I think I once read that when the metric system was first defined during the French Revolution, they also tried to use a decimal system for time, but that was quickly abandoned.

Fascinating. I heard something similar with particle pollution in big cities.

I like the Password for Nextcloud app. I self-host mine, but I think there might be Nextcloud instances that you can access. It is encrypted, and has an app for smartphones.

Yes ! This would also be useful on Mastodon.

Do we know that this is the one and only domain that they will use when and if they actually enable federation ?

How do you forward Whatsapp to matrix? Is it two-way?

Very interesting read. Thanks for sharing. I’m curious: have you considered [matrix] nowadays?

You can use a third hand, typically like this: https://befr.rs-online.com/web/p/soldering-accessories/1466439

From my limited experience, make sure the things you want to solder are mechanically held together. And heat the pieces you want to solder, and use them to melt the tin. Never melt the tin directly on the iron.

The not so tech savvy family members have trouble with e2e though. They always have problems with device somehow not properly authorized, and some encrypted rooms accessible from the computer but not from the phone. I usually solve it for them regularly, but they still can’t do it by themselves. So I prefer to keep the rooms unencrypted (we are not sharing state secrets anyway), but self-hosted (I don’t want to give away family pictures to big tech companies).

I’ve never bothered to try alternatives to Element. Are they worth trying ?

And naturally, matrix is federated so you can join rooms of any other instance.

I use Matrix (Element client on iOS) with the extended family and it works well. Most of them are not tech-savvy. I self-host my own Matrix instance because I wanted to have control on where personal pictures were hosted.

Or another instance. Mastodon.social is quite overloaded.

Maybe if you remove German from the list of languages in your profile? I haven’t tried to check whether it removes posts from the all feed. Also this would only work if people set the language to German and don’t leave the setting to Undefined.

Also on Mastodon, there is a Translate feature. I don’t know if that may happen also on Lemmy?

Something very simple on the web client: a setting to get links to open in a new tab, to make it easier to get back to the same point in the comments.

I am doing it because it is fun and it is a way to try to understand how things work. I am still not sure whether my answers successfully propagate to all servers.

Yes you need a domain but that is usually quite cheap

I don’t know which ingredients are required but I don’t think they had tomatoes at that time. Wasn’t they discovered in the new world?