Go ahead and try scraping an arbitrary list of sites without an API and let me know how that goes. It would be a constant maintenance headache, especially if you’re talking about anything other than the larger chains that have fairly standardized sites

Because grocery stores don’t make that data accessible to third party developers, otherwise someone would do what you’re suggesting and they’d risk you shopping elsewhere.

Give NixOS a shot. It’s got a learning curve that may be difficult if you’ve never read code, but it’s my preferred immutable setup.

It even has more packages than Arch.

Here’s the video that got me onto it:

https://youtu.be/CwfKlX3rA6E

Bro just accept the L and quit while you still can

Edit: I just saw the thread 💀

I’m really enjoying Otterwiki. Everything is saved as markdown, attachments are next to the markdown files in a folder, and version control is integrated with a git repo. Everything lives in a directory and the application runs from a docker container.

It’s the perfect amount of simplicity and is really just a UI on top of fully portable standard tech.

Salient demonstration, but if image proxying were to come to Lemmy I’d hope it was made optional, as it could overburden smaller instances, especially one-person instances (like mine). We also need a simple integrated way of configuring object storage.

I wrote a few scripts to automate this entire process for me:

https://zemmy.cc/post/25500?scrollToComments=true

If you’re able and willing to self-host, I’ve developed a pretty great system that automates my entire process. The app I’m using on mobile is also available on iOS

https://zemmy.cc/post/25500

Resolution actually isn’t the major issue here, it’s PPD, or pixels per degree. This metric is what matters when you’re talking about the pixel density of a display when viewed through a magnifying lens. I have the Quest Pro and I can attest to pancake lenses being a MAJOR upgrade in terms of visual clarity, especially with text, but we’re going to have to wait for the next generation with microOLED before we can start seriously considering replacing our monitors.

Apple’s headset isn’t doing anything particularly revolutionary, especially not because it has an onboard processor. They’re just the company who made a big splash because of their name recognition and it being their first foray into XR. The Quest 2/Pro also have an onboard SoC with a CPU/GPU and can also do supersampling via Qualcomm’s “Super Resolution”. Additionally they also have incredibly high quality hand tracking which just got even better with the most recent update, now allowing hand tracking while holding controllers. I’m personally holding out to see what happens with the Quest 3 as I refuse to buy anything in the Apple ecosystem.

Then I’ll know we’ve truly passed the threshold into mainstream adoption the day you change your mind 😅

I am a huge fan of the technology, but we’re still very much at the part of the lifecycle where you it takes some adjustment both physically and personally to really adopt for long periods. The next generation of 4k microOLED displays and pancake lenses are going to break a LOT of ground in terms of comfort and visuals, but we’re still at least a decade away from a lightweight pair of glasses form factor.

I completely gave up torrents for Usenet, also using the -arr’s to get content for Plex. I completely saturate my bandwidth with Usenet downloads and I’ve never once received an ISP letter, and I’ve been entirely without a VPN.

As someone who completely gave up torrenting for usenet, what made you decide against usenet?

Have you tried modern HMD’s? There’s nothing currently on the market that I would use as a daily driver, though this looks like it could have the specs to make that a possibility for me. I personally have been wanting this use case every since I first tried VR.

I look forward to the day I can get rid of my physical displays.

To elaborate further from the other comment, it’s a person running a copy of the Lemmy software on their server. I for example am running mine (and seeing this thread) from https://zemmy.cc. Thanks to Federation all of our different servers are able to talk to each other so we can have a shared experience rather than everyone being on one centralized instance managed by one set of administrators (like reddit is).

This provides resilience to the network. If reddit goes down, reddit is down. If lemmy.world goes down, you can still access the content of every community that isn’t on lemmy.world, and if other servers were subscribed to the content on a community from lemmy.world you could still see the content from before the server went offline (and it will resync once it’s back up).

If we put all of our eggs into a single basket, we have a single point of failure. If all of the major communities go to lemmy.world then lemmy.world is that single point of failure. Doing that is effectively just recreating the same issues we had with reddit but with extra steps. By spreading larger communities across servers we ensure that the outage (or permanent closure) of a single instance doesn’t take down half the active communities with it.

My friends instance, crystals.rest, is hosted on a $5/mo Linode with 1GB of RAM

Putting all of the large communities on a single instance is just reddit with more steps. It’s good that one of the larger Lemmy communities is not also on the largest Lemmy instance. Lemmy.world suffers a lot of outages (in part because it’s so centralized), meanwhile this community remains available.

I welcome any alternatives to the current situation, but unfortunately that’s where we are right now.

The only solution would be a massive effort that requires decades of engineering hours and a few million dollars.

Firefox is actually a bit faster and lighter than Chrome these days. Worth checking out it or it’s forks over Chrome

Lesser of two evils

You’re not paying to remove ads from Lemmy. You can continue using Lemmy ad-free on mobile via the mobile site or any of the other PWA’s or native apps. What you’re paying to remove ads from is Sync. The developer has decided that they need to be compensated to sustain the amount of effort developing and maintaining the app requires. If you don’t want to pay that price with cash or your eyeballs then don’t use it.

Nobody is forcing you to use Sync, nobody is forcing you to see ads. The beauty of a platform like Lemmy is you have the choice to use whatever client you want. That doesn’t mean you’re entitled to any of them.