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Can anyone recommend a budget smartphone (UK) that has a reliable #GPS? Mine doesn't work most of the time. I don't care about any other spec as I'd be using this phone for GPS only.

@autistics
#askfedi #phonehelp

Hey #FediFam,

Need to create a new email address for professional things, and I don't want to use "Evil, Inc.," nor non-IMAP-supporting (otherwise good) services like Proton and Tuta. (I know they have bridge software available, but still)

What do you guys recommend?

I'm currently using Mailbox.org for my personal email, but I find their web interface has become kind of slow and unwieldy as of late. I don't want full groupware (or some attempt at an emulation of the above), but just a solid IMAP email provider, and a usable web interface when I need to do things beyond what can be done from Thunderbird.

Any #recommendations?

#askFedi #HiveMind

Should Loops create a policy against generative-ai contributions across our server and expo app projects?

Context: https://snug.moe/notes/ali11jr8swwc8w8d

Please boost if you can, the majority vote will decide this important policy.

#Loops #AskFedi

Okay, dringende Frage:

Person X hat mit an Sicherheit grenzender Wahrscheinlichkeit einen erworbenen Immundefekt. Keine Immunologie nimmt die Person auf, alle entweder nur Selbstzahler oder nur angeborene Immundefekte, nur Kinder, nur mit zehn(!) Jahren Warteliste. Krankenhäuser machen alle nur "ist nur Stress, machen Sie Yoga, tschüss". Gesundheitszustand verschlechtert sich rapide, Lebensgefahr kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden.

Was tun?

Bei wem kann man eine notwendige Untersuchung und Behandlung einfordern? Wie? Wo?

#AskFedi

I'm thinking of re-installing FreeBSD on my Thinkpad T480s (Intel iGPU) and exploring Sway as my Wayland compositor. What is the state of Wayland support in FreeBSD?

#AskFedi #FreeBSD #Wayland #Sway

Just realized I have hundreds of doodles and photos hanging out on a hard drive and it would be interesting to find out if anyone would be interested in purchasing them. The thing is, I have no real idea how to go about making that happen. I’m sure I’m not the only one out there that’s had this particular urge. I don’t know what I don’t know so I would love it if anyone further along would share their experiences #Art #AskFedi

Question for #Blind and maybe also #LowVision folks: are there any #VideoGames or #mobile #games that are particularly good? Is there a blind game design scene?

I know there are tactile dice and things for some tabletop RPGs and things. While I’m especially curious about digital or video games, I’d also love to hear about more analog examples that are great!
#askFedi #BoostsAppreciated

Yo le Fedi (et Bsky)
J'ai une question très random :

Si vous aviez des fonds monétaire infini, qu'est-ce que vous voudriez créer comme business ? J'impose 2 contraintes :

- il faut que ce quelque chose de faisable en 2026 (donc rien de futuriste)
- ça doit faire rentrer de l'argent (vente de biens, services, connaissances ou autres), au moins un peu. Pas grave si c'est pas rentable/profitable.

Pour le reste vous êtes libres !

Wé je suis distrait pendant ma journée de taf, et full of intrusive thoughts, y'a quoi

#AskFedi

I am trying to decide where to go after Dordt in Stoom at the end of May. I’ll have 6 days left of a 7 days in a month Interrail pass.

Are there listings of steam rallies, running days, etc around Europe, similar to the one done by Steam Heritage magazine for the UK?

https://www.steamheritage.co.uk/steam-rallies-and-events/P24

Alternatively, any ideas for places I can go that I haven’t been to yet? I’ll need to get to Brussels in the end, to get the train back, or Amsterdam/Rotterdam for a ferry.

#AskFedi

Think this weekend’s project will be sitting up my own VPN for some things. What are people using at the moment? Wireguard?

#askFedi #VPN

RE: https://taonaw.com/2026/05/19/any-recommendations-for-a-good.html

Hi there, friendly #books bubble. 👋🏻 Does anyone happen to have a good recommendation for JTR?

@bookstodon #bookstodon #darkcyberpunk #cyberpunk #literature #askfedi

hello le fedi!
aujourd'hui lundi, jour de reprise et plein de surprise !!
(ca se voit que je suis content de reprendre le boulot ?)

bon j'ai une question pour les fedinautes de #grenoble :
je serais debut juin (la semaine du 1er exactement) sur #grenoble, est ce qu'il y a des restaurant sympa ou des bars interessant à [v|b]oire dans le coin?
je suis sur que oui !

Sinon pour etre plus spécifique est-ce qu'il y a un restaurant, recommandable, accessible à pied de la gare, qui accepte les groupes + de 10 personnes et qui est ouvert le lundi soir ?

je serais pas tous seul à grenoble, j'aurai surement quelques collègues (que je ne taggue pas pour préserver leur identité secrête) qui seront avec moi...
de la à dire qu'on pourrait faire un #mastoApero c'est peut etre s'avancer un peu (mais mardi soir j'ai encore rien de prévu)
#askFedi

Is anybody running a multi-user computer setup? If so, what does your partition setup look like?

