ALostInquirer

Suppose the internet was still a major success and was sustainable without compromising for commercial interests. How do you think societies around the world may have changed, or not?

Consider the optimistic angles of such an unencumbered space extended out from the internet's earlier days to the present. What if some of those possibilities had been realized?

Theme parks are pretty wicked, so I'm wondering if you had your choice of theme and a ridiculous budget to work with, what kind of theme park would you love to build?

Calibre is great for managing an ebook library, and okay for reading ebooks but the reader is clearly not its primary focus, so I'm wondering what readers folks here use across platforms.

I know of a few, but I'm always on the lookout for different options that may have features I didn't realize I'd love to use.

Do you cave and use both hands? Do you take the chance and try to use them one-handed when more actively using them? Or do you ultimately submit and get an accessory to kinda help, at least with keeping a hold of them?

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a few other answers:

just use both hands, get an accessory, and/or balance on pinky and develop the toughest pinky imaginable

spoiler bonus: find some smol phone you like and savor it for as long as it works :::

There seem to be plentiful options for text chat servers, so I'm curious for those that self-host their own, what their preferences & experiences have been with them.

Also those mentioned in the title were just a few examples, if you run something else, e.g. Revolt or Mattermost or something else less popular, would be interested in reading about it!

Bars are notable for staying open late, but I'm not really familiar with alternatives that might operate similarly. I think many cafés (at least around my area) tend to close a few hours earlier by comparison, which would be my go-to for an alternative otherwise, so what other options are there?

So, I basically missed that transitional phase when telephone booths were more commonplace. This has left me with a number of questions about the ol' telephone booths, but this one strikes me as one of the funnier and more unnerving ones to ask.

Was it possible to get locked in a telephone booth? Did some models have locks to keep folks from messing with them? If so, who...Would manage the locks? Local authorities & the phone companies?

Were there any notable stories of a person somehow getting trapped in a telephone booth in otherwise ordinary circumstances (i.e. no disaster had struck)?

Whether it's a form of note-taking or regular repetition or the like, what are some self-education techniques and tools you've developed to help yourself learn on your own?

It's always interesting imo to read about how some folks teach themselves different stuff.

Or is that more of a stereotype, and there are some (maybe more?) out there using some form of graphical interfaces/web dashboards/etc.?

It's struck me as interesting how when you look up info about managing servers that they primarily go through command-line interfaces/terminals/etc. It's made me wonder how much of that's preference and how much of it's an absence of graphical interfaces.

Awhile ago I started dabbling with espeak-ng and through some trial & error managed to get some fun sounding results, but I had to trial & error as I had difficulty finding advice or guides on using it. Would anyone here happen to have any pointers to more info on how to work with espeak-ng in general?

To be clear, I'm not trying to make it sound more human, and in fact, I like that it doesn't sound that human, which is part of why I'm using it. Machine-speech as its own distinct voice is fascinating & cool to me.

Mainly I'm trying to learn how to adjust some of its enunciation so that it may be more readily understood, and maybe some ways to enable it to vocalize nonsense with slightly more flow rather than flopping over & repeating letters, lol

Given the approach/philosophy of Beehaw, I'm kind of confused and surprised by the choice of Lemmy for building this community space. Not that I disagree with it, but it undeniably complicates administration/moderation in a variety of ways thanks to federation (as has become apparent with new Lemmy instances & the population surge) and its modest development only compounds those complications through lack of sufficient tools.

Was this something of a hindsight is 20/20 situation, wherein with more consideration, something else may have been adopted? Or has it been banking on some optimism in federated communities becoming the new norm?

I've read over some of the philosophy/thinking posts regarding Beehaw, but so far as I recall this technical choice wasn't a focal point in them. Sorry if I overlooked some explanations, though!

Curious if any folks here have a Unihertz phone (Jelly/Atom/etc.) and how they've been for them. Knowing their constraints, I've still been tempted to get one because I think I'd like the more compact sizes, and they're not super expensive.

However, they are also still budget phones and despite being small, a tad thick, so...