Exactly. Mastodon-ish would be unsuitable as a server for a number of reasons: the loose, but still expected, character limitation; the lack of emoji responses; generally poor threading support; and the overall subscription feed-like model. OTOH, it’s based on a follow-the-user model, which is nice. I’m less familiar with Friendica, but AFAIK that’s also a follow-the-user model.

The issue with Federation is the general expectation that these are public places. You can lock them down, but that’s not what they’re designed for, and in my case, the risk of misconfiguration exposing a bunch of toddler pictures that the parents want to keep private is too high. I think of the server is federated-by-nature, then it must also be paranoid-by-default; I don’t trust share-public-by-default projects to not introduced something in an upgrade that exposes data. At least if the base presumption of the developers is that all information is private by default, the risk is limited to true accidents rather than false assumptions.

ActivityPub is enticing. It’s an exciting spec, and offers many client options. I’m worried only about those base assumptions.

Hah.

Just in case, though, I’ll clarify: what I’d heard was that, when the German army was in Egypt in WWII, some German soldiers used the nose for target practice and pulverized it. No aliens required.

Edit: I’m remembering the story wrong: the target practice thing is attributed to Napoleon’s troops using the nose as target practice for cannon. It’d unsubstantiated in either case; it turns out no one alive really knows.

Huh. I’ve had mine for over a decade; granted, it only for heavy use for a few months when I first got it, and about once a week since, and the rubber gasket is fine. I have no doubt that you’re right; gaskets almost always require semi-regular replacement; I have to replace the gaskets in my espresso machine every 2-3 years, and boy is that a chore. Those are doing far heavier duty than the Aeropress gasket, so I’d expect it to last longer. How fast did your’s fail?

Photoprism’s app space is pretty bad, but there is an completely hacky yet reliable solution for Android:

1. PhotoBackup
2. The PhotoBackup server on your Photoprism server
3. A cron job that runs the photoprism import command every few minutes.

Since I’ve had this set up, it’s worked as well as Google Photos ever did for keeping my phone snaps synced to the server. It’s been more reliable than SyncThing for my data, reacting and syncing faster, and it doesn’t mysteriously periodically just stop running like SyncThing.

I don’t know if PhotoBackup is available for iOS, but if it is, it works a treat.

I see your sarcasm, but all three of these things make very different types of coffee. Even if you can’t tell the difference between Aeropress and French press coffee (which probably not a large percent of people can), you can certainly tell the difference between espresso and immersion, right?

As for this thing: plastics do degrade over time, and an insulated glass body is a nice upgrade. The metal press won’t contribute anything to the coffee quality, but it looks better, and probably feels nicer.

This is the right answer. I specifically don’t use beets because it does this, and (1) I have things organized how I like, and (2) I’ve changed music servers a half dozen times in the past decade and am leery of an app that has to “own” the library.

But the reasons I don’t use it are exactly the reasons you’re looking for, and it sounds like a perfect fit for you.

Is it just a fabrication that Germans in WWII shot off the nose, then? Because it looks as if it’s already missing the nose here.

You’ll note that he’s also using it to promote a book he wrote and is selling.

I’m in no way an expert, and, frankly, I casually disregard canon if it offends me. But I can think of a few potential reasons to have a transporter room.

• It removes variables from the transporter process, making it safer and more reliable. You either know exactly where you’re sending people from, or receiving them to, so it’s one less thing to have to adjust.
• It’s a staging area. Even without transporters, today staging areas - where you get everyone together and they mentally prepare to move as a group - are important.
• When receiving, the transporter pad has a lot of extra security options; you can transport things into secured environments. I feel as if they tended to do this more in TOS, but I don’t have an example off the top of my head.

I think the main thing is that it’s just safer, because one end of the transfer is a fixed, known constant. You can beam people directly to med bay, but you’re adding variables and risk, so you only do it in emergencies.

