I have been burnt by Dropbox in the past so now use Syncthing between my desktop, laptop, and a private remote server with file versioning turned on. Trivial to global ignore node_modules, and not giving data to a third party.
It's saved me on several occasions.
No joy today. Had to look a couple of those up after the fact, and when the definition starts "In American English ...", it makes sense. :(
From what I can find, the ratio of 'theoretical speed' to current commercial ICs in silicon is about 1:20, so that would equate to about a 25GHz chip, all other things being equal (i.e. if that ratio isn't some inherent feature of silicon...)
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First time I've known all the categories in advance. Mixed up blue and green for order though :)
Anon misses his dad, but only sometimes. Hmm.
I'm almost more irritated by the use of two hyphens instead of a colon after the first definition. They just didn't give a shit really.
- me, an ice cube
- can't wait to get out of this place
- door opens every day, but never get to leave
- anon finally picks me out--this is my chance
- wriggle out of his inept grip
- make a break for freedom under the fridge
- mfw the fuckwit helps by actually kicking me further under
Is that Otto at the controls?
Thanks--it's not that warm here (uk) but been low 20's (Celsius) last couple of days so have had it out in the sun.
Been waiting until the top is dry and just a slight bit of dampness underneath (at the drainage holes). From what you said, sounds like erring on the side of drier is better?
I'm using Arctic on iOS. I can't remember offhand which md library it uses but will check if it's been tweaked. I guess the real fix should be with the connections site in what they copy when you click 'share'.
Edit: of course that makes no sense, or it would be broken for everyone. Guess it's the iOS clipboard or app mangling what's copied. It's still early here :/
Subscript and spoilers:
Not for me
Can't see Arctic community on Arctic :/
I'm subscribed and can see it via my instance web interface, but not on the app. This is all I see:
Logs:
[2025-05-29 07:04:03 +0000] [info] [lemmy] [performRequestWithCheckedResponse(:)] LemmyAPI request: https://feddit.uk/api/v3/user/unread_count?auth=_private_ [2025-05-29 07:03:54 +0000] [info] [lemmy] [uploadRequest(:)] LemmyAPI request: https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image [2025-05-29 07:03:34 +0000] [info] [lemmy] [performRequestWithCheckedResponse(:)] LemmyAPI request: https://feddit.uk/api/v3/user/unread_count?auth=_private_ [2025-05-29 07:03:03 +0000] [info] [lemmy] [performRequestWithCheckedResponse(:)] LemmyAPI request: https://feddit.uk/api/v3/user/unread_count?auth=_private_ [2025-05-29 07:02:33 +0000] [info] [lemmy] [performRequestWithCheckedResponse(_:)] LemmyAPI request: https://feddit.uk/api/v3/user/unread_count?auth=_private_ [2025-05-29 07:02:16 +0000] [info] [lemmy] [performReque
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Funny you say that--I was convinced I got it right after 1 error too, and I had shuffled the last 8... Thought I must have imagined it...
If you take a finished product and gradually take away pieces, you can make a progression out of pretty much anything.
Unhappy Carmona microphylla
Hope it's ok to ask for help here... We've had this for a couple of years now, and apart from an aphid infestation a long time ago, it's been pretty good. But recently it's been looking very sad. Leaves are pale and veined, and drop easily. It's still (trying to) flower but definitely not right.
It's in a sunny position, and watered with rain water / general bonsai food. I had read it might be nitrogen deficiency, but the feed definitely contains that.
Any advice on what else we can do to improve things?
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Planes fly because aerodynamics.
Helicopters fly because money.
Any type of glue is fine. Just stay away from the cardboard derivatives.
You can find many discussions about that online, and it's basically a BE / AE thing. In BE, it's not correct, hence I'm annoyed a lot of the time.
I'd just like to thank you for writing "how big a deal" instead of the now ubiquitous "how big of a deal". That would have really annoyed me.
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It's still 'legal' in England to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow if you're standing on the York city wall. That doesn't mean it happens that often.
Community that used to be federated doesn't appear to be any more
Hi—I subscribed a long time ago to !arctic@lemmy.world, but it no longer shows any posts for me, and doesn't show up in search either. Weirdly, I was able to post there (using the Arctic app, signed in to my feddit.uk account). But I can't see the posts... Any ideas what's up there?
