If so, roughly what year electronic could be user by hobbyists?

Would it be better to abandon the existing transistors and etch the gaps or could the old be integrated?

Would it be a green process or would the process be too wasteful for any potential gains from re-using old electronics?

I have a baby and I've been real wary of posting her pictures on social media. My fiance is Inna similar boat but more OK with big tech (or at least, doesn't have the tech background to look for alternatives).

My family lives far away. Right now, we just text pictures every week. But I'd like to have a place where we could share the pictures, and maybe everytime we share it'd send an email to those that want to see them updating - something they should be able to set (my mom would want notifications every time, my siblings might prefer a weekly digest).

Basically, Google Photos would work. Instagram or Facebook might be better. But I don't want big tech feeding my baby to AI.

I have a post covid laptop (Dell Inspiron) that I don't use much. Occasionally, I do use it, could I self host on that? I don't think I can justify a service being more than $30ish a month.

I'm thinking about creating an instance of Pixelfed (or whatever its actually called)

I obviously want it to be locked the fuck down. My sister in law is having a baby soon too, I think if they like our photo sharing method, they might want to use ours. Would I be able to give them control to choose who can view pictures of their baby? I've like how on Lemmy the owner of the instance has to individually approve people, but I wouldn't want to be doing that for my sister in laws family - just give her and hubby access to approve and deny.

Is paid web hosting the better and less techy way to go about this? I don't work in tech, and I don't have lots of time to troubleshoot, so the easier the better, if there's a trustworthy service for my needs too. I'm not too intimidated by a more difficult/techy setup, but I want low maintenance. If I do use a web hosting service, does anyone have recommendations for ethical hosts that won't just feed our data to AI? Obviously not using AWS.

I'm looking for a more academic level discussion on this, not just a "haha fuck landlords lol" discussion. I'm truly looking for the way to most benefit self, whether it be community improvement to self benefit or purely self or something else.

Does improving your lawn improve the value of the property by landscaping and doing other tenant approved activities price a unit out of rentability and move it to ownership?

Does it give your home owning neighbors a cookie so that they want milk, and then they start demanding laws get passed that make sure rental units have to be a certain standard and then it becomes more expensive for landlords to maintain and they can't raise rent because it's maxed out based on demand not tangible improvements, so then they are forced to give tenants way to lower the rent by appreciating the value of the tenants work (I.e. rent reduction if you mow the lawn)

Does maintaining something you don't own make you value things you do own more or does it give you a negative view that nothing you have is yours to keep?

I'm interested in the tangential conversation too.

Edit: to be clear though, my landlord is a small time landlord, has maybe 10 properties. They're not a blackrock type landlord. Honestly, seemingly decent landlord. If I was given 100 fucking points to use on fucking landlords over, I'd rather distribute 10 fucking points to 10 different landlords to fuck over instead of giving them to my landlord. It'd be different if I had a black rock style landlord though. I just want my lawn care plan to be academically sound for a brighter future.

I stumbled upon this trick by accident. I needed a new dentist, I had driven by a sign for a dentist that looked good. But then I searched her name and one of the top results was a website that tells you everyone's address and political party. Since my state makes public your party registration, it didn't surprise me too much.

I had assumes that most dentists would be Democrats (or further left) since, you know, their job is based in the fundamental belief of science. Turns out, most dentists in my area are Republican.

I went through 15-20 dentists finding they were Republican before I decided to search for "LGBT friendly dentist near me". The first result brought up a dentist office with both dentists being Democrats. It is genuinely the best dentist office I've been to. There was a clear focus on training, professionalism, and ultimately doing what was right by my teeth.

I've been slowly switching my entire care team over to registered democrats only ever since, and I'm liking the care.

A few weeks ago, I read an article about MyBO, my.barackobama.com and how it was basically abandoned after Obama won the presidency. A lot of the grass roots organizing that collected emails, and campaigned for Obama was absorbed into the DNC as he won. It basically took a grass roots movement and turned it into something purely top down.

Unfortunately, I'm too young to really understand if my barack Obama was actually a useful tool. But I do remember that around that time Democrats were using the internet much more effectively than Republicans. Most famously, I remember when Rick Santorums political career was ended by SEO, the top result for his name was a website with a poop smeared defining a santorum as a poop smear, or something like that.

I was permanently banned from reddit because I said that online platforms didn't give users the ability to punch Nazis, like they have the ability in a park, and that's problematic.

I unfortunately can't find the article I read about Obama in. I've found traces that hint at the same thing, but not much about MyBO.

I guess I'm wondering if Lemmy could be used to build a truly independent and bottom up campaign social media site that props up a specific presidential candidate (like AOC) while giving the local organizers the freedom to campaign how it fits, and campaigning for other progressives.

