I remember that thread. First time I saw a Beehaw post that didn't feel quite right. Top comment was a passive aggressive "oh so we're doing the whole ask before even trying thing now huh," like why do some people just feel the need to talk shit? And if there is a legitimate criticism it shouldn't be difficult to voice it in a constructive way - and if it is difficult for you then you shouldn't comment and further spread your negative feelings.
Free pis as far as I'm concerned. If they were ever gonna "recover" their assets they would have to track them down and if anybody has just the pi in their possession they'd have to prove it's one of theirs, probably by getting law enforcement involved. I doubt the city would be all that happy to help when they've literally just littered throughout the city and left.
I think the bigger issue is many of the apps that are coming out (which imo would be the main point of entry for less techy users) point to lemmy.world as the default instance.
Not in the way you think. Yes, you can still comment and post in your own instances version, but for other instances to see it it'll have to go through lemmy.world first and forwarded on. I think it's a bit murky when it comes to comment replies, though, I believe those do get propagated directly to the instance originating the comment (i.e. if a beehaw.org person comments and you reply, they get it sent directly), but you can see how disruptive it is.
I've been using it too, it's really good and largely transparent. Of course, you can only expose HTTP traffic and you can't use your own certificates unless you pay (so ..domain.tld domains or deeper are a no go on the free plan), but for just normal self hosting it's the perfect solution.
Everyone on a call in the meet.jit.si instance is made a moderator, so if you want to be able to control that you have to self host. Other than that if reliability isn't a concern (not that I've ever seen that instance bogged down too bad) then you may as well use it. You can always host your own later on anyway.
I've forgotten again that the average age on here skews 30+. All the big tech stocks were cheap when I was literally an infant, so I really misunderstood what you said.
Honestly the official docker images are hot garbage. I used them when I first tried NextCloud and they load incredibly slow. Shelved it for a while, realized there was a bunch of shit they already have that I was looking for, and gave it a go with my own Dockerfile starting from the PHP alpine image. That one runs waaaayyy better.
For sure! I was more trying to see if it'd work at all. Apps seem to cache the image but the websites just load it. Theoretically this could be used to collect IP addresses 🤔
It's all there is to NFTs. What you're describing are systems outside of NFTs. It's similar to saying there's "more to this excel spreadsheet" because the company uses it as a ledger for all their accounting. When it comes to buying a house or a skateboard, you have a physical house or skateboard. You also likely did due diligence beforehand for the house, like having somebody look over the actual papers registered with the government to make sure the sale is legit, actually seeing the house, etc. The Blockchain part is completely invisible in those cases.
But in this analogy, some people really do pay money just to have their name added to the spreadsheet. No house, no skateboard, just their name added to the ledger and a digital image that the ledger now says they own. But the thing about digital property ownership is in an actual sale of, for example, music rights, there is a governing body that enforces your ownership. No such thing for the NFT images people have been "buying". And buying is in quotes because it's crypto, there are no official receipts.
Interesting, is this due to all browsers being required to use Safari or something? I always figured since there are VPNs on iPhone that TOR would be no problem.
I think it'll be a lot more like "Data sorter" or "Empathy tester"