Oh, Cherry Stream … meine Lieblingstastatur …

Eine Sache, die hier nicht erwähnt wird, ist, welche Stellung das Kinder-Haben im Leben haben soll, bzw. was die Erwartungshaltung ist.

Mein Eindruck ist, das Kinder früher™ irgendwie in’s Leben eingepasst wurden, während heute die Erwartungshaltung eher dahin geht, das das ganze Leben dem Kind angepasst wird, was dann natürlich zum Eindruck der starken Selbstaufopferung führt …

Früher sind viele zur Grundschule gelaufen, zur weiterführenden dann mit dem Bus … heute scheint Elterntaxi fast Standard.

Mit Kinderwagen in die Kneipe oder zur Feier? Macht an sich kaum jemand, das Kind muss in’s Bett. Als ich Kind war, haben mich meine Eltern an sich einfach überall mit hingenommen …

Kinder, die ohne Aufsicht den ganzen Tag draußen rumrennen und Unsinn machen, sind dem Hörensagen nach auch seltener …

Kann natürlich sein das mich mein Eindruck da trügt.

Night trains (the sleeper trains, not the ones where you have to sit and they go at night) sound great in theory but, after having taken one once, I’m not sure whether I’d enjoy it as a regular means of transportation.

I don’t think it would scale and thus would always be pretty expensive.

I had to push my heavy luggage up high into a compartment above the beds, and navigate in very tight quarters, which works fine if you’re young and have no back problems, but older folks might struggle.

I traveled in a 2-bed compartment with my partner, not sure whether I’d enjoy a cramped 6-bed compartment.

I’d much rather have a good connection in the morning and enough space on the train to use the trip as a work day (remote worker privilege, for sure) or reading day, and arrive in the evening, or, if the distance is very long, have affordable accommodation at the major train stations (not overpriced hostels with a club in the courtyard, which happened to me in Paris once).

So all in all, I feel like the sleeper train thing seems more of a touristy event-thing than a regular mode of transportation, at least if other options are available …

Sorry to disappoint you … in Barcelona-Sants, you have to go through one … not the body-scan thing yet, but you have to pass your luggage through a scanner, there’s a line, and you definitely have to bring some time, be there 20 min before at least …

I have to admit, when it comes to new developments in the Linux world, I tend to live under a rock … never switched to Wayland, not because I have any ideological reservations, but because my favorite WM (a minimalist WM developed by a friend of mine) is available only for Xorg.

I had heard about NixOS before, but until I stumbled upon this thread, I didn’t have a good understanding about what an atomic distro is. Now that I have a bit of an understanding, I guess I can only repeat what others said before, it seems to be solving a problem that I don’t have. I’ve been using rolling release distros for a very long time (at first Gentoo, like, 15 or more years ago, but Arch (btw) for over a decade now, with occasional, typically short stints in Debian-based distros), and the amount of problems caused by updates has been negligible for the last decade (Gentoo overlays 15 years ago could be a pain, for sure).

It does sometimes bother me that my OS config seems to so … static these days, but then again I have so many things going on in life on that I don’t feel a huge need to prioritize changing an OS that feels blazingly fast to use, stable, minimalist, and basically checks all the boxes. It just became my high-productivity comfort zone.

Hmm my first linux distro was Suse 5.x that came on 5 CDs (i think it was 1998) … can’t say I used it much, I had weird German ISDN Internet at the time and the PPPoverWhatever (forgot the exact name) just didn’t wanna work. Making music wasn’t really feasible at the time. It mostly lay dormant. I slowly climbed the learning curve and switched to Linux full-time in the mid-2000s, when a lot more things were possible …

An FreeCAD hab ich mich auch schon mehrfach aufgehängt … selbst einfachste Dinge erscheinen da sehr kompliziert, und ich hatte bisher nie den großen Durchbruch …

Wollte einen kleinen Lautsprecher 3D-drucken, und in der Zeit, die ich FreeCAD-Tutorials studiert hatte, hatte ich mit TinkerCAD schon zwei Iterationen des Prototyps in der Hand … und sogar Spaß dabei … klar ist TinkerCAD nicht vergleichbar mit professionellem CAD, aber ich wollte ja auch nur 'n Kiste mit Löchern drin machen … dafür ist ‘n volles CAD-Programm eh’ overkill …

Halbwegs intuitives CAD Ist tatsächlich noch 'ne große Lücke im FLOSS-Universum …

Sprachkritik in allen Ehren aber so scharf abgegrenzt sind die Begriffe, so scheint es mir, dann doch nicht?

Auch im Englischen spricht man gelegentlich von “social housing” (“charitable housing” hab ich noch nie gehört), “social services”, “social security” usw … während man im Deutschen auch von der “sozialen Ordnung” spricht …

Insofern passt “soziale Medien” schon als Übersetzung, würde das nicht als “false friend” bezeichnen, beide Bedeutungen kommen in beiden Sprachen vor …

(sorry for the late reply)

https://see.ellipsenpark.de/ --> again, single-user, single-topic, more of an archive really

I’m running my own instance, and typically post my stuff on mastodon, so I guess I have made the first step?

It’s a bit of a Catch-22 I suppose … low numbers of viewers makes it less attractive for creators, and fewer interesting creators make it less attractive for viewers.

