features, though well-intentioned, can cause cryptic problems. I think you should see an error in dmesg if something like that is going on.

Another thought is that maybe you can try mounting the NAS yourself via command line with the mount command to a simpler path (e.g. to /mnt/nas) rather than using GVFS via the GUI (with it’s complicated auto-generated path) in case the download software is doing something dumb with path handling?

I haven’t used torrents in a very, very long time, but that seems rather odd to me considering everything else I can do with network mounts… How are you mounting the NAS, and what sort of problem/errors are you encountering?

Sounds like we’ve followed similar paths in cooking. :p

Did you ever try Isaac Toups’s chicken and sausage gumbo recipe? That’s another good, hearty cold weather dish. I think this was the video on YouTube that I learned it from. (I usually prefer to do it with just chicken though personally.)

Mmmm chili…

The best I’ve made at home was a variation on one of Kenji’s recipes – this one, I think?

Those tiny guys are cute compared to this horror from Hawaii:

(Image from Wikipedia – article is here)

You gotta make sure to shake out your shoes before putting them on and check your sheets before getting in bed if you live around those guys…

Looks like a mini white pizza with some sort of sliced sausage and herbs. I’d eat it.

I talk to my Dad about once a week or so for maybe 20 or 30 mins. Usually just “How’s it going?” kind of small talk. Work. Health issues. Sometimes about food or hobbies. Commiserating about politics. Updates about relatives moving/getting jobs/etc. Things like that. Helps us both stay sane in this crazy world.

Once a month or so, I talk to my uncle. He’s more chatty, so those calls go on for longer. He likes to tell me bits of family lore, about his interests in detail, about food and his pet and what’s going on with his friends and neighbors – like trips he’s taken with them to go out shopping and such.

My other relatives don’t talk to me very often, so those are more of life catch-up talks every couple months/years or conversations about specific things that I have skills in that they’d like help learning.

Maybe try asking your mom what’s on her mind lately – other than you – and take it from there? Most people love to talk about themselves if given a chance. Ask questions about what she says and try to find a topic of mutual interest.

No, we are communicating. People can coordinate their actions to achieve things that are impossible for an individual. We obviously don’t have perfect shared understanding, and miscommunications are not uncommon (as others have already pointed out) but we can exchange enough information to do useful things.

Also, we can make jokes. The fact that it’s possible to craft a joke and make someone laugh by setting up and intentionally subverting expectations through language is pretty good evidence that we have shared understanding and similar processing.

Looking back through your history, that’s a post by a user local to your instance. You can see it because you’re on the same instance.

If I understand how federation works correctly, posts don’t go directly to the instance a community is on when they are made. They are created locally on your own instance, and then federate out if/when they can. Since you’re both on the same instance, you can see the post and interact with it, but the post and your comments are (presumably) stuck in a queue trying to federate to the now defunct instance. Since lemm.ee is gone, it can’t federate out, so other people don’t see the post/comment on their instance.

I think that’s what’s going on.