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I waddled onto the beach and ~~stole~~ *found* a computer to use.

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Someone else already gave a decent explanation :)

Can you try these two guide pages and see if they help? They have some diagrams

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then

They are two separate platforms, made by different teams. The feeds look different for a few reasons

• piefed.ca is brand new and so it is missing a lot of the content. As people start using it, the default logged out feed will start to look closer to other instances
• An instance only pulls the content that its users are subscribed to. When you make an account on an instance and you are the first person to subscribe to a community, hitting subscribe will tell your instance to start pulling in those posts. That is why every instance will be slightly different regardless.

I'm not really clear on how communicating freely between them works

Unlike Lemmy and Mastodon, which are somewhat different formats (posts in communities) vs. short text posts on a user's profile), Lemmy and PieFed are more or less the same. So it should be a lot closer in experience. Whatever you can subscribe to, comment on, or vote on within lemmy.ca, you should be able to do the same on piefed.ca

Especially because we are running both instances, and so they will have similar block lists.

It's nice timing! Looking forward to seeing you and your instance in the world of pie :)

We appreciate you as well! 😁

Your friend Morty looks fun

Also happy cake day!

I commented this in the other thread, sharing it here as well

I’ve been waiting for this feature for a while actually 😅

When I last saw people talking about it, there were rumors that there would be a reasonable free backup (ex. up to 1 Gb) with relatively cheap paid options above that. I scrolled through the GitHub link and couldn’t confirm or deny if this is still/actually the case.

Backups are the #1 pain point for friends that tried to switch to Signal, especially for those on iOS. I have a local backup + sync setup for my own phone, but it’s a lot to expect for the average casual user to set up.

Whatsapp has backups to Google Drive, which is better than nothing but not ideal. It’s time Signal had a reliable backup method for casual users

That's cool, how do you get it to output so much text accurately?

There actually is a BBS style interface for Lemmy

https://neonmodem.com/

https://github.com/mrusme/neonmodem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_(entertainment)

https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/blockbuster

This seems like one of those terms without any clear origin, and the Wikipedia doesn't list this potential use as one of them. I'm not saying it isn't true (I don't know), but @Quilotoa@lemmy.ca you could edit the title to something like "the term 'blockbuster' may have come from". Or even just add "[disputed]" to the title

A different calendar app might have something better

If you have a common pattern, you could create a custom calendar with that pattern. For example, if you always want 3 reminders for this schedule:

• 10 minutes before
• 1 hour before
• 12 hours before

You can make a calendar with that preset, and then for any events that need that pattern, you set it to that calendar

That's actually around -18°C (to -23°C)

So it is in line with everyone else

Do you have a cat cafe or shelter/rescue nearby?

It's not the same thing, but it might quench your thirst somewhat

It could be so that it works for embedded videos on other websites

The "crosspost" label is more of a flag that there is another post with the same URL somewhere. If I posted the same article in a community multiple times, it would have multiple "crosspost" labels for that community. I agree that this could be done in a better way

I assume there was a bug or loading issue where the user posted this post twice. Maybe their app thought it didn't go through the first time and tried posting it again.

Since there is discussion on both posts, I might leave them both?

A big part of this site's pitch to its clients, including the "hyperscale" customers with gigantic data centers nearby, is that each device is labeled, tracked, and inventoried for its drives—both obvious and hidden—and is either securely wiped or destroyed. The process, commonly called ITAD, is used by larger businesses, especially when they upgrade fleets of servers or workers' devices. ITAD providers ensure all the old gear is wiped clean, then resold, repurposed, recycled, or destroyed.

There's a quote along the lines of "User error is not a thing, the system allowed for the error through bad design"

Which can be true depending on how far you stretch it. I'd say that if a chunk of the user base is having a problem, it's a design problem

How do people use the feature? Since I can't think of a case where I would use this, aside from a child wanting to buy something without the parent needing to put their credit card details on the kid's device

It might be easier to make a few images with some anti-AI patterns, and then give them randomly generated file names and paths. If needed, you could do some subtle transformations each time but generating a new image each time might be more effort than its worth

We haven't hugged the Wii to death yet

Here is a list

https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Bookmarks

Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is another popular one, although I haven't tried it yet

I saw this on another post earlier: https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email