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Didn't Finland have an entire culture of doing spoofs on old German shit, like TV series? I've seen Die Kühe and I think it's absolutely awesome. (The Dutch also did a good impression in Jiskefet.)

And I remember watching / listening to lots of M. A. Numminen. Not sure if that's just the stuff that found its way back to Germany and me... But nonetheless...

The thing with the tv series might be a thing of the past, though. I'm not sure if anyone still remembers "Der Alte" or "Derrick". It's probably not that funny without the context. And how we watch TV has certainly changed during the last decades.

Give me like $7,500 and I provide enough harddisks for 183,200 episodes. I'm not sure what to calculate for traffic, though.

And I mean it's a bit unfortunate that you have to commit money laundering and/or tax fraud alongside this "business model". It's just not that easy to say: Hey, I would like to pay taxes on this pile of money and I don't want to say where I got it from, it's definitely mine, though.

Why both? Isn't one enough?

Alright. I think I'm fine with that. I'll read the documentation and see if I can find some time over the weekend to set it up. I'll report my success in case I remember. It's going to take me some time to notice missing information, though. And I'm not sure how caching of images works. We'll see. I hope I don't get banned, but I don't really care that much. Thanks for the insights.

What does it do with threads, just display the messages sequentially? Or not at all?

Guess it's mautrix then and I have my answer. Thanks!

Thanks. Why do you say appservice is old? Because of the used technology? Or because their last commit is from 9 months ago?

I don't really need double puppeting. I'm just interested in funnelling out data from discord and it's just me and my account. I should clarify that in my post...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm gonna take a closer look at the features of both and probably choose mautrix, since I already run their WhatsApp bridge. Maybe someone else chimes in and can contribute their experience with the out-of-your-element bridge.

Yeah, I think so. I think the downvoting has picked up in general, lately. And there is a stigma to this and the herd mentality has always been strong here.

AI in general is getting downvoted because people think it's too much news about AI. And some users don't really care which community the post is in. They must be scrolling through the "All" feed and downvoting things that are about AI. I see this also in posts that aren't about companionship.

And this really has a stigma. And sex dolls have, too. A few months ago I saw some pictures of sex dolls on lemmynsfw.com and they immediately prompted a negative answer in the votes. I think people who care about these things are in their own forums and Discords because of that.

I don't really understand. I thought sexuality was a thing that's very individual. And something that should be met with liberalism so everybody can get their itches scratched... I don't think I want to get a mainstream way dictated by society of how to have my relationships and what is deemed appropriate to do behind closed curtains...

So don't be discouraged by the mainstream opinion. I like the regular posts here and I'm sure other people do, too. It's just beyond the perspective of the average person. And their small-mindedness makes them disapprove.

(And I really think this is a fascinating topic. And we're almost there. Robot companions have been discussed in scifi for a long time. And I think movies like "Her" have been popular, also with the average people. AI has now advanced to the point where it can simulate love. There are a few things to consider, but it's going to happen anyways. And I don't think this is bad. If you're lonely and this is your thing, why not? And AI has some benefits that humans don't have. It's always there for you, does whatever you want... It can spark creativity... As long as we're doing it in a healthy way, I think it's alright and can contribute to our lives. But there are lots of things to discuss: Is it healthy for society? Healthy for an individual to have artificial relationships? Is it going to skew our perspectives on realistic love and affection? Is it addictive? What about the privacy concerns with (Chinese) companies...)

Plug it into a computer and see what the computer says.

I usually use Linux for that because it offers good error messages and I know the tools. But other operating systems might help, too.

And if you start writing to the card or executing recovery tools, make a backup / image first.

If the files are very important, maybe don't tamper with it and ask for help. Like a repair shop, your local Linux community or any trustworthy computer expert friend.

The biggest enemy is probably encryption, if it's encrypted. The files are definitely still there if you just ripped it out. In the old days you could just run a recovery program and get everything back.