Agreed. I like the positive vibe of beehaw, but I’m really here for the Reddit alternative and for the fediverse. I don’t want a walled garden, I want to be exposed to other communities, I just want them to be civil is all.

I already have accounts on other instances, so I’ll likely switch to an alternative instance and be very sad for it. But I respect the admin’s right to do it.

I refused to give up my headphone jack, so for my latest phone I switched to the Moto 5g Stylus

It’s an OK phone. It often has performance issues, but the battery life is massive and I expanded to storage to nearly 500Gb. The phone is long though - they increased the screen size and avoided increasing the width, so it’s just comically tall. That’s good for scenarios when you want to see more of the screen while keeping the keyboard out and for split screen apps and games, but mostly it’s a burden because you can’t effectively use the phone one handed. For its price, I’d say it’s probably worth at least a year or two of service, but I find myself wanting more power again like the Pixel 3a (my last phone).

I’m interested in a couple of the phones they listed in the article, but definitely will have to double check performance in the future. It’s the most annoying part of this phone

Oh one pro tip for the 5g stylus - the camera is good, but only when using their “Ultra-rez” mode instead of the default mode, and the preview looks a lot worse than the actual picture. The picture will preview as blurry and pixelated while you’re taking it, but once processed it will look great

I think the hate for Andromeda was a little overblown. I enjoyed the heck out of the game, regardless of any weird facial expressions! It of course was never going to live up to the original trilogy but it stood out on its own in a lot of positive ways

We do somewhere between 72 and 76. But at night in the peak of summer we’ll bump it down to 70. Our bedroom is on the top floor and can often be several degrees hotter than the lower floor where the thermostat is, so for a few weeks in the summer we have to really crank it.

I’m told we should look into a vent fan to help distribute the air better but I haven’t taken the time to put in the effort yet, I’m sad to say

How long have you been running it so far? Any issues?

Everyone outside of the U.S. almost assuredly still has SMS capabilities, it’s just not common utilized because everyone is already on WhatsApp or Telegram. It’s where their friends are, locking them into the ecosystem, which is exactly what I just said. And I would be willing to wager the only reason WhatsApp really got huge was because SMS hasn’t always been free to use and may still not be free in some countries and with some plans.

Telegram, Signal and WhatsApp are fine, as for privacy how exactly are SMS better?

I wasn’t speaking to privacy specifically, but where all your friends are.

If you want privacy, then you shouldn’t be using Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp anyway, considering both are owned by Meta and their privacy track record is shaky at best.

Signal is a great choice, but we get back to the main point where not everyone is on Signal, and once you are on Signal you’re locked in to using Signal and must have their app to participate in the conversation.

My point wasn’t that SMS is better, but it’s simpler and more widely available and doesn’t require a standalone application to use.

Ideally we would use an open standard like the Matrix standard to communicate, that way you can download whatever application you want and have all the privacy you could ever desire, but not have to download some random messaging application just to catch up from Gary from primary school

If you’re technically savvy, it looks like you could self-host the application. https://github.com/beeper/self-host

It sounds like a too good to be true situation. Definitely an interesting concept though. Sounds like they use remote servers to connect to the third-party apps using your credentials and then transcribe the messages using the Matrix protocol to the app. Source here and snippet below

Beeper consists of two main components:

• A client app that runs on your devices.
• A web service run by Beeper.

… Beeper’s web service consists of a Matrix homeserver and infrastructure to run open source bridges that connect to 15 different chat networks.

Currently free but also will be a Plus version eventually rolling out, according to the FAQ

For now, everyone has access to all the features of Beeper Plus for free. At some point in 2023, we will begin charging $5-10 per month for Beeper Plus.

Also, no humor is lost on the fact that it is dangerously close to Wuph from The Office…

It’s exactly what social media platforms, particularly Facebook, want. They want you to feel locked in because your friends are there

I don’t know why people don’t just use more SMS. You don’t need all the fancy bells and whistles, it shouldn’t change the conversation you’re having, especially with the gradual rollout of rich messages, and it has a wider audience than Facebook will ever have. More people have SMS than have Facebook

Neat. I may give this a go at work. My company decided not to buy an enterprise license for Docker Desktop so we’re locked to older, free versions.

We’ve also been using Podman (via buildah) in our pipelines with great success. It’s seems to be a pretty great drop-in replacement for Docker

Probably the hardest part of React, for me, was getting used to the callbacks. Passing data up to the parent component using a function. It’s a little difficult to get used to if you haven’t encountered it already

Definitely would second Plex. Previously I just had an external hard drive with my library on it but that isn’t as accessible.

