If OP is attempting a 3-2-1 Backup scheme, this is an irrelevant argument.

OP wants to store a backup in a different physical location while trusting that it won’t be used to train AI. They are looking for services that can satisfy that.

Blue light has a documented effect on our circadian rhythm and melatonin production. It’s been studied quite a bit. I’m sure mental overstimulation is a component, but it absolutely is not the whole story.

In Western society, there is a big focus on silver bullet solutions because people don’t want to address issues in a holistic way. Thus, you have blue light filters instead of turning the screen off.

Of course a 6" screen doesn’t produce as much as a ball of nuclear fire

But that ball of fire isn’t 12 inches from your face at midnight. And, the majority of blue light filter use is targeting sleep quality. A good portion of this comes down to cumulative exposure time. The best solution is to just not look at screens after a certain hour, but no one wants to do that.

I play disc golf.

Sometimes finding my disc is a safari

The answer to your question is yes

If you have the resources, you can check out Lap of Love and see if they serve your area. They come to where you live so your friend can have a peaceful euthanasia with your company. I favored this option because it allowed my other dog to smell my boys body before it was taken to the crematorium. She tends to be dense, but she could immediately tell he was gone. I really think this helped her grieving process compared to him not being around suddenly.

Euthanasia is the hardest, most loving thing we can do for a companion who is nearing their end.

Yeah, I’m just split between that or an odroid hc4. I wouldn’t even need to buy a case for it.

What model pi? How responsive do you find it?

I’m also in the market for this.

I’m considering setting up a raspberry pi4 nas, and would love to hear pros and cons from people with experience on the matter.

I assume there are faster solutions, but I think it should meet my needs well

Wow thanks for such a verbose post.

That’s given me a lot to chew on

The tools are lacking, as you said.

This post is not about how things should be. It’s not about how things might be one day. It’s about how they are right now

Thanks, I really appreciate that. Education was the foremost goal of this post, and I’m glad some of that may have come through

I have absolutely seen some highly upvoted pillars of salt over there.

The intent of Beehaw appears to be giving people a safe place that they can return to, but they can venture out just as well. That ideal does not mesh with an allowlist. The goal doesn’t appear to be to curate a specific experience, it is to block bad actors from harassing Beehaw’s users on Beehaw’s hosted communities.

With this in mind, I think it absolutely does make sense for lemmy to include permissions that restrict what foreign users can do vs what local users can

Broadly speaking, that’s correct.

Regardless of how development goes in the future, this post is meant to highlight the realities of the current, and the ideological realities of what content on the fediverse is, as well as where you are served it from.

There exists no means to be private without defederating from literally every other instance.

I agree. These mechanisms are in place to stop the fediverse from becoming fedChan

Sure, and I should’ve been more clear and said people need to understand what the Fediverse is.

This is, ultimately, about what federation means and how this platform operates. Its deficiencies, and the way things work currently to address those deficiencies. What I have posted is just as true for kbin as it is for lemmy.

I do, personally, think it’s reasonable for an instance to have “private” communities exclusive to their own users. This is likely a subject that comes down to personal belief, but after dealing with so many trolls and bad actors on other platforms, I absolutely do see a need to have those kinds of permissions.

When/if refederation happens, the comments lost to the abyss will stay lost to the abyss. The source of truth will not update based on the past updates of a formerly defederated instance to my understanding