Sure. If you're super boring, never write anything nefarious about your political leaders, don't run online services, don't volunteer in any organization, have no secrets and not keep any for your friends, don't get exploited, don't have an evil ex with access to flock cameras, nor have sex or anything, don't travel, don't have an important job, no crazy neighbours... I guess you probably won't need privacy. You'll just have to float with the masses and hope no company you contract with gets hacked or bad people cross your ways, ever.

Depends. Those are just letters. First and foremost meant to scare you and do something without thinking it through. You can decide to respond, or not respond, that's up to you. Though it's strongly recommended to contact a lawyer before signing any contract with them, admitting to wrongdoing or give them information about yourself. I'd probably try to avoid (5) without legal advise.

If you toss it in the bin, they'll have to decide whether they have enough evidence and whether it's worth the effort to actually sue you. Usually that letter was an invitation to settle out of court. At their terms and conditions, though.

And yes, they're most certainly backed by the media companies. Otherwise they wouldn't have any business messing with their intellectual property. And maybe the law firm only does letters, maybe they have some number of court cases to achieve each month, who knows? Maybe they already exhausted their more promising X court cases this month and you won't hear from them again if you decide to just ignore them. Maybe you're one of the "lucky" few who get sued.

Entirely depends on the usecase. If it's a NAS and you only watch a few movies in the evening: Turn it off.

I bult a fairly power-efficient server. Consumes less than 20W and spins down the harddisks if not in use.

I can't turn it off because none of the lightbulbs in the house would turn on anymore, my website would go down, my Fediverse instance wouldn't pull any posts from American people who are awake during parts of the night. My emails and chat messages wouldn't get delivered.

I don't have a UPS. Also depends on the circumstances. I use ext4 as a filesystem which is kind of robust enough to handle power outages. And they're rare where I live. A UPS would draw additional power and cost money. It's not worth it for me at home.

I haven't followed the app and API development that closely, but I think Jerboa isn't among the apps which support Piefed. There is some (short) discussion here: https://piefed.social/post/893500

(What works is Interstellar. And there is some more talk about apps here: https://piefed.social/post/891503 )

Seems my comment didn't federate:

Huh. Seems like a bug... If I refresh the page a lot of times, sometimes the button works, sometimes it doesn't. I've attached a screenshot of the browser's developer console. Let's see if that image loads. It says "image button not found".

Maybe some race condition between the separate parts of the JavaScript?

That is in the Downarea editor. (I have "Use Markdown editor [...]" enabled in my profile.

Thank you very much, issue is solved for me now.

I might have changed my IP within my assigned range many months ago. That might explain why I was on the allow-list with a different one.

Sure. All that stuff has consequences. I also used to run a DNS Adblocker on that machine. So after a power outage, all the lights in the kitchen and livingroom (those are the smart ones) would turn on at full brighness (their default state). The internet wouldn't ever come back since it's missing its DNS server. Obviously I can't get any notification of the incident, since my server is down... And I fall back to being reachable via phone or SMS. If my wife tells me via chat or email... That's down, too.

I'm still working on a better solution. It ain't easy, though. It's certainly easier to use some cloud services and have other people keep the infrastructure running in some datacenters which have more redundancy... We have light switches, though. All my smart home stuff is just retrofitted. So we can still turn it off or on with the wall switches. I won't change that until I come up with a solution to this problem. Until then, I've dialed things a bit back and I refrain from making everything "smart" when I can't do it 100% reliably.

And it's just some lights and the washing machine. While I am a nerd and tinkerer, I don't see any good reason to own a smart toaster, fridge or Alexa. YMMV, of course.

Maybe that's a bug introduced in the silencing feature? Seems the piracy community doesn't load either. Nor do communities from lemmy.ml and the common denominator is, they're on silenced instances. That'd be a bug.

Maybe there's something wrong with the "show_all" in the API code: https://codeberg.org/...

(Sorry if this is a double-post, my comment from my instance didn't federate (yet).)

That's a fairly recent feature to let the instance admin curate the popular and all feeds. I.e. not show posts from specific instances and(?) not on the front page. It's in the announcement of PieFed v1.6.23 here: https://piefed.social/...

Instance silencing similar to Mastodon. A silenced instance is not defederated from but their posts do not show in the Popular or All feeds and their communities are not shown in Starter packs aka Topics. Their communities can still be found in the communities list and joined in the normal way. Once joined, posts in there show up in the subscribed feed as usual.

yes, the phone switches to mobile. It's just all the selfhosted services that are missing, like my nextcloud, matrix chat, etc. And several apps complaining they can't sync anymore or send messages. I don't use that many cloud services, so it'll be a lot of things I rely on. Browsing the web works. But I've changed things and moved the adblocker. So now that one issue is gone. It still doesn't solve the real issue... But at least the wifi comes back on its own.

Currently yes. I have a bit of a non-standard setup though. Like a business contract with my internet service provider, which includes a few perks that are required to send mail and are missing on a normal residential internet connection (static ip, dns reverse pointer). And generally 95% of people recommend not to do email yourself. I might change in the future. Back in the days it was a few bucks more a month, but they increased prices substantially. Either I move my mailserver to a VPS or save me some time and effort and switch to some email service like everyone else.

lemmy.ml is the 'original' instance. And i think the oldest by far. That's why you'll find the highest user counts there. But lots of people don't like their moderation policies. And switched their engagement to other instances. I think that's why you see lots of 'nominal members' in the lemmy.ml community, but the lemmy.world one is actually the more active one.

YMMV. And some people also don't like lemmy.world or so much centralization and also try to move away from lemmy.world so we're not completely dependant on a single instance.

I just search and browse for communities, click on all of them and see which ones are active and have nice posts and then I join those.