Ah of course they would. Thanks for the info!

Is it normal for that wide range of octane ratings and the highest to be 91?

I don’t remember octane ratings in the 80s since maybe the 90s. Here we commonly have 91, 95, and 98 as the options.

Huh interesting! I see playing on their website that an equivalent laptop is more expensive in the DIY version, it’s just that the starting price includes no RAM, storage, etc.

So the DIY is for people who want to bring their own parts, not for people who want to get all the parts then save money!

Framework sells DIY kits so the European dude assembling the laptop could be himself!

According to this page it’s about that 25% of the whole tyre, where more than half the tyre is not rubber/synthetic rubber but other stuff.

So there is more synthetic rubber than natural rubber. But the mind-blowing thing for me here is that I kind of assumed the whole tyre was synthetic, but they are only 25% plastic and still are the biggest source of mocroplastic.

could be a simple “redirect to a different instance” button, where you could select yours

Though not perfect, that would be a vast improvement on now. There are thousands of instances (remembering content is shared to Mastodon and others), and not every instance knows about every other, but you could auto-fill from the list the instance knows about, and if you end up back on that site it should remember what you selected last time and prefill it. Great idea!

Or the site could check for the cookies of known servers

This is simply not possible because browsers don’t let a site do this.

I guess the question is… how? Browsers isolate what they know about you to domains. When you go to Gmail, it doesn’t tell Gmail that you have a Hotmail email.

As far as the browser knows, lemmy.world and lemmy.ca are as different as hotmail.com and gmail.com. The token that knows you are logged into lemmy.world is not sent to any other site, that would be a huge security risk. And the browser doesn’t know what is being stored in the cookies, just that it’s there and it should only send it to the domain it came from and never another.

I don’t disagree that this is a big problem. I just don’t know how it would be solved while keeping the fediverse decentralised.

There must be some sort of way to do it.

Lemmy doesn’t handle this nicely either, though I still use this extension last updated 3 years ago: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant

If you’re the one posting a link, you can use a service like https://lemmyverse.link/ which will redirect a user to the same items on their own instance (after they set their instance the first time), though that site is run by the guy behind lemmings.world that’s shutting down in a couple of months, so it’s future may be a little uncertain. I’ve also seen https://threadiverse.link/ but I don’t know who run it.

Have you tried owning the place you work?

I guess it depends on the specifics of what you are worried about. I have a catchall set up for a domain I own, and so I can make up an email on the spot. I’ve never had trouble getting those accepted.

But for random internet stuff I tend to use either Firefix Relay or Simple Login. I use these most of the time and don’t normally have issues, but if I do then I use my own domain.

I think these relay email services (which are not temp/disposable emails btw) let you set up with your own domain too.

Someone at work: OMG, I can’t believe I haven’t tried Copilot before, this is so great! Look, I asked it about how to do the thing in the framework and it came back and told me the pattern!

Me: Types the same prompt into Copilot, but replaces name of the framework with a very clearly made up word. Gets similar response telling me confidently how to do it in my made up framework.

Them: Ah, right. You did say bullshit generator, I get it now.

I can absolutely understand that it’s difficult to conceptualise. For someone who already understands, the concept is dead simple.

But I still remember the confusion trying to join Mastodon all those years ago. You are shown a list of servers, huh? Never being introduced to the concept of federated social media, just being asked makes you feel like you don’t belong because you don’t understand what’s happening.

Ok, so you search around and work out that it’s across many servers. You now have to somehow pick a server with no frame of reference. Pick randomly and hope you don’t pick the lemmdgrad equivalent (which is always high on the list on join-lemmy.com BTW). Then you go to join and you have to apply - oh, but what if they don’t want me? How do they know who I am, why would they approve my application?

Each one of these things is a barrier to entry, they stack like swiss cheese so that very few people make it through.

Then there’s the part where all these people have friends that could help them through it, but the friends never mention the fediverse to them because of the whole don’t talk about thing. I am guilty of this.

90s me would have killed for speeds like that!

It does, yeah. If you aren’t averse to cloudflare then it’s a great option.

From memory I think it’s limited to http/https traffic, but that’s normally not an issue, just have all your services behind a reverse proxy.

One place I worked issued work from home kits, and asked you to please never ever ever return your keyboard and mouse, it’s yours forever, keep it when you quit, because no one else will want it once it’s been WFHed for a while.

They only credit for months you do no searches at all, if you do one you pay for the full month, but it’s a nice touch. Personally I can’t think of a situation where I’d do no searches in a month!

For something as important as search, paying $5 or $10 a month seems entirely reasonable to me. I’ve been a Kagi user ever since their unlimited plan dropped to $10 a month when they reached enough users that they could do that.

You are paying for these services one way or another. But no one says you have to pay $10 for each service.

Yes, it shouldn’t be needed

My view is that is should be needed. Advertising is a bad business model, I’d much prefer paying for a service I used. I think we should all get more comfortable paying for the sites we use.

You mentioned not being able to find a good alternative not tied to a subscription. Seems like if you find a good alternative tied to a subscription she could use it!

But yes I understand that change is hard. I spent years working in Excel, hate the thing, but it’s so very hard to change to LibreOffice Calc.

I’ve used Linux for years at this point, but I never really learnt much about running Windows programs except games, and they make that too easy.