Oh no, I’m absolutely convinced you are right. Now, convince the moms …

That’s just facebook with extra steps

facebook first went to shit around the time kids and grandparents were allowed to join, so …

I saw the “break the bulb” solution before I commented. Points for the most straight-forward solution, assuming its a simple light-source and not something more secure that a few bulbs at most.

I mean, my solutions either require more information or for the question to be stupidly open-ended.

I’m fond of “leave the door open”, but that only works if the doorway is visible from the switches and the space between too bright.

“send someone else into the room and call them” requires the freedom to do that, but end-runs the need for me to go into the room entirely.

Gimme two smartphones and I’m video-calling one I leave in the room.

In all of my answers and others I’ve seen so far, we’re either making presumptions or making shit up. The question fails as an “only one right answer with only the information given” logic test, but would work to reveal how we approach problems - a personality test.

A leash.

India would be on my top-3-shortlist of countries that would have me worried if their government had any success at stamping-out piracy. I could swear most of my downloads have English and Hindi or Bengali for audio/subs with little-else, and it would be soooo much more if I downloaded CAMRips…

I don’t, but there is no smart-or-dumb-phone that has it. The fact that’s due to plan availability changes nothing, nevermind that with said plan, almost any recent phone would do.

No argument here.

I use closer to a terrabyte a month, and I am well-aware that it is a plan issue. That doesn’t change the fact that the only any-number-of-mobile-devices/plan pairing that allows me to do what I want where I want is a smartphone. That includes downloading content for offline-viewing with minimal hassle.

When my kids pay for their own phone service, maybe I’ll go all-in on piracy instead, but in the mean-time, I’m exploiting that which I am already paying for, with a device I’ve had paid-off for years.

Find me one with an unlimited hotspot plan, and I’ll switch tomorrow. Literally, that is what my smartphone offers. Not the hotspot, but unlimitted data plan and the means to use it to the fullest on the phone itself?

Close enough that this is my bar to meet, even though I would rather switch to a separate e-Ink tablet, dumb-phone-with-hotspot, and steam-deck-or-similar, for EDC-or-close-to; I would probably carry just the tablet and phone most days, maybe just the phone and deck on others.

You might want to look-into how first-responders handle leadership. Ideally, everyone who eventually shows-up to help handle the fallout of a crisis-situation is properly trained to co-ordinate things, but you can’t know who actually will handle things until someone steps-up. As a result, the first trained-AT-ALL person on-scene gets the role, period, until they defer, delegate, or resign.

This leads to a lot of top-down and peer-pressure in related-fields to always be training. Leadership-training is often one of the cheapest, only-free, or even travel-room-and-board-included options available.

What they’ve found is that those who step-up lock-in on what needs to be done - all levels from the bottom-up have the idealized overall picture, checlists, exception scenarios hammered-into them, and the importance of keeping-track-of-and-share the details even when you don’t have time to write them down or explain them to everyone.

Therefore, a lot of the related Leadership training revolves around how to document what you can, the importance of finding a replacement-for-you candidate who is paying attention and can understand what you would need to pass-on with minimal explanation. Thus, the person who you eventually defer to, who relieves you and takes charge is usually not the highest-authority or most-experienced person on hand.

The higher you get in these authority-chains, and/or the more experience you get, the more the job is literally stepping back and check-boxing all the peripheral tasks. Taking-up slack or identifying those capable of doing so and stearing them towards those roles while avoiding interfering or conflict-with the … err … “situational” leader that stepped-up first and hasn’t bowed-out yet.

Mind-you, none of this has anything to do with the day-to-day of those involved. People have managed large-disaster-fallout situations for 24-hours-plus only for it to come-out later that all they had on their CV was CPR training and an un-related-job with no prior leadership experience - they may not have even realized that they were in-charge until asked-about it days later. People just kept asking them what to do, and when asked what to do by them, responded, “do you mind handling things a while longer?”; They signed whatever was presented to them and not full of errors, maybe not realizing x document wasn’t just a witness statement.

