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Cake day: June 10th, 2023
  • tjhart85@kbin.socialtoAndroid@lemdro.id•New Brokewell malware takes over Android devices, steals data
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    1 year ago

    When I installed fdroid from their website a month or two back it was like 2 or 3 clicks. Then whenever I want to install anything from there it’s an extra click or two over what it would be from Play.

    I’ve seen people click through way more complicated processes than this without even knowing they did it. Modern computing has taught people to just keep hitting whatever the approval text is (yes windows, I really do want to copy all of these god damn files. Yes, really, I still do! Yep, again, ALL of them!)

  • tjhart85@kbin.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Queer.af is Shutting Down, Due to Taliban
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    2 years ago

    From what I understand due to the way that Lemmy handles federation, it doesn’t (currently?) have a way to handle an instance changing its domain name and still being able to communicate or even an individual user changing their instance and retaining their comments/votes/etc… (this might be more ActivityPub limited since the way Mastodon does it still seems pretty hacky and just a work around for underlying issues).

    From a website perspective, yeah, just change some settings and you’re good to go and accessible on the web, but that doesn’t mean that anything regarding Lemmy is going to actually work.

  • tjhart85@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•I'm Done With Windows, Are you?
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    2 years ago

    I mean, kind of … I have file servers, download servers, documentation servers, syncthing servers, backup servers, vaultwarden servers, etc… that are all linux VMs/containers and my main machine is a Macbook, but I do still have a Windows machine in the living room for gaming (yeah, Steam has pushed us far in this regard, but, when I get time to play a game, I just want to play it, I want the best chance it’s going to work the first time and that’s still, sadly, Windows). I have another windows machine running Blue Iris as my NVR because I didn’t have a good experience with Frigate, Shinobi or a few others. I’ve got a few other systems floating around that do various things and some of them are linux based and some are windows based depending on what’s easier/possible.

  • tjhart85@kbin.socialtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Uncommon Syncthing usecases
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    2 years ago

    I’ve got a couple of Raspberry Pi Zero’s that emulate a mass storage device (basically it acts like a USB drive) that I have connected to 3D printers and my wife’s embroidery machine.

    Instead of using it with a network share like in the link, I share the folder with SyncThing.

    It’s super convenient to not have to move a USB drive around and can just leave it connected and get the files on there seamlessly.

  • tjhart85@kbin.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Should we decide to have a main fediverse community or should we keep posting everything twice?
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    2 years ago

    To be fair, to some of us this is a feature not a bug.

    A technology post on a technology/infosec/IT focused instance seems to have a COMPLETELY different focus and conversation than one on the larger instances, for example and I don’t want those mixed in with people saying that AI is a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.

    There are smaller dedicated art focused instances popping up too. I’d expect that they’re going to have a better set of conversations around those subjects than the same threads on a general instance and I don’t want those mixed up.

    If it’s a subject I really want to see a lot of discussion about, I’ll look at multiple threads… can this mean that some subjects won’t have as good of a conversation because people aren’t bouncing off of each other? Yeah, absolutely and that frankly SUCKS, but, as stated, it also means that some of the niche conversations have a chance to grow where they may have previously just been unseen due to how many people are talking.

    To me, they’re on different instances for a reason, let it grow organically. The ones that stand out will wind up being the main ones people use.

    As for amount of users. A decent amount of those are likely alts people created when instances were having problems or just to try out the different locations.
    Or, people just didn’t like the Fediverse for all the reasons you stated, which is also possible, but I don’t necessarily think chasing numbers should be the end all goal

  • tjhart85@kbin.socialtoAndroid@lemdro.id•is anyone else bothered by the lack of the 3 buttons at the bottom
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    2 years ago

    @Vlhacs Yeah, like I said, we call things intuitive without realizing that nothing in this is intuitive at all, it’s all learned behavior.

    For me now, swiping at the edges of the screen makes complete sense and needing to go to a certain place at the bottom of the phone to go back was weird because “why would I go to the bottom of the screen to go backwards, that doesn’t make sense”, but it was definitely a learning curve to get to this point!

    With all that said, hell, there are still times I really miss the old trackball and full keyboard from the OG G1 (the dedicated hardware button for the camera was nice too, but double tap power isn’t terrible). I wouldn’t want to give up screen space for the trackball, but damn if it didn’t really help with fine navigation and using the phone in the cold!

    Different strokes for different folks, I’m just glad we’ve got options so we can all be (mostly) happy with how things work!