Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • I think that the missing link for the fediverse is the user interface that most users see.

    This is oxymoronic given that the original Reddit looks eerily similar to Lemmy today, but it’s not just looks I’m talking about.

    Moderation and usability tools, bots, blocks, filtering and spam control need to go through several iterations before we can actually grow this community.

    Search is another issue, as is post deletion. Right now a post vanishes, but all the stuff hanging off it is still there. This makes for a complex user experience.

    Finally, Lemmy appears to be run by developers who appear to be interested in their own issues and regularly appear to dismiss issues raised by users. This is not sustainable.

    I consider myself a user of the fediverse before I’m a Lemmy or Mastodon user. We have a way to go before this settles down.


  • I am part of the Reddit exodus. I’m here because I have no interest in promoting or supporting the atrocious policies that now govern Reddit.

    The pace here is different, but the interactions feel more measured.

    Based on being online since 1990, I’m comfortable with being an “early adopter”, even though I’ve only been here for a few months and Lemmy is five years old.

    Will Lemmy survive? Who knows. The horse and buggy didn’t, neither did Yahoo!, MySpace or Google+, but here we are nonetheless.

    I like it here.






  • Yes and no.

    At the frequencies that HDMI operates, the path a signal takes can interfere with that signal. It’s why sometimes a cheap HDMI cable causes issues, where one certified for 4K or 8K doesn’t - the requirements to carry more information, means higher frequencies and thus better shielding.

    A connector is a potential location where signal can be affected if the connection between two conductors is poor.

    In general, less connectors and less joins will give you a higher chance of success and less chance of interference, but it depends entirely on what type of distance and signal you’re trying to send across it.

    In general, the shorter the connection, the less loss.

    It might be that a single longer cable is worse than a connector and a short cable.

    If you already have a connector and a HDMI cable, try it. If you have issues, start by reversing the HDMI cable. It won’t make the electrons reverse or anything like that, but the connection might be slightly different.

    If you have neither, I’d get a cable without a join. Buy from people who take returns.

    Budget will be the determining factor for most people.

    TL;DR; try it.




  • DRM is one potential reason, but not the only one.

    Content is licensed under specific conditions, resolution, audio tracks, closed captions, etc. Two organisations might have licensed the same title, but not the same conditions.

    You can see this clearly during the Olympics where some channels only have secondary rights, or only certain events, but only free to air, not online, etc.

    Added to that are marketing and exclusively deals and in the end it’s anyone’s guess what you actually end up with.