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Thanks, it's been a while since I last looked into it.

Will my self-hosted account be able to talk directly to other self-hosted BlueSky accounts?

The OP does not take issue with the algorithm part, but the claim of decentralization. I'm currently running my own instance of an ActivityPub server (GoToSocial), just for me, and it works like a charm. I would not know how to do the same with BlueSky, and I have tried to understand how.

This is not an outright ban, but a sensible regulation. Kids can stil use simple messaging apps, but have to wait to get their first fix of attention grabing, personalized ad feeds.

"Another study indicated that alternating between sitting and standing, combined with brief walks, was more effective for health than standing alone."

Standing desks is not the problem, but standing or sitting all day long can be. The key is to mix it up and avoid static positions for hours at a time.

The conclusion from the article, which I find sensible:

- Use SQLite

- Describe the actions of your service with HTTP verbs and methods as much as possible

- Write plain HTML (with templates); enhance it sparsely; use isolated scripts.

Wow. Simple user interface, fas and it gives interesting results! It did not find two of my favorite groups, gusgus and subgud, but I added a suggestion. Bookmarking this for later use!

What we really should do, is rethinking School. The design of the buildings is not the problem. The Sudbury Valley model is a fascinating take on a different kind of educational environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYHKbbLk7V4

EDIT: That said, these schools looks like they could be a good fit for a Sudbury-style school :)

I tried the Q_8, but it was all over the place, so not really trained for instruction and chat yet, I think :)

Can this model run on ollama?

These days they could package it as a Flatpak and cover a lot of distros with out a lot of duplicate work. I mostly use Flatpak for those types of apps these days.

There is quite a lot of hacking possible on the RM1 and RM2 at least. This repo has a nice overview over the many projects: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

I can access my RM2 with SSH via WiFi or USB-C, if that's what you mean. But the official reMarkable client is not available for Linux, which I find a bit odd, since it is a Qt-app and the founder of the company apparently is an avid linux user.

I have got it working via Wine, but it keeps breaking after updates. I do not use it often though, as I mostly just upload new files via the website.

This is why I go with Fedora Silverblue for my elderly family. When they had Windows installed, most support calls was about crazy and confusing full screen pop ups and forced upgrades.

With a stable disto, everything just works and keeps up to date without bothering the user.

Why anyone uses Windows today is a mystery to me. My guess is force of habit and lock-inn effects.

Digestion can affect your sleep quality, so having 1-3 hours between your last meal and sleeping is beneficial. There is reasearch on this, but I'm on my phone and to lazy to look it up atm :)

This is the way. Ghost is doing the same, as well as Wordpress. I love to be able to follow this and that around the web in one feed, and being able to boost it and participate in the conversation.

The walls in the gardens are being torn down :)

If you're willing to switch browsers, Firefox has this option built in. It flushes all cookies on exit, except from domains in the whitelist. Been using it for years!

This law exists in the region where Google is building their new datacenters. New buildings are required to produce energy with solar on their roofs.

When Google presented their plans and took questions from the local government, a local politician asked Google why the building plans did not include solar on the roof, and Google answered that it would cost them more and that it was "to late" to change the plans now.

These local governments are no match against huge multi-national corporations. In the end, Google was not required to build solar panels on their roofs. They would rather make long-term deals with power producers in the region that will destroy massive amounts of forest and untouched mountain areas to build huge solar and wind parks. All to save a slump of money.

Google does not care about the environment, that much is clear from seeing this process up close and in my own backyard.

I worry about the explosive growth of new datacenters. It is only partially driven by AI, the trend started long before ChatGPT entered the scene.

Where I live, Google is building a huge 860 MW hyperscale datacenter that will require massive amounts of solar and wind to be built in our region, ruining a lot of forests and mountains. It also consumes insane amounts of water.

To put the energy demands into context; 860 MW (7.5 TWh a year) is about 25% of the energy use of all households and the agricultural sector in Norway.

The same is true for other european countries. In Denmark, datacenters now consume 20% of the total energy production. The same is true for Ireland.

Renewable energy is not that green if it only adds energy to the mix on top of fossil fuel use, instead of replacing it.

Solar and wind is resource intensive to build and wind and solar parks can claim large areas of forest and biodiverse nature when installed.