I'm trying to figure out what works best, because I want an area with shared files (not a network share), while keeping the encrypted disk at boot.

We already have an encrypted disk with keys for each of us, and I'm installing a new drive to expand storage.

#asklinux #askfedi #linux

I know this is a long shot but I thought I’d #AskFedi

I have a bunch of pre-loved (but complete) #BoardGames and I’m looking to find a good home for them.

They’re nerd board games (as opposed to kid board games) and I’d like them to go to a non-profit/charity.

I can’t transport them so they’d need to go to an org in Greater Manchester (or willing and able to collect them from Greater Manchester)

Does anyone have any suggestions? Ta

Any good resources on formal verification?

I'm trying to learn and get into that, but wondering what others have found helpful?

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Hey Fedi, I'm curious, where does the distinction between arcane n divine magic (i.e. mages and clerics) originate from? Was't DnD, or sth that predates it?

A lotta fantasy staples can be traced back'a Tolkien's works, but the wizards there all had religious significance (they were Maiar, effectively low-ranking angels), so I don't think the arcane/divine dichotomy was already present there (the magic was often less concrete n more mystical anyway). But a lotta modern fantasy works, notably DnD, various RPGs n RPG-inspired anime etc. have such a distinction. So, what was the first thing that introduced't?

#askfedi #fantasy #rpgs #dnd

(boosts welcome)

Anyone got recommendations for a self hosted blog?

Currently I’ve got my posts in markdown in a git repo together with some templates, and push this to omg.lol through their API.

I’m after something that would replicate that ‘DX’ for me: Ideally I’d want to be able to run the whole thing in a Forgejo Action, and then only spit out static HTML/CSS.

I don’t want all the URLs to change either so probably need some custom routing.

And I don’t want anything with too steep a learning curve.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

#SelfHosting #blogging #AskFedi

Okay, let me be random for a second.

This being Fedi, I know there will be someone reading this who is a chronically depressed, poly disaster transfem always narrowly avoiding poverty by being a somewhat-but-not-really successful self-employed freelance web developer, who has strong opinions about the modern web, free software, the semantic web and structured data, and who kind-of-but-not-really mourns what XHTML could have been while actually thinking HTML5 as written is kinda neat, but who is constantly forced by Society (tm) to work with React, Wordpress and awful bloated web app frameworks to create terrible, non-semantic style-first web applications for ungrateful clients.

I can't guarantee anything but let's say, I know someone who needs a static website for their business. Hypothetically, uh, where could that someone reach out to you? Paid, of course.

#webDev #webDesign #askFedi #trans #xhtml #semanticWeb #freeSoftware #queer #getFediHired

Does anyone here have any credible source for estimating how much people "pay" for the services of Big Tech?

I found this blog post: https://www.sonecon.com/what-your-data-is-really-worth-to-facebook/ from 2019 that makes a conservative estimation (for the US), of about 202 USD per year.

They mention a study by Siddhartha Aneja, but I can't find it.

#FediHelp #AskFedi

What is your proactive script for addressing #Zoom usage in your online communities?
#AskFedi #FOSS #FLOSS #Liberation #Freedom #decentralization #groupware

This instance is *not shutting down* and I am not planning on moving because I like this instance’s character count but can others recommend,

1. Blind focused Fediverse instances with similar lengthy character counts and that's well maintained, well moderated, and not shutting down soon? Also updated to the latest Mastodon version. This instance is *not shutting down.* I've seen others recommend general instances to newbies that will shut down this year.

2. Writer and or reader focused instances that's well moderated with a lengthy character count and updated Mastodon versions?

I have a backup account on Writing Exchange, but I don't know if that instance will be around for the long hall. I was sure the Write Freely development stopped and was unsure if that extended to the Writing Exchange Instance too.
#AskFedi #Fediverse #Mastodon

Update: Thx for the tips! Handbrake unfortunately doesn't work on my system. Will try VLC later.

Do people still rip dvds and what (open source) program do they use?

#DVDrip #Windows #askFedi

I was talking about relatively new pixel art games, like Shredder's Revenge, Marvel's Cosmic Invasion, Arrest of a Stone Buddha... you know if you know, there are lots of them.

I'm not in the loop, so I call them neopixel games, but what's the proper name?

Please and thank you.

#videoGames #pixelArt #askFedi

What are people using nowadays for self-hosted Git + pull requests + pipelines (running unit tests etc.)? GitLab seems to be going all-in on AI.

Is anyone using ForgeJo commercially for an internal proprietary product?

#AskFedi #Git #SelfHost

Folks, help me. #askfedi

I need people who had a small event, hackathon, conference that require digital recognition to try badgefed and give feedback. I want to ace the UX experience.

Send them my way, they can register here, and ping me and I will enable a full account.

https://communitycredentials.org/register