I think there are several servers that don’t try to match any particular dominant player.

It’s really down to the follow-person or follow-community model. AP supports both, but I’ve seen few servers or clients that support both. Which should be possible; it’s something that frequently annoys me about every Lemmy client I’ve tried: sometimes, there are people I’d like to follow, and get everything they post, regardless of community, in my feed.

I have a GoToSocial server, which is pure AP, not Mastodon. Misskey is still a microblogging platform, right? One of the people I interacted with a lot when I was trying it ran a Misskey server, and she used it like a microblogging tool.

It’s the modality of it. There’s a category of servers that follow the Twitter model: people follow people, and posts are usually short and frequent throughout the day. Then there’s the Reddit model: people join communities, and tend to do more periodic binge browsing.

Misskey - as I understand it - is a follow-the-person, shorter post model; the Twitter model. Lemmy models after Reddit.

I prefer the community model.

I started AP with Mastodon (well, GoToSocial). Microblogging is not my thing. I’m more comfortable in long-form, conversation forum than ADHD spasm posting.

This is the one I’m sticking with, especially since I’ve got non-string attachments for mine - little plastic blades that can cut down denser foliage and woody growth the string has a hard time with. At that point, it’s not a string trimmer anymore.

Oh, I like this.

Ha! No, what whackjobs those people are. No, clearly the Earth is donut-shaped. This is obvious, because the Bible says so. The lizard people are suppressing the information, except on the internet. And talk radio. And tabloids.

Donut shaped!

Yes? How else would you look up anything if it hadn’t been uploaded somewhere?

Yeah, if you know part of a fingerprint you can look up keys, but I don’t know of a way to look up keys from partial keys.

That makes sense

The Earth is curved.

At least, I assume that’s what they meant.

You’re right. Especially with the drapes: if the ceiling isn’t level, it’s a no-win situation. It’s either going to look distracting, or function poorly.

Same: haven’t had egg in years.

I always pulled them from one size so that it was a precarious activity to pull the cartoon from the fridge: you got either the heavy end, which was Ok, or the light end, which was awkward, or the middle, which was totally unbalanced and prone to dropping.

It’s the little, everyday excitements that makes life fun.

I guess I, too, am still not certain why you would censor it. The whole point to the public key is to publish it. Most people upload their’s to multiple public key servers.

But, oddly, it’s not. How square it is with the walls is more important. Door and window frames, too, and those are more likely to be a touch off.

Hmmm. That reminds me that I need to check to make sure the router is blocking all Facebook traffic.

People have covered German and French. Esperanto has the genderless “la” for “the”; there is no “a” article. “Here is a house” is “Ĉi tie estas domo,” or “Jen estas domo,” or even simply “Estas domo” depending on what you mean. But there’s no article.

I’ve just accepted that I’m completely out of touch with the average American.

The problem is that it gets really hard to find non-extreme right people willing to post, at least in the states. I refuse to recognize anyone who voted for Trump as being non-extreme, and given Trump’s historic positions, the actual quotable things he said during his campaign, and his subsequent actions, by voting Republican in the last US election they sat down at the table with fascists.

Maybe. Snape isn’t exactly a sympathetic character, though; he almost was, but ended up being a true villain.

Maybe you’re right, with a different author perhaps this would be uncontroversial. It’s hard to not read racism into it given her politics, though. The only thing that would have looked worse, given her nationality and politics, would have been if they’d made Snape Pakistani.

I don’t have an end-to-end solution, but I will say as a former Pebble user that I’m delighted with my BangleJS watch. It’s inexpensive, I charge it once a week, and it has the usual activity tracker hardware including heart rate monitor. There are a ton of apps. It’s less “hacker” and more polished for non-technical users than you might expect; if you’re running Linux, this is absolutely within your comfort zone. It also has a temp monitor, so it can detect when the watch it being worn or not.

The customized GadgetBridge Android app is good, most of the programming is in JavaScript, and the developer community is active and responsive.

A quick glance through the app “store” (they’re nearly all free) shows there’s a heart alarm app, which seems aimed at notifying the wearer. Another app publishes heart rate over bluetooth, so someone must have a pair device that monitors heart rates.

I didn’t see anything obvious in the ecosystem, but since the data is going to GadgetBridge already, it’s most of the way there; if GadgetBridge could publish to web hooks, with ntfy you could get alerts from watch to partner’s phone. I haven’t yet looked through the GB issues to see if someone has already requested it, and I’ve only done light digging in the app itself; it may already support this.

It’s worth investigating.

Edit looks like others have requested similar features (and this, and this); it hasn’t been implemented yet.