Does it still take forever to launch if you have more than a screen full of tokens?

Does it still only show four characters of the editable component of the name?

Does it still refuse to show the secret as text if you load a QR code?

I’m still a “native” pendant and use Docker to bridge the gap.

I use Debian for anything that matters. The release cadence means that stuff just works and keeps working. You cannot beat the documentation and I’ve been using it for 25 years.

I’m not touching anything Redhat / Fedora with a barge pole.

Not sure what the attraction to Mint is.

Never used OpenSUSE.

PSA to disable Google Assistant:

1. Launch Google.
2. Tap on your user icon in the top right.
3. Tap on Settings.
4. Tap on Google Assistant.
5. Tap on General.
6. Tap on the Google Assistant toggle.
7. Tap on “Turn Off”.

I wonder how much damage that little stunt caused to that borehole, which I suspect cost a pretty penny to create.

I wonder what the world would look like if these technology layoffs happened from the top down?

Black Friday is a marketing exercise to get you all riled up about the massive savings you will receive if you buy something RIGHT NOW.

Suffice to say that the actual bargains on the day are far and few between.

If you actively track pricing you’ll discover that the price goes up before the event, then drops to the same or slightly lower pricing on the day. The “bargain” is notional at best.

Then there are the “pre Black Friday” sales, and the “Cyber Monday” ones afterwards. It’s all just marketing.

If you want an actual bargain, find what you’re looking for, set a price watch on it and track it for as long as you have patience. When you’re ready, buy it from your preferred supplier and get them to price match the amazing price.

As far as refurbished goes, ask yourself what is the upside for the supplier to give away any bit of return on their spend to refurbish the item in the first place?

Whilst that does create a more pleasant atmosphere, it also creates echo chambers and I believe that’s not a good thing.

I try to only block those who are explicitly being antagonistic, rather than just those whom I disagree with.

It would be great if Lemmy had a way to tag a user, so you could tag a borderline account, then decide after several interactions if they warranted blocking.

I also block several key words, rather than accounts.

I actively search for, report then block spam.

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Clearly the image upload is broken, all I see is a QRP radio :-)

Seriously though, I feel your pain on the update and the process. I’ve not been game to even attempt to roll out an instance, let alone make it public and then go through the process of updating it.

One thing I did notice just then, as I was about to hit submit, there was a language pop-up at the bottom right of the textarea tht I’m typing this into, that wasn’t set to anything. I’ve just set it to “English” for my reply.

It’s fascinating to me that this looks like half a dozen or so radio stations I’ve been in. It’s especially fun at 1am in the morning… (*)

Only one station I’ve been at looks completely different, ABC Radio in Perth, but that was purpose built 20 years ago and it’s also a TV station.

(*) I have scared the crap out of myself and others on more than one occasion because radio studios are sparsely populated and sound dampening is essential.

To enjoy yourselves doesn’t require that you all buy the latest gaming rig or even something new or identical. As long as what you decide on has games in common, you’re good.

I’m beginning to suspect that the recent election results can be explained by one word: Entropy

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

I am not privy to your financial situation, but can you three pool your resources and find a common platform?

I can’t ever see this happening.

The thing that gets me about healthcare is that we seemingly continue to train specialists who focus all their attention on one single aspect of the human body to the exclusion of everything else, even though the more we learn about how it works, the more interconnected it all appears.

This saying comes to mind: “If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

I’m not eligible to vote in your country. In mine, voting is mandatory and there are no stickers, just democracy sausages to aid in the funding for local polling places like schools and community halls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage

Until just now I had never heard of this team and their contribution to FreeCAD. Reading the article I think it outlines what they did and it sounds excellent.

As far as their success or failure of achieving their aims, I don’t have any information to make a judgement either way.

I will say that making a business out of open source software is not something for the faint of heart and not something that has a track record of success, let alone a documented one. Mostly it seems to follow the pattern: “How do you make a small fortune from open source?” “Start with a large fortune.”

I say this as a quarter century user, developer and advocate of open source solutions.

The thing about free speech is that there’s a whole lot of legislation surrounding it. At the moment, every single fediverse instance is run by( a small group of) people, many of them are run by individuals who are legally responsible for the content that’s posted on their site.

In addition, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, better known as the DMCA and the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, have requirements for people who own and publish data, like the people who run instances, not to mention privacy acts and myriad other provisions and laws.

Non compliance is very easy and costly, so instances who are aware of this are cautious in what they allow on their instance.

Finally, many instances want to create a community with a social cohesion and associated standards that they, depending on the level, encourage or enforce.

Why any instance bans something at any one time can generally be traced back to these reasons.

Of course there are also instances where it’s completely open season. Don’t expect these to stick around once lawyers get involved.

That’s like asking for an elephant stamp for wiping your butt after going to the toilet.

Voting isn’t an accomplishment, it’s your duty and the reward is the society you live in.