I was going to put Bedfordshire in brackets next to that, but I forgot. I knew it could cause confusion!

• !imaginaryfairies@lemmings.world
• !yoursinclair@retrolemmy.com
• !britishcomedy@feddit.uk
• !beds@feddit.uk
• !raining@sh.itjust.works

I think the rest of my communities haven’t seen activity lately, so I’ll have to post in them first!

They were good before (and please correct me if I’ve got this wrong) EB bought them and did a “reverse takeover”. Since that point they’ve been going downhill.

Yeah, same. I set it up as it looked like the best way to control my inverter - I wanted to set it to charge from the grid when electricity was free, and discharge during saving sessions without having to do it manually. I then expanded to trying to calculate how much charge I needed overnight in cheap rate based on the solar forecast for the next day…

Anyway, I now have everything on it and keep thinking of things to add.

There’s also some sort of soft blocking option, which largely hides the instance AIUI but still gives the ability to follow users. This seems like a better option rather than completely defederating.

If Meta want to scrape your data they can do that anyway. All defederation does is stops you looking at their stuff (which, as you say, can be blocked at the user level anyway)

There’s also Linen.

No, it’s a cross platform standard. You can even run a server on Linux interfacing with SANE to convert older scanners.

I looked up the non-Apple name and it’s eSCL. That’s a lot easier to search for.

Yes, you can now use AirScan (also called something else I don’t recall currently) for “driverless” scanning.

dump1090 comes with a webpage showing which aircraft it is currently tracking, although I suspect the maps don’t run offline.

I’ve just noticed there’s a Fediverse “optic”, so you can restrict it to Fediverse sites.

Tbh I just saw it needed a login and scrolled back up to the link without reading further, so was obviously a bit hasty in my assessment of it being a paywall.

To save reading the paywalled article, the site is at https://stract.com

I’ve only done a single search but it gave me a summary at the top, and some discussion forums in a different format. I’m impressed so far!

They need to be trained on the film “Wargames”. Or forced to pay Noughts & Crosses against themselves.

I don’t know. Mastodon already supports audio posts, how does that federate? Why can’t Threads do the same thing?

I find this very useful to read paywalled articles that Google has managed to index!

OK, I see why they might want to get rid of it.

I got free electricity for quite a few hours on Sunday night and Monday morning due to this wind.

Apologies. This is a new series from the guy behind the Digitiser teletext gaming magazine. It’s very much in the style of the magazine, and contains segments about retro games alongside other nonsense. If you know and liked Digitiser them you’ll probably enjoy the humour in this.

I don’t always, but when I do it’s mostly to do with character customisation. If I’m playing a game where my character is constantly visible I’d rather it was something I wanted to look at, and male clothing is boring. OK, some games don’t restrict clothes but many do. So I tend to create a character which is a female version of me, except in the cases where I prefer a male character (which isn’t often if I have the choice!)

I had to buy an adapter. I much prefer wired earphones, as somebody else commented, it’s much easier to switch wired ones between devices. With wireless you also have the issue of disconnecting them if you want audio through the phone speaker. I hate Bluetooth anyway.

I also prefer the earphones which sit just in the ear, rather than the current style of ones that need to be forced inside. I don’t think you can get wireless earphones like that, probably because they would be lost easily. I like proper headphones too (so that’s an option for wireless), but they are quite bulky so not always convenient.

I bow to your superior knowledge. It definitely doesn’t wear out SD cards as quickly though, but that might be due to other factors not wear levelling.