Lately googles captcha photo thing goes on forever for me. I’ve tried selecting all squares that contain even a hint of a motorcycle/traffic light/bus/crosswalk, then tried just selecting the squares that contain most of it, and it’s satisfied with neither and will genuinely have me clicking for 5 minutes to submit a fucking form
Do you remember any source for Hitchens on that, like a book or speaking event? I’d enjoy hearing more about that specifically.
AlternativeTo is a great way to find free/open source software alternatives to whatever you’re currently using.
I still have an old Kindle but rarely use it since Amazon makes it a nightmare to sync notes/read other books on. Looking at Kobo’s high prices for their models with stylus note abilities, the Remarkable looks like a much better deal with bigger screen size, full file support, note transcription, pdf signing, more accessories, and ebook reading. If anyone has used Remarkable id be interested to hear what you think of it.
I’ve commented this sentiment on their videos. They put in so much research, and it’s good information on well-chosen topics. But having to always skip the beginnings and ends of videos, and not being able to recommend them to many people is a bummer. I get reporting on this stuff would make most people a little manic and bitter, but come on. Ad reads reach a new low there too, somehow scathing sarcasm just makes it all so much more annoying.
I wasn’t aware that iOS could use ad blockers in an effective way. It seemed Firefox didn’t allow them on mobile, and I didn’t really understand what apps like Lockdown were doing. I use Brave for watching YT with no ads on iOS.
I hope not, beeper has worked great so far. I don’t use it for personal messaging, but requested that they allow multiple accounts of the same social network. It’d be a game changer for social media managers to have all DMs in one place.
So cool to learn about these, thanks! I've tried and failed to self-host Nextcloud in the past, but really need to give it another go. Their contacts app is also something I've wanted for a while now.
This looks promising, thank you! I'm a novice self-hoster and look forward to learning more about this one.
Curious if there's any travel apps or sites I'm missing that will log your trips, manually or automatically, with the locations on a map along with your dates of visit. I was just hoping to keep track of my trips in a more comprehensive way, and being able to visualize them while also being able to search by timeframe or by each trip would be nice too.
The Polarsteps app does all of this automatically, but it's proprietary and collects a ton of your data. All alternativetos are proprietary as well.
OsmAnd Maps has a great looking tagging system, with different folders and icons. I know everyone here likes it, but as a casual observer it's clunky and I don't know how usable it'll be for this under the free plan that allows 7 map downloads. It looks like I'll have to download maps for every place I've been. Organic Maps allows bookmarks, but has less tagging features than OsmAnd and is also clunky and requires downloads.
Excel / Libre does great in the manual organization of data for trips, locations, and dates, but Excel's maps are meant for data, with charts where you need to choose either a detailed region or worldview chart.
Thanks for any thoughts on this.
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For real. This one got me the best:
“We held a meeting and decided being radically open about gender while adopting a puritanical outlook on sex was the best way to shock Boomers to death.”
Amazing self-own admitting that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies:
According to Boreing: “Kids go to school for 40 hours a week and then they engage in pop culture for 40 more hours every week. That means for 80 hours of a child’s week, you are turning them over to the left. A good parent might spend 15 minutes a day in meaningful conversation with their kids … A great parent might take their kid to church for one hour, or two hours, or three hours a week. The other 80, they’re watching Disney … they’re online … they’re in public schools.”
Even their non-political statements are political. I hate that some people don’t see through this shit:
In a video statement on Monday marking Bentkey’s launch, Boreing said: “Bentkey isn’t about teaching kids politics, it’s about childhood and wonder and adventure. It’s about values and all of the things on which politics are built later.”
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The question everyone’s dying to know
Those are cool, never seen or heard of them before in my part of the US. We use reusable kcups, so we put a filter and grounds in mesh/plastic shell. We like them because we can choose single servings of anything, like our local beans or herbal stuff like teeccino. But yeah Senseo pads look pretty great.
Ooo I didn't know about muting boosts, thanks! It'll do for now.
And yeah I forget that the Fediverse still has many kinks with connections, great point. Even for your comment, it doesn't appear when I go to my post, only when I go to notifications. And trying to respond on the Memmy app repeatedly crashes, so I had to respond through browser instead.
Curious about thoughts on boosting and favoriting here. I’ve only used Mastodon for about a year, and mostly lurk on a personal but also have a business account that posts daily. Maybe you have advice for me or ideas to improve things.
Issue: I feel that these features aren’t being fully utilized, or need some tweaking. Since favoriting doesn’t seem to amplify a post in any way, most people boost things they like, right? This causes a few things:
- My timeline is mostly full of accounts that I don’t follow. One person can boost 30 things in a row and that’s what I get to scroll through, since everything is chronological. Then I get the person who boosted 30 things just before them.
- When I check out someone’s profile, I often can’t even find something they’ve posted themselves. I just scroll through boosted content. If they do post, it's often lost among the boosts when I'm searching.
- Favoriting posts is used far less than boosting, and I almost feel rude if I’m the only favorite on a post that has 100+ boosts.
Ideas: My ideas for possible resolutions mostly focus around filtering through boosts or making favoriting more appealing:
- Have a tab/area where you can see what your followed accounts have been favoriting (Instagram used to have something like this I think?).
- Have a profile tab that shows a user's favorites (twitter does this).
- Have a profile tab that shows only a user's personal posts (similar to the media tab, but for their text posts).
- Have a tab/area where you can filter out boosts from your timeline.
Really enjoying lurking the last few days here. I have no coding experience, but like the idea of self-hosting a few things like Immich, Firefly III, PaperlessNGX, Nextcloud, and maybe Home Assistant. These are great tools even for non-tech people who care about privacy and functionality. I do run Plex off of a hard drive, and like the idea of putting all of this on a NAS in the future.
After an hour tutorial I can pull docker images and run containers on my Mac. But every app has different instructions, and every video tutorial I watch references new things and assumes you already have them or know what they are. Just trying to get any of those mentioned apps above running on Docker led me down rabbit holes about redis, mySQL, Oh my zsh, Xcode, gnu-sed, etc.
So my question is what is a good video course, or learning route, to take to acquire enough skills to download and use these apps? I don't want to do anything fancy, just download and run the apps. What seems super simple to you guys is incredibly daunting to an outsider. Thanks for any advice here.
Edit for posterity: While listening to the Self Hosted podcast, they mentioned this step-by-step wiki called Perfect Media Server, created by one of the hosts of the show, to help newcomers begin self hosting.