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

@nolan It does not have this problem with another instance I also use it, and supports 10,000 chars. They are running Glitch-soc there, which seems to communicate the limit to Pinafore fine.

Man, I love Pinafore! What a nice and FAST client...

If I could only get it to allow me more than 500 characters... Pity it right now shows 356 chars left.

when this account at Qoto allows up to 65,000 characters. I had tried it weeks ago, it became my fave with it's speed and sleek interface.

But I am verbose, and neeeed the extra characters.

@nolan , any suggestions? Sorry to bother you.

@alex_ You are welcome! : :blobsmilehappyeyes:

Here's a screen shot. If you have their email, the VPN can come in a bundle for a little more. Check when you renew comes due.

@alex_ I just recently discovered them, after an user at another instance posted a screenshot.

VERY impressed, specially since they DO offer a nice free option if people don't want to or can't afford to pay.

Testing it is easy, signup with an email, their client for Windows is only a 11 MB binary, installs without any problems and runs well.

Swiss precision and discretion at work, they are based there.

For a week I used the Premium service, a free one week trial, and now I am on the free tier.

This offers servers in 3 countries: Japan, USA and Netherlands. I have bench marked using both US and NL servers, and they get about 50% of my home connection rated speed.

The Iceland premium server I had selected previously and used for a week had lower usage and got to a higher percentage of my connection's maximum speed.

Really recommend, can be used on mobile or desktop/laptops.

https://protonvpn.com for details

@pschwede Yey!! 😜

** Unix Programmer's Manual
November 3, 1971

"The first edition of the Unix Programmer's Manual, dated November 3, 1971, is available here in image, Postscript, and PDF format. Return with us to the golden days of yesteryear!

The image links refer to PDF files produced by the scanner. They are fairly large, ranging up to a couple of MB, and are named .pdf. You may need a plugin or other software in order to view them; Adobe Acrobat is readily available. "

How cool is an op sys with a * Cat * command? 😺

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/1stEdman.html

(originally posted by SnowyFox,
https://toot.cafe/@snowyfox/103279787835800422 )

@alex_ That's cool. Used Open VPN in the past, and while it worked, it too a while to connect.

Now using ProtonVPN, and still amazed on how fast it connects on start up or returning from sleep mode. Awesomeness.

@Hedieh Oh, that's hard indeed. Have you seen a doctor about it?

Any treatment you are getting?

@iankenway As annoying as another power hungry Conservative leader is, this guy has his moments, lol.

Waiting to see what UK does about this election.

@Hedieh post a picture? Talk about it? if you like, of course. 😄

@khird My idea was to be able to re-use an image that I have previously saved into the local instance in another toot.

After entering the image into a new toot, instead of adding a new copy, adding it to the users Media folder, it could point to the pre-existing copy and send the toot on.

I do not know how other instances handle the images in posts, but I think they request and keep a local copy, for local users seeing the toot.

the images get a long hashed name, and if the same image exactly was used, it might be in their local cache and save a new transfer and storage.

@redcolumbine
I love the double entendre.

TY! 😺

@realcaseyrollins It's on birdsite too...

@realcaseyrollins Being the idea originator, I have got the ball rolling.

Think it would be very useful, so I just wrote mine.

A long post, used the Discourse Forum here at Qoto.org to post it. Easier to read than a series of Toots, I can use Bold and Italics text formatting, etc.

Overall, I would rate my Instance, Qoto.org as a 4.5 Stars (out of 5).

Full reasoning here: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/is-there-such-a-thing-as-rate-my-instance/130/3

It's fresh off the press. Might edit later after re-reading, if needed.

#RateMyInstance is now a thing, Add yours!

@freemo I wish Mastodon would support the html img tag directly.

Discouse does it well. Just posted a new thread there and bam, instant pic, hosted here at masto, no sweat.

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/is-there-such-a-thing-as-rate-my-instance/130

Idea, Fediverse.

Is there such a thing as RateMyInstance ??

Searched for a hashtag and did not find one. I think we users could take this and provide feedback, ideas to others of what our home instances are like.

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly parts even. Just like the Spaghetti Western. 😉

What you all out there think? This could be a grass roots started thing.

#RateMyInstance is needed!

#mastotips #newusers

Great fun to see my Mastodon post, the original above, crossing over there via Birdsite Firefox extension.

TW post is at https://twitter.com/design_RG/status/1204119845152972800