If you’d cried your problems into a camera and uploaded it to the internet of the 2000s, it would have been metaphorical suicide. You would have risked being immortalized as “Leave Brittany alone!” or worse.

On today’s web it seems to have been normalized.

I always use hard Rs, don’t you worry.

It was a stab at women, actually. No, I don’t regret it.

I have nothing against transatlantic people, nor their accents.

So when you transition, does this part of the brain get lobotomized?

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Schneider Electric APC Back-UPS 1500VA, 900W.

They power on self-test okay, but go on to just fail to switchover during outages. I’m still trying to figure out if it is a factor of cumulative time, running hours, or they’re only good for a fixed number of power failures. And whether its the battery or the UPS device itself.

It feels like crashing your car, and then the airbags go off after you’re already mangled and bleeding out.

Retail UPS batteries don’t even last a single year, in my experience. The weekly brownouts and momentary blackouts probably aren’t helping.

At this point, I’m just thinking of building my own with a charge controller, inverter and a bank of car batteries.

Consider running some kind of file integrity monitoring. samhain, tiger, tripwire, to name a few.

considering containerization, but so far, I find it not worth foregoing the benefits I get of a single package manager for the entire server

Just do MAC with either AppArmor or SELinux.

I just assume that anyone still wearing surgeons masks in 2024 has a pointedly bad case of stockholm syndrome.

I just disable vote counts from being displayed. I don’t care how popular or unpopular some comment is.

The key attributes of forums that I think make them superior:

• Chronological posts. There is no upranking or downranking. And certainly no voting. Sometimes just an option to “thank” users for posts. I hate the social consensus formation effect of up/downvoting so much that I’ve disabled visibility of up/downvotes from my lemmy account.

• Slower pace. Threads often live much longer, with participants dropping in and out over the course of weeks or months. Sometimes years. Posts themselves are often more thoughtful and better drafted because of this slow pace.

• Index structure. Topics are sorted first by their category or subcategory. Exploring into these is like thumbing through a file cabinet. In contrast, the “reddit way” groups topics by community association, more clique-enabling IMO.

• Forums often work without any hard javascript requirement.

The worst part about this IMO is the school system teaching digital dependency on proprietary software vendors.

Big tech salivates at the thought of being a child’s “first”… much like other kinds of child groomers.