I thought TRT messes up your body’s ability to produce testosterone naturally. Not good.

Try smartctl -a on the drive (install smartmontools if needed), to see the error counts. Yeah, back up your stuff, which you should do anyway.

The solution has been known for a long time and it’s not intensely difficult, just confusing, like the Monty Hall problem. Feynman was always careful to not reveal the answer in his many retellings, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t know it. He wanted to let people figure out their own solutions.

Sounds ok to me, it’s usually very hard to get data like that deleted. Best to not let them get it in the first place.

Being able to ruin a product presumes that it wasn’t vile to begin with.

Extend? Do you mean it was already in place? I thought it was something that was not yet imposed, and the discussion was whether to start requiring it.

TERCOM for “hobbyists”? Just what we need. What could possibly go wrong. :(

IDK really. I’m repeating what I saw someplace years ago. I would say do a real RAID if you manage it. Maybe RAID 5 on 3 drives.

While I don’t exactly intend to run RAID, I ended up choosing nas drives for the 24/7 intended usage,

The purpose of a NAS drive is to be LESS reliable than a regular drive, not more reliable. Explanation: if a regular drive gets a read error on a block, it will retry for quite a while before giving up. The host, meanwhile, has to wait for the data to be retrieved if the retries work. That’s all it can really do, wait and hope. Meanwhile, the waiting slows the application down.

A NAS drive instead will fail once or twice, then give up immediately, since it knows that it’s in a RAID system and that the data is also present on other disks. The RAID then puts the data together from the other drives and gets it to the host, logging the error. It will also hopefully mark the bad block on the drive with the read failure, and rewrite the recovered data to a spare sector. So this is faster than all the retries even though the drive that had the bad block gives up on it rather than attempting recovery by repeated reads.

So if you buy NAS drives, put them in a RAID.

Drives are currently around 2x as expensive as a year or so ago but they are available if you can afford them. I guess that’s better than shortages where they’re hard to find even if you can pay. We’ve had that before too.

I like to think the current situation will settle out. Who knows though. Drive space is still way less expensive than in 2010 or anything like that.

All the time?! Yikes. Yeah out of place on nottheonion, but still seems like a very weird incident to me.

$300, no thanks, but not totally in LOL territory. Well maybe.

Won’t stop anyone, but luckily I lost my 3D printer in a boating accident.

The webview isn’t supposed to show the bloaty page directly. Your client would retrieve the bloaty HTML, strip the junk out or maybe completely reformat the page, and then show the “purified” page in a browser. I did this for a while with local proxy cgi’s but they eventually stopped working due to AI bros over-scraping everything. Also, are you going to write custom de-bloating for different sites that your client reads? It helps quite a bit. I can send you some of mine if you want.

Yes a normal web page can’t pull arbitrary feeds but I had thought there were permissions you could give to enable that. Like I think Manifest v2 lets you turn off the cross origin check, so you could write a Firefox extension. But, they shut down Manifest v2 in Chrome in order to prevent ad blockers from working.

We already have lite.cnn.com and there must be tons of RSS readers already? Emacs’s gnus.el has an RSS reader that I use on my laptop if that helps. It’s probably not usable on a phone.

Anyway, I’m supportive of the idea but for the same reason, I don’t have a Play account. If the app eventually shows up on F-droid I might give it a try.

The name “Compass” must already be in use for tons of other things, fwiw.

Why a built in reader instead of a web view? Don’t we already have too many apps with their own special text UI’s?

In fact I wonder if the whole thing can be done as a static web page with local storage and permissions to retrieve the remote RSS, if that’s a thing. Or it could be a very simple standalone httpd that a local browser could point at.

There’s another issue, which is that news RSS feeds often only give you the headlines. Here’s an example:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/feed/bay-area-news-429.php

if you want to see a complete story, you have to click a link that gives you the usual bloaty web page full of ads. It’s fronted by the now-common bot detection stuff so you would have to do some fancy scraping to get the underlying page into your special client. If you want to go that route, you probably have to orchestrate a real browser anyway.

One can support a social media age ban (similar to the porn age bans that have existed since forever) while opposing the implementation proposal (invasive age verification needed for nearly everything).

From what I can tell, the definition of social media in the ban proposals amounts to the presence of algorithmic amplification of clickbait and outrage. It’s not too big a stretch to support banning that altogether, not just for minors. Traditional forums would still be fine, and Lemmy would be fine if it changed a few features that are arguably bad anyway.

Yeah trouble is those use a lot of power, from what I heard. I’m satisfied with a usable e-reader that can flip pages at tolerable speed.

This is a bunch of stuff that you can order from Adafruit, so idk where Steam comes into it.

Also the screen is 5.83" which is a yawner. It’s a drag that e-ink screens are still all so small. Wake me up when there’s an affordable 14 inch one or larger, that doesn’t take 20+ seconds to refresh. 1 second is tolerable. Motion video is not required.

How does the anonymity work?

I think ID for new customers is widespread now because of the growth of scams. I enrolled at Porkbun from the US a number of years ago without ID (before they started asking for it) and they haven’t asked me for it retroactively, so I don’t think it’s required, it’s just something they do as an anti-scam measure. I’ve never tried for a UK or other national domain from them.

Try https://tld-list.com/ for comparisons.