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  • Well feel free to check in and say hi from time to time, we generally don't bite 🙂

    Lemmy doesn't have much in the way of tracking users, so if you don't speak up we won't know you're here!

    Lurking is of course fine too.

  • Yeah I reckon so! I wish more would participate 😅

  • I don't know why I don't like them. I used to as a kid but grew out of them. I think it's just not a flavour I enjoy anymore, can't explain it more than that.

  • You sound like you know your LibreOffice.

    My experience is they are quite different but I've been able to do the same things for the most part.

    But how the hell do I make a pivot table that looks and functions as nice as the plain old default one in Excel?

  • Yeah perhaps. I don't have a Spotify connect device so can't try it.

    I quite like having the LLM, and listening to all the weird questions the kids ask.

  • I believe fejoas are native to South America. Wikipedia says that they are hard to transport as they bruise easily, so while they are transported internationally it is pretty uncommon.

    It mentions New Zealand, California, and Columbia as the main places that grow them. So if they are hard to transport they probably are hard to find outside of those places. It also mentions some growing happening in southern Azerbaijan so if you happen to be there maybe you'll find some.

  • Yeah I think it's pretty normal for only a small proportion of people to post and comment. I think many of the local users are no longer around, we are a couple of years in so many people have drifted away over that time.

  • I think it's pretty normal for the people who post and comment to be only a small portion of the total users. Many more will be voting but otherwise lurking.

    The active users will also include people who aren't subscribed but just stumbled upon a post in the All feed.

  • Yip! The sidebar tells you the number of subscribers in a community. If you're using an app it might be shown somewhere else, but on the website it's in the sidebar and in Voyager it's shown when you choose the option to see the sidebar.

    The answer is about 1,800 subscribers to c/newzealand. 340 users active in the last month (you have to vote, comment, or post to be considered active. Looking doesn't count).

  • At my last place we had an older tree that didn't fruit much anymore. I think conditions probably weren't very good for it once the other trees around it grew and overshadowed it. I bought a new one and planted it in a better position and even from a young age it had lots of fruit.

    I guess if you can't find the the fruit in stores you probably can't find the trees. Amazing she managed to get one at all!

  • As I understand it you can also use a locally running LLM. But that requires power my Raspberry Pi 4 doesn't have.

    I'm not sure if Music Assistant has the capability yet, but I presume you could have a no-LLM version if you could trigger a search and to play the first song found.

  • I've been using Home Assistant for a couple of years (from memory I think it was soon after joining Lemmy I was convinced to set it up), and I have to say they have made great progress. It's amazing to see them double their active installations from 1 to 2 million in one year, that's awesome for what feels like a very niche product.

    The progress on voice in particular is amazing. With a Voice preview, OpenAI, and Music Assist, my kids can start music where they only know some words and not the name of the song.

    The only complaint is wake word detection isn't great with our accent. My wife swears it's sexist, she thinks it only listens if she puts on a male voice 😅

  • I'm guessing we like them because they grow like crazy and so are abundant here. Every neighbourhood has some good foraging trees or people putting boxes of them out by the letterbox for people to take for free.

    I don't actually like them 😅

  • I'm not sure what others see as the context of the meme, but in my experience it's normally when you are fiddling with it, but you never expect it to be the problem because it seems so simple.

    There are many reasons you might need to fiddle with is. The most obvious is when you move your server to a new computer, it might get a new IP address. But your browser might cache the old address. Your computer might cache it. Your DNS server might cache it (like the rest of the internet, there is not one big DNS server but many smaller ones - most non-technical people would be using one provided by their internet provider). It might not be working and you presume it's a problem with the new server but actually it's the DNS.

    But also DNS as a system is also used for things that are not directly related to looking up a domain name. For example, when sending an email, there are many checks on the receiving side to ensure that the email is actually coming from somewhere that is allowed to send an email from that domain name. I can send an email to you from bill@microsoft.com, but it would go straight to spam because it would fail those checks. DNS records are used to authorise servers that can send email on behalf of that domain. And just generally DNS is used for proving domain ownership (for example, it's one method to get a certificate from Let's Encrypt to allow secure connections to your website).

  • When you access something on the internet, you are accessing something on someone else's computer.

    Computers have (effectively) postal addresses. When you want to access content on another computer, you type in its address.

    But computer addresses don't look like "fedia.io" they look like "123.122.1.111".

    When you type "fedia.io" your computer needs to go and ask what the computer's address is.

    That's DNS. The Domain Name System. The system for finding the computer address from a domain name.

    The above is very simplified and doesn't cover all scenarios, but I hope it's enough to get the idea.

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  • Ah I guess it's that it shows what they want then they have to install the app to buy it?

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  • Maybe this article is intended for advertisers to convince them of the value.

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  • Isn't the idea that if you advertise you will get more people looking at/downloading your app and therefore rank higher?

    It doesn't make it not paid product placement, but I don't think it implies that people are buying spots on the ranking.

    It does imply the rank is almost useless because most high rankers are just spending a lot on ads.

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