Use insular to install it on your work profile

I’m planning on bringing a spare phone only on my trips to the US.

I heard on the news that no one survived.

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Can someone explain what the Intel ME actually does / is? Thank you.

Good point. I think that might be it actually. This could be the reason.

It should be safe as long as you put in a valid timestamp and not some other value. If you run a large instance, then you run the risk of pseudo-DDoSing yourself by sending a large amount of requests to dead servers, but unless you’re a large instance you shouldn’t have to worry about that.

That seems to be the case more or less. In my case times go from 0:00 to 0:25 or so when it finishes.

Check out the Onyx Boox which might cost a bit more but run a version of Android.

In theory that’s what Lemmy now does every day, but I have no idea why it fails to update some instances sometimes. Instances which are very much alive at 12AM which is when this gets executed.

Do you know if you had any cronjob running close to 0:00 (server time, possibly UTC) that could have interfered with the validation of dead instances that lemmy now does?

I’m trying to figure out what could have interfered with these checks in the first place.

It only works for new posts. Try creating something new in a community that you know lemmy.world knows about.

Older posts may appear progressively, but there’s no guarantees.

Yes. That should fix it. There is instances that are genuinely down. Later today I’ll try to share a script to detect which ones are down and which aren’t via curl. In our case we had 350+ false positives.

Hey, this happened to us recently. In your database check the table called 'instance ’ and make sure the value for ‘updated’ is less than three days old for lemmy.world

There are false positives regarding the detection of “dead instances” in the latest version of Lemmy and it’s actually your instance that stops sending out messages to lemmy.world

It’s probably trolls. Best thing you can do is report them. I talked to their admin once and they seemed nice.

At least this means that the PC handhelds seem to be lucrative and we can definitely expect a steam deck 2 or better competition.

Sorry for the late reply. If you’re interested in music, you could give both javascript or C# a try. C# works integrated with the operating system and is not sandboxed by the browser, which means that you could do nifty things like actual sound processing and interact with sound devices etc.

In general you will want to start with a console application that receives user input, does something and even prints the output. Let me give you an example of playing an audio file in C#

LINE 1: System.Media.SoundPlayer myAudioPlayer = new System.Media.SoundPlayer(@"c:\mywavfile.wav");

LINE 2: myAudioPlayer.Play();

In the first line we are calling a pre-existing blueprint (library) that knows how to create an audio player. This blueprint can be located in System > Media > SoundPlayer within the collections of libraries. We are giving this virtual audio player a name and called it “myAudioPlayer”. Then, after the “=” sign we are giving it the instruction to be created with a preloaded file that would be found in “C:\mywavfile.wav”.

In the second file we are commanding our newly created virtual audio player and telling it to play the file. Please note that this audio player would not have a visual interface yet. You would hear audio coming from the speakers but no way to pause. Fortunately C# / .NET (.NET are the pre-existing libraries that you can use), has a drag-and-drop way to create windows application interfaces with buttons via the “Visual Studio” editor, so you could potentially create a drag-and-drop interface and bind a button with a Stop symbol to the instruction “myAudioPlayer.Stop();”

This is just a very very basic example, but object oriented programming often boils down to this: create virtual representations of something and then command them to do something.

If this has peaked your interest check out this playlist of a full complete programming course in C# which is what I used to learn programming years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umAcMO3d9_E&list=PLFqasLx4-AErVMCWiIyJe9uA3yQMPBukG

In the end it’s all about creating a series of instructions that the computer will follow. The trick is to learn what these instructions mean and to not be scared by their syntax, because behind every scary looking syntax there’s just an instruction that can be explain in human language.

If you visit their homepage. You can fetch your local post if you take that url from their homepage and paste it in the search page of your instance.

Wrong community?

Oh yeah, apologies for the above comment. C# is definitely a good option, especially if you use windows and love messing around with the OS