They usually choose a subset of customers to try UI changes on before rolling it out to everyone. This way they can estimate the general reaction before committing to it. They probably also have a dozen different layouts and text for this dialog that they are testing to see what makes people most likely to click yes. Its all just statistics to them.

The USGS has a much better article.

https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/potential-geologic-hydrogen-next-generation-energy

It does sound promising, but it looks like there is a fair amount of work to make it economically viable.

Gadgetbridge looks cool. I wish I had known about this before buying a Fitbit. I wonder how hard it would be to add support.

When I configured it, a 13" mac pro with 16GB ram and 1TB SSD is $1600 from apple, the 13" framework with 16GB ram and 1TB SSD is $1065. That comes out to a 60% difference for the most basic configuration I would consider.

I bought a framework laptop for my significant other last year and it’s amazing. It feels super solid like a Macbook but is easy to open and change out parts. Nothing has broken but adding some ram was probably the most pleasant experience I have had working on a laptop. Plus, the main PCB can run without the rest of the laptop so perhaps a great home automation server or TV computer if we upgrade.

My next machine is definitely going to be one of these. Way cheaper than Apple if you want more than 8G of RAM and a decent amount of disk space.

I liked the idea more than advertising to be honest. But it felt weird voluntarily giving them money while they were using ads too. Ever since I cancelled my last cable tv in the mid 2000s I refuse to pay for anything with ads.

If you have access to a 3d printer, try looking for a tenting case on Printables or Thingiverse. The CRKBD printed case I downloaded was pretty good. Plus I was able to modify the design over time to suit my needs. My current iteration is over a year old and I love it.

Fyi the lily 58 has space for the number row at the top. You can also build a number pad that sits between the halves. It’s all wireless and still takes less room than a standard layout.

But anyway, you choose the layout that works for you. That’s the whole point of ergo mech keyboards. Lots of great open source software exists to choose and build exactly what you want with no compromises.

Switch testers are quite nice even if they don’t have the exact switch you want. It’s a lot easier to figure out what the numbers and descriptions mean if you have a comparison point. The switches I ended up with were not in any tester, but the testers were still super helpful.

As for layout, it’s worth being open to the smaller things like CRKBD or Lily58, your brain is better at adapting than you may think. These layouts save desk space, are significantly cheaper, and are quite nice to use. The savings add up especially quick if you are trying out different kinds of keys.

People must be doing that, I scrolled for a bit and didn’t see a single 5 star review. The best part is most reviews call out exactly the same problems as my 1 star review from 2018. Very few even seem to mention the API or 3rd party apps. What have they been doing for 5 years?

Fair point. Perhaps I will look into the issue more and see what exists and how Lemmy can plug into it. Perhaps it would be easier server side rather than with a bot.

I am totally new to being a mod so take my suggestion with a grain of salt. Would it be possible to remove images or content based on a database of known offending content? I grew up in the days of goatse (please please do NOT Google that) and would like such things to be auto removed. I will survive the occasional false negative, but minimizing such things would be appreciated. I know large tech companies have something similar to remove abuse photos.

Ah that explains it. Someone posted a cool photo to my community from lemmy.ca but didn’t interact further. Looks like my comment didn’t even show up on their end.

Anyway, thanks to everyone working on the issue. I know these things aren’t easy.

Sorry to hear about the concussion! Hopefully you still enjoy the community.

Yeah, I am a long time lurker from Reddit as well. Now I started a community for back country skiing !backcountry@lemmy.world . Feel free to come watch me awkwardly post trip pictures trying to get the community going :-)

Construing their decision as a desire to fracture the community is missing the actual reason they’ve tried to articulate. It’s a temporary stopgap for the 4 admins who just weren’t expecting the sort of volume and associated misbehaving problems they are suddenly getting.

Thanks for this explanation, this makes a lot of sense and makes me less concerned about the whole thing.

Serious question though, if a server defederates, do the communities hosted on other servers just become completely un-moderated? This seems like a serious liability for the overall community.

Yeah, that is a fair point. I am brand new to this moderating thing at the moment so we will see if I can last. Hopefully I can find some other back country skiers/snowboarders who are interested in helping to run the community.

This is part of my complaint against Reddit doing this. Google and Microsoft already have the data, they are just ensuring smaller companies and open source LLMs fail. I am also a little annoyed by the app thing, but I think it’s important that we don’t let tech giants monopolize this new technology.

I deleted my reddit post history, it’s not their data to sell.

Thanks, if the images are blurred I am fine with it. I assumed that it just showed stuff if you checked the NSFW box.

Edit: After trying it, yeah it blurs stuff, but I kinda wish there was a more redacted setting as it doesn’t blur that much. But I can live with this for now.

I have noticed this for sure, I have not seen any porn or offensive content yet fortunately. But I appreciate the warning, I will be careful using Lemmy in public until this is resolved.