I did nothing and I’m all out of ideas!

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023
  • Mechanize@feddit.ittoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Currently I have a Boox e-ink reader, but I learned that they don't last that much and their post-sale support is the worst. I see that this device will fail in the next 6-12 months, what e-ink reader
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    11 months ago

    I have a Boox Nova Air which is still going strong after around 2 years, and honestly it’s pretty good for writing. But I heard a lot of people having problems with updates bricking the device or receiving a bad unit and having an hard time returning it, if bought directly from them. I did not have to talk with support and I avoided the updates, so I can’t say more about that. My experience is overall good with it.

    I also have a Kobo Libra H2O that I think is nearing the 4 years mark, and is still going really strong. The biggest problem I had was that it asks for a kobo account during setup, thing that I really dislike. I don’t know if it is still like that.

    But, generally, if you want an epub compatible reader that you can mod (NickelMenu etc) and easily side load stuff to, with a kobo libra you can’t go wrong. Even if, to be fair, I’m not up to date with the latest devices and company policies.

    One note: the kindle format is pretty closed and all the stuff you buy from amazon is generally DRMed to hell, so it’s not certain that you can pass it to other readers. Just avoid amazon’s ebooks.

    EDIT: One thing I missed: PDFs on the default kobo software are bad, the Boox default software for PDF is far better and - in my case - there’s a screen size difference too that can make my opinion biased. Aside from that for pure book reading kobo is generally better, but you need to buy a protective case for it: there are a lot of cheap and good quality compatible ones.

  • Mechanize@feddit.ittoTechnology@beehaw.org•"What do we do now?" - LMG's response to the recent controversiesEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I feel that your post is belittling a situation that, as narrated, is straight up mobbing and bullying, only acknowledging it in a small paragraph which I feel boils down to a dismissive “awful but only maybe malicious, probably just lack of oversight”, while the rest of your comment tries to find excuses and normalizing something that is not.

    These:

    I was asked about my sexual history, my boyfriends sexual history, “how I liked to fuck”.

    I was told that certain issues were “sexual tension” and I should just “take the co-worker out on a coffee date to ease it out”

    I was told I was chunky, fat, ugly, stupid. I was called “retarded” I was called a “faggot”

    My work was called “dogs–t” I was called “incompetent”.

    “I think the reason you try to be funny, is because you lack any other skills.” smiled then walked away.

    I watched co-workers get what I had asked for weeks before they did. It took 2 months to get mine.

    Also apparently some managers didn’t like me because I “hadn’t gotten drunk with them before” Which was said in that haha just jokin (but actually I’m serious) tone

    Are nor normal nor acceptable: for anyone who is in a corporation where this is common place: take a step back and understand that it is not healthy for you, bad power dynamics are a real thing and the abuse of them sometimes can feel normal, especially in small businesses that get a sudden explosive growth. And I don’t even want to go into her self harming to get a day off.

    You can say it was probably a single person, but the lack of action by management with phrases like “change your priorities”, “put on your big girl pants” and stuff like that makes it a Company issue, Company which indirectly accept and endorse that kind of treatment: they being so against unionizing sincerely gets a whole other meaning read under this light.

    The notebook case is self evidence of it all: A small thing that normally wouldn’t be anything important, but compounded with the stressful environment got emotionally distressful. The fact that such a small thing has stayed with her so long should tell you that she was really not in an healthy mental state.

    I don’t personally care about the whole LTT fiasco, as an uninterested spectator it’s fun to watch from the outside and then change channel, a blip in the media world that will most likely blow down in a couple of weeks. But reading how these actions are belittled is really distressing. Bullying is not normal, and it should never be accepted. Ever.

    The full thread for whoever missed it: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html

  • Mechanize@feddit.ittoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit.
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    1 year ago

    Until you have up and down votes there always will be someone making a tally.

    The concept of Karma of other sites, to be fair, is not as simple as that. A lot of times the Karma is not a straight tally, there are algorithms to mitigate abuse (ex. Try to disregard mass voting, sudden influxes of votes, or known bots votes), or it is used to indirectly move the conversation to a preferred subject (ex. Making points obtained in some discussions or communities less valuable, or directly not considering them).

    Luckily or not that kind of Karma is not present here, which basically makes the whole concept of total Karma pretty useless because you really can’t trust the value to be kind of truthful and not manipulated.

    Already with all the anti abuse, and it being calculated in a centralized platform, it was generally worthless. Here it is completely worthless. People should just be reminded of its real nature of an easily gamed system, and that it is not what they were used to.

    We can only hope that in the long run they will drop it.

