First thank you for the work (always keeping server up to date, fixing issues quickly, blocking spam,...).

Now time to think about migrating, any advices for another great instance?

Signal ?

A bit on the costly stuff but I find the vacuum cleaner robot (not sure it's called this in English) very useful. The house is cleaner to be vacuumed every day (even if it's not as efficient as manual vacuuming or cleaning). Especially with pets and children.

I think that one of the structural change that helped a lot to have less stalled or unmaintained open source projects is the improvement in the DevOps tools.

I mean that, until recently, I always had been an open source user and supporter but, despite being a professional software engineer, I never coded in open source projects. The reason to this is that I did not wanted to commit myself into a project that I cannot afford to work regularly on because of professional and/or personal time constraints.

Now with the broad use of git and related platforms for open source projects (GitHub, gitlab, ...), it's possible to work only a little on open source projects. You can fix a bug impacting you as an user, translate some strings in your native language, improve the doc, ... without commiting to work regularly on the project. You just change the stuff, have no requirements to inform anyone, make a pull request and it's merged or not by the maintener ...

I think this is really what contributed to improvement in the way open source projects evolved.

Otherwize there is another (very IMHO) good alternative FOSS gallery: AVES

Thank you for your dedication in maintaining us a great instance. Very much appreciated, I'm really happy that my initial instance closed and that I choose (mostly out of luck) this one.

The issue with the current time zones in Europe is that they are far from being natural... The more you go to the west the later the sun is raising and setting, the more you go to the east, the opposite. Current western European time zone is too large... There are initiatives to improve that but will it be done ?

For example: https://timeuse.barcelona/...

Exactly this is the problem, when I talk non-geek (including my wife) about privacy they answer "what the hell have you to hide !" ... It's so difficult to convince people :'(

A good chair for sure. I think this is the most valuable thing you can ask for.

A good one IMHO is Omnivore.

Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who love to read.

Recently switched to Duck Duck Go and honestly I find the results better than Google. More accurate, less "sponsored" results, ...

It could be nice for transparency purpose to publish a list of reasons for each blocked instance. ( Could be even better if Lemmy supported that out-of-the-box but I don't think this is a top priority right now).

Also:

• !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
• !communityspotlight@lemmy.world
• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

I think a bit the opposite: I'm really worried about the trend to give people only information they care about. I think it's essential to be able to have information about everything. Of course there will always be stuff you don't care about but having it automatically filtered out is dangerous in my opinion. In GAFA-powered social networks, you are only given pieces of information about your own opinion, you never have something that make you question yourself about your opinion. The power of independent and open media like Lemmy is to not rely on such biasing algorithms.

The stand, by Stephen King

Yes, basically double means that the alcohol level is greater than an "ordinary" beer which would be qualified of "simple" (but that term never appears). Double is around 7%, triple around 8/9% and there are also quadruple.

One other meaning is about the number of fermentation steps, but historically that's not the true meaning and more of a recent marketing argument, because all "special beer" as we say in Belgium have 2 fermentations. The main one transforming sugar to alcohol and a secondary during the "keeping" period, usually in bottles and helping to develop the specific taste of the beer. Some recipe includes adding some yeast to refine the taste, so some brand speak about triple fermentation.

Sorry if the English terms are not the best, I tried to explain from what I know but I don't know beer specific wording in English so I translated literally from French for the words I didn't knew.

Internet Relay Chat.

The Ukraine-Russia war because I live in western Europe and fear the possible consequence (some already occurred like energy and goods prices raise).

D. J. Trump justice issues since I think that's important for judging the health of our democracies.

Indeed, being Belgian and an adept of the real French fries (double cooked) I was not convinced at all. In the end, I still prefer real fries but I find the air fryer very practical to cook (or warm up quickly - unlike microwave oven it does not make stuff soft) all sort of food.

Please define "normal people". ;)