All 13 blog platform could be awesome and you’d want all 13 on the list because while all awesome, they’re awesome in different ways. They each have different workflows even which is something that’s really important to someone writing blogs. Do you want a WYSIWYG editor? Do you prefer Markdown? Do you want a static site generator? All these things are awesome and each fit a distinct use case.
“ What’s important to note is that this list is identical to those of the Facebook and Instagram apps. So if you use these other Meta products, you’ve already surrendered this information to the company.”
The camera size is already huge in iPhone 14 Pro that it doesn’t sit well on MagSafe Duo Charger wishing that they figured out a way to at least keep the size to how it currently is but it looks like there’s no getting around it. It looks like it’s gonna be bigger than 45mm Apple Watch at this point.
“I hate how much weight it adds to the top of my phone. Makes it feel unbalanced in my hand”
I doubt it does. I just used a fulcrum to find the center of mass on my iPhone 13 Pro and it actually seems like the lower half of the iPhone is a bit heavier, which makes makes sense given the internals of the device. That being said it’s off center by like 1/8 of an inch at the most so it actually seems well balanced. If you made the camera smaller it’d make the phone LESS balanced than it is.
I doubt that your iPhone is noticeably top heavy, if even at all. It just doesn’t sound like a plausible design flaw that Apple would somehow miss. It’s just too easy to compensate for any weight added by the camera module with the much heavier components located below-center of the device, like the battery. I was curious though so I measured my iPhone 13 Pro with an identically sized camera module as the 14 and my phone is actually very slightly bottom heavy, but the margin is also so small there’s no way I or anyone else could actually tell without measuring.
It might be more of a perceived effect than a physical one if anything. Like it feels top heavy because you can see the camera module but not the internal parts in the lower part of phone.
It’s not that I don’t believe that you feel like it’s top heavy, I just don’t believe that it actually is top heavy. Your claim sounded suspect but I gave you the benefit of the doubt and I used physics and math instead of my hand to measure my iPhone that currently has the largest camera module available on iPhones and it is conclusively not top heavy. Like I said you might perceive it as being top heavy but that doesn’t mean it actually is. You might also have a case that’s contributing to your balance issue, I wouldn’t know.
Even if you can figure it out, it’s still just unintuitive and a hassle. Theres a lot of friction and friction is the enemy of adoption. I’m a datacenter engineer and despite know exactly how Mastodon works it would just be too much time and effort to get the content flowing. I setup my account, figured I’d get around to it and never did. I wouldn’t blame any average person for just not feeling. Like putting in the effort.
The only reason I’m on Lemmy because I followed specific subreddits here so I didn’t need to go looking for anything.
Yes clunky, unintuitive social media platforms did just fine back when they were all equally immature, clunky and unintuitive. But social media has changed a lot in the past 20 years and it’s grown to be more intuitive, usable, and relatively frictionless to adopt.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect every Tom Dick and Harry who are used to modern social media platforms built on decades of improvements to form and function, to just dive in head first to an experience that rivals the social media of a bygone era.
Please let me know if this community doesn’t allow tech-support type of questions, I couldn’t find a decently populated community on lemmy for this sort of question and I don’t want to go crawling back to Reddit to ask....
Whisker fatigue causes stress and overstimulates their senses. Using a flat bowl or plate will relieve this issue and allow your cat to eat all their food without stress....
My cat likes it when I cup my hand and cover the front of her face like a hand mask. Not sure why, but it definitely presses on her whiskers a bit and she doesn’t seem to mind either.
Just a side note that “not opening firewall ports” is not inherently a security benefit if you’re exposing the same service on the same port on the same host anyway via your reverse proxy setup.
If you were to measure your level of “security” on having ports open or not alone, then using Cloudflare tunnels could be considered worse, since an outbound VPN connection to Cloudflare is essentially circumventing your firewall’s protection entirely, meaning you’re effectively opening all 65,535 TCP and UDP ports instead of one, albeit only to Cloudflare.
There are benefits to using Cloudflare tunnels but “not opening firewall ports” is not one of them. And you could just as easily accomplish the same thing without Cloudflare by using a VPS and Tailscale with the selfhosted Headscale coordinator.
Selfhost headscale, run a reverse proxy with let’s encrypt on a VPS and Tailscale that VPS to your local server, utilizing Tailscale’s ACLs to block all ports except for your desired ones. It’s exactly what CF tunnels is doing but you have far more control over your data and security.
