the only stuff that's really on there is some music, photos, backups. If it gets lost, nothing important really is lost.
Photos are pretty important to a lot of people, I know that's the most obvious thing on my server that people would miss and not be able to get anywhere else
The ones I've read about in the past are more art exhibitions than a conventional museum, but have a look and see if there's something like that near you!
I hit this today when I went to check a local restaurant's Instagram for the menu (like many I've come across, they treat Instagram as their website)
Nope. I guess that information is now all gone to me
Between this and Twitter I'm pretty annoyed at how much harder it is to get local information without just physically going to a place compared to 5 years ago. I'm not gonna pretend it used to be perfect, but this is getting spectacularly shitty
Well firstly since about 2020 everything has basically doubled in price due to inflation, so that's more or less your camera point. As someone who also takes pictures, they're certainly still innovating, it's just money is worth less now.
The phone thing is more down to the product category maturing. 5-10 years ago there were still obvious improvements to be made to the hardware and software. Now we've effectively perfected the black rectangle for the current tech available, so the only stuff they can do to differentiate now is bloat. Also, as above, everything is more expensive, so if they get some commercial partnerships attached to that bloat they can keep the prices a bit more constant than stuff like pro cameras (which just have to get more expensive because bloat like that wouldn't be tolerated for pro gear)
Reminder that zero "small boats" have come across in several days
This is a non issue used to keep idiots angry about people who have nothing to do with the people who are actually destroying their lives: the same people funding all this bile.
Wait for the centralised thing to fuck something up (and they will), then say "hey I've been using this to get away from all the bullshit of [service name]"
In the mean time, post & comment. The more content & discussion there is, the more attractive it will be to others. If you've got a niche hobby you're passionate about, get a community going or try to grow an existing one if it already exists.
I comment way more on Lemmy than I was doing on Reddit towards the end, partly because the people here are generally good to chat to, but also because I want this place to keep being good so I can continue to keep using it.
I guess my MiSTer setup could count as a crazy expensive new retro setup
I went for it because I just want to play the games, as hardware accurately if possible, in a small footprint with HDMI scaling & wireless controllers as an option.
I've got a few older consoles, but frankly since I got the MiSTer it's nice to not have to mess with getting the old hardware set up in order to just play a game, and I've not gotten around to doing HDMI mods on any of them yet.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, reminder for those outside the UK:
The Times has been a Murdoch-owned right-wing rage-bait rag for a good while now
Regardless of whether there's truth in what they're reporting on, they cannot be trusted to report accurately on topics that xenophobes would get all frothy about.
Always worth looking for a better source (I had a quick look on ground news and couldn't find it at all weirdly)
Economics is a funny one as ultimately it's a focused & technical strand of anthropology (which I believe is considered a science by many) that people often incorrectly lump in with maths.
Kinda tough for an academic to run meaningful experiments on an actual economy though beyond models and simulation. And as anyone who has watched a Gary Stevenson video or two will know, your average academic economist is pretty bad at models and simulations.
Though I guess even bad experiments are still experiments
Apparently they did have a raw format called RAF and the processing involved "demosaicing" funnily enough given the thread we are in