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Very jealous. I hope to snatch one up when the second amd gen drops.

Yeah it had a bit of a comeback recently

Antiwitchcraft

What year is it? 1576?

but it looks like custom instances are disabled for a bit

I think its because the API the app uses isnt officially in the kbin code yet, so only the developers server supports it. Thats another great thing that only the fediverse can offer, spinning up your own server for your own versions.

Oh wow. It gets worse with every sentence. “Crypto-colonialism” has to be the most terrifying new term ive learned this week.

Artemis should enter open beta in a few days.

Correction: It is in public beta!

Not yet. Artemis is seems to be in closed beta for now (?).

I understood this comment chain but im so sorry for everyone that is new to the fediverse and has absolutely no clue what is going on lmao

Trilium is great as well

I was expecting you to call yourself a sentient multi-zettaflop quantum frame or something.

As a 70-qubit quantum computer

Its cool to see that lemmy/kbin have such a diverse user base

I never used goodreads, but i basically do the same that you do on bookwyrm, so you should be fine lol. I mean, thats the bare minimum a book network should manage.

There actually is an app! Its on the F-droid store (or straight from github) though, not the Play Store (no idea about the apple store). But its basically just a PWA, so its up to you.

bookwyrm is great!

There are several levels to this. First, the actual software. In the Fediverse (simply the agglomeration of software that can interact through a common protocol called Activitypub) there are several solutions that offer a Reddit like experience. Kbin and Lemmy are the ones we focus on for now. Its different software with similar goals that can interact with each other.
Now, the second level is the actual server (also called instance). There is no central Kbin or Lemmy server (although the instances that are run by the developers tend to basically become that). Instead there are a lot of servers (e.g beehaw, feddit.de, lemmy.world) that run either Lemmy or Kbin. These servers can interact with each other, because their software can, this is called federation.
This brings us to the third level, the users, you and me. I have an account on Kbin.social, because thats where i went to sign up. Kbin.social runs Kbin, so I use Kbin. Same for you. Bread2390 has a sh.itjust.works account, which runs Lemmy, as far as i know. So they are on a different server (instance) with a different software (lemmy) but we can interact just fine because of federation.

Now, all of this sounds complicated and kinda is, but in your interaction you didnt even notice that they are on a different server running different software. But if kbin.social went down, or tge software kbin would somehow turn to shit, bread2390’s account would keep working just fine.

I hope this helped!

ODF has been supported natively by Office for years now, and LibreOffice is able to open .docx files just fine.

Open, yes, but the formatting will be terrible in my experience.

I’ve never found a PDF “broken by Adobes bs”.

It has happened to me. Wasnt impossible to solve in the end, but still.

I don’t use Microsoft Office, so I don’t know. Same with PDFs, I don’t use Adobe.

Same, and neither of us is having a particularly fun time when we get sent a .docx or a strange PDF that refuses to be opened and correctly edited without Adobe Acrobat (not joking, this happened to me once).

Regardless, OP said “it always ended up with the open standard not being used anymore.” Both of those standards are being used, and even if OpenDocument and PDF had been extinguished it still wouldn’t matter because any open standard still being used is sufficient to disprove OP’s position.

Fair point. But both of them suffer from being adopted and then maligned by the corporate entities that picked them up, which is a part of the cycle. First it gets adopted, then “slightly tweaked for features” and then its (usually) unusable on other platforms that dont want to adapt to the corporate vision. Granted, OpenDocument has a different history and both it and PDF are old enough to not actually fear that they will be replaced be corporate “alternatives”, but that they did generally follow the cycle but didnt finish it doesnt necessarily disprove it imo.

Emrace-Extend-Extinguish is something worth paying some concern to, but it’s not some kind of unstoppable boogeyman.

Absolutely. But that doesnt mean we have to attempt giving it a fair fight. They dont intend to either, its antithetical to the point of EEE.

OpenDocument

How compatible is microsoft office with it?

And how many PDFs are broken by Adobes bs?

A manufacturer can easily argue his device is intended for water immersion or intended to be washable. And the exception is fulfilled.

But the text says:

to be used, for the majority of the active service of the appliance

While a phone might be intended to be able to withstand rain and slight immersion, its not intended to be used in such an environment for the majority of its active service. Nobody is actually going to believe that imo.

Only if someone starts a motion that this would not be legal, then they can start the argument I mentioned above. And that’s all it takes.

For some time now the EU has shown a willingness to bite tech companies in such matters. I hope the EU keeps doing that and extends that willingness. But yeah, for now we can only guess. Although I do think manufacturers wont try to weasel out of this, and if they do, i hope they get bitten.

To quote the actually adopted text:

(38) […] A portable battery should be considered to be removable by the end-user when it can be removed with the use of commercially available tools and without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless they are provided free of charge, or proprietary tools, thermal energy or solvents to disassemble it […]

(39) To ensure the safety of end-users, this Regulation should provide for a limited derogation for portable batteries from the removability and replaceability requirements set for portable batteries concerning appliances that incorporate portable batteries and that are specifically designed to be used, for the majority of the active service of the appliance, in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion and that are intended to be washable or rinseable. This derogation should only apply when it is not possible, by way of redesign of the appliance, to ensure the safety of the end-user and the safe continued use of the appliance after the end-user has correctly followed the instructions to remove and replace the battery. Where the derogation applies, the product should be designed in such a way as to make the battery removable and replaceable only by independent professionals, and not by end-users.

This is absolutely not the same as having an IP rating. A portable toaster could have an IP rating, but that doesn’t mean it’s intended to be submersed a lot in its life time.

Dead in which way? The server is online, theres just not that much going on. Personally I just want a place to write down which books ive read, so i dont really engage much with others. Seems to be the same for others.