In answer to the post that was removed, finding places to discuss ideas is not something that you are alone in. I find myself on that same quest on a regular basis and find answers seriously lacking.

I love encouraging and providing supportive responses to posts that come my way, but rarely do I discover places to share and test ideas.

Having been online for a long time, I think some of it relates to difficulty in expressing ideas in text succinctly and as a result conversation often degenerates into misunderstanding and (for want of a better expression) name calling.

I don’t curate my feed or subscribe to communities, other than to filter hate speech and its distributors.

Feel free to ping me, and if I have something to contribute, I will. Public conversation only.

Several things to remember.

1. Each instance has it’s own moderation rules.
2. Each community on that instance has potentially extra moderation rules.
3. There is no “central” admin who “polices” this.
4. People make mistakes.
5. People are people.
6. Don’t agree, start your own instance.

Any particular reason that you think we need more religion?

Consider that any gift with a monetary value is likely something that they will need to report.

Sending two cards, one to them and one to their boss is one way to show your appreciation.

If you’re not sure about their boss, send the second card higher up the chain.

Based on the various draconian terms and conditions I’ve seen on my search for a solution I’d be surprised if this was driven by Etsy. In my opinion this is much more likely to be caused by its payment processor.

If you don’t have mobile coverage, the local library or community centre. MacDonalds is also a popular option.

Interestingly, in my profession the media is saying that they’re screaming for people, my peak association is saying that we should issue Visa’s for international recruitment.

That same peak body is publishing articles saying that our profession is demanding too much pay.

Meanwhile with 40 years experience, I’ve spent the past 30 months looking for the next opportunity, getting ignored or worse, getting told that my application won’t be pursued without any explanation. Demoralising is not strong enough to convey the impact of such a response.

I speak with my peers with similar levels of experience and they’re seeing exactly the same thing.

I hung my shingle out 25 years ago as an independent consultant, been through several downturns across my career, but I’ve never seen anything like this.

I think that we’ve gotten to the point where the free market has broken and government intervention is required.

Presumably there’s a record of the medication, given that someone had to pay for it.

It’s not real.

I think that the missing link for the fediverse is the user interface that most users see.

This is oxymoronic given that the original Reddit looks eerily similar to Lemmy today, but it’s not just looks I’m talking about.

Moderation and usability tools, bots, blocks, filtering and spam control need to go through several iterations before we can actually grow this community.

Search is another issue, as is post deletion. Right now a post vanishes, but all the stuff hanging off it is still there. This makes for a complex user experience.

Finally, Lemmy appears to be run by developers who appear to be interested in their own issues and regularly appear to dismiss issues raised by users. This is not sustainable.

I consider myself a user of the fediverse before I’m a Lemmy or Mastodon user. We have a way to go before this settles down.

At one point, before we virtualised everything, I had a custom desk built in an L-shape. Instead of a desk and a return, I had the refurbishment team put together a desk with two desks instead. It gave me two sets of drawers, two computer cubby holes and the gap was too small for the horrible keyboard adjustable shelf that kept hitting your knees, so they replaced it with a fixed surface instead.

People laughed.

Colleagues sniggered.

Then they wanted one too.

Now I have a mobile lectern with an iMac clamped to it. Height adjustable, wheels, enough space for keyboard, trackpad and USB hub. I move around my office as the mood or light takes me.

I am part of the Reddit exodus. I’m here because I have no interest in promoting or supporting the atrocious policies that now govern Reddit.

The pace here is different, but the interactions feel more measured.

Based on being online since 1990, I’m comfortable with being an “early adopter”, even though I’ve only been here for a few months and Lemmy is five years old.

Will Lemmy survive? Who knows. The horse and buggy didn’t, neither did Yahoo!, MySpace or Google+, but here we are nonetheless.

I like it here.

Wow…

…okay I’ll try that and see what gives.

So, when you use 40 or so programming languages, your employer needs to supply a mansion…

I’m okay with that.

Now, where is the boss?

That’s interesting.

The Apple TV is the First generation 4K model with 64 GB (Model: A1842)

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/101605

We bought the new remote because we thought we could use two remotes simultaneously, which turned out to be poor documentation.

The amplifier is not connected via HDMI and does not support CEC.

The ATV is configured to use IR to control the amplifier.

There are plenty of other names and I’d be surprised if the ones you used are the oldest or even the most popular.

I found that it didn’t all come off on the first attempt. I used a cool shower and washed it off. Soap didn’t seem to help, but if I recall, it was a few years ago, sorbolene did help wash it off.

Ultimately it’s likely still in your pores and causing grief. I was still pulling hairs off days later.

I didn’t need an immediate result, so not quite the perilous journey that you are experiencing.

Good luck.

What does the penalty look like and how will this return the trees to the community?

It’s a package management system in the same way that Flatpack, yum, apt-get, snap and dozens of others are.

If you use MacOS and Linux, it’s not inconceivable that you might want to use the same package management system across both.

I’ve used it, didn’t particularly warm to it and didn’t install it on my most recent MacOS install after it shat all over itself on a previous installation.

I didn’t know that it was available for Linux. Not tempted to try.

I’m a firm believer in apt-get and failing that, Docker with side journeys into podman.