I’ve surprisingly always had the opposite experience. I went from generic IT guy to datacenter engineer and no one in my personal life asks me for anything lol.
It’s got several severe usability bugs like the keyboard not popping up correctly and the search too hits not putting up apps your type the name of. It’s certainly usable but those will get old quick.
I would say the opposite. Messages has a keyboard bug and the search features top hits doesn’t pull up the app you want unless you type and retype the name at least twice. That’s going to be a daily annoyance until those are fixed at least.
Not that I’m a fan of Facebook here but are you like, assuming Twitter wasn’t collecting your personal data? Also you use your Instagram account to log in to threads so by using it you’re not giving up any more personal information than you already were. Going from not using Twitter or Facebook or Instagram to using Threads might be a bad idea but if you already use any one of those three it makes zero actual difference.
Not that I’m a fan of Facebook here but are you like, assuming Twitter wasn’t collecting your personal data? Also you use your Instagram account to log in to threads so by using it you’re not giving up any more personal information than you already were. Going from not using Twitter or Facebook or Instagram to using Threads might be a bad idea but if you already use any one of those three it makes zero actual difference which big tech billionaire you’re giving your personal information to.
I just don’t think data privacy is even in the top 10 reasons why the average Threads user is on Threads. They’re on Threads because Twitter is getting worse and less usable by the day due to Musk’s erratic decisions, and Threads offers them something that’s functional, free, and not rate-limited.
I certainly don’t want to embrace threads due to data privacy issues, but I also don’t use Twitter.
Well that wouldn’t be the point here because the meme is comparing Twitter and Threads, not Mastodon/Lemmy and Threads. That’s why it doesn’t make sense lol.
Your plan is solid. The important thing is that you configure those things correctly, but you’re following guides so that should be ok. It’s on a VPS so there’s no threat to your home network, and none of those services pose a significant risk to you even if they were compromised so there’s no reason to go overboard.
If I had any further advice to give it’d be:
Change any default usernames and passwords that any of your apps/databases use.
Use randomly generated passwords for all service accounts. So that if you do find yourself compromised, they don’t then know a password that you’ve reused somewhere else (like your email account).
Run those services using something like Docker with no access to each other.
Utilize your VPS provider’s cloud firewall if they have one. If you’re paying for a cheap VM, it shouldn’t need to deal with all the general firewalling from the internet. VPS providers often have free cloud firewalls you can offload that work to.
Say it ain’t so (lemmy.world)
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers (github.com)
Lemmy search isn’t great, or I’m too new, and can’t tell if this has been posted here before.
Have I gone overboard? (lemmy.world)
Have I went overboard? Any suggestions? Or help? I travel a lot and don’t have a lot of time when I am home to setup and configure....
A privacy analysis of Meta’s new Threads app (proton.me)
“ What’s important to note is that this list is identical to those of the Facebook and Instagram apps. So if you use these other Meta products, you’ve already surrendered this information to the company.”
I think the camera size is getting out of hand on iPhone 15 Pro (iPhone 15 leaks) (lemm.ee)
The camera size is already huge in iPhone 14 Pro that it doesn’t sit well on MagSafe Duo Charger wishing that they figured out a way to at least keep the size to how it currently is but it looks like there’s no getting around it. It looks like it’s gonna be bigger than 45mm Apple Watch at this point.
Is not that god damn hard. (lemmy.ml)
Reddit now won't let non-logged in users see subreddits until they've been "reviewed" (lemmy.world)
This is literally just the r/nyt subreddit about The New York Times....
Why would iCloud Private Relay break internet connection behind a network switch?
Please let me know if this community doesn’t allow tech-support type of questions, I couldn’t find a decently populated community on lemmy for this sort of question and I don’t want to go crawling back to Reddit to ask....
YSK: Cats don't like their whiskers touching their food bowl. This is why they beg even if food is still left at the bottom. (lemmy.world)
Whisker fatigue causes stress and overstimulates their senses. Using a flat bowl or plate will relieve this issue and allow your cat to eat all their food without stress....
ELI5 Cloudflare Tunnel
So everyone is talking about cloudflare tunnels and I decided to give it a shot....
OC I know I was hired to do that but
Public Betas are out, who's going in? (appadvice.com)
The new iOS/iPadOS 17, WatchOS 10 and MacOS Sonoma public betas are out....
Threads is a bargain (i.imgur.com)
[Question] about the security basics
Hi there, I've been reading up on selfhosting for a couple of weeks now and I got my feet wet with a couple of things....
r/all (lemmy.world)