Well, every time assets get split between their 3 kids, you reduce the assets accumulated in one couple.

Or if they give a bad review they won’t get a free phone to review next time.

Ai capabilities turned off in Europe

I don’t know the backstory but I’m guessing it’s slurping up your privacy so hard it’s illegal in Europe.

Oh man the early Onepluses (up to 3 or so) were the best! They were so much cheaper than other phones at that price. Must have been selling my data or slave labour or loss leader because the value was crazy.

I had a 5X. I loved it, never noticed issues like you mentioned. 18 months later it got stuck in a reboot loop, took it back. Known issue, have a refund.

I used a 5X for a year and a half for free. Best bang for buck I’ve had in a phone.

Haha, you never know if you’re talking to the Europeans that thing 1Gbps is slow, or the Americans that think 10Mbps is fast 😆

Oh speeds are great! Hundreds of Mbps. Depends on what you’re after. Not sure if they go into the Gbps, but I feel like I remember some locations do. My internet is only 300Mbps so can’t test higher. VPN speeds from a random local server are normally about 280Mbps. Not sure if that would be higher if my internet was faster.

I haven’t had any connection drops, and you can choose the location. Their guides also explain which locations work for streaming services if you want to check out the catalog from other countries. And they have specific servers that have P2P enabled if you want to use bittorrent.

I haven’t used Proton Drive for photos. It’s worth noting Proton Drive is a relatively new offering. The lack of Linux client is also a show stopper for me, as I don’t have a Windows computer to run it on. I’m keen to use it though when they get a client going.

The proton mail mobile app is fine, I use it and don’t have complaints. But I don’t like that I can’t use a different app if I want to 😆. It also doesn’t let you add other third party accounts into the app with IMAP so I have two apps while I transition.

I’ve used it, but haven’t used others so can’t compare!

What did you want to know?

I’ve recently signed up for Proton Unlimited, and have been playing with things. If you’re interested in the drive space, note there’s no Linux sync client (it’s Lemmy so I feel obligated to let you know), only the web client. There’s a windows client though.

The VPN is pretty easy. Log in, quick connect. Or manually select a server.

Needing bridge software for IMAP and having to use their email app on mobile is a bit annoying but it’s good enough that it’s fine.

I’ve found their help guides pretty good.

I have to admit I was surprised I couldn’t find anything. It seems like the technology should exist, like it should be a relatively common thing people want, and it doesn’t sound overly complicated.

I found a reddit post talking about it and most people used a spread sheet or a notebook!

Perhaps the Energise app might be enough? https://codeberg.org/epinez/Energize/

It’s on F-Droid, but is an app and not self-hosted. It also isn’t really what you’re looking for I don’t think, but I’m not aware of anything like what you describe.

I think it might have come about from the Crowdstrike thing?

How long is it taking you to eat your burger!?

It’s open street map data. If there isn’t mapping info for your area, you can fix that.

If you don’t want to keep running a service, yeah it limits your options.

According to this, the Floccus browser addon is not able to (continuously) save to a file due to restrictions on what browser extensions are allowed to do.

However, if you’re on Windows of MacOS, it looks like you can use the tool LoFloccus. It hasn’t been updated in a couple of years, but the Floccus dev was recommending it only a month ago so maybe it still works?

I guess there’s nothing stopping you actually using KeePass for this.

What is the outcome you’re looking for? Are you trying to avoid an account for privacy reasons? Trying to sync between different browsers? Something else?

You could take a look at Floccus and see if it might meet your needs, though it’s not exactly what you asked for.

In New Zealand it’s the same, and 5 of those 6 are Australian.

You’re assuming that Arch causes the unhappiness. Maybe unhappy people naturally tend to use Arch, so as to avoid further pain from painful distros like Pop! OS?.

There probably will be something. We may not be able to predict it. But reddit will pull a Digg or a Twitter at some point and people will be looking for alternatives. Then we get another surge of users.

Alternatively, one of the federated Lemmy alternatives (Sublinks, Mbin, Piefed) might hit the right audience and push up the platform userbase.

Peak Lemmy users happened, it was in the later part of last year as a result of the reddit API controversy. No one expected that to stay, and users slowly waned after this as expected.

I’d say we’re in a maintenance phase at the moment. Active users is somewhat steady, posts and comments are somewhat steady. There are around 45k active users, but note that Lemmy counts this different than other sites. For later Lemmy versions, you need to comment, post, or vote to be considered. Lurkers that don’t vote (whether logged in or not) are not counted at all (for earlier Lemmy versions, voters are also not counted).

Growing more will probably happen after some other event to dive people away from reddit.

Fascinating, I didn’t realise the latency down there was that bad. How hard was it to get the process working across two distant servers like that?

Lemmy servers don’t send the next activity until the first is received. From memory it was something like 150-200ms for the round trip to Finland and back. That means a maximum of about 5 or 6 activities per second at the best of times. However, when Lemmy receives say a new comment, it then sends a request to retrieve the user details from the user’s instance, and the whole pipeline is held up. The worst I saw was occasional activities taking 8 seconds to complete (I guess whatever data was being fetched was on a slow instance).

At one point, kbin.Social hammered Lemmy.world with duplicate requests which then tried to federate out, and that was when the problem was noticed (though Lemmy.world does average more than 5 a second so even after kbin issues stopped we couldn’t recover). A guy on matrix Nothing4You (I’m not sure of Lemmy username ) built a pre-fetcher to trigger Lemmy to retrieve details of posts before Lemmy.world tried to federate them out, thus helping those situations where it was taking multiple seconds to retrieve all details. It helped but was not enough to turn the tide, and we were still getting further and further behind. Nothing4You was meanwhile building a complete batching solution, which you can see on github.

So for me? It was easy, I just signed up for a server and ran an ansible playbook to set it up, then added a docker container to the Lemmy stack, all the while getting personalised help 🙂. I’m not sure how hard it was to conceptualise a solution, build it, test it, and make sure it was fault tolerant, because I didn’t have to!

I know of people with similar mechanisms who had problems with very sincere-sounding bad actors before ChatGPT.

There are many ChatGPT answers, but I think this more affects instances like Beehaw who ask for an essay and have to pick the AI out from the others. My instance has a short and specific question and works to weed out a lot of this, though I’m confident some spammers still get through (and are sitting on accounts waiting for them to age up a bit).

Hey, unrelated, but do you know if they ever got the database code cleaned up? One of these days that’s actually going to start to bite; my instance already had to do a hardware upgrade once.

I’m not familiar with that specific code, but it probably depends on the last time you looked at it. In the early reddit migration days a lot of optimisation changes were made in a hurry, but there were issues that arose as instances scaled. These were patched up by various releases but on my instance the average CPU usage of the 0.19 versions is 30% or more up on the 0.18s.

Being in NZ we were also hit hard by the issue of federation being concurrent. To this day we are running an extra VM in Finland to batch up activities and send them in bulk to be replayed on the Lemmy server. I’m pretty sure I saw a pull request for that recently though so it might be fixed in the next version (but we’ll have to wait until Lemmy.world updates if I understand it correctly).

I should try and figure out how a list of bad IPs would best fit into ActivityPub. It sounds like it would be easy enough to add.

Perhaps such a thing exists for Mastodon and could be applied to Lemmy?