Taking into account the other aspects that make it less attractive for viewers (fragmentation and inconvenience … having to dig through “Find the right instance for you” tutorials, no matter how well curated, can be a bit of a turn-off compared to just going to a central point and find what you’re looking for), I don’t have that much hope that it’ll reach a critical mass of both viewers and creators to catapult Peertube into large-scale relevance … as sad as I am about saying that.

“If you can find it” … that’s the crucial point I suppose … but without a discovery algorithm, interesting creators, and a VAST content archive, it can hardly be called an “alternative” for YouTube.

When I was looking into it I found the best use case was to use it as a self-hosted video archive to replace/extend my Vimeo. At least at that point, all instances that were remotely interesting were not taking any users, and the generic ones seemed to be very far away from what I’m doing content-wise.

And I guess as long as that’s the case, and you have no ways to monetize content nor any significant reach due to the federated fragmentation, I don’t think it’s an interesting software/federated platform for creators …

Hope in what sense? Hope that it’s generally possible to connect online without corporate social media? Sure …

Hope that it’ll become a replacement social media at a large scale? Probably not … I think the way push-federation is implemented makes it inconvenient and hard to grasp, and generally people seem to prefer centralized platforms for the sheer convenience of use, which is hard to beat.

So I guess it’ll remain stable in it’s own little niche … which isn’t bad I suppose …

I guess whether it’s a flaw or not depends on your expectations … definitely feels like a big drawback to me …

Hmm in theory I get that, but in practice it’s not always easy to grasp.

When Fediverse stuff comes up as an “alternative” it’s often depicted as “leave Instagram, join Pixelfed” … not “join pixelfed.social” or “join pixelfed.de” … it’s often presented as if the instance you choose doesn’t matter that much. Which, is now pretty clear to me, is not true at all. It also seems a bit at odds with the idea of decentralization because if you want your content to be seen there’s a big incentive to join an already-large instance.

Apart from that, as a practical consequence, it’s hard to understand why, when and where you see something … like, a common point of criticism about corporate social media is that algorithms boost content in often hard-to-understand ways … but in the Fediverse, it just seems a different kind of intransparency, as long as you don’t just stick to your local instance.

Hmm ok … the servers are both pretty large so I assume they should be well-federated (if that’s the right term).

But that flaw kinda means that effectively, information trickles through unpredictably and what you see is quite dependent on which instance you’re on … is that understanding correct?

Ah, gut zu wissen, aber das konnte ich der Beschreibung der Optionen damals nicht entnehmen.

Ich meine mich zu erinnern, das es in dem Client, den ich zum Eröffnen des Raumes genutzt habe, eine “people with the link can join” Option gab, die es aber in Element irgendwie nicht gab? Und die, wie schon gesagt, auch nicht funktioniert hat …

Hab vor ein paar Monaten eine neue Gruppe aufmachen wollen, und dachte mir, warum nicht Matrix?

Invite Links konnte ich zwar generieren, haben aber nicht funktioniert, man musste alle Leute manuell hinzufügen.

Ich dachte mir, Verschlüsselung, warum nicht? Dann konnte aber zunächst mal keiner die Nachrichten sehen (das Problem wurde hier im Thread schon erwähnt), und ich musste selber meinen eigenen Account über ein anderes Gerät verifizieren.

Der Client, den ich auf’m Telefon installiert hab, kann push-notifications nur über Umwege …

Ausserdem haben die unterschiedlichen Clients unterschiedliche Optionen angezeigt, die scheinbar auch nicht ganz kompatibel sind?

Alles sehr verwirrend, und man kann scheinbar einiges falsch machen (und das sage ich als studierter Informatiker, der steile Lernkurven bestimmt nicht scheut).

Letztlich ist die Gruppe schnell eingeschlafen, und ich hab das Gefühl, die Wahl von Matrix hat da durchaus ihren Anteil dran, weil’s umständlich und nervig ist.

Seitdem ist’s eher so auf der “ich guck in 3 Jahren nochmal, ob’s dann rundläuft”-Liste

Wobei sich die Studie ja auf “Filter Ventilation” bezieht, also die kleinen Löcher im Filter, die dem inhalierten Rauch mehr Luft hinzufügen …

Nicht das das Selbstgedrehte mit dichtem Papier jetzt besser macht, oder Zigaretten allgemein.

Finde es aber interessant, das eine scheinbar kleine Änderung im Design da tatsächlich einen Effekt zeigt.

Haha yes, the car is the German’s favorite child, and complaining their favorite pastime.

That being said, I think there’s more factors to it. Keep in mind that most German cities were in ruins after WWII, and plenty of buildings have been demolished to make room for cars.

The difference in electoral systems might play a role, where a green party could slowly, but steadily gain influence.

Railway infrastructure was already quite dense before mass motorization.

A lot of money has been spend to get through traffic out of town centers.

There’s probably more to it …

I feel like people mistake YouTube for a video hosting solution.

But that’s not the point.

• YouTube a huge archive of content that accumulated over the past 17 years.
• YouTube is a content suggestion machine. Discoverability is a key aspect.
• YouTube sets an incentive by allowing people to monetize their content.
• …

So, if the only thing you’re looking for is a video hosting solution, then, yes, PeerTube might be an alternative. In the same way uploading videos to your own webspace would be, and Vimeo also still exists.

But for all the other stuff, YT is, unfortunately, unmatched, and probably will be for a while …