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[–] cole 2 points 1 month ago

even less for Starlink

[–] cole 4 points 1 month ago

it's such a game changer when you're actually using it. night and day, completely different experience.

also, GEO is in many regards more at risk for Kessler syndrome because stuff up there doesn't deorbit

[–] cole 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't think you've ever used Starlink if you think clouds make it fail.

...you do realize it started in Seattle, right?

[–] cole 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

you can change the home screen. I did that on my android tv. android tv kinda rocks actually

[–] cole 1 points 1 month ago

probably not a realistic take, even if I agree with it.

Whatsapp is so popular that if you're outside of the US the expectation is not weird

[–] cole 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I love Gnome. People love to hate it, but it's workflow is SO good.

I think people just get annoyed that they can't force it to be whatever they want it to be. Which is fine, that's why other options exist!

But if you really go to the content-focused, workspace + keyboard shortcut flow Gnome is incredibly efficient, consistent, and stable.

Unpopular opinion #2: I love libadwaita and GTK4. Basically, I enjoy when devs are opinionated about things and build what they want to see in the world.

The adaptive part of libadwaita is really exciting for different form factors!

[–] cole 3 points 1 month ago

I'm sorry, this is naive.

You may have voted for a pedophile and you just don't know it yet.

People's true colors are not always so readily apparent

[–] cole 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

that's a very black and white view of things but real life isn't so pretty.

some people are intentionally misled or just not informed enough.

you alienate people by assuming they're racist when they're often not. I mean, it's a choice. but it's not gonna win you an election and I don't think it'll move the US forward.

[–] cole 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I really think it isn't fair to generalize all rednecks as racist. I grew up in Kentucky and that definitely isn't how it is.

There's 3 types of rednecks:

  • Not racist
  • Ignorant but welcoming (they may say something questionable, but only because they don't know better and will apologize)
  • Racist.

I think most I've met have been #1 or #2. If you ostracize a large portion of the population, of course they aren't going to be on your side

[–] cole 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

the tank has a giant gas turbine why do you need a battery

[–] cole 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

sounds like you want a miata

[–] cole 1 points 1 month ago

It's not an intentional snub, I just answered this question in a different reply.

I don't know with enough certainty to list out all the issues, but the biggest one that sticks out to me is information control.

The government restricts citizens access to the Internet (among other things). I have talked to people from Russia, people from China, etc online. But I have never talked to someone from North Korea and that is a pretty big red flag for me.

I pretty strongly believe that anybody who tries to control the flow of information amongst supposedly free people is not a "good guy". Yes, this includes the United States, UK, China, etc. Many do so to some extent and I am against all of them for that.

But, none so draconian seeming as the DPRK.

 

Google Maps is changing with pretty significant redesigns across key surfaces, including when searching for directions...

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole to c/lemdroid
 

Edit: Upgrade went off without much of a hitch! Some little tasks left to do but we are now running 0.19.3. Seems like a lot of the federation issues have been solved by this too.

You will have to re-login and 2FA has been reset.

This update is scheduled to take place this weekend. No specific day or time because I am infamously bad at following those. I will try to minimize impact by keeping downtime to lower-traffic periods.

Ideally, there will be no downtime, but if there is it is likely to only last an hour maximum. During this time I will add an "under maintenance" page so you can understand what we are up to.

Feel free to join our Matrix space for more information and ongoing updates! My apologies for how long this took - I was in the middle of a big move and a new job.

Additionally, there may be small periods of increased latency or pictures not loading as I perform maintenance on both the backend database and pictrs server in preparation for this upgrade.

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Recent Downtime (self.lemdroid)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole to c/lemdroid
 

There was a brief (~5 minute) period of downtime on lemdro.id recently. This occurred during a routine database upgrade when some strange issue caused a member of the cluster to become inconsistent and refuse to form quorum.

This locked the entire cluster into an invalid state which took some troubleshooting to fix. My apologies.

I will be rolling out read replicas for folks on the East coast of the US as well as those in Europe sometime in the next week, you should notice a pretty dramatic reduction in latency if you are from those areas. Additionally, other recent changes have increased reliability and decreased latency which may or may not be noticeable.

I will post another update before I start rolling out the read replicas since it is kind of a big change (and I will schedule a time for it)

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submitted 2 years ago by cole to c/lemdroid
 

I recently rolled out an infrastructure upgrade this last Monday (Dec 4) with the intent of reducing peak response times and removing occasional scaling errors.

Unfortunately, my metrics system showed slightly elevated error rates, so I've decided to rollback these changes for now. I will make another announcement before I roll them back out in the future. Thanks for your support!

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole to c/lemdroid
 

Hey there everyone. I think the Photon project has matured enough to the point where I feel ready to replace the default lemmy frontend with it. Since this instance serves roughly 1000 people now, I figured this was worth holding a vote on!

Please check out Photon as currently hosted at https://p.lemdro.id.

If you support changing the default frontend to Photon, upvote my comment on this post. If you don't support it, downvote that same comment.

Thanks!

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole to c/androidmemes
 

RIP :(

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submitted 2 years ago by cole to c/main@lem.ph3j.com
 

This is a very old instance, with 0 activity. Do you still look at this ever?

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Android rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 years ago by cole to c/androidmemes
 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole to c/lemdroid
 

Earlier today, I identified the root cause of an issue causing annoying 502 errors intermittently. If you've ever had an action infinitely load until you refreshed the page, that is this issue. I deployed a fix, and am slowly scaling it down to stress test it. If you encounter an infinite loading occurrence or an HTTP 502 error please let me know!

UPDATE: Stress testing complete. Theoretically we should be equipped to handle another 5k users without any intervention from me

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cole to c/lemdroid
 

Hello folks! I am migrating the image backend to an S3-compatible provider for cost and reliability reasons. During this time, thumbnails and other images hosted here will be borked, but the rest of Lemdro.id will remain online. Thank you for your patience!

UPDATE: Image migration is gonna take a hot minute. Should be done in around 6 hours, I'll get it fully fixed up in around 7-8 hours when I wake up (~08:30 PDT)

UPDATE 2: It failed, yay! Alright, fine. I turned the image proxying back on. I am migrating to S3 in the background and will switch over when it is done. Any images uploaded in the next 8 hours or so may end up being lost.

UPDATE 3: Migration complete. Will be rolling out the update to S3-backed image storage in around 6 hours (~6pm PDT)

UPDATE 4: Object storage backend deployed! Thanks for your patience folks.

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