It isn’t even a decade old… anyway, it got market share for a reason. It was immediately a big step up from other free offerings in ease of use, UI, and eventually in features too.

I like to go during Advance voting so that I can stop thinking about it, and if I forget to do it early I still have a few days leeway.

Gotcha. I understand now re-reading your post, that’s a valid way of phrasing it.

a NAS/raid is NOT BACKUP

To emphasise your point, I recently had a scare with corruption in my ZFS pool causing me to have to transfer all my data off and start the pool fresh. I’ve since begun viewing any RAID pool as a single drive, which helps see the situation more accurately. Instead of thinking “I have 6 drives with 2 parity, I can withstand 2 failures!” think “I have one pool, I can withstand 1 failure.” Because the moment anything about that pool breaks you are shit outta luck. Prevention against single drive failures is only one part of the puzzle.

zfs z2, this layout is basically requires 3 drives to die in order to lose data)

RAIDZ2 has 2 parity disks and thus can only withstand 2 drive failures, no?

Paywall article 🤮

Came here to say something similar because it’s important to recognise that this likely is not out of the kindness of their hearts. But I don’t think there’s any reason to talk down potential allies either.

I guarantee you you can and eventually will if this platform lives on. Not to mention user propoganda is not exactly much better. Keep your brain on and don’t believe any platform to be immune to garbage because they never are.

Thanks for bringing this to the community instead of immediately making a decision yourselves. It is nice to have the opportunity to be a part of the choice, since it’s open as a possibility.

That said, no thank you. Lemmy instance blocking still cannot block both posts and users, which means that even though we can avoid their posts as we wish, we will still be inundated by Hexbear replies on every post. Considering that the comments are quite possibly the worst part of Hexbear, this will result in the same shit-show we had last time. The comments on their refederation post just reassure me that we don’t want to be associated with them. I won’t shed a tear to be missing out on the 5 extra meme posts on my all page.

You’re right, that’s a very fair use case, and it would also boost the end-user appeal. I didn’t address it as I was fully in a user mindset.

Maybe it is overlooked, but is that unexpected when it seems to cater to such a specific niche? I’m struggling to see why I would use it. If I want to play my own music, I can just use my local setup that uses better apps and has my playlists already. If I want discovery, I can use last.fm, YouTube Music, and other venues. If I want to share music with other people, I start to see a point, but would rather direct people to use Soulseek or a different self-hosted solution that allows downloads. Speaking of, why is there no download link on the files? The website is sharing copyrighted content either way, what difference does it make whether it’s saved or streamed to my PC? At least with a download option I could see it as a Soulseek alternative.

And personally, it seems like a lot of effort to upload and reorganise my collection when I can’t trust the server and my effort to still be there a few years down the line. After all, storage costs money and who knows when the server host will get bored, run out of spare cash, or get taken down for hosting licensed music. This is before we get into the fact that even the shitty opus re-encodes I keep are over 60gb (the instance I found only supports 50). Of course you’ll tell me to host my own instance, but that is narrowing the niche once again as I would have to move my music to a server and learn how to host Funkwhale and would be opening myself up to legal problems.

Excuse my skepticism but I can only really see the use for either:

• Music collectors that want to share music with each other but for some reason don’t want to expand their library via downloading.
• Users with a tiny or non-existent library that don’t mind locking themselves into another website they don’t control and can lose their data from at any moment.

Where I am the situation is flipped: I get infinite SMS, but have to pay for data i.e pay per message on RCS.

It’s crazy I had to scroll down this far to see a comment from someone that actually read the article.

Unfortunately the subscription appears to be for their benchmarking tool only, not for website access.

I hadn’t thought about the wire affecting it, that could well be! Thanks for the input, I may have to take another look at some buds.

Unfortunately I’ve yet to find a pair of earbuds that doesn’t fall out or hurt my ears (or both), Either my ears are shaped differently than the average or I have to spend more to find the right pair. I would use headphones instead, but they’re hard to lug around and most work days I interact with customers so it’s a no-go.

Article and trend aside, I actually do miss landlines… I have to do the “boomer” thing of talking on speaker phone with my phone out in front of me because no matter what I do putting my flat cellphone up to my ear is just impossible to hear and exceedingly uncomfortable. I miss the ergonomics of a real phone.

I fucking love dementia

no useless letters

kulr

It bothers me how rose-tinted this article is. It pours praise onto the fediverse while glossing over all the major problems. They also keep saying “everything is available everywhere”, which it isn’t, or “you can take your account anywhere” which isn’t a thing on most fediverse sites, and where it is it’s limited.

I dunno, it’s good to be positive, but I feel this article over-promises and fails to explain what is is trying to. If anything, it muddies some of the basics and sets people up to leave as soon as they realise the experience isn’t all that or that instances don’t work how they think.