I’m definitely no battery engineer, so correct me if I’m wrong, but… wouldn’t a 100-mile-range battery pack have a shorter life span than a 200-mile pack under the same usage since its charge/discharge cycles would be deeper in terms of %, and possibly more frequent because of the reduced range?

Love reading stories like this, imagining myself in their shoes, as I am a web dev. Thanks for posting.

Well, it’s not hard to do lol

Oh, so it’s basically one and the same with Calckey, being the software powering it. Gotcha.

Link? Google doesn’t seem to know about it and neither do I

@Tygr @herpderpedia Kbin does not support !community links just yet, but it’s in the works on some level. Linking to Lemmy communities from here can’t really be done without the full URL, which does mean one would have to provide two links - one that works on Kbin, and one that points to the original instance.

In related news, linking to Kbin magazines is currently a bit borked as well, because the only other syntax that works (@magname) is assumed to refer to a user account and not a magazine.

That’s a good point, lol.
No, according to The Verge’s article, they say that users don’t like the current system:

“First, many don’t appreciate the clutter from awards (50+ awards right now, but who’s counting?) and all the steps that go into actually awarding content. Second, redditors want awarded content to be more valuable to the recipient.”

And there are hints as to what may be slated to replace it:

While Reddit hasn’t specified what the new system might look like, Android Authority may have dug up some clues. Based on code in the Reddit’s Android app, Reddit appears to be working on a “contributor program” that would let users cash out gold or karma (basically, points you get for posts, comments, or giving awards) they receive into real money. Reddit didn’t respond to a request for comment sent Wednesday about Android Authority’s article.

OTOH, this post in r/ModCoord posits a different explanation:

By getting rid of awards, Reddit is unloading a business liability. Because all those existing coins could buy ad-free Reddit.

And yet somehow they say that’s their reasoning - that they’re trying to become profitable.

No idea. Maybe hosts typically follow a policy of not snooping in stored files without a ticket requesting or authorizing it implicitly or explicitly. At least that would make sense to me.

AFAIK, web hosting clients here in the US don’t really have any expectation of privacy from their host itself.

This is true. I know of one that doesn’t care but I’d prefer not to out them even though a lot of people surely know already.

But how could a provider find out, if they are one that cares? Well, they could sniff all their network traffic, do some SPI/DPI on it, store those logs, and run automated analysis on them periodically.

Even then, they’re not going to do the job of, say, the RIAA or MPAA for them. So in most cases, the only way a host would find you out on their own is things like high storage usage (maybe), high amounts of commonly-pirated file types, and high usage of certain protocols (like torrent). Outside of that, probably nothing would happen until your host gets a DMCA notice.

Same. I haven’t used it in ages, but I’ll never forget.

This is how the Fediverse is. That said, I’m pretty sure there is functionality being worked on in some way to accomplish exactly what you are looking for.

Just go to: https://kbin.social/m/startrek@startrek.website

And hit the + button at the top, followed by Add New Article, Add New Link, or whatever.

You’re right that there’s no justifying it – and there’s no excusing it, either. When you’re the public face of a company, you can’t afford to have an off day/week/whatever and let it show.

Exactly

I don’t think most people have any problem with Reddit taking steps toward profitability. The whole time it’s always been about how they’re going about it, and how the fallout could have been far less bad if he had approached everything a little differently (such as: more realistic/less oppressive API pricing, giving warning of changes much farther in advance to allow 3P apps time to adjust, and behaving himself a lot better when interacting with people about the changes).

The coverage shouldn’t change at all. They’ve always been on T-Mobile’s towers.

Judging from the issues I’ve been watching on the hit repo, the setup process is still getting some kinks worked out, but it’s not impossible.

This functionality is on the radar but with the amount of work happening right now on more important things, I’m not sure where this will fall on the roadmap.