I had a nightmare one time when I was video calling my family from my phone who were on a plane that was falling out of the sky… since then I started checking flightradar once or twice whenever they go on flights.

Go to your local marina or their website and see if there are sailing classes.

I have experienced an issue sort of like that in the past, where my computer occasionally won’t do anything other than spin the fans, unless there’s a working connection to a monitor…

In Canada, external hard drives of 8-20TB capacity show up every now and then for a rate of C$20/TB (US$14.50) so it won’t take more than 3 months to offset that cost. As a backup, online s3 storage might be reasonable.

E - Speak of the devil: https://lemmy.ca/post/23948873

There are still commits being pushed to it in 2024, but a lot of the open issues are talking about errors that apparently were fixed but not provided in a release.

Yes, internally and also with a beta-stage Nextcloud Social app, but the builds appear to be out of date and not working that well with the latest Nextcloud installations.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introduces-social-features-joins-the-fediverse/

https://github.com/nextcloud/social

Right now I just play with things at a level that I don’t care if they pop out of existence tomorrow.

If you want to be truly safe (at an individual level, not an institutional level where there’s someone with an interest in fucking your stuff up), you need to make sure things are recoverable unless 3 completely separate things go wrong at the same time (an outage at a remote data centre, your server fails and your local backup fails). Very unlikely for all 3 to happen simultaneously, but 1 is likely to fail and 2 is forseeable, so you can fix it before the 3rd also fails.

Media

There is a new functionality for users to list all images they have previously uploaded, and delete them if desired. It also allows admins to view and delete images hosted on the local instance.

When uploading a new avatar or banner, the old one is automatically deleted.

Instance admins should also checkout lemmy-thumbnail-cleaner which can delete thumbnails for old posts, and free significant amounts of storage.

This is great news, and addresses what was until now a big shortcoming… a user had no way of managing uploaded images and admins had to crawl through the DB to manage or delete them.

It’s the GUI software manager, I think the LM developers should get a pass at curating selections for users who wouldn’t know any better.

I personally think they can make it a total non-issue if they put in “some unverified results hidden, see settings to change”.

Surprised how many others are gravitated toward iceWM as I am… though I daily drive MATE

Seems perfect for a functional desktop with minimal idle CPU usage. It had come to my mind again as a perfect pair for the open source e-ink display.

Woohoo! Always great to read a success story!

Mastodon users need to mention the user and the community name in order to make or reply to Lemmy comments.

I hope someone can help you with this. Maybe you need to make a post disguised as a tutorial, setting it up incorrectly and have someone correct you :P

Yeah. Hopefully this grant can give Immich the TLC it needs to address its current shortcomings.

Louis discusses his experience with Nextcloud in the first portion of the video.

For him, Nextcloud’s gallery app runs much slower than Immich. The Nextcloud app only supports proxy image previews but no proxy video previews, which Immich does.

I don’t like the pits on olives, but cut up they are alright.

I’m strange but my favourite pizza topping combo is black olives and pineapple.

It’s fine if they get it wrong, you explain how you actually wanted it so they understand and then get it right, sometimes you have to spell out what you mean.

If you explained and showed what you wanted and how, after their mistake, then a 2nd or 3rd time they screw up in the same way that’s an issue. Words can mean different things to people.

If it’s a different screw up each time, and they aren’t intentionally being obtuse, then you could probably be clearer or explain yourself better.

To boil it down for you:

I can do a lot, but I can’t do everything. I’m reserving what I can do to stuff where I can make the largest impact.

Thanks to voters like you for Brexit then I guess.

Sure we’re all stupid, but I’m putting my money and energy into what I want to make better, rather than worse. Sometimes that drive to do better comes from spite.

I vote and tell others to online here and in real life, I attend city council meetings for the stuff I care about (transit), I go out and meet the poor and suffering where they are and donate to my local food bank. When I boycot something I stick to it. When a platform turns too shitty I find ways to get away from it (Lemmy), or at least get it to arms length (Matrix/Beeper).

Issue is, there’s only so many things that I can be not complacent about. The Gaza war is terrible and I talk about it often, yet it’s just a situation I can’t see a way I can convince the US to hold Israel to account no matter what I do. Rents, affordability, climate, there’s stuff I care about but when I am back from my full time job there’s just no more room to think about how the world is fucked 10 ways from Sunday, and my mental health is better for not focusing on things I can’t fix.

A lot of people are shocked and outraged about each. Look at the protests and encampments around universities. Similar to people having a finite amount they can donate, they have a finite amount of energy and focus to pay attention to and change.

One group making up bullshit reasons to kill another isn’t going to stop with Ukraine, Gaza, Xinjiang, etc. Even if there were major interventions and a global cooperative effort to ease those specific tensions.

My fight is focused on improving transit for everyone, keeping this planet from warming up too much, and keeping rich people from siphoning up every bit of liberty we have left.