I’m also making sure only to use drives whose S.M.A.R.T. can be read without removing their enclosure.

That’s a good call, which drives have you found that support this?

How is Kvaesitso pronounced?

Are the chokers somewhat adjustable to fit different size necks? Do you have any dislike or fear of giraffes? If yes and no, you might look into getting some giraffe dolls that are firm enough to basically wear and display the chokers and ease your selection.

You could even slightly decorate the giraffes to help in sorting them, supposing the wearing of chokers wasn’t enough for your tastes.

Thanks for the heads-up on this! Didn’t realize that was in the works

Interesting, thanks! It sounds like you could hide the ability to vote either way then on an instance’s frontend, but as you say, it wouldn’t really do much to address voting activity from either other frontends or instances.

Yeah, that’s along the lines of what I’m asking about, albeit instead of a subscription check more like, I think, however the instances disabling/removing downvoting have done so, but adjusting the scope strictly to the Local or All views.

Another approach to addressing outsider/passive voting behaviors.

Isn’t this simply a contrivance to uphold a questionable system?

I just hope this pointless move won’t bring down the wayback machine.

What was the pointless move you’re referring to?

Any indications yet of how this may compare to similar group features or focuses via Friendica and Mobilizon respectively?

More and more I’ve been listening to podcasts or treating Youtube videos like podcasts. It lets me multitask in a way that sitting down and trying to watch something just doesn’t.

How much of them do you catch as you’re multitasking? Any time I try this I’m astounded at my unwitting ability to almost entirely tune out whatever they’re talking about, defeating any point to playing the podcast outside of giving myself some background noise.

I think this is all pretty good advice, thanks!

However, this & the other replies, have made me realize I should have taken more time with the body text of this question. What I was a little more interested in was less the one-on-one interactions, and more something like…“How might one co-opt bad faith methods to spread helpful, good information?”

It’s so easy to to toss out bad, harmful information, but might there be some ways to more easily put out good, helpful information that sticks with people? Or at a minimum, more benign info that doesn’t gradually push people down darker paths? 🤔

Have you checked out the following few communities?

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca for new communities to promote themselves as they try to get off the ground.

!newcommunities@lemmy.world for more or less the same, just via Lemmy World.

Also an underrated community that I like to use occasionally:

!lemmy411@lemmy.ca to ask about whether specific communities exist/are around that you may not be having much luck finding (say, due to unique naming or nobody on your instance has joined it so it doesn’t appear in search).

Lastly there’s my own little community I threw together awhile ago that I’m not sure how to grow where you can ask around for stuff similar to other stuff you’re into:

!likethismaylike@lemm.ee

This Meshtastic, I take it? I haven’t personally used it, but it sounds interesting! Not too surprising there’s not much info about it though, as it does sound rather niche.

When you say hide it, do you mean back where you found it or elsewhere? Are there some that encourage you to add/move parts of the caches around from one to another?

Is it mainly voice chat? I tend to prefer text chat as I don’t like fussing with audio settings nor hearing roughly handled mics (albeit I know you can often mute those players).

Ah, yeah, I find I need some more padding in my shoes to feel comfortable, but appreciate the reply all the same!

I’ve tried on some without much and was pretty sure my feet would feel like trash within a few short hours standing and walking. Think I spoiled myself with some shoes with gel insoles.

Any particular boots you might recommend? I tried going this route but apparently should have researched more as the ones I got didn’t really hold up that well.

Suppose while being anything other than human?

That was the one showing at the top of my searches, but there was another company I was thinking of that I can’t recall nor find now.

Ah, that reminds me of some similar puzzle/kits made of metal! I’m forgetting the name for the specific one right now, but there appear to be a few different companies behind them from trying to search & find the one I was thinking of.