It really was. It was a time when most didn’t have computers at home. Once a week you’d get to go down to the computer lab and play educational games from MECC. Oregon Trail being the most popular of the bunch.

Lemmy 0.18.2 (which sdf is on) came out 29 days ago. I wouldn’t consider sdf Lemmy to be dying because they don’t jump on every point release the second it comes out. Production system shouldn’t rush out releases unless it’s patching zero days. To talk about needing to migrate off or the platform dying because they are on a release not even a month old is a bit hysterical.

Thanks!

Thank you so much! This is very very informative. I’ll post up some pics when I’ve got a box up and running :-)

Come visit us over at https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/bbs ! Would love to build up a community around this.

As someone that spends a lot of time on a vintage machine using sites like 68k.news and frogfind.com , I think it would be really sweet if there was a non JavaScript front end that could render correctly in something like Netscape 4. I know I’m a weirdo, but there’s a lot of weirdos like me on SDF :-)

It’s all good. I only know because I’ve been a paying customer since pretty much the beginning.

I get the sentiment, but Flickr hasn’t been owned by Yahoo for a while. They were purchased by the folks that run SmugMug.

I work at a top 10 US financial institution. All devs/engineers and ux folks get issued macbooks as standard. Probably been two years now that this has been the case. Being able to use all the unix command line stuff, along with more reliable machines, longer expected life, and higher productivity (those M series processors rock) make it a no-brainer. HP zbooks only go out to the people that specifically request them or are reliant on the few apps that do not have either a web based option or macos equivalent (its going to be the web based option that solves this over time I expect. Prob not a lot of incoming ports).

non-technical people looking to use an alternative operating system

Umm, you don’t see the oxymoron there?

Sponsorblock for YouTube was a game changer for me. Highly recommend it to everyone.

For sure, turn off wifi on the tv and also block it’s MAC address at the router. Plug in your trusted streaming box of choice via HDMI and only use that (Nvidia Shield, AppleTV, Roku, AndroidTV, Homebuilt Plex box, etc).

My first exposure to internet email (discounting BBS’s and fido->internet gateways) was through CompuServe. They charged for access by the minute but there was no per message fee. Everything was covered by the usage billing.

Family group chat and shared albums in iOS. Solve 90% of the needs.

I guess that’s nice. I installed cloudflared myself and get the same results that way with my pinhole. But it was an extra step.

Another +1 for namecheap here. Have a dozen or so domaions/projects with them.

AppFlowy isn’t web based?

Interesting, I feel exactly the opposite. I’m far less inclined to use a web based tool. For a backend sync/storage or admin interface to a server? Sure. But for the user interface/business logic? Let me run it locally as a native program. To each their own I guess.

Well, that’s good to know. Thanks!

Didn’t know there was a discourse. Thanks!

Cron jobs are mainly for enabling and disabling internet access by mac address on a schedule. I also like that these commercial products force search to google or duckduckgo safe search, and youtube to youtube restricted on a per user basis (which really could be done by mac address). I mean I can prob do all this with firewall rules myself. But a slick web interface would be cool.