Got to say: Just been through upgrading an app from #PHP 8.1 to 8.3 and it's really nice and painfree.
Very few breaking changes, and the few that are there are stuff that a sensible person would've addressed a long time ago.
Unfortuantely that means that apart from readonly classes, there are also few exciting new things in there. But I guess these also are just point updates after allโฆ
Almost boring ๐ (Not a bad thing! Stability is also nice.)
@Crell yep I still got scars from when I upgraded my very first ever PHP application from 3 to 5. I was a kid when I started writing that app, so it definitely was full of stupid shit (still is, to be honest: always only ever stuck on band aids - the full rewrite is finally planned for later this year), so the upgrade was beyond hard.
But yeah, since then Iโve learned how to code properly (I think) so upgrades tend to be a lot simpler.
That first experience traumatised me for life though, so Iโm still always scared when I start โฆ
One of the hardest parts of being married is when the OH wakes you up in the middle of the night because she โheard something downstairsโ and is now convinced thereโs someone in the house.
The worst part though is that after you have checked the house, and inevitably found that there is of course no intruder (Iโm genuinely not sure what Iโd do if there ever was one, by the way. Iโm no American, so there are no weapons in the house ๐คทโโ๏ธ) your body involuntarily goes on high alert, and for the next half hour every tiny sounds sends the adrenaline rushing, preventing me from falling asleep again, despite knowing full well that there is still no intruder ๐๐๐
Iโve been restarting my sidekiq on a daily basis pretty much since day 1 anyway, because there used to be a memory leak somewhere (I have no idea whether thatโs still the case, but never bothered to retest), and yet appear to have been affected by this.
However it has to my knowledge only happened once to me, during a period of network connectivity problems, so maybe thatโs related? Very hard to tell, of course
Between setting up DigitalOcean Spaces [1] for uploaded media and enabling @michael's FediFetcher [2], my experience on a one-person self-hosted Mastodon instance has been greatly improved.
@gunchleoc i love the idea and principle behind substitoot! Unfortunately, because I use mastodon almost exclusively through an app, it is not an option for me.
I wish mastodon would do what substitoot does natively!
@stefan@gunchleoc unfortunately I donโt think this will happen. Last time it was brought up on GitHub it was roundly rejected, and there is no sign of them reconsidering it.
(Although to be fair they have reconsidered things they were vehemently against in the past, so I wouldnโt rule it out. But it doesnโt appear likely. At least not any time soon)
@Jbasoo Yeah, thankfully we are so far OK with FTTC, so I have been able to avoid Virgin so far ...
But over the next 1-5 years I imagine the kids will be starting to be stream and/or game a lot more, and that's where I think we'll need extra capacity โฆ
@Crell LOL. not to put too fine a point on it, but I don't need a missing 'live chat supportโ page, to know everything I need to know about #Google ๐คฃ
The more Iโm trying to learn Arabic the more Iโm becoming convinced that whoever came up with that script, did so with the express intention to mock learners.
How else can you explain that ุฌ ุญ and ุฎ all make very different sounds, whilst the sounds for ุซ and ุท are essentially indistinguishable ๐
@skribe for written Arabic: whatever Duolingo is offering. Sadly they donโt specify. For spoken Iโm learning Egyptian Arabic, as my wife is Egyptian. @loke
@skribe It is worth saying though, that as far as I understand (and I'm far from a linguist) the different variants of Arabic are much more than just dialects, and most people considere these actually different languages. My wife for example, would actually struggle having a proper conversation with someone from Syria, or Morocco (to pick just two of the dozen or so other Arabic languages), as they'd use different vocabulary and grammar. It's a mine field, and part of the reason why I've put off learning it for so very long. @loke
@skribe Many different written systems as well. For example in Egypt you have at least the following:
Religious/old Arabic as used in both mosque and Church settings (I don't even know whether these are both using the same language, but I doubt it)
Formal Arabic as used in the news, courts, etc.
Informal Arabic as used in every day settings (and which of course has lots of different dialects - Egypt is large country [though maybe not so large when compared to Australia ๐]).
Each of these have their own grammar and vocabulary. And there'll definitely be people in Egypt whoโll only be able to understand 1 or 2 of these (especially because illeteracy is actually still quite common, so lots of Egyptians really only know informal Arabic).