Regardless of the team dynamics, what I was getting at is simply that a CEO runs the company, and is generally not involved in minor decisions. But he is moving into a product strategy role, one that by definition is focused on what the product (mastodon) does.

He is stepping away from the CEO role to focus on the product. That means you are not getting anything he doesn’t want, if anything he has more control over the functionality of Mastodon.

I have one of these that I use for Pi-hole. I bought it as soon as they were available. Didn’t realise it was 2012, seemed earlier than that.

Sounds good!

Perhaps take on board the comments on this post, draft up a proposed template on the repo, and then perhaps do a new post asking for feedback? Is it worth creating a community for those interested to follow if they want to discuss, ask questions, propose ideas, etc, or is that better done on the repo?

I’m wondering if the git option is best? A public github repo is a bit more permanent, means it stays available into the future even if it stops getting maintained.

The main issue with that is the technical hurdle for contributing, but I don’t see why people can’t comment on this post or future ones with comments if they don’t want to do a pull request.

I prefer that over the Google docs option, and Lemmy comments are good for discussion but I think we need an “official” place to point people to. We can still discuss on Lemmy before making updates.

I’m going to be away for a few days, but I’ll see about listing out these new questions and other changes. Maybe we can put them somewhere to make it easier to collaborate and track changes?

That sounds like a good idea. Any thoughts on where?

For our census I self-hosted Lime Survey (using this not-official docker image). Took a little bit of working out but I think the survey worked out quite good. There are lots of options to pick through, including various levels of privacy settings, and I’ve also run some other community surveys using it in the past.

I like this idea. Getting some sort of insights into Lemmy.

I saw another comment suggesting various things that it would be fun to know about the community. These surveys aren’t just a view into an instance, but the lemmy.ca and lemmy.nz surveys have been cited many times as they are some of the only info we have about Lemmy as a whole.

I was thinking we should have base questions, ones that we want to watch for changes over time. And then others that could be a snapshot insight that give us a glimpse into Lemmy with an understanding that people don’t want to spend an hour filling in the survey so we can’t ask everything.

I think the question list you have is a good set of base questions, and I don’t think there are any you’ve suggested that shouldn’t be asked each year. So I propose we pick a couple of extra questions. I think it would be nice for everyone to use the same questions and see differences across instances, but also using different ones per instance gives us wider insights. So I could be persuaded either way. The kind of things that @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de suggested, like whether people mostly use Subscribed, Local, or All feeds (mindful these might have different names in different apps/frontends). Or OS they use, etc. Just making sure it’s only one or two questions so it’s not putting people off doing the survey by making it too long.

Now to your question:

For self-identification, free text means people are more likely to write what they actually want instead of trying to push themselves into the box of listed options, even if there is an Other option. However, it’s also a lot of work to group things, and things need to be grouped to make any decent result visualisation. Plus people should be allowed to group themselves instead of me doing it. So I suggest a predefined list with an Other free-text option.

I think this is the case for the other similar things you list as well. For ethnicity, for our survey we used the actual list from the NZ Stats department. It has been carefully refined over years, there’s no reason to think we could do any better. But of course our list would not be very helpful for other countries, so for region-based instances, maybe something similar can be found from that region.

The disability question was quite tricky to work out how to put into a chart. People can have multiple, but then you don’t really want them showing 10 times. I think I’d like to have a pre-defined list next time, with an Other free text option as well. Let people put themselves into their own categories instead of me trying to push them into groups.

For the fun question, what I like about Favourite Dessert is how groups of people are likely to tend towards certain answers, but different groups of people can tend towards quite different things (especially when it’s regional). Favourite Comfort Food could be a good one, but it might be nice not to do food again. I’ll let others suggest some things. I will note that I think this Fun question is different from the suggestion above to have snapshot questions to get insights into Lemmy. Having “What OS do you use” is a census question, “What is your favourite dessert” is a fun question. I think we should have both.

Cheers for tagging me, I’ll have to go through my stuff from when we did it and see if I have any feedback.

Fewer random comments from me when reporting the results. I looked back at them afterwards and thought they might be a bit much.

The random comments were very helpful and influenced the questions we used on lemmy.nz. I also think it’s good to understand how the data has been analysed to highlight potential biases. i.e. don’t feel bad about your rambling or I’ll feel bad about mine 😆

For the record, it was definitely on. I ended up buying a new PSU to check, and it didn’t help. I then bought a new motherboard and that fixed it. So case solved!

The luck didn’t help haha, I never got that light again, except for occasional split second flashes. I edited some info into the original post, but long story short, after lots of fluffing around in the end it was the motherboard. I got a new one and now I’m back up and running!

Yeah they only have the one trackpad option. I tend to use a mouse anyway.

Probably not much point in getting one if you’re going to build your kids a PC anyway.

By the way I managed to get a light on the motherboard, so it might not be dead after all. I’m planning to get some more thermal paste today and keep tinkering, I might save it yet.

I use a laptop most of the time because then I can sit in a recliner with my feet up. I spend the day at a desk I don’t much fancy doing the same in the evening.

I have a Framework laptop from the first ones they made, which are upgradeable and repairable. Unfortunately they don’t ship to NZ, I got mine by freight forwarding and also got parts a bit later the same way. But now they have cracked down hard on freight forwarding as I recently learned, so I can’t get any more upgrades until they start shipping here (no announced plans).

The problem is either my mobo or CPU is dead, so I can’t run the old system haha.

It sounds like my old system could handle transcoding better if I had enabled the right options, so now I have to decide whether to buy a new motherboard and risk it being the CPU, or just upgrade everything.

I don’t do a lot of gaming these days. When I played Baldur’s Gate 3, once I got to Act 3 I switched to streaming from the desktop to the laptop using the Steam function as my laptop couldn’t handle it. I also don’t do upgrades as frequently as you.

If you had an old mobo and CPU, you could downgrade and keep the NAS running until you had a replacement.

Good point, I didn’t think of that.

Ah I got the wrong impression. Good to know it won’t affect me, cheers.

I think your advantage is needing two machines. Then you can swap stuff between them to test as well.

I gave away my previous build in whole and built a new one. No spare parts 🙁. And my SO and I are generally using laptops day to day, no need for more desktop machines and can’t swap pieces between laptop and desktop.

I don’t think having an old mobo/CPU would help anyway, I’m pretty sure one of the two is broken and swapping both out won’t help work out which one.

Oh I didn’t realise I could do that! You first link seems to say there is quite limited codec support though?

I bought a multimeter and tested the PSU, and it all seems fine. So pretty sure it’s the motherboard or CPU.

I’m using it as an excuse to do an upgrade, so will probably get a new mobo/CPU/RAM.