You might give kbin a shot. I haven't used it much myself, but it has features from both Mastodon and Lemmy, so should interop well with both of those.
MostlyGibberish
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Just wait until climate change kills the vast majority of coffee crops. That'll probably remind people that it's a luxury.
+1 for Jellyfin. It's FOSS, doesn't pollute your media collection with terrible streaming offerings, and doesn't paywall hardware acceleration. Much better option than Plex these days imo.
I find it useful in a lot of ways. I think people try to over apply it though. For example, as a software engineer, I would absolutely not trust AI to write an entire app. However, it's really good at generating "grunt work" code. API requests, unit tests, etc. Things that are well trodden, but change depending on the context.
I also find they're pretty good at explaining and summarizing information. The chat interface is especially useful in this regard because I can ask follow up questions to drill down into something I don't quite understand. Something that wouldn't be possible with a Wikipedia article, for example. For important information, you should obviously check other sources, but you should do that regardless of whether the writer is a human or machine.
Basically, it's good at that it's for: taking a massive compendium of existing information and applying it to the context you give it. It's not a problem solving engine or an artificial being.
Really looking forward to the Lemmy version. Jerboa has a pretty similar UI but it just doesn't have the same polish.
Ars Technica seems to really be embracing the fediverse. They have a very active official Mastodon account. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica
Lemmy actually has two different "trending" feeds. Active, which seems to show posts that are getting more comments, and Hot, which seems more focused on votes. You probably have Active selected by default. Turns out porn gets lots of upvotes but doesn't generate a lot of conversation.
Taking the opportunity to get on my soapbox and remind everyone that free software still requires someone's time and effort to maintain. If you've been using a free app for a while and you and you enjoy it (and you have the means to do so), consider sending a donation to the developers/maintainers! It's a good way to help ensure that the great, free app you enjoy stays great and free.
Taking the opportunity to get on my soapbox and remind everyone that free software still requires someone's time and effort to maintain. If you've been using a free app for a while and you and you enjoy it (and you have the means to do so), consider sending a donation to the developers/maintainers! It's a good way to help ensure that the great, free app you enjoy stays great and free.
I used reddit pretty much exclusively on my phone through the Boost app. When that went dark, I didn't really feel the need to go out of my way to download a far worse app, so I stopped checking reddit.
I looked at doing two vdevs but was put off by the lower usable storage. At a certain point, maybe that's not as important as I think though.
Yeah, the choice for 6TB wasn't my best. I got the two older drives a few years back on a Newegg flash sale, and it seemed like plenty, especially considering Unraid's model of 1 parity drive and 100% usable storage on the data drive(s). Then, when I decided to upgrade, I was too cheap to go buy 4 whole new drives, so I just went with more of what I already had (to add insult to injury, they're all WD Red drives...).