Ah yes, I guess it was Flattr! I read the top of the above linked wikipedia page and it talked about visiting pages with a browser extension, which didn’t sound right. But I see now in the history section it has:

Its first version required users to click on a “flattr” button on websites to “flattr” content.

So I guess I was in early!

I remember something that I think was a bit different to Flattr. People would put buttons on their sites, then you’d kind of thumbs up or upvote or something when you visited the site if you liked it. At the end of each month, your specified donation amount got split based on the the proportion of likes on each site. I think it would be separate buttons for e.g. each article on the site, or perhaps you could like more than once as I seem to recall being able to give another like each other time you visited.

For a while there were a bunch of sites I’d visit that had it, but I can’t remember seeing it since perhaps 5-10 years ago.

Hmm interesting, I thought he’d been on Mastodon since well before Bluesky existed.

George Takei is on Mastodon and has been for years, surely he would have done something.

So how long until it’s small enough to power a Pip-boy?

I got a kobo recently and was amazed to find you can sync it with calibre-web to basically run your own book store. Browse and download any books from your server. Pretty cool.

From the thread it seems it’s only a problem during setup. If you stick it out then after setup it should be fine.

RCS might be better than SMS but it seems to only be supported by the Google Messages app so I do without. You did ask about other things, I don’t recall giving anything up but then there are these two things you mentioned that I never would have thought of so maybe there are more.

I hope I can get my Dexcom working on gos.

It’s apparently a struggle, but see this thread. I can’t work out how to link a specific reply, but there is one on 11 August 2025 by whoiswes and then some info in the replies following it, that recommend something called xDrip. They say they recommend it over the Dexcom app and runs flawlessly once set up, but it seems there’s a bit of app crashing that happens while setting it up.

Oh I was already degoogling long before I moved to GrapheneOS. I’ve never used RCS and gave up wallet years before moving to GrapheneOS. I only use SMS with specific people so not having RCS has never been an issue for me - but apparently it works on GrapheneOS if you don’t mind the whole google thing.

And apparently it’s only NFC payments that don’t work on GrapheneOS, you can use other wallet features according to the people in this thread.

I never stopped carrying a card anyway so NFC payments aren’t something I miss.

Ah right, that makes sense!

I could have sworn I read this announcement a couple of months ago.

Your instance would have private/public keys for communicating with other instances. By changing software, all that is gone, and you might find other instances rejecting your federation activities, this is doubly true if you used the same username, because they would already have a record of that user with a different public key.

I’d suggest using a subdomain or a new domain, re-using a domain for a different Fediverse server is likely to have issues. A subdomain would be treated as a different domain so would be fine.

This is also something to know for a different scenario: taking your lemmy instance and changing the domain but keeping the content is likely to break federation as well.

Is that a normal place to put the cooler on intel systems?

I thought it might be that. I just didn’t want anyone to get the impression you use your phone less because it can’t do as much! I still use mine too much 😅

I am confused about why it made you use your phone less. Is it that you didn’t install your time sink apps?

I use GrapheneOS and nothing really changed day to day. Admittedly I have sandboxed Google Play Services installed so I can use my banking app and some others only on the Play store, but largely it’s just a phone like before but without so much Google.

If you’re open to it, I’ve seen maintainers go to “maintenance mode”.

Write it high in the readme so people see it, and write what it means: basically that you’re not accepting PRs, you’re not developing new features, but you will do bug fixes and basic maintenance (dependency updates, etc).

In my experience it’s not quite the same. Using webdav through the distro account seems that it’s fully online. And folder access or file access contacts the server.

The virtual file experience is more of a hybrid. All the folders actually exist on disk, as well as shells for every file. If you try to open a virtual file, in the background Windows will seamlessly download it for you. At that point the file is actually on your disk. This way regularly accessed files on on your hard drive and seldom accessed ones are not, saving local hard drive space while providing an experience almost like if all the files were actually on your drive.

On Windows, Nextcloud seems to tap into some Windows function to provide files on demand. Is there any Linux cloud file service that can do it?

Well the containers are grouped into services. I would easily have 15 services running, some run a separate postgres or redis while others do an internal sqlite so hard to say (I’m not where I can look rn).

If we’re counting containers then between Nextcloud and Home Assistant I’m probably over 20 already lol.

Chat GPT, generate me an image of an eyeball.