Make it look like a centralised system initially. Provide a portal to a pre vetted/chosen instance that is accepting new members in their locale/country, that is the same for everyone.

Update: This (above) is badly written. I’m trying to say every potential new member gets presented with the same (pretend centralised) portal that is in fact an (valid long-lived) instance local to the individual potential for them to sign up with. So two local users in Oz get given a proxy to the instance local to them, and a user in Blighty an instance local to that person. The decentralised Lemmy looks centralised, but isn’t. The proxy front end should explain that they’re joining their local instance and it’s like a network of little affiliated clubs that can see each others posts globally. they log in for the first time it will become clear.

It’s late, I’m tired, sorry everyone. Is that any better?

I think it’s confusing (the reverse of what they’re used to) for a newbie who have been bought up in a centralised internet with single front ends of all the big players to be presented with little instances to join to access the whole.

Says it can’t be installed on newer versions of Android, on that link. Does it have its own repo with new versions in?

What happened to libdvdcss? Is that not a thing anymore?

From what I remember - it’s been a minute - there were many encryption keys that the publishing houses used to encrypt the DVDs released to the wild and they were packaged up in this codec, when they were found.

What’s the deal with Firefox mobile (Android)? Couldn’t see the setting.

I hope you’re reading this HP. This is how bad you fucked up. You had it all and then you couldn’t resist …

Thank-you!

1. Learn the same tech technique or
2. Just be happy doing a good job

I’m looking to begin reading for a PhD, but I’ll just take a random high-profile open source job that people expect commitment to, without actually committing.

That’s not a personal related resignation, a bereavement, cancer diagnosis, family issues is a personal resignation.

I don’t mean to criticise OP, they’re just relating news.

There’s a small pihole community (300 odd) on Lemmy but I don’t one how to drop a link to a community quite yet. Well, there’s actually two but the second isn’t gaining any traction.

I guess you were referring to the team though, which probably are not on here.

Fare well internet stranger!

Upvoted.

Yes. I’m dumb today.

Kindly put, dear internet stranger!

Upvoted.

You got me! I didn’t look at the title properly. Sorry everyone. I’m going to go be dumb elsewhere for the rest of the day.

You’ve not understood the word minimalist. I like the minimal number of items in my pockets.

You’re not into minimalism. I have no problem with that. We’re all different.

For navigation, I chose Waze.

There seem to a new wave of navigation apps heading towards us that talk P2P rather than a central server.

I can see that but I like minimalism. The fewer things I carry around the better.

I don’t even put my car key on my house keys bunch anymore.

Your phone doesn’t have a LED for flash?

[UK] I carry phone and keys. I pay for everything with my phone. Twerking on street corners as a Gen X for cash isn’t profitable anymore.

If I know I need ID, eg. Costco, I have my old fashioned wallet in my jacket pocket. I keep meaning to set up the Costco ID on my phone. Doesn’t happen.

The number of times I open or reach for my wallet is maybe twice a month. Frigging barber still wants to be paid in cash, and all the 20th century banks and their ATMs are closing … [so now they have 20th century tech and no way to interact efficiently with the public. Haha!].

I’m very increasingly anarchist as I get into my sixth decade - UK 2020s feels like 1970s again so screw the useless thieving politicians - so I should be actively pro-cash but I’m actually more pro-crypto pro-barter (especially pro barter) in the real world. Long ago l learned that if I have physical cash, I piss it up the wall, but I’m careful with credit card cash. No idea why. I never have more than £30 in notes on me; that’s enough money to buy a Costa coffee for you yanks.

Sadly, that means I can’t give cash to the odd homeless. Not too many homeless with contactless readers. Maybe that’ll be rabbit-in-headlights Kier’s big thing: contactless readers for the destitute veterans that the armed services and government abandoned (I came of age around Falkland conflict).

Has to be something including RCS. For all Google’s faults, I like Messages.

That said, I haven’t tried to back them up in a while to a straight text file. Eeek! That was back in the days when I used Signal to handle SMS for me.

Damn. Another task.

Gen X. The generation that couldn’t be arsed to programme the video recorder or cooker digital time-clock, but knew how to.

There were a lot of power cuts in our (UK) youth and we remember saying to ourselves, “Ok, so that’s how it’s gonna be, huh?!”. Still kicking arse and taking names.

We were the grown-up’s TV remote control, with our 1200 bits per second magnetic tape storage for BBC B home computers (from the later ARM boys), before we got 360kB 5" floppy disks.

Tech doesn’t phase us (yet); AI is a better average conversation than a spouse.

In the early days, too much Metformin.

Black bears of Surrey. (UK).