Not a lot but we have used it. It’s beta quality. You need to be in Bluetooth range if there’s no internet - and it works. Good for tent-to-tent texting.
I’m surprised the Starlink satellites don’t have cameras and sell realtime imaging as a product. It seems like a natural way for SpaceX to increase revenue and become indispensable to governments around the world. Or maybe they do and we just don’t know about it.
Berty is an open source messenger app that works with or without an internet connection, and has Android and iOS apps. As it’s peer-to-peer there’s no server component.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who would be interested in a community for cryptic crosswords!
I can’t connect to this community because of lemmy.world being down but I guess it would be about American crosswords.
Edit: Yep, all the posts are New York Times crosswords. It would not be a good place to post about cryptics. I will be subscribing though because I also enjoy the NYT-style puzzles!
There are easier ways - search the App Store for “youtube downloader” - I tried one called Offline that worked pretty well (other than being ad-infested).
There are a number of apps on the App Store that claim to be able to download YouTube videos.
But if you are used to the command line, you can use youtube-dl on an iPad by using a shell emulator app, available from the App Store, like a-shell or ish. It requires knowing how to use a Linux shell. Here’s an article that has a Shortcut to do it using a-shell.
For example, T-Mobile in many places gives you an IPv6 address and uses CG-NAT for IPv4 — meaning you don’t have your own IPv4, but you do have a few quintillion “real” IPv6’s to yourself.
For a complex (i.e., larger) image, I would be concerned that I didn’t exercise all of my app’s functionality and something important might be stripped out of the image.
I use Alpine instead of Ubuntu when I’m concerned about image size.
On Mastodon there is no algorithm. I see posts from the people I follow, in chronological order. There is no way for Threads to control that or to inject ads into my feed. Nor can Threads profile me (says Eugen in their FAQ).
I don’t fully understand how federating with a Twitter-like service works with Lemmy. But if control is on our side I see no need to take action yet.
But clearly the community wants to defederate, and I expect that to happen.
I’m in the minority here but I don’t want to defederate yet.
One of the biggest benefits of federation is that it allows me to interact with brand accounts on my own terms. With Twitter, I often found that the best way to get support was to contact the brand's account directly. I can't do that on Lemmy if we defederate.
And during major news events I want the up-to-the-minute coverage you find on major news outlets’ accounts.
But being over here on Mastodon and Lemmy, ideally, I can get that interaction on my own terms instead of being subjected to The Algorithm.
If this is not possible due to protocol limitations, or it becomes onerous to block spam - and the tools to do so haven’t caught up - then I’d be in favor of defederation. Not preemptively.
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Not a lot but we have used it. It’s beta quality. You need to be in Bluetooth range if there’s no internet - and it works. Good for tent-to-tent texting.