FelipeFelop @ FelipeFelop @discuss.online

Mid 50s, first went online on a 70s BBS, JANET user in the 80s.

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There is more than one Dev (check GitHub) but no action has taken place since last year.

That’s not right Matrix was never going to become Element.

As none of the developers had done anything since August, I believe there was an attempt by someone else back in November to get it working /fork Liftoff! but the code was not in a good state and because of the way it works would be very difficult.

Be careful with this as monitors are usually a different aspect ratio to a TV so a you may get a distorted/cropped picture or black bars (depending what you connect to it) which will be noticeable at larger sizes.

Not unusual at all. Everyone I know does this. Nothing wrong with you it’s just that age (and birthdays) becomes less important. Also once past a certain age you actively want to forget that you’re old, so you need to consciously think about it.

But don’t worry, once you get into your 80s it becomes a badge of honour and the older you get the more you’ll think about it.

You’ve misunderstood. You’ll only be able to add a PWA to the Home Screen if it uses WebKit.

That’s our name for it. If there is a planet or planets circling Kepler 22 they won’t call it Kepler 22.

Similarly any aliens won’t call Earth by that name. For example, Klingons might have called Earth yoSpu'bogh QongDaq until they made contact.

So aliens wouldn’t type Earth into sat nav but whatever they call it. Now that’s a showerthought !

If they haven’t visited us how will they know what the planet is called and how to spell it?

I think it’s only if you use a WebKit based browser ?

I don’t remember the last time I used a phone book. There have been better ways to get a number for a long time.

Think it must be at least 30years ago.

Generally, the reasons for a phone number are:

Account recovery 2FA

If you don’t want to use your number then consider a pre-pay sim. Depending what country you are in this will cost pennies per year.

I would suggest something like ProtonMail or most paid email services won’t require a number.

Don’t mean this rudely, struggling to find a way that doesn’t sound condescending because I know things can be different in different regions. Didn’t realise that still happened.

I hope so, good luck

In my experience all of this has been done wirelessly for several years.

The risk of malware means you aren’t allowed to plug in sticks. For business use you share a document or wirelessly connect to a display.

In fact our local library didn’t USB sticks eight years ago when I was researching our family tree.

Mould eats the fibres and dye, so it might be a permanent change I’m afraid. There are specialist mould removers but they might bleach coloured fabric.

An interesting point not touched upon is that the types of people using USB sticks has changed. Because the use of technology filters down from tech savvy, to general population, to people late to the scene or can’t change.

We are in that last stage now. They are buying by price and so easier to take advantage of.

But the UI hasn’t been finalised yet?

I’m uncertain about this. It doesn’t seem much different than things like Inoreader and seems to lack as comprehensive a search.

@mykl@lemmy.world

Is there any news on Liftoff! I can see the other mods haven’t posted in at least five months.

No it’s not and most people don’t know how to read the results anyway.