@claralistensprechen5th @rejinl @ECEC She said 'street trees', which are have shown clear benefits to dense cities all over the world. They're incompatible with on-street parking, though.

@claralistensprechen5th @ECEC sigh

City streets are not specifically for cars. Freeways aren't even specifically for cars (buses, trucks), but city streets in particular are definitely not just for cars.

Tree roots are a solved problem. Lots of city master plans and similar documents have a list of trees allowed in the public right-of-way that have root systems compatible with sidewalks and roads. Some trees have roots that buckle concrete, others have roots that don't. Choose wisely.

@ECEC Good lord the number of replies here from people whose brains have been destroyed by "planners"...

1. Trees lower the urban heat island effect.
2. There's plenty of room for trees in dense places, so long as "density" means efficient housing and efficient transportation rather than parking lots and stroads and single-family homes.
3. Someone said "trees require maintenance", as if asphalt & pretty much everything doesn't require maintenance?
4. Trees harm cars. But cars harm cars too!

@claralistensprechen5th @ECEC Sounds like the problem is cars, not trees.

FuckCars

@sugarinyourtea @phoenixz Hi there! If you wouldn't mind indulging grampa for a minute - I'm a former php4 maintainer for Debian with a story.

One time we found a bug that caused the php interpreter to crash, based on the input passed to a function. We decided it was a security issue, but even that was kind of besides the point. We reported it upstream to the php folks. They (Rasmus!) told us it was not a high priority issue, because apache would simply restart when it crashes - no big deal

@leodavinci @poVoq @sxan I can't speak to iOS, but at least on android that's not a problem as long as you grant it the proper permissions.

@poVoq @sxan Also, I used to maintain a matrix client in Debian, as well as self-hosting synapse. I went back to XMPP.

@poVoq @sxan I have a 200MB/mo data connection, and my XMPP client (Cheogram) is barely a blip. The main driver of data usage with it is when my family is sending around 0.5MB images to each other.

@mac @poVoq Just curious what you dislike about Cheogram's UX?

@ItJustDonn @486 Hang on, this runs chromium as root? That seems like a really bad idea. And unnecessary, since there's a hoarder user installed later in the script...

https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/blob/main/hoarder-linux.sh

@Coldmoon @Steamymoomilk I mean, a few months ago I bought a 10TB used HGST drive from 2018 (from goharddrive). The bigger issue imo is buying a drive that old and having only a 90 day warranty. The 10TB drive I purchased came with a 5yr warranty.

@Smash @Limonene Right, it was proprietary. Which is why adoption of it by free software devs is so slow. Ubuntu only got dotnet packages in the past few years! (RIP @vorlon )

@sxan @shortrounddev jmp.chat uses XMPP, and it's a very viable replacement for Google Voice (and generic SIP options like voip.ms), so that's what got me back on the XMPP train. No one else other than my family is using it with me, though, but it's still nice to have SMS, (encrypted & decentralized) family chat, and IRC (via biboumi bridge) in one desktop client.

@WhyJiffie @kratoz29

is there such a problem? honest question. But I think that might be a different issue

Yes, that is a problem. We're still in a world where you need to manually enable port forwarding in order to get better seeding for bittorrent clients, and if you have CGNAT you're SOL (short of using a VPN or something to bounce through an external host).

It's likely because torrent software is older (& in crappier languages), and came about before CGNAT was a thing.

@mesamunefire @cm0002 Voice + Syncthing-fork is what I use. It syncs between an audiobook directory on my laptop and my phone.

@towerful @baatliwala For real though, I use old laptops for self-hosting so that I never have to dig up a monitor & keyboard.

@unexposedhazard @HelloRoot this

@tuxec @zygohistomorpheus Is "soyware" related to the pejorative "soyboy"?

@Shimitar @whysofurious Same. Getting an enclosure that can properly use linux's uas driver rather than the usb-storage driver is a night-and-day difference. Read the reviews and get a dedicated single-drive enclosure for like $30, and don't overlook cooling. Sometimes an external usb fan is a better option than an enclosure with built-in fans but poor airflow.

@Sunny Backups are done weekly, using Restic (and with '--read-data-subset=9%' to verify that the backup data is still valid).

But that's also in addition to doing nightly Snapraid syncs for larger media, and Syncthing for photos & documents (which means I have copies on 2+ machines).