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Like the other replier and GP, my Linux and Mac desktops run for months at a time without a restart. I only restart when there’s a software update that demands it. I don’t have much experience with modern Windows, but I expect that’s the norm from a modern OS.

If you’re running into runaway resource issues like this then you may want to spend a few minutes hunting them down and maybe replace the programs responsible. Daily restarts shouldn’t be necessary.

Apparently not in Windows settings:

If the BIOS says it supports Modern Standby, Windows takes it at its word and completely disables the ability to enter S3 sleep (classic standby). There’s no official or documented option for disabling Modern Standby through Windows, which is incredibly annoying.

Side note: for a while, there was actually a registry setting you could change to disable Modern Standby on the Windows side. Unfortunately, Microsoft removed it, and to my knowledge, has never added it back.

I’m not a Windows user, so I can’t confirm one way or the other, but toward the end of the end of the article the author gives vendor-specific instructions for disabling the S0 Low Power Idle capability from BIOS.

Alex Russell is a good read on React. His position gives him a broad view of its impacts and has kept him from being sidelined. This Changelog podcast is a decent distillation of his criticisms – it was recorded earlier this year, a few days after his Market For Lemons blog post.

(Sorry for the late reply! I’ve been a bit swamped lately and away from kbin.)

“Good vibes only” seems to be embedded in the culture of web development today. Influential devs’ Twitter accounts have strong Instagram vibes: constantly promoting and congratulating each other, never sharing substantive criticisms. Hustle hustle.

People with deep, valid criticisms of popular frameworks like React seem to be ostracized as cranks.

It’s all very vapid and depressing.

Thanks for this. I skimmed the proposal doc itself and didn’t quite understand the concern people have with it – most of the concerns that came to my own mind are already listed as non-goals. The first few lines of this comment express a realistic danger that’s innate to what’s actually being proposed.

The Verge article is paywalled for me, but the screencaps Alex shared in his toot don’t really support his summary. The article mentions that Threads can import content from Mastodon as an example of the sorts of things ActivityPub supports, and that’s about as close as it gets.

And then there’s this:

The company is planning to create a roundtable for administrators of other servers and developers to share best practices and work through problems that will inevitably arise, like Meta’s server traffic putting strain on other, smaller servers.

Emphasis mine. How would Meta’s server put strain on other, smaller servers if it’s not federating with them?

I’m fully willing to believe Meta wants to EEE ActivityPub, but this particular claim doesn’t seem to check out.

Anyone found any decent wireless ones with replaceable batteries? I was interested in the Fairbuds XL but it’s not well reviewed.

For a while I had a pair of Sennheiser TV headphones that took AAAs, but they required a dedicated transmitter and weren’t great for music anyway.

I guess that clinches it. I’m AFK right now but later today I’ll be checking out PowerDeleteSuite (thanks to @solidgrue for mentioning it in this thread).

The linked article summarizes the problems in the paragraph starting “I’ve been aware of Lemmy for a long time”. For an alternative view: the Fedi.Tips account on Mastodon – typically a cheerleader for all apps of the FediVerse – shared some more pointed words about them in this thread and reiterated the warning just yesterday after noticing the Lemmy team’s successful recruitment campaign on Reddit.

I was one of the people they recruited, and ran into problems myself only after signing up at lemmy.ml and being surprised by the amount of CCP propaganda posted there. At first I thought it was strange that I was being downvoted for pointing it out, and that the devs (also admins of that instance) ignored/downvoted me when I flagged the issue for their attention. After researching a bit, I found that Lemmy’s basically developed and maintained by two people, both of whom seem to be westerners fetishizing Mao Zedong Thought – literally to the point of writing lengthy apologetics for the CCP’s human rights abuses including the Uyghur genocide.

They’re clearly skilled engineers, but I can’t trust or support them, and relying on instance of Lemmy means I’d have to do both.

Because they’re both part of the Fediverse, Lemmy and Kbin do federate with each other. You can follow Lemmy “communities” in Kbin, and Kbin “magazines” in Lemmy, and I believe other Fediverse groups (like Frendica groups) also federate.

I’ve been leaning into this from Kbin, as a way of dipping into communities on Beehaw and other Lemmy instances while keeping my distance from Lemmy’s devs.

I have one concern. As we’re seeing with Reddit, it’s a huge effort to move internet communities. If Lemmy-the-app becomes untenable even for more reasonably admin’d instances, then the most obvious solution won’t be to fork Lemmy (a huge undertaking) but rather to move to an app that’s maintained by more reasonable people. That’s probably going to involve a messy migration, some data loss, some loss of community, and some dead links.

I’ll keep using Kbin as a way of tapping into existing communities, but when it comes to building new ones I’d much rather see it done on kbin.social or other Fediverse instances where there’s no long-term dependency on Lemmy’s devs.