Doug [he/him]

So more Gmail than G+

Might Bluesky be doing the same?

In fairness, Gmail had a similar invite system when it launched and that’s been way more successful than G+

FWIW I home at midwest.social. It’s not strictly for the Midwest US but you’ll see a lot of stuff for that region there. It’s also left leaning and I think the only instances they’ve defederated so far have been for extremism.

I’m also using jerboa on my phone and from my inbox there’s a speech bubble button which lets me make this response from my inbox.

I don’t know if either of these things will help you but I figured I’d offer them just in case they did.

No worries. Lemmy feels way more casual than Reddit anyway and I got notifications for months old comments there from time to time

Running both Windows and Linux

Yeah but what if I’m not dual booting?

So I just tested this. I’m not at home so I had to VPN in which is no issue.

• I opened graph.facebook.com and confirmed it was working
• I opened and logged in to my Ally app
• I added graph.facebook.com to my pi-hole’s black list as a regex entry
• I opened graph.facebook.com in the browser and confirmed it was blocked
• I force closed and cleared the cache on my Ally app
• I opened and logged in to my Ally app

It’s not the Meta connection that’s giving you trouble.

I did have a classmate try to replicate Simon in QBasic but he kept needing the input reversed.

I told him the “feature not a bug” line and suggested he call it NOMIS

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So in the 90s I had different computer based classes in high school.

There was a “computers” class, which is probably the closest to what you’re talking about, in which we mostly learned how to use Microsoft Works.

I also was fortunate enough to have some programming classes. We started out with QBasic and then the more advanced level was visual basic.

None of these discussed firmware. If it came up at all it was probably a casual side conversation because someone bricked something trying to update it.