Yes I’m thinking next time around to go for a good mid-range. Considering the time that phones actually last, it’s too much to pay for flagship phones.
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Yes I’m thinking next time around to go for a good mid-range. Considering the time that phones actually last, it’s too much to pay for flagship phones.
Great news! No point in 5 or 6 years of software updates when the battery gives out after 3 years.
Yep!! Many say the mud version was actually more realistic!
Driving trucks through the Snow
Yes, I got the “message” from the Reddit CEO, and decided to pre-empt that, and I spent a few hours today manually deleting each and every post I made in my subreddit. The content is already anyway on my blog, on The Internet Archive, and on the Fediverse. So my subreddit now looks like this (he is welcome to let someone else take it now):
I use a self-hosted service called Full-Text RSS Feeds, to which my feed reader connects, and then it gets the full text instead of limited RSS text feed.
It’s also worth using an RSS feed detector browser extension, because although sites don’t advertise RSS (or they don’t know what it is), often there are still active RSS feeds.
I use RSS every single day to collect the 500+ tech articles I scan every day. My blog is actually powered by its RSS feed to then push out to 8 other social networks. Don’t know what I’d do without RSS.
I use self-hosted FreshRSS (after having tried a few other self-hosted ones - I did a video at https://youtu.be/nBdLgRSR04o which compares FreshRSS to Tiny Tiny RSS) and I paired it with Full-Text RSS Feed (see https://github.com/Dither/full-text-rss) to return the full content of posts.
On desktop, I found Fluent Reader to be very good, and I did a blog post at https://gadgeteer.co.za/cross-platform-open-source-fluent-reader-is-my-current-best-choice-for-an-offline-rss-news-aggregator about why I ended up with it. Note I’ve gone back to FreshRSS after sorting out an issue on my hosting, because a desktop reader is really limited to that one device.
I spent a few hours manually deleting all my posts in my subreddit this morning, and changing the name to Deleted. So no going back for me now ;-)
Apart from the attitude, it is just amazing that there was no option for me to just delete my (their) subreddit, even though I’m the creator/owner. I anyway do believe more in the decentralised federated model of social networking.
I did the video 2 years back before Lemmy took off, but I have updated its description a bit - can be seen at https://youtu.be/5axSUJj0bBY
I’m just using the Dark Reader browser extension
Well one’s giving off lots of heat is wasted energy, so the GaN are likely more efficient.
And lots of spin offs too! He also made my 2-yr old Lemmy video on YT go semi-viral ;-)
Side-by-Side screenshot comparison for those who wonder what it looks like…
What the big subreddits don’t realise is, on Fediverse many of their subreddits have not yet been recreated. If they don’t do it, someone else will and then they come in as just contributors. So may be in their interests to actually establish a presence, and gauge how much take-up they get.
I think the big subreddits especially fear starting all over again from scratch ;-) I have a smaller subreddit and am thinking of just closing it anyway. I already post on Beehaw but into different public groups.
Working great for me on both Lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org. I’m using Dark Reader extension, so it is showing fine too in dark mode for me.
Sadly its been attempted a few times… we normally hear from the failed attempts.
And apparently Paul McCartney used AI now to recreate John Lennon’s voice in a recent Beatles song…
It seems to have evolved from Cube World, so maybe you’re thinking of that game.
Maybe that is exactly what we need to do, to spare them from the indecision. Recommend them to a specific instance to sign up and follow you (if in doubt, the instance we use). I suppose we can mention there are lots of choices, and those who are inclined that way will want to explore other servers, many are not, and for them pointing them at a server may be best.
I’m just thinking that trying to say there are lots of networks, each with lots of servers etc, may be the problem.
Alternatively, should ask them some questions like do they want to post short format or long text format, and take into account a specific interest they have, and then we still recommend a server instance to them to join.
So for fellow ham radio operators, I just pointed them all to the ham radio Mastodon instance and said sign up there.