Can patch but it’ll be 1-2 days of work for a good painted finish. Would have to do multiple patching/sanding coats, masking, priming then a couple of rolls of paint of the wall. It’s not trivial amount of work. For a slap-dash finish I could skip some of the steps but then again for a slap-dash look I can keep the wall plates. 😅

Yup. HVAC installer drywall gore.

No, it really is 25° in the two rooms this unit heats up. 🦎

With that said, the temperature rarely falls below 25°C due to the heat coming off of the neighbouring units in the building, unless I open the window. 🥹

Yeah, I suppose one could do a generic thermostat in HA and use just a few smart switches. However that requires some rewiring of the previously thermostat-controlled device.

Huh, I really like how it looks, besides the large wall plate. 😅

Some day! :D

Gotta hide the drywall horror show the HVAC people left. 😅

Does it keep its settings while you swap the batteries?

Agreed.

This person internets. 👏

Without a common authentication scheme that every instance checks against… Probably anyone can do it. I don’t know how you’d even approach this. Signed messages via GPG with a common pubkey host? Some blockchain scheme for authentication that obviates the need for a central host? I’ve no idea.

Can’t someone talk ActivityPub directly and do this? If the instance is responsible to authenticate the users, the instance can just directly talk ActivityPub to the rest of the network and tell it users and votes on the fly, without even Lemmy running there.

More like a side effect of sending data to third parties. Whether it’s email or messages, you can’t control what happens with that data on the other end unless you control both ends. But then you’re talking to yourself.

Maybe they meant they need to setup their own instance in order to figure out who’s downvoting beans.

Err, up/down voting is just a quick way to agree or disagree. If one is voting because they feel they can’t stand behind their opinion if they expanded it in text… I don’t know what to tell ya.

How many cans-of-beans.jpg can you store?

Feels like this will benefit from some sort of fuzzy deduplication in the pictrs storage. I bet there are a lot of similar pics in there. E.g. if one pic or a gif is very similar to another, say just different quality or size, or compression, it should keep only one copy. It might already do this for the same files uploaded by different people as those can be compared trivially via hashing, but I doubt it does similarity based deduplication.

This is not quite true. All content from that instance that was interacted with, subbed communities, commented or upvoted posts get copied to the local instance. If the local instance defederated the bad instance, the copied content from the bad instance stays and is visible, communities, posts, all of it. It simply is no longer receiving new stuff from the bad instance. Lemmy.world is defederated from Beehaw.org. You can still see Beehaw’s communities from Lemmy.world but they don’t have any updates from Beehaw since the defederation.

Which turns the users into the workers in this equation since those services need to be maintained and contributed to.

As well as ensuring those profits will keep flowing through their retirement, and you get the long term planning incentive.