They also make a big deal about “Qualcomm® support until 2036” but the battery is not replaceable. So in reality, 4-5 years of use tops?

I never stop being amazed by running snac on the server, with toot and tuba as clients, and seeing everything work seamlessly with everything else. None of this software ever expected to interact with the others - and it all works!

I should have the same feeling about email, the web, XMPP etc, but I’m just so used to those that it isn’t awe-inspiring to me anymore.

Personally, I’m pretty sentimental about my bike (also a beater, but single speed) and want to keep it going almost no matter what. I think only the frame has remained the same throughout, and at times, I’ve definitely spent more than the bike is worth to fix it up.

I know that with cars, there’s a definite cliff edge where it becomes prohibitively expensive to maintain compared to a new one. But I feel like that’s not really true with bikes, perhaps because there are just fewer parts to replace, and it’s less invasive to strip out any given part?

I suppose it depends on a few things. Do you have any sentimental attachments to it, and is there anything you would change about the bike if you were buying a new one? Do you think you can get a better one for $200?

Thank you. Of those I think JOSM is the most appealing, if it can directly show the results on the map. I’ll give it a go later just out of interest.

I also gave osmium tags-filter a go and it’s meeting my needs for now.

I spent quite a while browsing your brewery map earlier, very cool!

It is probably overkill for me at the moment, but it’s good to know if my needs ever scale up dramatically. Thank you!

Thanks for the tip! Your assumptions are correct.

Someone else suggested osmium tags-filter on the downloaded PBF files (which are ~150 MB), and that’s working well at the moment. I’ll keep this in mind as I’m presuming that importing into a database will be more efficient in case I ever increase the size of the map I’m working with.

Thank you for the tips! I should have been more precise in my question. The downloaded maps are ~150MB, in PBF format (although I would have been happy to use any other standard format if needed). I went with osmium tags-filter in the end, and it seems to be working well.

Thank you, this is perfect! Lightweight and easy to set up.

I can fake it by sending you a message if anything good comes up :)

It’s really hard. Here’s my best shot:

A discussion platform for communities.

I independently thought of the same idea. While I’m daydreaming, I had some extra features that would be useful to me in a dream world:

• It would be good to be able to apply this to posts (that are not mine) as well, or even to a link (i.e. all comments that would show up under the crosspost aggregation feature)
• One problem I have with GitHub is that the subscription list perpetually grows and is never pruned.
  • It would be nice if I could make such subscriptions, for instance, automatically expire n days after the last interaction
  • Or, if there is a list of subscriptions somewhere, if I could manually “prune all whose last interaction is more than n days”
• I’m not sure what the best UI would be, whether everything should go in notifications, or whether there should be a dedicated view for these subscriptions
  • And, should that view show the whole thread underneath the top-level post you subscribed to?
  • Or just the “new” comments?
  • My feeling is the former, but not sure.

Now, I’m not asking companies to open-source their entire codebase. That’s unrealistic when an app is tied to a larger platform. What I am asking for: publish a basic GitHub repo with the hardware specs and connection protocols. Let the community build their own apps on top of it.

I agree with this. I think the most important thing is not necessarily the original company releasing their proprietary code (although that would be nice), but it being easy (and legal!) for hackers to reverse engineer and/or build on top of the platform.

The irony is that, since most such products will have some GPL’d code in there somewhere, most products already basically have such a requirement, thanks to the section requiring complete corresponding source including installation instructions. Hopefully, the Vizio case will establish the precedent that users, as well as copyright holders, can take action against such companies.

Wait is this how you get up to date when your system is past long term support?

Pretty much! You just modify the apt sources, and upgrade incrementing by each stable release until you reach current stable. Each upgrade guide has a section that points you to the guide for the previous version if your version doesn’t match.

Would not recommend doing backups drunk.

:D in my experience, there’s a certain amount of drink-inspired overconfidence that can be helpful, but it’s very easy to go over. I need more testing to find the exact line - it might also wrap around again if you drink more. More investigation needed :)

By dumbing down the suite, are you talking about things like flatpak / atomic distros?

If so, I am also not a fan of those things - give me Debian stable and the software in the repos and I’m happy - but I also don’t think I will be harmed by others coming in and trying different approaches. From what I can tell, with each paradigm shift, the old approach doesn’t go away, but stays powered by the volunteers who care about it.

Medusa’s Outhouse by Cass McCombs came up in my shuffle today.

It has a really ethereal and fuzzy quality which I like, the tempo feels slow and like it’s dragging a little. Combined with the falsetto, it makes me feel like I’m slowly floating through the air and I really like songs like that.

I always tear up when I hear “Say nothing, if you don’t wanna say. Slow down, if you’re going my way.”