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

@Massick How much does health care cost here, you mean?

We have a publicly funded service, run by each province. We pay for it by general texes, Income tax primarily.

No charges for doctor or hospital visits, although there's some wait sometimes for specialist appointment.

I am happy with that model, and that's what Europe supports too.

Sister in another country has to buy private policy and pays USD$500 a month for herself alone. (Brasil)

@Massick It is relevant, there is a lot of functional technology that is being trashed by comsumption and bloated software.

I have two tablets - one has Gingerbread, a cyanogenMod port developed by a XDA friend.

The other is an HP touchpad, which still has it's original webOS (I love that system!) and also dual boots into Kit Kat cyanogenMod by J Rollins, also a capable XDA developer.

Both are nice, good hardware, beutiful screens.

Many newer apps won't install, requiring higher android versions, but they should be kept and enjoyed as long as they are funtional and have good apps installed.

@realcaseyrollins

Would you want to federate with Twitter? #fediverse is alight with this.

Most say No way, José. Me included, stay away please.

@Massick You said it very well - and there are people in developed countries who don't have access to public health services, like you do. Education, specially post secondary, after high school - the cost is mind blowing in US.

A simpler life, but I think many people would realize there is a lot of unhappiness in other richer countries. UK, USA, Canada even.

Two of those three have public health systems, which the other one envies, sees as a dangerous threat to their own profit based one, and works to undermine and exterminate if possible.

@Massick I picked up 3 Dell rack servers, couldn't resist the low price.

Dual Xeons, hot swap drives, 4 GB of ram and many open slots for more. For $30 CAD each?

Load them up.

@Massick I hope it doesn't act up on you. You are still in the island, right?

We have so much gear and stuff here that people are givign it away for free to thrift stores, etc.

Home wifi routers, printers, lcd monitors, even laptops. You can get great business class machines. off lease, for a low price. That's the kind of machines I like.

Got spares I could donate, maybe in the island schools could use older hardware that here in CA nobody wants - and often is perfectly functional.

I know there is a programme for recycling bicycles from here, shipping them there, and it's great. I hate to see them go to the dump, so sad.

And then we discover new and cool places... When looking for cool and old software.

Adobe PageMill in my case. Now abandoned, FREE, used to be their web dev solution around 1999.

"WinWorld is an online museum dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software. We offer information, media and downloads for a wide variety of computers and operating systems.

Our entire library is free, open and available to everyone. "

#retro #computing is alive and well.

* apps library : https://winworldpc.com/library/applications

* op systems library : https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems

@Massick LOL, I will look for you when I visit there next.

Went looking to learn and tried out, it's interesting, but I am busy with various projects now. So it's on #backburner mode.

https://nerdica.de is cool

read about twitter aspiration to federate. BlueSky, pie in the sky? #xp
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RT @neqone
As a big advocate of the #fediverse to get out of the walled gardens like Facebook, and ironically Twitter, I think it'd do a lot of good for them to be involved in ActivityPub (the W3C standardized lingua franca of the federated social media platforms).…
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/12/21012553/twitter-bluesky-decentralized-…
https://twitter.com/neqone/status/1205483095635439619

#fedi love. #xp
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RT @dj_walnut
can't wait for twitter to implode when they concede to the right and ban porn

no really, this place needs to die so something better can take it's place #fediverse
https://twitter.com/dj_walnut/status/1204763621638557697

@Massick Oh, and I noticed you are on Friendica from your profile link. Got an account there, same instance.

@Massick Oh, man, I am sorry to hear that. 😔

Difficult indeed.

Are you able to ping the Net at large from your site?

@freemo Clothes, do them by hand, except bedding.

Cycling jerseys, expensive, that's how I got into hand washing. Wife used to damage assorted clothing with her laundry runs.

Now I enjoy clean and air dried. Better yet it sun dried when warm out.

@freemo Laundray Vous?

LOL.... I find Lawn mowing much worse, tbh.

@freemo Scientific American sure belongs here in Public post, imo...

https://twitter.com/sciam

@freemo Thank you!

I have looked and found a NY Times (ran from gab, argh), a partially working The Economist, and no SciAm.

Would have to learn how to do it, am game.

@freemo there are some interesting media presences there, it would be nice to bridge them over here. Scientific American, The Economist, New Yorker, The Atlantic for me, all favourites.

Along with The Guardian, NY Times.

Can we have Botz ??? #fediverse

@Massick Depends on how you define "it's working." 😛

The test did work. But the network, not, can't find a path to google dns servers (the quad 8 ip string).

On my case, I got a blip in service, and ping was a good tool to diagnose - what is wrong, where.

With cable modem, router, wired network segment leading to wireless access point upstairs, then wireless link to my machine here, lots of possible points of failure.

Ah, plus remote VPN service too.

First step, plugged net cable into rj45, then ping. Fail as shown mid screen in my test.

Some more tinkering and I got it back as shown on the lower part, success on ping quad 8. Yey. 🎆

All while annoyed for being disconnected from various simultaneous conversations. LOL. All good now.

#fediverse #firstworld problems

Depressing how little response I get to posts at birdsite. No wonder I never enjoyed it much there.

Here [mastodon home instance] in an hour I have more interaction than there in a day, at least. And the quality, no comparison.

Keep cool, #fediverse 💓

@freemo @kosame

Gentoo was popular many years ago, haven't heard about it more recently, but I don't follow closely.

I think my son's development work is all on Ubuntu, a Dell XPS 13 which is neat but too small a screen in my opinion.

@tacumi