I think I once read that when the metric system was first defined during the French Revolution, they also tried to use a decimal system for time, but that was quickly abandoned.

Fascinating. I heard something similar with particle pollution in big cities.

Yes ! This would also be useful on Mastodon.

How do you forward Whatsapp to matrix? Is it two-way?

Very interesting read. Thanks for sharing. I’m curious: have you considered [matrix] nowadays?

I am a scientist myself, and I know what the HCERES says about his institute, and also that his institute no longer had support of the CNRS, which is telling considering that the CNRS only very rarely make such moves, as well as editors no longer accepting his papers leading him to create his own self serving journals. My issues with him are his lack of scientific rigor and lack of scientific ethics. Unfortunately, he’s staining the community as a whole, even though he lost support of several scientific institutions long before the Covid.

This guy is a shame for us all, French academics… sorry World, please know we’re not all frauds….

You can use a third hand, typically like this: https://befr.rs-online.com/web/p/soldering-accessories/1466439

From my limited experience, make sure the things you want to solder are mechanically held together. And heat the pieces you want to solder, and use them to melt the tin. Never melt the tin directly on the iron.

The not so tech savvy family members have trouble with e2e though. They always have problems with device somehow not properly authorized, and some encrypted rooms accessible from the computer but not from the phone. I usually solve it for them regularly, but they still can’t do it by themselves. So I prefer to keep the rooms unencrypted (we are not sharing state secrets anyway), but self-hosted (I don’t want to give away family pictures to big tech companies).

I’ve never bothered to try alternatives to Element. Are they worth trying ?

And naturally, matrix is federated so you can join rooms of any other instance.

I use Matrix (Element client on iOS) with the extended family and it works well. Most of them are not tech-savvy. I self-host my own Matrix instance because I wanted to have control on where personal pictures were hosted.

Same for me.

Maybe your instance was defederated by the instance of the community you are trying to post to? From what I understand, you can check in the Instances link of this server if your instance is listed. I don’t know if that is still true, but I think Beehaw (temporarily?) defederated lemmy.world for example, because it was growing so fast that they couldn’t keep up with the moderation.