I guess what I’m getting at is, yes, some people have natural leadership talent, and some people you can train in the role five-ways-from-Sunday and they won’t be suitable or want to step-up, and yes, so much in life requires “that guy” to be in-charge of x location or x situation for whatever time-frame, but …

… the inevitability of the need for a leader does not require the same person be in-charge of whatever for years at a time, months, weeks, or even days at a time. Every leadership role has a hand-book of-sorts, a list of known exceptions, exceptions you may not want the wrong-person handling, and essential, bare-minimum tasks…

Here, I think the First-Responder outlook has it right: everyone gets repeatedly trained for leadership and constantly scrutinized for suitability. There are EMT’s, Fire-men, and of-course Police Officers who are not allowed to work alone(far from just trainees any-more, but not leaders … Barney Fife?), and preventing them ending-up de-facto in-charge of something important, at least on-the-clock, is a big part of why.

I’m not watching that. I might look-up “Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet” at some point, but the only thing this post has going for it is that that text was available in the Video Description on youtube.

When I started on windows, and even with the textual pseudo-GUI’s of DOS, once you got it working you could customize the hell out of everything(or it didn’t pretend otherwise), and it would just continue to work until something physically broke or I broke somethin; with a tweak I would generally just undo and get back to it.

Windows is nothing like that now. My phone is more customizable, smooth, enjoyable and stable than Windows(OOBE, anyways). Its arguably better at things like, idk, working with scanners, which Windows insists are dark magic only the manufacturers can help you with(TWAIN was literally cleaner, and still is, when you can lift the hood to find it); I’m not saying its all-that-weird to need a driver - what’s weird is refusing to look for an entire device-category until a third-party app tells you how, when EVERYTHING ELSE is basically plug-and-play, including the printing functions of networked copiers or fax machines.

Rant from this-specific-day’s bullshit at work aside, my first experiences were with an Amiga and some Apple ii’s, OS2Warp was an experience that barely struck me as much-different than what I was used-to, and I’ve messed-around with Macs as much as much as anyone.

What’s weird isn’t moving away from Windows, basically the most overtly Black Mirror-esque OS of what’s out there today. What’s weird is how hung-up people are on it.

Every brain-controlling or addicting substance or species on Futurama has more to offer; Windows, like facebook, is trying to be the ads injected-into dreams. Who the hell wants that?

check my edit maybe

I didn’t say anything about labelling, but facebook does have it in place. Its not just that they can’t reply back; They can’t even see their own comment or the OP any-more, let alone your reply.

EDIH: I agree with you that labelling is best and getting notified about something you can’t reply to is stupid, but beyond that, I’m in favor of thinking of communities more as private spaces. Whether its right or not, mods, admins, blog authors or peertube videographers can treat those threads as if our comments are un-wanted trespassers and they have no obligation to explain their reasoning.

There’s no point in getting worked-up about it. 99 times in a hundred, its not hard to anticipate how what we want to say will be recieved in a given space.

We aren’t prisoners, so we are also free to choose to take our comments elsewhere, or start our own instances or communities to host them. That said, if you anticipate moderating the replies to what you have to say to be too much work, well, that’s often how the mods in other places are looking at it.

Its often not just “letting you say what you want”, but also, likely putting more effort into moderating the replies on your comment than yourself will have to. Work and effort you mostly won’t see or acknowlege.

RE: your question about the deletion of a thread you put to me on a post you’ve since deleted or had taken down by mods or whatever:

RE: your question about deleting a thread.

I can’t even see that thread, and as that was done by someone who has an account capable of making that thread-removal happen, likely as a mod or admin, I’mma say its their perogative.

My facebook wall and posts are mine - there’s plenty of shit comments I’ve had to delete for various reasons, and if you have a problem with it, I would suggest not using facebook. Same goes for comments on Youtube vids. I’m unaware of any reason Mastodon should, or you would expect them to, handle comments on blog-posts or whatever any differently.

Ownership and curration of one’s space and blocking are inherrent in the idea of voluntary federation/de-federation. I can’t delete replies to my posts on Lemmy in general, but that’s because they aren’t made to a community that I own or moderate, or the same for an instance with admins.

Gotta disable UPNP to commit to this specific strategy …

Just as likely that red sliver at the end was the traffic created by his intentional usage of the phone all-along. Telemetry and ads are just that gross, but what do I know?

Unless the stems are breaking, that’s what repair-tabs are for. That said, I can’t believe that’s still the only way the slats are being hung.

Oh wait, I found a thing. I was thinking some sort of clamp would be best, and that’s basically what these are.

Somehow, I doubt it keeps them from being pulled-down again, but at least you should be able to just put them back up again and again this way.