*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@johnlitt
Quite possible that an easy to access, direct playback source will attract attention and action from the media industry.

Distributed sources would be ideal, but then it's huge storage needs and complicates matters.

Taking a risk in case of an instance that's active in other ways, like ours, is though; you could damage the mastodon service if a media share attracts litigation.

@freemo

@johnlitt Love the right side one!

great idea. So needed.

@johnlitt

Hosting outside of the USA or any of its dependencies should be helpful. Qoto is hosted in Europe, a breath of fresh air, imo, but I am not sure how much exposure one wants.

An anonymous account, not our usual one, is probably good for the poster.

@freemo

@realcaseyrollins /me waves. 😺

'Morning Casey!

@johnlitt
Fully agreed!

I created collection projects for themes that interested me, then scoured different places and collated what I could find. It's great fun and you make things accessible to others, much easier or impossible to find them sometimes.

The advent of paid online streaming services got many people off the peer to peer networks, but they may realize sometime that the content is not always there.

License renewal time, and many things are not re-optioned, disappear and can't be found on Netflix or the others in that field.

It's happening with Music as well some of my older playlists having numerous greyed out selections, same reason.

Collecting is good. A local copy is important. SHTF might happened, I always thought I might become the local librarian in that case.

@freemo

@realcaseyrollins Very true. It could be them seeking escape from the pressure and despair at possible failure too.

My son would disappear off the ether anytime that major evaluations, projects or exams where close by.

@shibaprasad

Oh, no typo that I notice, but I did notice the second post with freemo's mention, seemed that you had forgotten?

@freemo

@johnlitt
I am taking a seat to follow this discussion, had meant to ask.

Have many documentaries that are tV captures, British tV has excellent content. An online library on demand would be wonderful, but...

Let's see. 😔

@freemo

@shibaprasad

Interesting, thank you for posting it here and creating the survey. I visited and wanted to contribute, but am not logged in on this browser. (logging into Google account is required, possibly to avoid random repetition of user's input)

Soemthing to keep in mind - if you realize just after creating a post that you had a typo, or forgot to include someone which should be @ mentioned in it... Easy fix.

- from the "..." menu in the bottom right corner, below the post text, select "Delete and Redraft".

- it will copy aLL of the existing post to a new Post Editor box, giving you the chance to fix it, add missing people.

- it will also delete the existing post.

...which will be replaced with the newly edited one as soon as you hit the "Toot!" button.

Best done immediately, before any replies or boosts, favourites ,which will be lost if this is used.

Great feature, when a normal edit command like the one in FB doesn't exist here.

Good luck with the survey!

@freemo

@esperera_98 That's wonderful, CL, thank you.

Quotation from a film, is it?

I think I might have seen it - a young Italian man, whose family ends up being sent to the concentration camps?

Perfect translation too, well done. 😉 Muchas gracias, amiga!

EDIT : Found it!!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

LOVE this film!

@SecondJon Ah, I am glad you enjoyed the article too. I thought it was wonderful.

True that people are getting used to the no-effort, feed me, TV style stream of data scrolling on their screen.

Years ago I decided that a Forum was something that would benefit our local cycling club, which only communicated one-way, via a mailing list to the membership. Which also did not accept or publish letters to the editor, as I suggested, they were comfortable in controlling the channel and the message unopposed.

I found a free Forum hosting service, creted one and did not only the admin and moderation for it, but created a lot of content to attract the users.

Many of them had not used Forums before, not a problem if people are willing to put the effort to learn.

But they were already more or less into Facebook, and had trouble understanding things in the forum - organized into threads, by topic, placed in proper sub-forums, etc.

Result is it didn't catch on, and I gave up filling it up with new content and not getting replies, comments or participation.

I have thought of creating a blog for some time, love writing and it's a nice way to organize information that I am interested in. But the lack of comment or any user interaction in many blogs is disheartening. I feel sorry seeing that, how discouraging it must be for the author and publisher.

The fact these new instances and networks are available is wonderful, there are many new possibilities.

I am really excited and putting in long hours reading, posting, learning, sleep be damned. 😜

@compass_straight_edge Yeah, that is possible and very interesting. If it is a limited user node, you don't need to worry about storage much, and we have pretty beefy home internet services in most developed areas.

Could be done with a spare older computer or laptop, I imagine. 😺

I like the system being so open and accessible to anyone interested.

@freemo Yeah, that chip is pretty.

I had to return mine, when it did not work. Ordered another Intel part. Same thing happened. 😲

After buying and returning two expensive add-on chips, I decided to go to the local store who built my computer, and place an order with them. They ordered an AMD part, and when installed, it had problems too.

Turns out the motherboard was running too fast for the coprocessor - the highest speed 286 Intel made was 12 MHz, I think, so their 80287 was designed to pair with that.

The store replaced the motherboard (lucky for me, as they would not even consider it if I hadn't bought the copro from them). And then the co processor worked.

The system was a 286-16 MHz, 40 Megabytes HDD, dual floppies, VGA monitor, etc. Cost me $2,000 on Christmas 1990.

Similar specs with an entry level 386 famiky processor were close to $3,000 then.

Here's a photo of an AMD 80287, notice that it is rated for 10 MHz on the branding ( the -10 part number).

@alrafi Welcome to Qoto!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi

@freemo I remember those days well. My first PC was an IBM clone, 286 a6 MHz, the processor was fast for the time. Not an Intel part, they had moved on to promoting the newer and higher profit 386 gen processors.

I also bought and installed the math coprocessor for my machine. Needed since I wanted to use AutoCAD, and it required it.

So I ordered a 287 Intel coprocessor. It was about $300 CAD at the time, early 1991 probably. Would be a lot more today with inflation accounted for, and I was worried of damaging it during installation.

Turns out it did not work. I don't remember exactly what the symptom was, but not good. I had a $300 part, bought mail order, and might be stuck with it. 😟

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80287/index.html

@freemo

Oooh. Geez. Pity he won't see this thread then.

@renatolond

@freemo

I mentioned Renato here in our thread, maybe he will see and consider it.

@renatolond

Rant of the Day.

It's unbelievable that Apple locks such basic UI feature as controlling the default icon sizes on iPhone and iPads.

I have an ipad mini, and like it's portability, it travels with me when I won't take a laptop, it's on my bag when a larger screen than a cell phone comes handy.

Now got an iPad 4 with the 9.7" larger screen, and honestly, the icons look weird, too large on it.

"That's the way it is, that's the way it always has been. 4 by 5 " is what web search tells me.

Other than a nice tool, which requires Rooting (aka jailbreaking) the device. 😔

For the record, here is the tool I mentioned, it seems a nice and basic right of a user - I have always had that in Windows, which mac people like to demean. Smoke that, Apple.

https://www.howtoisolve.com/how-to-change-apps-icon-size-in-iphone-ipad-resize-app-icon/