There are probably better alternatives, but I have a raspbery pi plugged into my tv and use KDE connect to remote control the mouse and keyboard from my phone. If I wanna watch youtube I’ll navigate to youtube.com and click on a video.
I can recommend fd to everyone frustrated with find, it has a much more intuitive interface imo, and it’s also significantly faster.
It’s not that much of a strain since it only handles DNS traffic.
When you go to e.g. programming.dev, you computer needs to know the actual IP and not just domain name so it asks a DNS server and recieves an answer like 172.67.137.159 for example. The pihole will just route the traffic to a real DNS server if it’s a normal website or give a unkown ip kind of answer if it’s a blacklisted domain. Actually transmitting the website which is the bulk of trafic is handled without the piholes involvement.
I think most people don’t go to a platform because of how it is implemented but rather what content and what communities already exist there.
People on the fediverse now are using it not because of the content already here but more because of the promise of a platform designed in a different way that will ultimately enable a better internet experience. I think part of the reason why it’s mostly techy people is that the sales pitch is complicated enough that mostly techy people will be able to appreciate it. Not to say that non-techy people are too stupid to get it, it’s just that it requires a kind of abstract thinking that techy people are more used to.
It feels like lemmy seems to have a sense of nostalgia for old reddit in some ways, so I imagine that a lot of people on here where also on reddit maybe 5-15 years ago, which means that you are probably going to be older than the average reditor as well as techy. Can’t speak for mastodon, honestly I find the culture on most instances I’ve seen to be kinda weird and unappealing but yes it seems to be older techy people as well there.
Oh okay, so you’re saying that the only way to only allow people to comment with fediverse accounts also involves manually approving all of them? That’s a bummer, hope wordpress fixes that at some point.
Just thinking out loud here, but could only allowing people to comment with their fediverse accounts from elsewhere be a solution?
Hard to generalize about all hackatons?
I have a somewhat cynical view of the crypto community, but
It feels like I’m watching Shark Tank or any show where participants try to sell the idea to VCs, instead of a programming tournament.
Seems like something that might disproportionately might affect blockchain hackatons. There are in my experience a couple of different people who are into the blockchain: libertarians, people hoping to get rich and people really interested in the technical aspects (some overlap may exist).
The “hoping to get rich people” can sometimes be in conflict with the tech people and I think that this might be an example of this. If you’re just interested in getting rich the actual technical details don’t matter, just your ability to build hype around them.
Nice, I’ll check it out. I’ve been meaning to customize the desktop a bit more but it works well enough for the moment.