Exactly what I meant with

LAN != internet

Most routers allow you to set child safety settings for devices to block them from accessing the internet in specific timeframes or completely. You can still access the local network from the affected device or access that device from your local network

Why? Does the printer need to be connected to the internet at all, if not for firmware upgrades? (Note: LAN != internet)

When they want us to call it Gulf of America, why can’t we just also name it Flu of America?

HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK!*

*Peace was never an option!

Help please, I am new to lemmy and the Fediverse!

Hi and welcome here!

The fediverse means that those communities and users you interact with may be on other servers than the one you are on. Your post reads like you know that fact, so I just said that in case you didn’t know this. Like email addresses, the part after the (second) @ designates the server a community (!community@example.com) or user (@user@example.com) belongs to.

A first sanity check is always to just visit that server in your webbrowser. Lemmy.pt looks fine at a first glance. It might have been down when you tried to post or comment, but it seems to be up currently. It could also suffer from non obvious problems behind the scenes (same for feddit.org, but I guess we’d see probably more posts like this, then?).

Another possible problem: Activities in the fediverse between your local server and a remote server usually only get synced when at least one user on your local server is (successfully) subscribed to that community on tue remote server. Maybe no one on feddit.org is currently subscribed to that community, so that you do only see an out of date copy of that data - or lemmy.pt didn’t correctly get your subscription? Sometimes servers/users may also have data retention policies and delete data older than X weeks/months (not sure about Lemmy, but on Mastodon, you can set up auto delete in you account settings). This can also be a source of problems when interacting with old content. I’m not sure though, if this is also true for Lemmy in general or lemmy.pt.

There can be problems in the communication between servers, too. I’m no admin here, so I cannot check this.

Also another thing in the fediverse are blocks and defederation. You can (individually for your account) block specific users you don’t want to interact with and also whole communities. But the admin of a Lemmy instance can also defederate specific other Lemmy instances,which means no one on that server will be able to interact or access content from the defederated server and vice versa. The domain name and community name of !portugal@lemmy.pt looks innocent enough though to not instantly say “defederation”.

So, an admin might give some more qualified answers with access to the logs, but the above might give you some insights and pointers what might be going on.

Have you seen some of the concept art for Breath Of The Wild? They were thinking about UFOs

https://www.businessinsider.com/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-ufo-concept-art-photos-2017-3

Or when a side quest in Majora’s Mask makes you defend Romani Ranch from aliens?

https://www.zeldadungeon.net/majoras-mask-walkthrough/spring-ranch-graveyard/#c7_2

Depending on how these are calculated, I do use $searchterm -inurl:pinterest a lot, when using google

It’s certainly possible to become a millionaire without committing any fraud - you just have to start as a billionaire first.

Oh, that’s an easy one:

Just constantly stick your finger up your nose, scratch your balls, etc. Make them dirty, greasy,… You get it. If there are “better” means (e.g. food) available, use that. Then play dumb and try to use their computer as if it was a phone and try to do everything as if it had a touch screen. Smear it all over their screen. Cuss as the PC doesn’t react, try again, get visibly angry and irritated.

They’ll stop asking questions fast. Probably right after they realize what you did to the first PC.

• Daily incremental (and occasionally full) backup to an external HDD - a full image of my PCs, so that I should be able to restore anything back to what it was in the last ~14 days, assuming no ransomware or fire or…
• All the data I care about gets synced to my Nextcloud (VPS, not home lab) - somewhat ransomware protected as I could restore VPS backups independently from my PC.
• Most precious data (mostly photos) gets backed up regularly to an encrypted zip file and then gets send to a glacier tier S3 bucket. Some manual retention is done on the zip file level, so that I can get a tad older backup restored.
• At least monthly a full backup image of my PCs is created on a separate external HDD which is not stored at home, but in a place I could access 24/7 if I really needed to restore something fast.

Phones, etc? Just sync to the mentioned Nextcloud, PC downloads from there and everything gets then into the aforementioned backups.

Homeserver? See “PC” above. With the caveat that some VMs/containers are not in the backup cycle, as they do not store any valuable data besides temp files, etc. For these, only things like docker compose files, custom config, ansible playbooks,… are in my backup.

Its inefficiently emptying your wallet then!

Somewhat, I read a German news article that explicitly warned that USB transfer will be blocked. I just searched for an English article to post here afterwards, but I didn’t read it. So… yeah, „lost in translation“

So I’d suggest, unless you really really need some obscure feature, Calibre+Kindle is nowadays perfectly fine, and maybe you shouldn’t risk bricking your device.

Uhm… Well about that… You will not be able to transfer books onto you kindle via USB in about a week. Amazon is going to remove that feature from all Kindles next week. The only way to do that may be through the method you described. But how long will they offer that, if they say they are removing the USB feature because of piracy? You cannot pirate books onto your kindle, when you cannot transfer books from outside of Amazon onto it. (Also this is a nice reason for them to block you from buying books anywhere else than on Amazon, of course)

https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transfer-usb

Oui

It’d be a shame if all the data that got scrubbed from other government sites resurfaces on the doge site

I don’t mean that you need to enter info there that you don’t have. But - you found a new shop? Cool. Enter it in OSM. Or checking it’s correctly in OSM. Or append their opening hours to the data set or…

For some easy edits, there’s e.g. the android(?) app StreetComplete which will show „quests“ on OSM in your area to complete datasets. Like „is this street lit?“ „what surface does this road have?“, „are there board walks?“, „what’s this house number here?“, „what’s name of this street?“ and so on.

You can do such things on an afternoon stroll in your area and it will help you learn your surroundings and discover things.

Register an OSM account and be the change you want to see in your local map!

I own a small USB stick that acts as a camera. But in reality it’s just a HDMI input on the other end. Now beat that with software

The king is dead, long live the king!

Plausible deniability