Kia is killing it with EVs. This feels like a successor to the Niro, unless that little guy lives on as a cheaper model, but: 372-mile range, chunky good looks, seats 5. Honestly, I may wait to see this one. Coming to the US in 2025 or 2026.
In contrast, US manufacturers are sticking with overpriced EV SUVs with features like Has No CarPlay and Does Crab Walk You'll Never Actually Use.
I've spent the last several days trying to get a local mastodon build running on my laptop. I've gotten pretty far, but I have yet to see an actual UI in my browser.
So far, I've been trying out various attempts to run it in docker. That should be easier than trying to get the various components set up myself. But for some reason it's not. Getting mastodon configured properly is pretty complex. Getting everything right "out of the box" feels pretty error prone.
I think part of it may be tooling scale. There are smaller, simpler instances like gotosocial.org, which are better suited for smaller machines, but they're not 100% compatible with mastodon. I guess it kinda depends on what part of ActivityPub you're trying to work on.
But, yeah, you're absolutely right that all of this needs to be easier and clearer for folk to make the right decision for what they need.
I started down this road because I asked about seeing a full activity log on my own server instance. And it turns out you just can't.
My goal is to make it easy to stand up two separate mastodon instances on my laptop. Then I can get them to talk to reach other and observe what is actually happening. I think that'll teach me a lot
I think part of the problem is that Mastodon really isn't simple. There are a lot of weird, surprisingly complex bits that want to work together to handle things at a scale much higher than "just one person".
Thing like the redis cache server, Sidekiq task scheduler, and all the local page builds and caches. It really kinda wants to be the only thing on the instance since it makes a lot of assumptions about what it's going to talk to.
Think of all the apologies you'll have to come up with when you accidentally touch that icon while talking to your boss. Let the creativity be unleashed.
I do not subscribe to the idea of centrally planned economies but it would be pretty sweet if all the restaurants in my neighborhood used the same brand of takeout containers.
#baseball friends — offense is still down despite the pitch clock and limiting pickoffs and banning the shift. League OBP is almost down to .310 with an endless parade of strikeouts as players struggle to make contact with pitches due to velocity and movement. Run scoring is the lowest it’s been in 10 years.
Still more strikeouts than singles — BORING. Stealing bases becoming ridiculously easy — BORING.
It's kind of hypocritical for so many people from the south to be so against face masks when they seem to be totally fine with even larger face coverings, such as white hoods.
I am starting a secret society that holds nearly constant quiet parades and gatherings at various places like grocery stores, airports, medical services, municipal transports, etc.
Members are identified by wearing an N95 mask and minding their own damn business.
I'm hoping that the good folk in various court houses and city halls don't mind getting flooded by daily requests for permits.
Kids these days don't know it, how would they and why, but there was this really weird 20-year period that us GenXers had to go through where a whole lot of old people were absolutely adamant about the fact that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was the greatest album ever made. Year after year of Best Album Ever lists, and this novelty record - that's doesn't even belong in the top ten records by the Beatles - was there at top every time!
I cannot date this, but apparently some time in the distant past (possibly 80’s?) the International Harvester tractor company used punch cards for inventory and parts ordering. #retrocomputing#farming