Oh man, i can’t believe it was only me being off by one. I’m pretty surprised i got as far as i did, considering my lua knowledge boils down to some config functions in Lazy Packages.

I appreciate you looking into this. This works perfectly. I’ll probably play around with coloring stuff a bit, but the functionality works.

Totally this. Not just confusion. What if Lemmy.ml shuts down one day because who ever hosts it doesn’t want to anymore? All I have done on Lemmy will be wiped. Makes me hesitent to actually go in 100%.

I’ll be honest. While I like the idea of decentralized social stiff, its also a huge issue. First you have to choose an instance, which isn’t too bad, but you can’t move. I hear Lemmy.ml being under pressure and I want to move somewhere else to help.with that. My account is 4 years old though and I can take nothing with me. Additionally this means all my content is on one instance. If that ever goes down, the network as a whole my keep existing, but my user and all I’ve put into Lemmy will be gone. And while I trust Lemmy instances more than reddit in terms of privacy, I’m not so sure when it comes to uptime and longevity. Finally, the whole concept of decentralized is hard to wrap my head around. My instance being separate from others but still being subscribed to communities of other instances feels unintuitive. Its the she issue I have with mastodon. I keep loosing track of instances, communities, apps etc. All with different names and logins etc.

For now, I’m trying to get used to Lemmy and just search for communities I’m subscribed to on reddit and see how it goes. It definitely works well enough. Just some conceptual issues I might have to get used to.

With Debian 12 being out, I’m back to Debian and for good this time. We got the last plasma 5 and the inclusion of nonfree firmware on theisoo makes it easier to install. After all these years, Debian still feels like home.

I personally don’t feel like there’s a huge difference in my life anymore. For a PDA to be usefull, i’d need some kind of mobile data. So to that extend, it would still have a modem in it. I rarely make/take phone calls anymore today. Maybe one or two a month. With WhatsApp being vastly more popular in Europe, SMS is also basically non existent. So, in that sense, my smartphone is basically a PDA for me now.

The only benefit i could see is having the option to leave the more expensive PDA at home where you fear breaking/loosing it, and still being reachable. But i can just get a second SIM for free from my Provider and put that into a cheap dumb phone, or switch SIM’s for those occasions.

So for me, There would be no difference between a PDA and a Smartphone nowadays. And if it’s got a modem anyways, having your PDA make calls doesn’t seem like that big of a deal…