Another local business near me put solar on the roof of their industrial building, and it powers all their delivery cars + their cooling needs for storage. It is owned by the local business, not by an international investment firm, and it does not claim any extra nature when installed. This is how we should use renewables!

The 9B and 27B versions are available for Ollama: https://ollama.com/library/gemma2

Anytype is such a tool, local-first and synced via IPFS. It just works. And it's so flexible! And it recently got support for shared spaces, which works really well.

If you have self discipline like a god, you could achieve this with any smartphone. Remove every app, just install Signal and keep the camera app.

But almost no one has the willpower to do this, unfortunately.

The endless content available on the internet is a time sink on a regular desktop computer, more so on a laptop – but paired with a smartphone, this time sink is suddenly available all the time! There is no friction. It quickly becomes a habit.

And now we are all addicted, which most of us still refuse to admit, because we don't see the negative impact it has on our lives and our loved ones – like with any addictive behavior.

I have used this method for years and it has not changed at all in that time period. I put all my bookmarks in one folder, no hierarchy, and add the tags that is on the top of my head, and move on. I save new bookmarks several times a day and retrieve them within seconds. For me, it is a perfect system and has not changed at all while I have used it. And believe me, I have tried a lot of bookmarking solutions the last 20 years, nothing has stuck like this basic habit has.

I'm have been using the latest version of FF for about 14 years, first 10 years on Arch Linux, and the last 4 years on Fedora (the Flatpak version).

Firefox is actually decent for retrieving taged links, you just type * in the address field and it will only show you results from your bookmarks. It has become my second brain. I have written more about my use of the built-in bookmark manager in earlier comments if you are interested.

My only real gripe with Firefox is that the mobile client lacks the option to add tags. So frustrating!

I thoroughly enjoy shifting through the 1000's of CD in the many thrift shops in my town, hunting for nostalgia from the 90's and early 2000's! I have also discovered some 'new' music this way.

Initially I started ripping CD's to FLAC and building my offline music library, using Navidrome to make it available on my phone and laptop, but then I found a classic CD-player and started listening to them in my living room, like in the good old days. From start to finish.

In the age of Spotify, I have really found myself missing the slight friction of physical media, the tactile aspect and the focused listening experience.

Maybe I should go all in and buy some cassettes as well?

Oh, and for screen sharing for support, I use the built-in Remote Desktop functionality (RDP). I have set up a Wireguard connection from the laptop to my home network which makes it possible for me to jump at any time in without 'grandma' having to do anything. Such an improvement over TeamViewer (which also had trouble with Wayland for a long time, maybe still does?).

Remote support is a breeze now, and we save the usual 30 minutes of guiding an update of TeamViewer over the phone (because of an old and incompatible version) etc.

Signal has some advantages over WhatsApp, namely that you can install the app on more devices (including computers) at the same time, which has been a convincing argument for some of my friends. They hate how WhatsApp is locked to your phone without an app for your computer.

Signal has become the default video conferencing app for several of my larger groups, and it works surprisingly well! This is a trick WhatsApp currently can't do.

Linux (in my case Fedora) has been fantastic, especially for the non-techs who have not gotten used to Windows or a Mac! All they need is a browser (with adblock) and maybe a simple word processor. Fedora does not nag about updates, it just chugs along and keeps everything up-to-date in the background. Major OS-updates is a one click in the app store, which I do once a year-ish. Soooo much less hassle then MacOS and Windows!

Yeah, this used to be a problem, but it has been working fine since Fedora 39. I can share a single window or the whole screen with the video conferencing tools I'm using, mainly Signal, sometimes Google Meet, Teams (both in Firefox running natively on Wayland) and Zoom.

Flatpak has made it so easy to install most common apps, just press the Super key, search for the app, click on it in the list and "Install". Usually takes less than 10-30 seconds from start 'till the app is installed and running. Very grandma-proof, actually!

EDIT: But I will say that the road to where GNOME / Fedora is today has been a bumpy ride, like a car that is under maintenance while driving :) It's the FOSS / Linux way. In the end, the result is actually quite amazing and user friendly.

This has already been done recently in (at least) Norway an the Netherlands. No phones in class. My SO is a teacher and she reports less distraction in class, although it is still early days.