poohbear

Everyone needs to start the conversation with their loved ones as soon as they can to question anything that seems out of character. It doesn't matter if they sound like or look like them - if anyone is asking for money or sensitive information, question it no matter what.

I know a lot of folks may feel like that's an impossible task, especially with parents and older relatives, but it's possible - I just recently had a conversation with my parents, and I was bracing myself for it to be an uphill battle, but they were switched on and got it. You've gotta at least try.

I try to have the best of both worlds - my home is primarily run on a Zigbee network from a Raspberry Pi with a Conbee, which is then linked up to Homebridge which talks to HomeKit (being in the Apple ecosystem).

This means I get the creature comforts of a consumer home cloud service like Apple Home, but I get to call all the shots - controls are all local, and if I wanted to get my home off the cloud, I can without any reprocussions.

It’s surprisingly very reliable as well - I haven’t had a single minor hiccup for more than 12 months, and even then, the last one just required a reboot of the Pi.

Even a change in atmosphere with communities from this would be substantial, though - even if there isn’t a day and night change with active users, if enough of the power users have left and discussions don’t really meet the “vibe check”, that’ll just naturally kill off user activity and it’s pretty much the same result

TBH, the UI of Lemmy is rouuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. I'm confident through attention with more ex-Redditors joining + through open source contributions, it'll get better and better, stuff like this will be resolved (even with something as simple as a loading spinner)

>:)
edit: forgot to escape the character and Markdown took away the fun lol

There’s a little bit of a delay as well sometimes between the search results showing “no results” to showing the community - I think the server may take a couple of seconds to do a lookup start federation, and show the community as a valid result. Just a heads up.

Name change aside I really hope Logitech really doesn’t mess with the recipe. I remembering getting my Yeti more than 12 years ago and it punched above so much harder than its weight price wise - that’s what Blue was so good at and Logitech need to keep it that way.

I know all the contributors have a lot more bigger fish to fry this week, but I'd love to see this eventually implemented - this would be a huge quality of life feature that I think would really sell the platform to new users dipping their toes with Lemmy.