jsveiga

Fried leaf cutter ant queen abdomen (it’s just a ball full of eggs) reminds me of bacon.

It is not safe, it will explode, leak poisonous gases, kill everyone and all puppies and kittens, smack Earth out of its orbit into the Sun, and so forth.

Having said that, some 6 months ago I noticed my 2 year old Samsung A71 had a slightly fat back, so after a few months (it was steady, not growing), I took it to a repair shack to have the battery replaced. The guy asked me if the battery was still holding normal charge, and I said yes, a whole day of usage.

He asked me if I wanted to just “deflate” it. Well, yes.

So he did what you said, and the universe is still unharmed.

But in my case it was just gas trapped in the battery envelope; probably it overheated once while charging, but there was little or no damage to the battery itself. If even after passing gas yours is still swolen, it may mean your electrodes are deformed, which is probably more risky than my case.

I’m not in any way recommending you to keep using it. It worked for me, but I’m a very lucky person.

I’m waiting for a 138kV three phase USB-C for EV instant charging.

48V and we’re back to POTS (plain old telephone system) voltages :-)

I agree, but that’s the problem even from reputable sources, glitch happens. Old 5V-only chargers would need much more things to go wrong to fry our devices. A 20V (or 48V !) one is just a small (sw or hw) glitch away to zap a device that doesn’t support such voltages.

When all USB could do was 5V I already didn’t trust any charger but mine - I couldn’t believe people dared to connect their devices to charge into any public USB chargers.

Now that they can go up to 20V, and we have to trust everything will work with the negotiation and wiring to get the right voltage, it’s even scarier!

because as OP made very clear, kbin is the same thing as lemmy, they are just two aliases to the same subreddit.

Ah understood. Kbin is the KDE binary to access this “lemmy” subreddit on facebook?

https://www.fakta.eu/pi/OMA-Stegemargarine-500-g_4556711_162175.aspx

Some social media focus on people, some on subjects.

One type tends to create “influencers” and circle jerking opinion bubbles, the other forces you to interact with different opinions around subjects you like.

I hope Lemmy stays on the second type.

Besides, with the volatility of instances, and user logins not being universal across instances, Lemmy also makes it harder to do that, and as a bonus devalues karma hoarding.

I’m using Jerboa; I’m logged in sh.itjust.works, and commenting from there.

I left slashdot for reddit, and reddit for lemmy. Those were replacements from my point of view.

I’m not sure what you mean with “replace” in general. Taking over their servers and replacing the actual running software? Or maybe using their domain name for a lemmy instance? Transfer all logins and data to a lemmy instance and delete them from their systems?

Those are unlikely.

Becoming mainstream, having more media attention and influence than reddit? Then becoming more interesting for spammers and infested with lower quality content? Hopefully not.

vlemmy is provably lost, but once you resub everything, apparently you can download your setup, then upload to other instance:

https://lemmy.ca/post/1292268

Meh, I had just got asylum coming from reddit, had barely unpacked.

Having learned the volatility of instances, I’ve signed up to a couple of other instances and subscribed to the same communities.

I don’t care for hoarding internet points - if I did, I’d have stayed in reddit as a karma hostage - so I don’t mind switching instances.

Maybe that’s a healthy aspect of lemmy; accumulated points matter less when they are more ephemeral.

https://feddit.nl/post/458654

vlemmy.net stopped working (or stopped being useable) yesterday.

The domain was showing as parked in a dynamic dns server.

Nobody knows what happened so far.

https://feddit.nl/post/458654

vlemmy.net stopped working (or stopped being useable) yesterday.

The domain was showing as parked in a dynamic dns server.

Nobody knows what happened so far.

This feature shouldn’t be implemented on the server side or decided by the front end code, as the developers would have to decide which “same names” to merge. It’s the end user who should pick that.

It would better be a front end/app feature: The end user would pick communities from multiple servers (even ones with different names), and group them under whatever name/category they want. The front end would then show all posts/comments from that group as they were from a single community.

Additional feature: Automatically merge comments from cross-posts.