Was on the market for a TV for my grandparents recently. I just need a monitor, digital receiver, and remote - in one neat package. How hard can it be?
Very, apparently. Can't even find cheap Chinese crap that isn't "smart" these days.
Or think of it as "convenience fee" for the people who can't use F-Droid.
If my friend, who thinks I'm IT support since I majored computer science, asks me which tracker they should use - I would just tell them to pay the $4 for OpenTracks.
I think we inadvertently have given x.org the hug of death in the past few days... I don't think their server have seen so many people link to it at once.
As much as I dislike the man, credit where credit is due, I guess. Then again, it was probably the idea of some mid-level employee whose name will be lost in history.
I'm no veg(etari)an by any measure, but I have this to say to people who are exclusively meat-eaters: you're missing out on a world of interesting flavours and textures.
Next time you make chicken curry, replace half the chicken with tofu. Bolognese - do half lentils & kidney beans. Beans and legumes are cheap as, great for the current economic climate (and the real climate, I guess..)
PS: mushrooms are the food of gods. There's just so many varieties, you can use them for nearly anything.
Yeah, I've seen more mature discussions in the verse in a month, than I have on Reddit in the past year or two.
The other big one lately is Facebook/Meta joining the verse. Response from the instances have ranged from "Meta can go to hell, we're not gonna federate", to "we'll wait and see", to "great! more content". And they all just agree to disagree with almost no drama.
Beehaw was built as a safe space (even before all the Reddit furore) - it's all laid out in their main sidebar, and their docs.
So after the big migration last month, users started flocking to the 'verse. And apparently beehaw mods were having so much moderating issues with users from two of the bigger instances (lemmy.world & sh.itjust.works). So after a meeting of admins from the 3 instances, they decided to amicably defederate for now.
And this is the beauty of Federation. You can join instances that align with your values. You can join a safe space and have a curated experience, or enjoy the lawless wild west.
The instance I'm on has defederated NSFW instances, for fear of legal issues. It also means that my "All" feed is safe to browse from work, which is exactly what I'm looking for.
So beehaw.org defederated from lemmy.world (not Lemmy in general) , and all it does is that users on those two servers can't interact with each other.
But everyone else in the hundreds (thousands?) of other Lemmy & Kbin servers can still see beehaw.org & lemmy.world content and interact with them just fine.
Ah, a fellow janitorial staff. Some of these shit have been there so long they've seeped through the walls. There's no way to get rid of them, short of demolishing the whole building.
Oh that's not uncommon in the industry. Especially when dealing with legacy code.
Personal best was 40k lines in a file called misc.c containing all the global functions that don't fit anywhere else.
Runner up was the one where each developer dumped their miscellaneous functions in their own files, so they don't have to deal with merge conflicts. Which means we had x1.c, x2.c, x3.c ... etc.
Pro tip: if you long-press a setting it copies a sync link to it, so you can paste it like so:
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