kossa
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- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 9 hours ago:
Well, as a kid I thought by the time I’ll do my driver’s license there will be no more manual transmissions around.
Turns out, automatic is just still way more expensive to buy AND, as I recently learned, crazy expensive in maintenance.
- Comment on Banana 16 hours ago:
Banana milkshake is where all the dark bananas go for me.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 3 days ago:
I really loved it, up to the point where I just couldn’t contain the level design in my brain anymore. Guess I ran out of brain memory or something, but when a 3D space with changing orientation and gravity comes into play, I just did not know anymore where I already explored ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Add time pressure into that mix and the game lost me.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 3 days ago:
But with all the shit I need to control in my car, how would we fit all the physical buttons?
Like, if I need to contain the warp core and reroute auxiliary power to medical while applying a new shield matrix because I am facing off some unexplained space deity. How is that supposed to work with buttons?
- Comment on Load bearing Tupperware 4 days ago:
- Comment on How much time and money would it take to set up and maintain a server similar to disroot.org, offering the same services, for a group of ten people? 1 week ago:
I mean, Email is twofold. Like running the server and getting inbound email: just as easy as all the other services.
Outbound? That shit can be difficult, near impossible on residential. But as outbound mail is kinda “lost” anyway in a privacy sense, I would not feel too bad about using a relay.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
Hm, I would expect that to be true, as in “where a McDonalds opens up, there’s less demand for local family owned restaurants”, but I would not take the rate of self employment as proof.
In developed countries exist more laws against pretended self-employment and more small businesses incorporate, thus lowering those numbers.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
One aspect I haven’t read about: competitive pressure and economics of scale.
So, imagine two carpenters: they both produce one chair a day. They sell it and can sustain their families with that. Now the one carpenter works a little overtime and uses sharper tools: he’s able to produce two chairs a day. He still needs only to sustain his family, so he could sell the chairs at 50% discount. But he goes for 75% of its original price. Still cheaper, he has more.
Everybody wants to buy those chairs now: they’re the same, but one is way cheaper. The other carpenter loses business, he can’t sustain his family anymore, because he needs to sell one chair a day at least. To keep up, his business needs to grow now.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
Only that this swap economy, where people had to bring cows and tables to the market and trade those for 200 breads is a myth. That never existed. Modern anthropology says that trade was always measured in debt. Trade outside of your local community was handled via valuable ores, or other small valuable stuff.
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 4 weeks ago:
Awesome, thank you. Then I’ll give it a try, that would solve a headache of several years.
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 4 weeks ago:
Question for the Immich users: if I have two users A and B, who share all pictures. Can user A create an album with pictures from user B? That doesn’t work with Nextcloud and is grinding my gears!
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 4 weeks ago:
Well, that is how I started out. Docker was not around yet (or not mainstream enough, maybe). So it is basically a legacy thing.
My main machine is a Frankenstein monster by now, so I am gradually moving. But since the days when I started out, time has become a scarce resource, so the process is painfully slow.
- Comment on Linkwarden v2.13 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀 4 weeks ago:
That tool also saves a copy of the website. But I also do not use the browser bookmarks and a tool, that only syncs bookmarks. And that is the reason: syncing, so I have all the bookmarks on all devices.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 4 weeks ago:
Well, with my banking login the scammer could look at my balance. To withdraw they would need a TAN as well and therefore my banking card. Good luck getting hold of that with malware ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Self-hosted bloggers : welcome Fediverse comments directly below your posts 4 weeks ago:
Here’s a tutorial for mastodon carlschwan.eu/…/adding-comments-to-your-static-bl…
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 1 month ago:
Traditional vaccines work, because your immune cells learn about the “key” they need, to open up the virus and destroy it.
mRNA is basically just shipping the “keyhole” instead of the whole virus organism for your body to learn the pattern. So no crazy “gene therapy”. It is just more precise.
Like, back in the day, people used maps to navigate. Now you use crazy GPS space stuff to do the same. Just better technology for the same end.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
Along with unpausable cutscenes. My kid will cry exactly during your 10 minute cutscene, and I want to know the story.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 1 month ago:
The poll did not ask specifically for self-hosted instances. You know you can buy hosted Nextclouds where the service provider hopefully cares for that stuff? So customers wouldn’t know which database they use. I don’t know which database my mail provider uses ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Not stealing 1 month ago:
My 4yo always threatens “I won’t invite you to my birthday party!” I always respond with “Yes, thank you, please don’t.” Which is confusing, because apparently it is the go-to threat in daycare to force ohther children to do something 😅. Then I am immediately invited again.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 month ago:
Bonus points for finally settling for one of the options, only to throw a tantrum afterwards, that the other option was the preferred one.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Family is happy with Matrix and Element as Clients. Have members with iOS and Android, smooth experience for all users. But, to be fair, I do have easy users: they basically just send texts, emojis and an occasional picture.
I did not like the admin side of things too much so far, but I recently migrated to a Docker setup, which seems easier to maintain.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
5 Gang unite ✊
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 4 months ago:
OG German nickname is Gänsewein - the goose’s wine.
