Pretty neat, installed it from their GitHub. What change I was really hoping for from Geometric Weather was better widgets and to have the widgets include material you colors. Seems like they’re largely unchanged right now.
Back when smartphones had easily replaceable batteries, like the LG V10 I bought for my mom, I bought her a new battery after 3 years and it gave it new life.
Now, 10 years is on a different time frame. Personally, I would gauge the price of a replacement battery against how much I paid for the laptop. 10% maybe? Completely arbitrary. $20 replacement battery for a $200 used laptop.
That sounds about right, now that you’re jogging my memory. I have a 2007 a Sony laptop that I eventually wiped and installed Linux. Ran so much better than Windows.
In 2017 I bought a Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone, which ran circles around my laptop. Coupled with my laptop battery lasting about half an hour, I stopped using it.
I just googled how to rebuild laptop batteries. It never occurred to me it could be done.
If it has a removable battery, then it’s likely made up of 18650 cells. If it isn’t then it’s likely a flat lithium cell like a phone.
I pulled the battery case apart and snipped all of the 18650s out and charged them in a dedicated charger. They had been sitting too long and some of them were far below where they should be. It was causing the laptop power adapter to shut off.
Once they were properly charged they all tested good again. I could buy new cells, but I think these will work fine for what it is.
Now I need to spot weld metal tabs back onto the cells, put it back together, and hope it works.
That’s a myth. Betamax lost because it couldn’t record long enough. Movies had to be on two tapes. By the time they finally extended the time VHS was already dominant
I’ve been thinking about this too. Only been on Lemmy a few days, so still only have this one account, but definitely considering creating others, for the same reason as I had different accounts on Reddit: to compartmentalize different interests and purposes. For instance, a technology account, a news/politics account, an NSFW account. The cool thing about the Fediverse is that you can also create those accounts on instances that match the purpose of the account, like tech on programming.dev, NSFW on lemmynsfw.com, etc.
Edit: I just realized now upon re-reading your question that it was specific to Lemmy vs. Mastodon. In that case, I would say definitely. I think the two systems are sufficiently different to warrant having separate accounts. I do have another Mastodon account. One on each system for now.
Ok, but why not use Murena /e/ OS, that has MicroG pre-installed (and in fact, they’re the main developers of microG), and the ability to install google play apps if you want? They support even more phones than LineageOS at this point, and their codebase was originally from LineageOS. I installed e OS on my Moto G7 Plus, and it works great!
My opinion, not hater: because it has weird design, launcher, animations, because Lineage has more users -> community support, because I see no purpose to use it instead widely used and supported Lineage.
All of the federated sites push and pull content using ActivityPub (the technology that connects them all together), but they all seem to differ in the way their website presents the data and how you interact with things.
For example there's an upvote / downvote button on kbin.social for articles, but also a boost button. I've heard that some places only use the upvote and others the boost (or whatever they call it)
I found it easiest to just pick a place that looks decent and is chill and go from there 🦙🦙
I've read that upvote on kbin is basically "save" and boost is the functionality that would be upvote on lemmy or reddit.
Edit: Well look at that, seems I'm wrong and so many friendly people here to correct me without resorting to calling me names. Already this is much better than Reddit. :)
It was changed recently, now upvote works similar to lemmy/reddit (but also adds things to your favourites)
Boost is more for the microblogging side of kbin, it's like a retweet. (also adds more reputation points but that's not really useful for anything right now)
Boost also enhances the visibility of a post, and it'll probably have to continue to do so in future versions: not so much because of the internal workings of kbin, but because boosts are used to increase visibility across the fediverse. Having them not count towards visibility in kbin would be inconsistent when displaying information from the threadiverse at large. :)
Upvote and downvote is just that (they recently fixed the reputation calculation). A boost is like a retweet. You crosspost the boosted content to your own microblog space. Kbin does both reddit-like discussion threads as well as twitter/mastodon like microblogging. In fact, kbin is fully interoperable with mastodon. By boosting something you retweet (retoot?) it to your mastodon/microblog.
Started watching Dead Loch on Amazon Prime. It’s a fun comedy small town big murder mystery cop show. It’s really funny. Read a few people complain about one of the characters being frustratingly annoying, which is accurate but that’s part of her personal story arc, so does change a few episodes in.
If you like comedy, and small town murder mystery shows, definitely give it a watch.
And just re subbed to Netflix after about a year away. Got Beef and Diplomat on my watch list. Any other recommendations for year old good Netflix shows?
The Ansible install does make things a lot more simple, but it’s still pretty involved if you’re new to self-hosting in general. For example, you might need to set up an SMTP relay if you can’t port forward a workable port, and you also will probably want to change your Nginx configs to allow uploading larger images than a single megabyte.
The max_client_body_size setting in a few of the nginx config files needs increased. I don’t have the link handy, but it’s basically something you need to edit in both the /srv/lemmy internal config and several of the nginx external ones. The external ones are in a standard path for nginx installs, so a quick look for help on StackOverflow is how I got mine sorted.
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