Edit: PICNIC
Another example of the scrolling glitch
This one was very repeatable. Scrolling past this post caused the feed to jump up pretty much all the time. I did get it to scroll normally on a few occasions, but not exactly sure what I did...
Shortcut for jump to comments
I normally have the 'jump to comments' button disabled, but every now and again I get a really long post like this one: https://feddit.uk/post/29027169
It would be great if JtC was available in some other way--like from the menu, press and hold on the post body, etc.
In fact, and this might be too much, but an option to collapse the post body in the same way as comments would be great--I think Apollo had this back in the good old days, as I've got muscle memory trying to do it :)
Duplicated post in main feed
Twice now I've seen a post duplicated in the main feed but where the second one opens a completely different post.
I captured a screen recording of it but it's too big to upload directly. Here's a screenshot--the second post opens something different...
Video zoom issues
The video in this post is showing the old zoom / rotation issues for me again. Haven't seen that for ages--don't know if it's the post or the video itself...
Reply formatting
Just curious, why the odd formatting of this number when replying to a post?
Missing image in feed
For some reason, this post shows the url text in the main feed, but the image when opened.
Is there anything that can be done about text post flickering on opening?
Hopefully this is known about as it's hard to describe, but in the main feed I see text post previews in a mid-grey colour, and when opening them I see the full text momentarily in that colour (also with no paragraph spacing), and then it seems the style is applied and the text 'flickers'. Mostly just once, so it's not too bad, but sometimes it flickers back and forth causing quite a visual glitch.
Let me know if this is news and I'll try to record it happening.
Cross-posted video doesn’t play
I don't know if this is a Lemmy / instance issue, or Arctic, but I noticed that the video in this post opens as a still image instead of a video. Clicking through onto the original post plays fine.
Comment actions from popup don’t update state
If you touch & hold for the popup on a comment, you can upvote, downvote, save, etc. But it doesn't show the changes until you navigate away and back again.
Navigation bug
- Tap and hold account button in bottom bar
- Tap currently active account
- Swipe main feed from left to access feeds list
The app now shows Feeds at the top, the main feed on the view and freezes.
I guess tapping the current account should dismiss the accounts popup?
Menu in post view is a bit broken
When opening a post from the main feed and then using the Community menu, the Subscribe entry has the wrong icon, and also doesn’t ‘update’ until you close the post and reopen it (ie it doesn’t show as a toggle, even though it does appear to function as a toggle.
Media improvements
Loving the new link preview position option :)
Is there space for a couple of media tweaks?
- Images, once zoomed in, have this unfortunate feature where moving them by a few pixels brings up the controls layer, and then it’s hard to get rid of—single click zooms back to full image (which is great for quick dismiss). Maybe the controls could be completely disabled if the zoom is anything but ‘fit to screen’ or whatever that default state is known as?
- Videos when rotated often fail to scale properly to the new aspect, getting progressively more and more zoomed.
- Tapping a video in the feed to show it full screen leaves the playback controls visible, then another tap brings up the share / dismiss controls over the top, and then finally a third tap leaves just the video. This feels like it could be smoother—again maybe start with no controls visible?
- Dismissing a video should probably pause playback, as it can be hard to hit the tiny pause button back in the feed.
Option to control position of link preview
When using Large post view, posts with a url show that url including thumbnail below the post content. But when opened, the link is above the content. I’d prefer it to be below, so that the 2 look similar—I find it a bit of a visual glitch that the order jumps. Is there a way to do that (couldn’t see one), or could it easily be added?
Default post sort not saving
Seems like the default post sort is periodically switching back to Scaled. I’ve have Remember post sort set but after some time (maybe app restart?) and often when switching feeds from All to Loval, etc, it’s back to scaled. Is that a known problem?
Set community when creating a post
Would it be possible / desirable to set the community automatically when viewing a specific community and then tapping Submit Post? Seems like that would be to most convenient and could still be changed if needed.
Sidebar information
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what this is supposed to do, but I thought the ‘Sidebar’ menu item used to show information about the community you were viewing. But it seems to show instance info now. Is that right?