Speedrunning the Idiocracy future while we offload cognition to a black box.

I unsubscribed years ago when I finally saw them for what they are.

https://lemmy.world/post/41022485

https://piefed.social/post/956553

“Due to feedback from a wider audience than before, some of the idiosyncratic features that I built because of my personal obsessions have been made optional and OFF by default, such as the 4chan meme filter, meme communities being flagged as ‘low quality’ and so on”

The piefed dev made some biased decisions, owned up to their mistakes, fixed it, but lost the trust of many users.

dev politics and dev opinions. Pick whichever you like it doesn’t matter.

Kbin is dead Mbin is the successor, both have lemmy (reddit-like) and mastodon (twitter-like) capabilities. You can submit a “tweet” and a “post” from the same platform and browse both lemmy and mastodon content.

Lemmmy is the activitypub version of reddit. PieFed is Lemmy but with the ability to see all comments and cross-posts of the same link or post, all collapsed into a single post and single thread to scroll through.

Beehaw deserves its own mention because of how cut off it is from the rest of the fediverse, its its own little walled garden, protected from all the baddies out there in the world.

All the rest is just drama surrounding the devs of all the platforms, and either their questionable political views (lemmy) or their questionable platform moderation views (piefed). So the platforms keep splintering as well as the instances on each platform. Which is a good thing its part of the fun of the fediverse.

“Moves are underway to take RISC-V to a new level. The association is collaborating with Linux to create an open-source trinity of software, ISA and hardware.”

Great stuff! Please do linux phones too!

Food for thought: https://brander.ca/range/

Replace Your Range With a Modular Kitchen

Three years for us, now, and we’ve never looked back. My wife loves to cook, is brilliant at it, bakes bread, does a fabulous holiday turkey. And we just do not need a “range” that combines an oven with a stove.

We gave up on the “range” concept when ours died twice, with every important part of it in perfect working order. Except, that is, for the tiny circuit board, that overheated a chip, or something, and refused to tell the perfectly-good components to turn on. The first repair was $1000, and the repairman said if it happened again, give up - just buy a new $2000 range. It failed again. We replaced it with what you see below, instead.

We tried out a single-burner first, so we have just three. When that one dies, we’ll replace with another double-burner. Either way, they run about $70-$80 US per burner.

The praises of “induction” have been sung elsewhere. I won’t compete, just say “It’s all true in our experience; induction is the best”.

I’m jealous of those shopping for induction now: options have multiplied like crazy since we purchased. It’s a hot area of innovation, if I may be forgiven the remark.

Finding your own steel table, or perhaps your own solution with a carpenter, is left to the taste of the homemakers. Connie built this from a kit that came home in the car.

The 220V adapter-plug allows you to run two double-induction cooktops totalling over 4500 Watts, off your old stove plug.

After a lot of shopping, we concluded the Wolf oven was the top product, and since we were saving $2000, shrugged at paying $700 for it.

And, crucially, this solution is modular. The cooktops are by far the most-used part; they may go every ten years. But also the cheapest part!

We probably wouldn’t use the roaster oven down there on the floor, that’s just where to store it. But that’s another value of modularity: we can take it out to the patio, to cook a roast in summer, and not heat up the kitchen!

Similarly, it’s just one minute’s work to take one or two cooktops from here, to another counter, so that two people can work at once.

So:

• It’s cheaper to buy to start with;
• It’s cheaper to replace, by far, just one part at a time, as different things wear out, rather than a single point of failure sending $2000 in mostly-good appliance to a junkyard;
• It saves energy.
• Every part can come home in a car back-seat; no delivery costs.

While you’re going induction, go “no range” while you’re at it.