I’d love to add something original to this post, but you’ve pretty much covered it.

To your point about corporate overlords: many of us loved Reddit until we realized it was a cesspool (for any number of reasons) and moved on, and it’s almost a shameful thing to admit we ever liked Reddit at this point.

To put it more simply: we just love federation and we love the format. We could always jump ship to Mastodon or any other federated platform, but long form discussion is what I believe drives adoption of Lemmy in particular the most.

Is it fishy to travel without luggage? I’ve done it tons of times, who knew?

I don’t think it’s necessarily horrible but with slowest WAN speeds it might be worth it to set up a DNS caching server and potentially caching proxies for whatever services you use (this used to be easier for generic HTTP before encryption).

For example, macOS has Content Caching for caching Apple software updates. You can also cache repositories for several Linux distributions, Docker, stuff like that too.

You can have your TMHI connect over Ethernet to a switch where you’ll have ports then there you can get your wired connections and your point to points and your mesh network all off that switch. If you need more ports add another switch.

I’d much rather go this route too, using “mesh” for WiFi just sounds like too much chaos for me. It’s not sexy, but it’s a lot easier to maintain and upgrade (the individual parts).

Why not ditch the mesh and go with a properly switched network with Ethernet as the backhaul? Your latency is likely already hosed using cellular for WAN, why add even more as traffic boings around a bunch of mesh nodes?

I’m not subscribed here and yet I comment

“Your climate is warmer than mine so I gotta prove how tough and skilled I am”

Oh ffs, this entire thread is a pissing match between people dispersed in multiple climates.

I’ve lived in -40°F winters but I’m sat here in SoCal tonight with 50°F nighttime lows freezing my ass off.

How is that possible? It’s called acclimation. Go to a climate opposite of yours sometime for at least two weeks then come back. You’ll probably notice real quick that your home climate is the one that feels weird because you’ve acclimated to your new climate.

Where I live, gas ones are illegal but that doesn’t stop all the leaf blowers choking the air with gas fumes. I literally have to turn on an air purifier to get rid of the smell.

Granted my apartment isn’t exactly a commercial workspace, but nothing is more infuriating than having to close all the doors/windows to my apartment when I’m in the middle of some huge programming problem. It instantly breaks apart the 10 things going on in my mental queue.

My motto is “macOS/iOS on desktop/phone,” Linux on everything else. I’m a programmer by day but I don’t want to fight for all the features I take for granted in Apple’s walled garden.

Haters might hate, and I still love watching Linux development but I’m more into server/CLI stuff on Linux than I am trying to make Gnome/KDE/Wayland as seamless as macOS.

It’s hard to find anything in English but if your browser has translation Wikipedia has some information.

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/星闪

Though light on details I did find it very interesting. I’ve never heard of Star Flash.

I call mine “baby girl” because I know it’s fucking corny. I’ve never been into referring to cars as people, but I guess I’m a hypocrite now.

As a web application developer I agree. I believe my proper job title is “software developer” which is close enough, but I prefer to be concise when telling people what I do. Even if I do become an “engineer” I wouldn’t get caught saying that in social settings.

I have a cheap $20 1byone scale from Amazon but it’s actually fantastic.

I’ll never drink New Amsterdam gin again. Don’t get me wrong, I love the stuff but I learned quick it’s the only alcohol that’s had me doing shady stuff like stealing someone’s bike, breaking into a car or pushing my friends around in a shopping cart in the streets at 3 AM.

I’ve drank to excess plenty of times in my younger days but never was I doing stuff like that. Something about that alcohol in particular is wild.

I’m a tech guy but also vegan and hate that I probably don’t do much for animals so:

• Direct Action Everywhere
• Sea Shepherd

I like them because both kind of kick ass at what they do.

I’d like to donate to the Humane Society but the local one is drowning in cash so I’d rather find one somewhere in the sticks (my hometown?) and donate to them.

Which rapist? Brock Turner or Allen Turner? In any case it’s clear we’re talking about a RAPIST

It doesn’t snow here ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Hard agree but you and I will probably be downvoted into oblivion.