I see Lemmy as a potential answer, the same way that PBS and NPR were to their mediums. Obviously, not a perfect answer, but NPR came to be 50 years after the radio became widespread, PBS came to be 25 years after TV, and we're a bit overdue for a similar publicly funded, not ad-reliant social media source. Lemmy seems to have the structure. It seems to me like it could be built for a candidate, while also just providing a good space for people/communities to talk mostly freely, just void of people that don't belong in society (such as Nazis).

Sorry, this maybe was long winded, and without much point. Feel free to comment, criticize above, etc. But also, are you a fan of AOC? Is there another candidate that would be better belief wise and logistically to create a platform on on Lemmy? I've noticed a lot of people in the fediverse seem to be full blown communists, it's not where I'm at right now. I like AOC, I think she has good messaging that appeals to a large range of people, and an AOC presidency could usher in a greater period of progressivism, leftism, etc. Even if she herself could be further left. I don't think trying to start a Lemmy ground up campaign for AOC makes sense if most users aren't going to support her. It'll create a barrier too great of trying to get people to a decidedly less active social media site, to then an even less active sub-community. However, if there seems to be a lot of support it would make more sense. I just haven't seen much about any specific potential candidates.

To me Lemmy feels like what social media should be: more community oriented, fewer rules, but just an understanding of common decency that dictates social behavior. Prior to social media, extremist beliefs were less open because there was more risk of social ostracizing. Lemmy seems like the platform to restore common decency. But it also feels like the platform that you could truly build a political movement free of oligarch influence.

A photo shared on X showed JD Vance and Jared Kushner in Lucerne, Switzerland during Iran peace talks negotiations - but social media users noticed what appears to be someone else's security card`

As senior-level discussions unfold between Iran and the US in a bid to extend the ceasefire and bring the conflict to a close, an image surfaced showing US Vice President JD Vance in what seems to be an awkward security mishap.`

Qatar's Prime Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, posted a photo online displaying the Qatari official with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner in Switzerland during the negotiations.

Posting the image on X, Qatar's Prime Minister wrote: "Live from Lucerne, work continues with Vice President JD Vance and Jared Kushner." However, observant social media users spotted something unusual about the laptop Vance was using.

The security credential inserted into the laptop's side seems to display a photo that isn't the US VP but rather a woman. Unsparing social media commenters quickly pounced on this detail, with one questioning: "Does VP JD Vance not have his own login?".

Another joked: "We are currently clean on OPSEC," referencing Operational Security - the risk-management procedure employed to safeguard sensitive data that could be compromised.

The credential appears to be a smart card utilized for secure verification and access. The photo of the card protruding from Vance's laptop circulated extensively online.

One user posted: "What idiot posted this with the employees keycard? ? That's not Vance."

The opening full day of talks between the US and Iran hit significant obstacles following inflammatory comments made by President Donald Trump. Iranian state media announced that negotiations had been suspended in response to the "publication of an insulting message by the U.S. President."

The Iranian delegation subsequently met with Qatari mediators before leaving the negotiation venue, according to state media. However, a senior US diplomat, speaking anonymously to brief reporters on the ongoing discussions, indicated late Sunday that the Iranians had remained at the location and that talks were continuing.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had pledged to "never back down from the right to enrich uranium," state media reported, prompting Trump to tell Fox News in a phone interview that Pezeshkian should watch what he says, while also threatening to seize control of Iran, according to a correspondent for the network.

Trump further escalated his warnings toward Iran on social media, posting while negotiators were still at the table: "Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble. If they don't, we'll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder! ! !".

Vance, Steve Witkoff and Kushner are heading up the US negotiating team, while Iran's delegation is being led by Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the country's parliamentary speaker, alongside Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. It remains uncertain when Vance will depart Switzerland, though he indicated to Fox News in a Saturday interview that he anticipates staying just a "day or two."

Kushner and Witkoff are overseeing the majority of the technical discussions on behalf of the American delegation.

In a joint statement, Pakistan and Qatar revealed that the high-level talks had wrapped up and that technical negotiations would continue in Switzerland for the rest of the week. The statement verified that both parties had agreed to create a "communication line" to ensure safe passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, alongside a framework designed to end hostilities between Israel and Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

I've been building the Shore Store and the Jersey Shore House from the MTV show Jersey Shore.

At first I thought it would be an easy build that I could house a couple of pokemen and be done with it, and it'd be kinda funny.

But here I am like 3 weeks later trying to get it 100% accurate. I don't really know any pokemon, so boy was I surprised when Magmortar popped up because I built a habitat. I had no idea that there would be a pokemon so close in look to Angelina.

I'll probably move Machop in, because his hair kinda looks like the Situation's currently does.