I usually use 7z as well... mostly because of the higher compression ratio. I resend in zip if I get complaints, but if it's a large file that barely fits in size on whatever hosting service I decide to share the file on, I just tell them to install 7zip or any other archiver that can open 7z archives. If they don't how to do it, hey I also offer remote IT assistance 🤷.

Not affect anyone, it will affect search engines... but, not much nore than that.

And the protests proved inaffective, as I initially thought and said to many, just move, no need to protest, just leave for Lemmy and leave your accounts. That was all that was needed and no protest in the world is gonna beat reddit or the admins that will just overried your NSFW settings. Leaving the platform says way more than protesting this or that.

And no, if the point of the protest was to just delete all info from reddit, then I would've never been behind that protest. The delete everything idea was promoted by some extreme protesters and unfortunatelly, some users went allong with that.

The exact reason I decided to install Viber was fast communication with everyone else (everyone uses it around here) and to caiter to the needs of my friends and relatives.

You can't really do anything for them. It's like a drug, if they refuse to admit they're addicts, then there is nothing you can do.

We are all addicted to something, no doubt there, whether it be cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, gambling, social networks, doesn't matter. The real test is, what will you do once that thing that you're addicted to suddenly is no more. I have done this test on myself a few times. The first is the hardest. You really have no idea what to do, even though you have like a bunch of things shelved in your head that need to be done, but you just can't stop thiking about the thing that you're deprying yourself of. The second time it's easier, the third, even easier. I'm at a point right now that I know I can quit Lemmy or the net entirely for an unlimited period of time, if I wanted to. It's just training of the mind, nothing more.

I suggest you prepare them mentally for one of the hardest things they'll have to endure (if none of them have ever given up drugs, gambling, alcohol, cigrettes, those addictions are far worse). First leave them without FB for a week or two, let them stress it out. Afterwards, Lemmy will feel like heaven to them, lol 😂. Cuz let's face it, you can't doomscroll here, there still isn't that much content, but you can scroll for about an hour or two, no problem there.

Still, the conversation is private, as in not public. Even if it is surrendered to the authorities, the'll probably never be released publicly (unless leaked).

Maybe, who knows...

My mom gave me this advice. None of the advices she has ever given me have ever panned out right.

If they can buy the .ml domain, everything can work as it was. The question is, are they even for sale right now.

Oh, thanks 👍.

Older models start, no prob there. Newer ones, that don't have detachable batteries, yes, they can be a problem (sometimes, depends on make and model... usually brands like Dell or Lenovo can make a fuss over it). Even in those cases, there are BIOS mods that remove this limitation.

Of course, that general advice is good and should be followed. But some batteries will die even if you follow these advices. There were some laptops back in the day that had a recharge cycle counter inside the charge/discharge controller in the battery. They would just die, out of the blue, after, let's say, 1000 charges. People that were used to having their laptops plugged in all the time, regardless if they needed that or not, spent the recharge cycles a lot faster than people that just plugged in the laptop whenever it was low on battery. This happened because the charging circuit sometimes falsely reports the battery as a little drained (99%), so it will recharge it just a tad. Still, this "just a tad" added 1 recharge cycle to the count. Over the course of a day, this may happen, 10, 15 times, which ammounts to 10, 15 charges accourding to the counter. So, their batteries basically went dead right after their warranty expired. There are ways to reset the counter or completely jump that piece of code, but it's just not worth it. Too much RCE work for very little gain.

It's a shame though... those batteries were still OK. It was just a shitty move from the manufacturers to try and squeze more money from their clients for batteries.

Doesn't really matter, those chargers can take in from about 90V to about 250, 260V. Forget what the sticker says about 110~230, they're designed for unstable voltage operation (not actually designed for that, but they don't wanna make different ones for EU and UK/US voltages coz it costs more, plus people bitch about not being able to use them abroad, so they just make the same ones and ship with different plugs). Trust me, they can handle voltage swings pretty darn good. They're SMPS power supplies, they're designed to output the same voltage in a very wide range of input voltages.

If you really think that a battery will help (it might help... in some cases... depending on how it's built), just leave the battery on even if it's dead. It might work as voltage dumper in some cases, but as I said, it depends on the design.

Hell, having the IPs is sufficient enough, no need for the hosts hack.

Damn, eating pussy and ass at the same time, that's not a bad deal.