It’ll be interesting to see how many phones have the GPU necessary to push that many pixels around. I’m guessing not many.

I looked at the code recently. It’s really good, way better than the UI made me expect.

There is now, see the PieFed meta community.

Sorry about that, it sounds very frustrating.

I’ve found that a field used to store account timezones was too short for yours. I’ve increased the size now so your next registration attempt will succeed.

Why did you post that?

Does it work ok in your phone web browser?

More apps will follow, I expect.

Sad to hear it. When I was a noob I was a subscriber for a year or two. Great mag but got a bit repetitive after a while. Hard business.

In https://piefed.social/user/settings there are two different compact modes to choose from, which shrink the images to varying degrees.

I don’t know of any way to determine how JS-heavy a link is.

Yeah. But in this case the Topics menu can be quite heavy as it lists every community that the current user is subscribed to. Instead of generating that menu (and sending it to the client) on every page load, when it probably won’t even be used, PieFed makes an ajax call (only possible with JS) to retrieve the topics menu when it’s clicked. Same for ‘Feeds’.

This cut the amount of HTML being sent to the browser by around 50% (depends on how many communities you subscribe to but PieFed makes it extremely easy to subscribe to dozens of communities with a single click so many people have hundreds) and eased load on the server too. Some of the more under-powered instances run noticeably faster now.

Voting, lol. Kinda important.

Dropdown menus. They’re not really needed but life sucks without them.

Can’t manually switch between dark and light mode (only automatically based on browser settings).

There’s probably more but I haven’t seriously tried to use PieFed for long without JS. Fundamentally it’s built HTML and CSS first, with sprinkles of JS added on for funsies rather than the modern way of being all about JS.

Yes.

PieFed uses very minimal javascript (it 95% works with JS entirely disabled) and you can access all the same communities and posts.

Try it at https://piefed.social/ or any of these other instances - https://join.piefed.social/try

My previous phone was chosen specifically because it had an easily replaceable battery. However by the time I needed to replace it the manufacturer (Samsung) had stopped making those batteries and the only ones available were fake ones on Amazon that didn’t hold a charge. Meh.

As well as flair on posts, people can use flair on themselves in the comments, to indicate what their expertise or experience is, etc.

Instance-agnositic link - !goodnewseveryone@piefed.social

Surely in 2025 we have the ability to set a unique retirement age for each person based on their work history, ethnicity, health, etc.

Check out Big Blue Button - https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/

Their website talks all about using it for teaching students but it’s really just like Jitsi with more features.

The things I paid attention to was

USB3 - you need this otherwise connecting external drives will be a joke Motherboard needs to accept up to 32 GB of RAM. Mine currently has only 8 but knowing I can upgrade is nice.
Quiet - must be silent when idle.
CPUs of less than 8th? gen will suck at video transcoding due to lacking certain capabilities. Important if running jellyfin, etc.

The beauty of self hosting is it’s all about your individual circumstances so you priorities and acceptable tradeoffs will differ.

In 2023 alone, USAID provided assistance to 130 countries, disbursing $71.9 billion in foreign aid – the majority of which was spent on economic development (27 per cent), followed by health (22.3 per cent) and humanitarian assistance (21.7 per cent) to other nations.

Between 2017 and 2020, USAID responded to more than 240 natural disasters and crises around the world – from famines in the Republic of South Sudan to conflict in Afghanistan, Yemen and the Lake Chad basin.

From 2012 to 2017, it supported more than five million survivors of gender-based violence through services including medical care, counselling and legal help. Such care is vital considering that one in three women will experience gender-based violence in their lifetime.

And in 2016 alone, the organisation provided food assistance to more than 53 million people across 47 countries.

https://geographical.co.uk/news/usaid-the-successful-projects-that-changed-lives-around-the-world

https://web.archive.org/web/20201001161549/https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/reports-and-data/key-accomplishments

Video tour of plastic burning tofu factorys here https://youtu.be/WPyRAcdZHDo

It’s hardcore