Is there a comparable community not on .ml?

Thanks!

Yeah, Fuck AI is a great community (and I do post there) but wanted something more for general “fuck modern tech”.

TechTakes is a little too general than I’d like for this, but definitely a good community (just subscribed, btw).

I had that in there but then updated the post to match the updated community description. I forgot to put it back in. My bad, re-added.

Thanks.

Sounds like fun.

Last year I picked up one of those cheap DVB-T receivers and played around with RTL-SDR a bit.

Was able to pick up a lot of ADS-B traffic (I live near an airport) which was really cool to throw on a map.

Was able to get readings from this little temp/humidity sensor that came with the house (base station is long gone). Also was able to detect when my wireless doorbell button was pressed as well as a few other odd wireless gadgets.

Got readings from every water meter in the area except mine. Either it wasn’t being decodes properly, or almost everyone has a leak. Lol. Still trying to figure that out.

The only thing I failed at was getting a reading from my electric meter. Nothing seems to support it, and online resources came up dry for that model.

I did all that just for fun, but the next step, when I get around to it, is putting together some scripts to reconfigure the radio in a loop to read devices that worked and MQTT the data to HomeAssistant.

I’d like to think so, and I hope I’m wrong here, but probably not.

The decentralized communities are definitely going to grow over the coming weeks to years, and that’s awesome and very welcome, but I don’t think they’ll ever reach enough critical mass to supplant the big players.

For example, a lot of people I know are fully aware Facebook sucks, but it’s also the only way they are able to keep in touch with certain groups of people (family, old school friends, etc). There would need to be some coordinated effort on all of their contacts’ parts to move somewhere else, and a lot of them fear losing touch with those that can’t/won’t make the switch. That’s also not factoring in the learning curve to leave a familiar platform. I’m thinking specifically of grandparents who are on FB, but it doesn’t apply just to those.

I do think there will be a steady influx of users from the big players and the content quantity/quality on Lemmy et al will definitely improve, but I feel the decentralized platforms will always remain secondary to their “big tech” counterparts.

There’s also currently too many steps for users beyond “install app, turn off brain, and start scrolling”. As sad as it is, that’s all many people want: an app that lets them mindlessly scroll.

And, IMO, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I feel like Reddit has experienced a lot of “brain drain” the last month and more quality content is appearing on Lemmy rather than Reddit. It’s been absolutely refreshing not seeing screenshots and reposts from other social media in my feed, and I think the barriers to entry for decentralized social media are contributing to that.

Not like it’s a classic or anything, but I drive a Ford Fusion hybrid and it’s just…a regular car for the most part. I love that about it. So yeah, I definitely feel there’s an untapped market so long as the any engineering challenges aren’t dealbreakers.

Thank you for defending the Oxford comma. Please take this fake gold award:

I’m of the opinion that whatever you feel like eating in the morning is perfectly acceptable breakfast food. Who and/or what decides which food is acceptable to break your fast anyway (hence the word “breakfast”)? I’ll have leftover cold pizza and not feel a tinge of guilt about it. Suck it, Big Cereal.

I’ve never heard it called the “Shatner Comma” until today, and I will never, call it anything else.

The block list should show up on the admin page if you refresh when it shows up empty. At least, that’s how it behaves on mine.

As an instance admin: signed.

At the end of the day, nothing of value is going to come from an instance that allows hate-based/troll communities to fester or metastasize.

As an instance admin, it’s my choice to moderate mine as I see fit. Same for Beehaw or any other.

That said, my instance is running on my own hardware, electricity, bandwidth, money, and time, so if I do not want to waste resources syncing that vile garbage, that is my right. If users on my instance have a problem with this, they know where the door is. 🎤

Exactly this. Thank you!

“With great power comes great responsibility” but too many people just want the power and utterly refuse to acknowledge, let alone accept, the responsibility that comes with it.

Oh, gotcha. Habit of mine is putting the image in the body as well, but that’s mostly to facilitate GIFs that don’t animate in the thumbnail.

It works with any image using that markup (comment/post).

Should I learn a new skill or have a bot do it for me? (paraphrased)

You should learn a new skill. Always.

I would love that, but the EU would have to mandate it first. Even then, the platform owners would be kicking and screaming the whole way.

And unlike hardware devices, it wouldn’t be cost-prohibitive to keep them isolated outside the EU.

Quality over quantity. I feel that.