Ok but to balance it: it forces you to confront your own on the topic as well.

That would force you to selectively use it since often times reality is somewhere between our personal view of it and other opposing views.

Chose the wrong situation and you'll both be crying in the corner with shatter worlds. Chose the ones where the people are truly disconnected from reality and perhaps you'll change their lives - hopefully for the better.

I'm conflicted on this.

The adult side of me wants to have this info on labels/menus so I can make informed choices.

The side of my that used to be in high school knows that kids will buy the highest number for bragging rights among friends.

I'm open to suggestions for alternatives for functional part 3D modeling.

I use Fusion 360 because it's free for hobbyists and it's features for functional 3D modeling blow away any other software I've tried in the open source/free/low cost market.

Fusion 360 handles parameters beautifully, has a very flexible timeline editing system, and generally is very forgiving about how you use the software.

I'd happily pay up to $120/year for hobby use. It's that good. I can't afford $600 a year for a hobby tool though.

The closest alternative I know is FreeCAD. It has a notable following, but compared to Fusion it's slow, clunky, buggy, and fights you every step of the way you use it. In FreeCAD, there is usually one right way to do something, and dozens of wrong ways that all end up with you having to redo tons of work.

TLDR: I've created all sorts of useful things in Fusion. All I've created in FreeCAD is tears.

Is this a good or bad thing?

EInk displays are very cool in their specific use cases, but not where the screen need refreshed frequently.

Pros:

• very crisp display. Work great in full sun.
• text usually looks very good on these displays
• 0 power usage when not refreshing the screen.
• display remains as-is even if power is removed. Potentially for hours/days

Cons:

• expensive vs LCD
• refreshing the whole screen can take several seconds
• limited to B&W or sometimes one additional color
• not visible in the dark or in low light.

Some good use cases:

• Price/ID tags
• Thermometer or other slowly changing sensors
• Clocks (without seconds)

Biggest cost then would be electric. Older PC, probably...70 watts. So about 600kWh/year. Maybe about between $60-$150 per year.

Much cheaper than any hosting I know and bandwidth costs are absorbed into your monthly bill.

The real risk would be hardware failure. Hopefully you'll have backups or a user base that won't care if the instance goes offline for quite a while.

There's also a risk of unexpected security vulnerabilities letting an attacker compromise your public facing machine to get into your home network if you don't have it physically firewalled off.

Personally, I'll just let someone else deal with all the hosting issues. I'd rather donate if they requested than deal with all of that indefinitely.

One concern I have with these things is that device can be built in a way where the batteries can be replaced, but there may not be any batteries available for the device when it's old enough to require a new one.

Standardized batteries could really help with that, but with small devices often the batteries are custom built.

This is a nightmare scenario.

It's bad enough when you get something cloud connected and the company disappears, leaving you with expensive e-waste.

Now it's in your body and you likely have to pay to remove it (plus surgery risks) or leave it there knowing no one will help cover costs if there are complications from it.

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My problem is that fedaverse instances should either be noticably different or so interchangable and well integrated that it doesn't matter to end users at all.

Right now they are very different and it matters a lot, but it's not obvious where content comes from.

For example, I see stuff from all sorts of instances of kbin, Lemmy, etc - but it's not overly clear where the things are from when I see them - or why I'm seeing them. The conversations are different at different places, so it's important I know where I am.

For example, a post I saw earlier was instructing people on how to access some settings for viewing threads on other instances - but the discussion was on a Lemmy instance so the instructions were Lemmy specific. To me in kbin - I don't have those settings. And I don't think all instances of Lemmy are guaranteed to have the same UI either.

And that conversation could be seen on Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, or anywhere else that federates.

But even beyond instance specific topics, different communities have different rules. I can't follow the rules unless I know where I'm posting to.

Imagine being on Reddit and not knowing if a thread was on r/politics or r/science or r/funny. The same comment on those three communities will get three drastically different results. The same will be true here as well.

I personally think it's best to keep 2FA keys out of password managers.

The whole point of 2FA is to have a seconds factor to authenticate you.

If someone gets access to your password vault with your 2FA keys, they have access to all of your accounts - 2FA protected it not. If you keep the keys in another app, they cannot access your accounts nearly as easily.

Hrm - would you want federated wikis? What's the benefit vs wikis run independently?

For example, wikipedia has a corner on encyclopedia type knowledge. No reason to federate as the central moderation on Wikipedia seems to work well. To be honest, I wouldn't trust encyclopedia type information from another wiki site as I don't know how active the community is there to maintain the accuracy of the information.

Then there's other wikis I know about like for games (thinking fandom.com) - but again not really a reason to federate between those that I can think of.

To be honest, my gut reaction is that I want fewer wiki sources, not more.