For a popular level explanation, try Feynman’s “QED” lecture series,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED:_The_Strange_Theory_of_Light_and_Matter

A more technical understanding is a lot more work and I never got anywhere near this level, the “theoretical minimum”:

https://theoreticalminimum.com/

Actually for the stuff you are asking about, the theoretical minumum isn’t really enough, but it’s a start. Here’s some more:

https://goodtheorist.science/

I’ll leave the psychological analysis to others but when I’m in a text discussion that needs synchronization (e.g. pick someone up at the train station), I usually respond to incoming texts as soon as I see them, e.g. with “ok”, unless I’m driving and the person is expecting me. Even if I’m driving, I’ll hear the incoming text buzz the phone, so if I think it needs immediate attention I’ll pull over and look at it. So lack of such a text response within a few minutes could indicate “follow up with a voice call”.

Saw reddit thread about this. Apparently the jail sentence is all but symbolic, since the defendants are currently outside Switzerland. As long as they don’t go back, they will never see the inside of a jail.

Maybe use a little higher because of conversion losses but archive the opus files so you can always convert again. Sometimes you can get vorbis directly with ytdl.

Bing (and therefore duckduckgo) was down a couple days ago. I could imagine people temporarily switching to google during the outage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_energy_efficiency_ratio

Wikipedia is almost LMGTFY for this type of thing.

Google drive is also privacy invasive, look at that guy who got banned for sending medical photos of his kid to the pediatrician. i’ve been using a self-hosted nextcloud instead of google drive, but these days back up to my laptop through rsync from termux over a usb cable. i’ve noticed with nextcloud, if I upload a folder with lots of photos, a few of them will fail and keep spamming notifications with retries. That is mostly on my old phone though.

Absolutely not. If asked, just refuse to answer, don’t lie. But, I’ve been summoned a few times and they’ve never asked about that, so far.

On Android, install newpipe from f-droid and YouTube links should go to it automatically. No ads, lets you download videos, subscriptions are entirely local on your device, but right now display of comments is messed up. The last isn’t a big deal for me. Ymmv.

Not that I know of, but I see the picture now. I’m using the android voyager app.

Failed to load media, broken image icon.

1 tweet = 140 bytes

1 (printed) page = 60 lines of 60 characters = 3600 bytes

1 moa (minute of audio in 128000 bps mp3) = 960000 bytes

1 mov (minute of video) = typically around 30MB but varies by resolution and encoding, like ounces vs troy ounces vs apothecary ounces.

1 loc (library of congress, used for measuring hard drive capacity) = around 10TB depending on jurisdiction.

The curse of camel case!

I thought Jos A. Bank (stylized spelling of Joseph A. Bank) closed down a number of years ago. I remember getting some decent stuff on sale or closeout there very cheap. I was a bit sad to see it go. Maybe it’s still around under new ownership or something though.

The hole in the wall dry cleaning place across from me does alterations fwiw. You could look for places like that near you and ask.

Thanks. Lemmy’s privacy story is actually kind of bad. Like if you read a post, the instance retains that fact, to support features like “show unread posts”. But that means not only is your posting history public, but your reading history can potentially be exposed.

That’s the main reason I sometimes think of running my own instance. It would receive all the posts from every community without revealing which of them I bothered looking at.

Yes, that should be fairly easy and I sometimes think of doing it.

I’m of the impression that only the origin and destination servers see any given private message, but I haven’t verified this. Anyway, don’t expect them to be really private. I’d worry more about reddit since pm exchanges there can be intensely private, there is a single evil corporation saving them all, and the user population is mostly oblivious to that.

When I’ve had something private to discuss with a reddit user, I’ve asked them to switch to email. They are sometimes willing but not always.

Theoretically there is community input but at the end of the day, one guy owns it and can do stuff unilaterally. There is occasionally drama over that, like recently the piracy community was removed (from lemmy.world, not from the whole fediverse) due to concern over possible legal hassles. I’d say Lemmy world tries to be friendly and mainstream, while edgier stuff tends to live on other instances. So you can still find what you want.

Nothing stops you from using multiple instances of course. It’s no different from drinking at more than one café. But people tend to have a main one that they visit the most.

Edit: clarify about piracy community.

Users are like coffee drinkers and servers are like decentralized coffee shops that talk to each other (“federate”). Anyone can open a coffee shop and many do. It’s harder and more expensive than simply drinking coffee, but not that bad in the scheme of things, and within reach of average hobbyists with time on their hands and a few bucks to spend.

If the instance stays small, it’s cheap to run. If it gets popular, you can ask users for donations and volunteer help. Lemmy.world is the current biggest, and stays afloat that way.

Right now there’s not much corporate presence, but that may change soon, unfortunately.

I guess there can be cultural differences that are reflected in language but I still don’t understand quite what you are asking. Do you mean same locality but different culture?