  • Mechanize@feddit.ittoFediverse@lemmy.world•I don't understand.English
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    1 year ago

    I’ve posted a top level comment with all the concepts I think could be useful to better understand the whole Fediverse and Lemmy thing: if ,after that, you have any more questions you can reply to it and I’ll try to help you out.

    I’d link it directly but currently comments links can get messy.

  • Mechanize@feddit.ittoFediverse@lemmy.world•I don't understand.English
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    1 year ago

    I’ll try to simplify some concepts about the Fediverse and Lemmy using some more common IT knowledge.

    I assume you are familiar with emails: gmail, protonmail, hotmail, aol, each of them runs a Server which will give you access, when registered, to a mailbox which will have a name of your choice, followed by an AT(@), and then a Domain specific to the vendor you have chosen.

    ID

    Lemmy works in a similar way: When you choose an instance (for example lemmy.world, or lemmy.ml, or feddit.de, you can find a list here: https://lemmyverse.net ) you are choosing where your account will live. You’ll get a full ID composed by your name of choice followed by an @ and then the domain of your chosen instance.

    In your case your full ID is favrion@lemmy.world . This is unique to you in the whole Fediverse.

    Communities

    Contrary to emails we have another abstraction: Communities. They are collections of posts and comments, moderated by someone and about a specific subject. These communities will reside on a specific server, like your account, and you can, for example, go to !technology@lemmy.ml or !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world . As you can see their format is similar to that of your account: they have both a community name, the name before the @, and a domain that specifies where the main copy of it physically resides.

    You can find a full, searchable, list of communities here: https://lemmyverse.net/communities For some more complex reasons just disregards any of them that reside on beehaw.org (they have defederated with lemmy.world, but you don’t need to understand this concept yet).

    Feeds

    When you start to look around the lemmy.world site, and you are logged in with your lemmy.world account, you’ll have the ability to follow three different types of feed: Subscribed, Local, All.

    Local: This feed shows only communities which main copy actually resides on the instance that you are currently on.
    All: All the posts from all the communities of all the instances will appear here.
    Subscribed: All the posts from the communities that you have subscribed to will show here.

    Federation

    Until now the concepts were pretty straightforward and not so dissimilar from other services, but now starts the more complex subject: Federation.

    For all this different instances (computers running the Lemmy server) to have the information it needs to spread and they need to duplicate it.

    This will allow you to see the same exact content whichever instance your account is on: this means that if you have chosen to create an account on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml it, generally speaking, doesn’t matter. You will see and interact with the same content and people.

    Your instance is just the gate towards the content, which you have to always pass through (so no, you shouldn’t make an account in each instance, you just need one, and you should choose an instance which rules and values are acceptable for you and, better yet, similar to yours).

    Going back to the previous comparison with email services you can think of this as: Each time you take an action (writing a post, a comment, sending an upvote) you are really just sending an email to all the instances, so they get notified and update their copy of the content.

    An email saying something along the lines of “favrion@lemmy.world has just downvoted the post number 69420 in the community 42 of the instance 123” will propagate until every single server has received it.

    Defederation

    Defederation is the strength and the weakness of the whole fediverse: it helps to moderate the content but it also breaks the web connecting all the servers.

    Each instance automatically connects itself with all the others present in the net, but an Admin can actively decide that some other instance - maybe because it is full of Bots, or Scammers, or contains communities clearly voted to illegal or immoral things, or just they don’t like it; the reasons are subjective - really rustled their jimmies and they don’t want to see it anymore. In that case the Admin could decide to Defederate from them: this means that each time a new email from that instance comes it just get dropped and ignored.

    So, if Instance A defederates from instance B, each time B sends an update to the content produced by the communities or people from B it will just be ignored by A. All the users registered on A will just not see anything or anyone from B.

    Basically an instance wide shadow-ban.

    Conclusion

    This was just a quick and rough explanation of the concepts, but I hope it was useful: if you have any question I’ll try to answer them at the best of my abilities. But keep in mind that they are not really high. And I’m kinda tipsy.

    The main takeaways are this:

    • You only need an account in a single instance.
    • You can subscribe to any community that you want, wherever they are.
    • You can search instances and communities here: https://lemmyverse.net
    • You should choose an instance that has similar values as you.
    • Sometimes the federation (the mails sent around between the servers) can get slow, but all content will be eventually consistent. Kinda.
    • Communities are sprouting around at high speed, there are a lot of duplicates and everything is in flux, try to be patience.
    • Just try to have fun and be happy.

    EDIT: Typos.