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Cake day: January 2nd, 2025

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  • If people can function only with a phone, there’s a LOT they aren’t doing.

    I use my phone constantly, but trying to get even a rooted Android phone to replace my PC’s? Yea, no.

    I’m not doing spreadsheet stuff only on my phone, or documents, or page layout, etc.

    That younger folks are heavily mobile centric is a result of pressure by Google/MS, etc to get them used to it. When they’re used to the limitations of mobile it’ll be easier to limit PCs in the same ways.

    And business, yea, no, mobile isn’t replacing computers. They’re great adjuncts, but even my laptop screen is sometimes too small - and I’m not someone that needs a large screen although time.



  • Uggh, feel bad for them.

    I’ve tried for years to get friends and family to have their data sit in a single point in the house and use backup services. That would be a massive improvement.

    Family won’t listen, so I’m building minicomputers for them all that will handle it. Just have to configure their devices to store data there.


  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldHoliday Upgrade Disasters
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    I don’t do upgrades (well, not in the sense most people think of them).

    My approach is that upgrades are too risky, things always break. It’s also why I don’t permit auto updates on anything. I’d rather do manual updates than dedicated time. Keeping things working is more important, and I have backups.

    I run everything virtualized (as much as I can), so I can test upgrades by cloning a system and upgrading the clone. If that fails, I simply build a new system based on some templates I keep. Run in parallel, copy config and data as best I can, then migrate. Just migrated my Jellyfin setup this way.

    This is a common methodology in enterprise, which virtualization makes a lot easier for us self hosters.

    I haven’t had a disruption from updates/upgrades in 5 years.






  • Interesting, I’ll have to delve into this some more, but being cocoa is the real concern then yea, most “chocolate” (that is treats people buy) is fairly low in cocoa, being milk chocolate.

    When it has a lot of cacao, it’ll be right on the label: 40%, 60%, etc.

    It’s good general advice, but I’ve seen many dogs eat chocolate and be fine (worked with a vet for a while, and trained dogs). So there’s a lot more at play than just dog+chocolate.

    Time to go read about cacao. Thanks!