I think it depends heavily not just on the PI and student, but the field of study and department as well.

It really is amazing what you can do with statistics and a large enough data set. I can’t wait for what this brings the community in a few years!

In a different version of the article the outlet and plug were locked out. That’s why the janitor flipped the breaker.

While Lakshmi waited for the freezer’s manufacturer to come perform repairs, her team added a safety lock box around the freezer’s outlet and socket. A warning was posted on the freezer, according to the court filing.

“THIS FREEZER IS BEEPING AS IT IS UNDER REPAIR. PLEASE DO NOT MOVE OR UNPLUG IT. NO CLEANING REQUIRED IN THIS AREA. YOU CAN PRESS THE ALARM/TEST MUTE BUTTON FOR 5-10 SECONDS IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MUTE THE SOUND,” the warning read, according to the suit.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/27/us/janitor-alarm-freezer-rensselaer-polytechnic-lawsuit-new-york/index.html

As someone who has done both cloud VPS and local hosting, I agree that local hosting on your own hardware is much more fun. I was going to spin up my own instance of Lemmy but found this one instead!

Since there’s no way to load balance servers the best I can offer right now is an off-site backup location for the database if you were looking for redundancy. But happy to offer any help I can going forward.

Oh, definitely! I actually saw a post like that on lemmy.world earlier today. I was referring to the community dedicated to Stephen King that used to be here.

The Battle for Wesnoth is my all-time favorite FOSS. Can’t understate it.

The android launcher? 😕

I suppose it is the original recycling program haha

Ah yes, we have a necromancer in our midst 😎

Hmm. The server is up right now. Does it give an error or just sit there?

I can say I’ve had horrible luck trying to sign up through the apps. It works much better through a standard browser for initial sign up.

One more for Bitwarden. You can even run your own local server and avoid using the cloud.

I joined mander.xyz because it has a central theme around the natural sciences. It could possibly include STEM content as well; there is an ongoing discussion about it. The admin(s) are present and very responsive.

For anyone with a love of science and/or nature I recommend it highly as a home instance of Lemmy.

“Like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass,” the CEO wrote.

This is true. By sheer population most Redditors never left. But I’d say a core percentage responsible for actually making content has moved on and won’t be back.

I think extending to STEM is a good take on it. That would keep it at least academically focused and make it easy to say “communities about horror fiction authors aren’t what we’re going for”, etc. My only concern would be an explosion of extremely niche communities that never really take off, potentially diluting broader communities. However, that’s more an issue with the Fediverse in general and could be unavoidable growing pains.

I love being able to browse local and only get topics in the sciences field. It gives Mander a unique feel and I think that tone is worth preserving. I have subbed to communities on other instances that are definitely not science-based and can easily catch up on them by filtering subscribed.

That same feeling stopped me from posting something similar last night, haha. It’s a discussion worth having, though. Mander has a unique place in the Fediverse.

It’s getting better! All the time! This was just posted yesterday.

Our 3 hour drive to a spot in rural Tennessee the day before turned into a 10 hour drive back.

That’s exactly what I was worried about. We’re going to camp overnight in Hot Springs and enjoy ourselves.

It’s not quite the same, but this site has a map of light pollution which you can use to find the least polluted areas around you. https://www.lightpollutionmap.info

I’m planning a trip to see the solar eclipse next year from inside a national park. I hadn’t seen a light map like this for years, but when I looked it up the regions are a lot smaller than I remember.

The newsgroup server I’m on is actually called eternal-september.org in remembrance.