I appreciate the effort you out into highlighting relevant sections 👍

Yes with all the brain damage from Covid I’m pretty sure assistive tech for dementia will be huge huge huge in a few years. Definitely a deep well to draw from, that one.

I have the wireframes of an app sketched out but that’s as far as I’ve gotten.

Banned from piefed.social as of now.

Good idea, I’ll see what can be done.

There’s an old lady I know who couldn’t use her phone for 3 days because "the screen had gone black”. It had gone flat and gotten stuck in ultra power saving mode which just displays the time. There is a small glyph in the top left which is a box with an arrow pointing out of it, which I knew was tappable and which means exit but she didn’t. To make things worse even if she had tapped it the confirmation dialog that appeared was just some red text that didn’t look like a button at all.

She had no chance. Was about to buy a new phone, thinking the battery was busted.

I showed her the phone settings area but she understood none of it. Why there is an ultra power saving mode, why it would automatically engage, why it’s a black screen, why that is an exit icon, etc.

After I fixed it she was very glad - the phone home screen background is a photo of her dog that died recently and she was very happy to be able to see it again. She doesn’t know how to access the gallery app so that’s the only way she can see the dog that she misses so much.

I think the only thing she can do with her phone is answer it when it rings and unlock it to look at the home screen.

Is there any way to know this is legit?

OpenWRT is basically Linux for routers and can be installed on a variety of devices - https://openwrt.org/

There is also https://www.gargoyle-router.com/

The British are no longer genocidal slavers, either.

But back in the early 1800’s they were. So was pretty much everyone!

Yes, do the S3 integration before moving, for sure.

Oh right, yeah, Wordpress does tend to use up an awful lot of storage - every image gets copied 5 or 6 times, in different sizes just incase you need that size. It’s nuts.

You don’t need to store those images in your server though, they can be uploaded to S3 (object storage) where it is 10x cheaper to store them and then you can have a cheaper VPS. This way the VPS only needs to have enough storage for your MySQL database.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/

There are many providers of S3-compatible storage, you don’t need to use AWS. Cloudflare R2 is super cheap - https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/developer-platform/products/r2/ or Hetzner - https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/

The inaccuracy is a feature - if you want to really terrorise a population, add a bit of randomness to your violence.

If you notice a pattern - i.e. someone who posts abusive comments all the time - report their profile and I’ll look into banning them from piefed.social to save us all a lot of hassle.

PieFed solves this.

This is good advise, listen to dan. WP Super Cache is amazing although getting it working just right can take some tweaking.

The Redis Object Cache plugin is worth a try. It’ll only take a minute to set up.

Is it 200k users or 200k page loads? Those are really different as each user will load multiple pages in a month. If it’s 200k page loads then that server is way way too powerful (and expensive). Don’t let a crappy developer hide their lack of optimization skills by throwing your money at the problem.

It exists and I’ve tried it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davfs2

Thing is, when an app thinks a directory is on a local disk, it does things which do not scale well over a network. e.g. reading every file in the directory to make thumbnails.

No advantage, in fact a massive disadvantage.

Fascists lie.

A handful of people - https://mastodon.social/tags/noltosocial

Check out this one I came across earlier - https://github.com/Jtensetti/fediverse-career-nexus/blob/main/README.md

It’s a federated LinkedIn. ofc it’s vibe coded.

Laptop CPUs are crippled garbage compared to desktop CPUs of the same generation. So there’s that.

Is it touching cloth more like when you really really need to go and have been holding it for a long time?