@frongt Yeah I am trying this. The handlenfor these magazines seem bit odd. I am yet to see if they work…

@AssociatedPress Perhaps @admin@flipboard.social could help with advice?

Is this one of thoses cases where a petition might be a starting point?

@palordrolap @brachiosaurus There are a few differences. Governments dont generally make announcements on a particular TV station but usually provide an open access press conference.

Gov.uk is the 17th most visited site in UK in Dec 25- semrush.com/trending-websites/… - plenty of people visit that and its not even all of gov sites.

@palordrolap @rglullis Indeed. You cant even see what a UK government is posting without handing over your data.

@palordrolap @brachiosaurus If they are publishing something … it should be available to everyone. I domtnhave an issue with Meta or X taking a feed (RSS or Activitypub ) of their posts and publishong them ( like a TV or radio programme does.

@palordrolap @brachiosaurus They put it on their website and mention it in their communications. People and journalists sibscribe.

@palordrolap @rglullis @brachiosaurus But generally government officials make announcements at press conferences in government buildings with an open method for press to become acredited and attend. Sure politicians do media appearances - buts thats different - they are normally acting as an individual - effectively as a candidate.

@palordrolap @rglullis @brachiosaurus Government should post things in publoc places but X and Facebook arent public. They are like shopping malls - free to talk into but put restrictions around what you can do, substitute public law for.private contractual agreements and they replace public justice for their abitrary decision making about behalviour and extract costs ( data, tracking, attention sellijg & emotional manulipulation) from visitors. All of these things are bad for citizen involvement.

@Die4Ever Hmm weird . The link didnt come through

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@Auster @erick I run a single / family Friendica instance - covers your Masto & Lemmy needs + more (e.g RSS ) . Uses few resources.

@AA5B @SupraMario I hear that some are coming with hoses pre-charged with gas now so you can self install?

@AA5B Surely a split system A/c would be more efficient?

@eli Thanks. Appreciate it. I have a VPN configured between the different locations and subnets I have at the moment with a bit if policy based routing to control what can access what… I just bring the remote location back online

@irmadlad I’m not saying that I am actually achieving that … lol …

@pinball_wizard With a Luanti server does every Minecraft player still need a Minecraft licence?

@possiblylinux127 @poVoq Yeah at tis stage I’d like to have a closed environment for them.

@irmadlad Thanks. I live a long way away amd only get to visit occasionally so as they get older the opportunity to do things together online is important to me.

@BlameThePeacock Yeah I think I will get some light switches and see if we can do some rouitines.

Wow I really appreciate the feedback. After quite a bit of changes and home moves that disrupted alot of what selfhosted stuff I setup, a bit of disallusionment with doing it alone and difficulty staying connected with my nephew remotely these give me some good ideas. I need to find out more about Minecraft and hosting a server sounds like a good idea, I liked the simple coding with audio feedback as well. Its motivating me to get messgaing and chat sorted out as well. I am also going to see if I can find some shared #Spanish #languagelearning tools.