2A types generally lose their minds over anything that might imply a restriction on ownership. I think it’s not because they don’t approve of the thing – whatever it is – but they see it as a slippery slope, and that The Liberals will just keep adding more straws to the camel’s back until it’s not practically legal.

For instance, if you troll around in the pro-gun forums, you’ll often come across people saying things like, “every gun owner should also own – and know how to use – a trauma kit”; or jumping down the throats of any poster posting a picture where someone isn’t practicing trigger discipline; or derides the people in a video where someone inadvertently (thoughtlessly) waves a gun at someone else. Even presumably “pro” gun YouTubers are usually careful to show that the weapon they’re handling is unloaded when they’re doing something with it that isn’t shooting, and it’s not because of YouTube’s increasingly stringent gun video rules: it’s because otherwise their comment section will be filled with gun people criticizing good gun ownership habits. So it’s demonstrable that the wider gun-owning community is pro gun education and safety, and you’d think adding laws that support these beliefs would be no-brainers – but they aren’t. It’s when it comes to codifying the socially-enforced rules into law that the community stomps on the brakes and becomes mulish.

Personally, I believe that this is a silly position to take; relatively few people object to drivers being required to take driving tests, and nobody complains about driver’s ed classes in pub ed. Cars are dangerous. So are guns. IMO you should need to take a test, get a gun license, and then be able to buy and carry (concealed if that’s what floats your boat). Just like a driver’s license, you’d need to retake the test whenever you move to a new state, but otherwise it’s essentially a one-time test. Just put the same restrictions on guns that we do cars, and do away with most of the other laws. Maybe rifles are like basic licenses, handguns are like motorcycles, and machine guns are like tractor-trailer semis: you take a different test to get a different kind of license allowance for each. And treat guns like cars: when you buy a gun, you register it just like you’d do a car, whether it’s a private or commercial sale. Move to a new state, register your guns there, just like you have to do with cars.

Gun control is a massive source of contention between liberals and conservatives, and we’re never going to overturn the 2A in the states. I don’t know if the 2A crowd would agree to treat guns like cars if it meant eliminating a whole mess of other legislation around guns which are of questionable efficacy to begin with. Absolutely, getting rid of all of the guns in the states would have a huge public safety impact, but I don’t believe it’s a realistic expectation that will ever happen; whereas mandatory training/education, testing, and licensing I think would improve things, and might be a reasonable middle-ground acceptable by both sides. Like they say in Lower Decks: “if both sides are equally unsatisfied with the negotiation… THAT’S A COMROMISE!”

So, do I extrapolate to the rest of the world?

Yes. Also assume that anyone who disagrees with you is either insane or stupid. It’s the modern human condition!

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Honestly, I think Android is fucked for debugging stuff like this. I installed a program on mine and my wife’s phones - different makes & models - and configured them exactly the same, including the app settings in the OS. Mine works perfectly and barely shows up in battery use, near the bottom. Her’s drains her battery even when she’s not using it, regularly running at 50% of total battery consumption.

With Android YMMV is the rule, rather than the exception. There’s just too many variables.

It’s the main way I sync my phone.

I have a different app for photos, but SyncThing on my phone, and on my desktop, and again on one of my home servers, do most of the download and data syncing.

Occasionally I’ll have to manually run SyncThing; I’m not certain that Android is reliably starting it after reboots, but for the most part it just does it’s thing really reliably. There is a lag; it can take a few minutes for changes to sync - it’s not immediate. For me, this isn’t a problem, and I’d rather that than a battery suck, so I haven’t messed with it.

Probably. It depends on the device, because there’s no standard dictating this, but I would guess most routers reserve reserved IPs.

It’s because the song bangs.

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Didn’t you hear? @UniversalMonk@lemmy.world “isn’t even voting for Jill Stein.”

Gosh, this has got my right-things-for-wrong-reasons detector shrieking. I feel so… conflicted. It’s like Hitler having been a vegetarian