I’ve found this when trying to get a decent USB>9-pin Serial connector.

You think it’s your software, or something weird going wrong. Then you swap over a name-brand adapter, and the thing just works.

I’m shocked, I say. Shocked!
The idea of an app being used to gather additional datea from a customer!

I was eagerly anticipating “I’m looking for a gift for my aunt”.

One of the first lessons from my instructor was to push the gear stick from the right with your palm for 1/2, top for 3/4, and left for anything else.

That way, there is less chance of shifting from one section to another. Useful when you car sometimes needs a downshift on the motorway, and 4th is adjacent to R.

There is a bit of a chain of trust, however. Instance fills with spam bots? Defed.
Spam bots start making their own instances? Go to whitelists.

And as henfredemars says, because there is no financial incentive to grow the userbase, instances can slow things right down if the spam starts.

So that’s why people have started modifying their cars to have the indicators always-on!

No plug! It was just a PCI card with breakout cables. (Which I should definitely track down soon!)

I still have my PCI 0404 somewhere. I should really work out where, before it gets accidentally binned!

This is good feedback, the Mint team could definitely streamline things, maybe even with a “help pick”.

Because it’s not immediately apparent which to use (Cinnamon/MATE/Xfce).
I’m not sure how the resolve the mirror issue, sadly.
The cost of serving the data directly would be very high, but doing so would avoid scaring people. Unfortunately, it’s hard for them to 100% guarantee every mirror is safe (even though they are!), which means they have to leave instructions on how to verify.

Selling pre-loaded USB sticks would be very cool, but people would have to be interested enough to spend £20.

It makes me sad when every year, an exemption is justified to continue using them.

It definitely threw me the first time I was out of the house.
I decided the best solution was just to limit alerts to non-sensitive things.
While I’m generally very big on privacy, I really don’t give a monkeys if Apple/Google is relaying a message that says “Cat in garden!”

Does he also do that thing where people buy out a company using debt loaded onto the company they’re buying?

This is now complete. Things seem a little snappier…Though that may be because everyone is disconnected! Various bits of generic software have also been patched to latest.

Mike Ashley didn’t actually want a game shop, he wanted people spending £70 on each football/COD release, then buying that season’s team strip on the way out of the shop.

I will hold my hands up: I went from “we should do this soon” to “oh, that’s not too horrible” to “ok, let’s do it” in the space of about 30 minutes.

Really, I should have stickies the post for an hour or so!

Emperor is talking about some cool custom error pages, which much improve things going forward.

The newer versions are slower, though I don’t know exactly how much by.
I could definitely feel it when going between 19.4 and 19.5 mid upgrade (unless the quick switch caused the slowness!)

We’re now federating more (as the newer version supports more things between instances)

We’re also caching and resizing images too, so the server load is roughly 3 times higher.
(This may not continue).

We may do a restart once we’re confident that things are stable. As it’s possible that a little weirdness crept in!

Thanks for the post, it persuaded me to get off my bottom and add another one to the list.

I have a suspicion that it’s the classic IT issue “it was configured, but never actually did anything previously”.

This has now been completed :)

Other than me missing that Lemmy does not like jumping multiple versions in one go (which does make sense), and a few issues with files not deleting, we are now running 19.5.

You can now see a list of images you have uploaded in your profile (and delete them if required).

Any bugs/issues, post it in this thread.

I’m not sure if there is a way to quickly find this. The best bet is probably trying the bigger instances, and seeing if it’s accessible through them.

You’ve made me think now: it might be a nice project for a some instance admins to flag when an instance they had received posts from goes offline. (I should probably check what I have from feddit.de!)