Those would be useful to have in the sidebar.
It’s too narrowly focused. There are instances that are down for everyone, and instances that are down for just some users (like Tor users). An instance might be a constant deliberate state of blocking certain demographics (Tor/VPN users, IPs from certain regions, CGNAT, etc). Please be aware that Cloudflare sites like #lemmyWorld are exclusive walled gardens. These are not good places to collect or discuss website availability. One absurdity that we have is that websites like the original downforeveryoneorjustme(dot)com are Cloudflared, which excludes some people from doing checks (yikes, they can’t even troubleshoot a possible #digitalExclusion problem because of digital exclusion). The web is so broken.. this community which tries to track and investigate the brokenness should be open to all. So I suggest:
- Renaming the community to something more generic like “Fedi Node Availability Status” and expand its scope described in the sidebar.
- Kill off your
[!isitdown@lemmy.world](/c/isitdown@lemmy.world)community. Or perhaps make it announcement only and redirect people to an open venue like this one. The infosec.pub instance is ideal not only because it’s within the specialized scope of the node but also the admin is quite skilled at securing the site without CF. - Add
downinspector.comto the sidebar as a suggestion for where to test sites. This is perhaps the only availability checker that is not in Cloudflare’s walled garden. - Perhaps pin my next post, which will list some sites that always have reduced availability
it would be more usable if the left column were locked so you don’t lose it when scrolling horizontally. Same for the top row.
“Email / Phone required for signup” ← these are on two very different levels of intrusiveness.. really needs to split into two rows. And from there, it’s interesting to know whether a phone must be a mobile phone or not. With email, it’s interesting to know if disposable addresses are blocked or not.
Also, for “decentralized network” for #Signal, you simply have “no”. I would change that to “No (Amazon)” to inform people they are feeding Amazon by using Signal.
In fact I suggest also adding a row: “feeds a tech giant” because privacy from tech giants is not the only factor -- some of us trying to live ethically do not want to even feed privacy offending tech giants, such as:
- Amazon
- Microsoft
- Cloudflare
- Apple
And as someone else pointed out, Delta Chat is missing.
It’s the other way around -- childishly selfish to partake in reckless consumerism, buying goods needlessly with total disregard for ethics of the supply chains and ethics of excessive production and consequential waste. Naïve to then advocate for products that are actually anti-consumer. And disgusting to see someone encouraging others to behave like children in the same way while at the same time calling adults in the room “childish”. Shame on you.
I’ve never seen a clear CMOS button.. is that what modern boards have now?
Yeah indeed a USB3→PATA and/or SATA cable was what I was actually looking for at the flee market - but only found the IDE card (which would also work for me if a cable were easy to come by)
Cost might be negligible.. probably $/€ 1-5 for the card and probably $/€ 1 for the cable if i find one. I’m happy with the 15 y.o. laptop. I think I’ll get at least another 5-10 years out of it. I’m not gaming or anything heavy, so I believe I will never again have to buy a PC or laptop. I keep finding functional PCs in the trash that are faster than what I need. I expect that pattern to continue as long as MS continues to bloat out Windows and leverage designed obsolescence against a majority of the population. Even LCDs and scanners I pull from the trash have no issues. I’ve accumulated HDDs from the trash that are useful for temporary operations, like having an extra backup or two while migrating to a new Debian release.
I just love the fact that I do not need to support bad players in the marketplace. I have never had to buy a post-2008 intel cpu or a post-2013 AMD CPU (which means I have never had to contribute to chip makers who produce anti-noncorp-consumer management engines). IIUC, the only modern spy-free chip is the ibm power11. If I ever see the day that I need to buy new gear it would have to be that. Not sure if they put the power11 in laptops yet, or if there will be a mobile variant.
thanks for the tip but that’s not either. I tried each ram stick independently as well as with no ram and it was the same every time.
My laptop is over 15 years old. I have an expresscard in it now (to get USB3). I think PCMCIA is compatible, correct? IIUC both PCMCIA and ExpressCard are 54mm wide, but the expresscard only uses half the pins.
thanks for the tip.. i would not have thought CMOS values would cause this but it's worth a try. Note that there is a CMOS clearing jumper so I guess I'll try that first.
UPDATE: I tried your procedure as well as the procedure in the manual and it made no difference. The manual said unplug and remove the battery, then move the jumper for 5-10 secs, then move it back. I guess the jumper is analogous to holding down the power button.
Yeah indeed it was very useful information on a shit website. This is increasingly common. I’m always looking for a tech solution to this problem that is not user-specific. Advanced users can solve it for themselves to some extent using advanced tools. And sometimes that backfires.. if the website is particularly user-hostile advanced tools can worsen the UX.
If they want my face that bad they should at least give me a free M&M for it. They need to add a button “push this for a free M&M if you consent to giving us your face”.