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Andrew

RE: todon.eu/@redjives/11722331776

This is absolutely right, and I think a big part of the problem is that tech has utterly refused to standardise on *anything*.

Oh, you want a web server? You can get a cheap managed one but it'll only run certain languages and databases. Or you can rent a computer somewhere and install everything up to and including your favourite Linux distribution, and maybe you'll even set it all up securely. That's ridiculous. We've had the internet for decades now, you should just be able to download a zip file with an app in it in a standard format and put it on a standard server and expect it to work securely.

In practice, the nearest thing we ever had to that is that Lamp stack. This is, I think, a big part of why Wordpress is so popular — it's easier to find a hosting service that runs Wordpress and configure it with plugins to be what you need than it is to set up and install a second server stack.

Obviously we'll always want to be able to just connect computers running arbitrary code to the internet, but we should have *something* that's easy and standardised by now (but then, when have software developers every tried to make this stuff *more* accessible to regular people?)

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Do you want more friends? — yeah alterspring.org/@maple/a/11732

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What do you think about Bad Dragon? — it's too expensive and i have the wrong hardware to play with it alterspring.org/@maple/a/11732

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Who is your favourite Retrospring user? — i didn't know anyone who used retrospring alterspring.org/@maple/a/11732

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@Angela oni takeover

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slocket

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Les Orchard

Do you like terminals? Do you have too many terminals? Do you like things that go zoop zoop and move around? Check out my wideboi here.

(I'm screwing around with building a terminal multiplexer because I'm a masochist)

github.com/lmorchard/wideboi

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@lmorchard zoop zoop!

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@selectric are any of us?

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@selectric it's abandonware but honestly the best non-itunes experience we've had managing an ipod library

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@selectric we use foo_dop and it converts it for us when we add them to the ipod

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why can't we sort artists without articles? why can't the screen turn off and go into low power mode without a hard shut down of the system? why can't i make menu go up a level instead of previous track?

the answer to most of these is because someone in 2007 said so

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rockbox is infuriating not in a way that makes me want to fork it and fix it but rather in a way that makes me want to just use the stock ipod os instead

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@suricrasia oh that's really clever

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@lmorchard am i having deja vu again or have you already made this post months ago

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do chat rooms still exist

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@wildweasel at first it makes a robot beep and then the next time it makes a "cut that out"

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@lion i usually just go for the intersection of whatever looks good in the openwrt compatibility chart and is available used on ebay

i bought a tenda router probably close to ten years ago and it wasn't great but also that was close to ten years ago and it wasn't a model supported by openwrt. i usually go for tp-link just because that's what i know

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pov you clicked on me

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i love to be infantilized by people who are adamant they are the first and only people to tell me i shouldn't be putting a windows xp computer on the internet

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