duncan_bayne

@duncan_bayne@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d want a stronger girder than they used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still smell them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohhhhhhh damn. Have I been wrongly hating on tape capguns for 40-odd years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still smell them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The experience I had was that the hammer wasn’t consistently firing the caps. Perhaps I just had a couple of bad guns? Either way, nothing like those reliability issues with ring caps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still smell them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what they are, spent pocket money on them, and loathe them. Ring caps are far more reliable (albeit more expensive; always a topic of debate when said pocket money was $3 / month).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  … was second to none. Looking at almost illegible black text labels on a black Sony TV enclosure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mattermost user here, I self-host an instance for friends and family (and their children).

  To upgrade and discover I’d lost access to the message history on my own instance was infuriating. I’m investigating alternatives right now.

  So far Zulip seems reasonable - although Google and especially Apple being shits about push notifications means you can’t self-host push notification servers 🙄 So I’m considering forgoing push notifications altogether and leaning on email notifications instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for self-hosted installations, where Zulip aren’t paying for the storage themselves.