With Plex, you can easily get started just installing it on a personal computer and let it grow over time. I had mine on my personal computer for years before recently upgrading to a NAS and it’s top tier. Makes streaming to any device effortless and helps you organize your library

In the United States here and I haven’t had non-streaming television since I moved out of my parent’s house.

Toyed with things like Sling and YouTube TV once, but they just aren’t worth it.

There’s a scene from the OT that kills me. When they’re on Endor in the evening and Leia and Han are being “romantic” and it is some of the most soap opera dialogue in the whole series.

Its arguably not terrible when you read it, but watching it I was rolling my eyes. People love to hate on the Padme+Anakin romance but the Han+Luke+Leia love triangle is equally as hard to watch, in my opinion. If we’re going to give one a hard time we can’t ignore the other. Lucas just isn’t the best at dialogue

https://youtu.be/MDYX_PgorRY

Leia holds back her tears as Luke slowly lets her go and moves away. He disappears onto the walkway that leads out of the village. Leia, bathed in moonlight, watches him go as Han comes out of the Chief’s hut and comes over to her. Leia is crying, her body trembling. He realizes only now that she is crying.

HAN Hey, what’s goin’ on?

Leia attempts to stifle her sobs and wipes her eyes.

LEIA Nothing. I - just want to be alone for a little while.

HAN (angry) Nothing? Come on, tell me. What’s goin’ on?

She looks up at him, struggling to control herself.

LEIA I…I can’t tell you.

HAN (loses his temper) Did you tell Luke? Is that who you could tell?

LEIA I…

HAN Ahhh…

He starts to walk away, exasperated, then stops and walks back to her.

HAN I’m sorry.

LEIA Hold me.

Han gathers her tightly in his protective embrace.

No mention on a cause in this article, curious what it was

Awesome list. I was already using most of these but the DNS is new to me, so I’ll give it a spin. I was already using AdAway on my phone but that was already handling the DNS traffic, so I had to disable it. I like the Mullvad DNS better because AdAway was working as a psuedo-VPN which wasn’t ideal

There is a bit of irrationality with FOSS. People claim they work better, but I almost universally find that they work significantly worse and have much worse UX.

Granted, I still use and prefer FOSS alternatives a lot of the time, but I’m not using them because they’re functionally better, and pretending like they are in many cases is just disingenuous

I am interested in trying Podman and Rancher for alternatives to Docker, but I don’t think this article is very good at convincing anyone… Two of their three points are VERY weak

The ease of creating pods is unmatched by any other container engine, whether CLI or GUI.

I would definitely challenge that opinion. For starters, I use the Docker CLI for 99% of my use cases, so really I don’t care about the GUI but about how the CLI commands are designed. Secondly, if I am going to use a GUI for Docker, I just use Portainer which is the best GUI I’ve found so far for container management.

This point is extremely subjective.

Unlike Docker, you can pull an image while in the Podman Desktop application

This is just incorrect, and I don’t know why they couldn’t just look at the Docker Desktop documentation for two seconds to find the truth

The strongest argument they have is for the rootless containers, which my company’s shared pipeline runners are now beginning to enforce. We use buildah for that (which I believe wraps around Podman) and I appreciate the increased security and lighter load on the system

Overall, this wasn’t a very convincing article. I’m interested in Podman but if I weren’t I think I’d find it pretty easy to dismiss this one

I know a lot of people don’t care for Sync because it isn’t a FOSS application. But it’s genuinely the best app out there right now by a huge margin. It’s extremely polished and it works so much more reliably.

I use Jerboa mainly, and I’m constantly having to switch instances or restart Jerboa because something breaks. Sync doesn’t have the same issues, seemingly, it just works.

For example, Jerboa makes it really difficult to “restart” the infinite scroll when something does go wrong. You hit the bottom of the infinite scroll and can’t scroll any further and the only way to recover is to either (1) scroll all the way back to the top of the feed so you can refresh or (2) restart the app. With Sync you can easily just press the home button again to go to the top of the feed. But honestly I never have to do that because it’s broken, I only ever do that to start a new session

Overall, I’m a little stunned by the difference in quality. It’s actually remarkable

Yeah that’s a jinx if I’ve ever heard one. Better buy two just in case…