For all that offseason hype and hoopla, we Steelers sure have not looked too good these first 12 minutes or so

Y’know - I think stacking cinder blocks and some pavers on top would actually work just fine. Just angle the cinder blocks so the ones at the bottom have the holes poking out (and into the enclosure) and that should provide enough airflow to keep it from getting too hot in there.

Heck, you could probably angle them all that way except for the top ones. I haven’t seen videos of battery fires, but unless they’re like really really flammable, the fire shouldn’t burn out from around the several inches of concrete that surrounds it.

Remember fire burns up so the pavers and concrete blocks at the top will be what are actually blocking the most.

Unfortunately it’s the platform a significant portion of our friends and family are using that we don’t see on a regular basis, and if we want to be able to easily share our lives with them without resorting to long-form emails or letters, it’s a convenient go-to. At some point I absolutely have it on my to-do list to spin up a Diaspora server of my own, but until then our content would still have to be living on someone else’s server, and it becomes kind of an apples-vs-oranges conversation for which one would be better.

Thanks guys. I really appreciate the feedback 🙂

This has certainly given me a bit to chew on, so far as being more careful with our children’s digital footprint at this stage of life. We do ensure to tick the boxes for “only friends” on the pictures we share, but I am aware that once something is out there it’s out there, particularly as who knows what kinds of inner closet demons our friends have that they would never share with us. And just because I’m more of an open book kinda guy and haven’t minded at all when my own mom has shared old pictures of me as a toddler running around in a diaper, doesn’t at all mean my children will feel the same way. I’ll be sure to bring this up with my wife sometime sooner rather than later.

It’s just incredible what they can do with stem cell technology these days

And then there’s those of us who stick 8-foot boards diagonally through their Honda Civics so a couple inches are sticking out the front passenger and rear driver windows.

Coincidentally, by far the most use my dad’s pickup truck bed gets is when I borrow it from him to really load up at Home Depot.

The earth was in an ice age around 19,000 - 26,000 years ago - perhaps it started around then when everything was quite a bit cooler.

Might wanna do the poor bloke a favor and teach him about how to properly use ramps

It probably is that popular among this crowd. There’s options to self-host your own Bitwarden instance IIRC.

I’ve started migrating away from LastPass and am using Bitwarden for new projects personally. LastPass is way better than nothing, but I wouldn’t recommend LastPass over Bitwarden these days.

I’m a couple years away from where you’re at… my oldest is still working on “is learning that he can’t watch Bluey anytime he wants just by handing mom or dad the TV remote”. It’s… an ongoing work in progress.

Leaving the day open for wife-and-kid-planned shenanigans sounds like a really good thing to do… I’m gonna have to remember this over the next few years

Yeah, I do agree Beehaw won’t be able to grow significantly if they keep doing things the way they’re doing them right now. At present point, they’re going to likely remain a more niche community long-term with how they’re operating. Who knows though, maybe this is what they want. Lemmy would have to do something different though without a herculean moderation effort.

Shoot, my two are 5mo and 20mo, I go through this every day leaving the chaos behind in the morning to go to work with a deep breath of relief, and then missing them by around 2:00pm or so.

I reckon it’d depend significantly on the instance. Beehaw has a signup form reviewed by humans - measures like this are by no means perfect, but coupled with other bot detection software could help. If an instance developed a real issue with bots, other more strict instances could potentially ban up votes and comments from accounts on it.

At the very least, tracking instances that account interaction came from should be quite doable, so users part of more strict instances could filter out upvotes and comments from less strict instances if desired.

What kinds of “various” admin level tasks are we talking about here?

A lot of desktop distros do have these kinds of tools in place. You can create and edit users and groups, set file permissions, create folders and files, download and update packages on your system, view disk usage, etc, etc. Shoot, specialized distros like gparted can be used to partition disks, or live boot a system to repair it.

But for a lot of things, building a GUI for the interface just takes so dang long to do, and takes so much more time and effort to get right than building out text commands, that it just really doesn’t make sense to make it as big of a focus.

I bet you could do it if your instance didn’t pull in a lot of traffic.

If it did… I reckon that you might be able to pull it off to a certain extent so long as your internet package was good enough, but if you got hit with a Reddit-level flood of incoming users, your network almost certainly wouldn’t be able to keep up.

Even if it could, if you were consistently eating through all the upload bandwidth, I reckon you’d draw the eyes of your ISP and they might send you a letter kindly and respectfully telling you that if you don’t upgrade to a commercial line they’re not renewing your contract.