What are you on about?

Unless you’re the admin, using nextcloud involves nothing more complicated than google drive or dropbox.

I have half a dozen “normies” on my instance as users, and they figure it out just fine.

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Oh that’s new for me. I’ve been using alternativeto.com

FFS. Literally no free fun allowed. Bare minimum to appease players.

Even better.

Wait. Loot boxes are back?

Sometimes.

In my experience though, services will use language along the lines “the password can’t be the same as your last password” but if you set a random password temporarily, you then still can’t set the password to the one you wanted. Meaning they are checking earlier passwords too.

In fact I have yet to come across one where you can re-use password by first setting it to something else. Have you?

I think most developers just assume people aren’t going to even try old passwords, only the most recent one.

That is a possibility. But then actually setting a completely new password shouldn’t work, yes? Because when you go to use it, it won’t work.

I doubt that’s the “more likely” scenario.

Tons of people have reset a login more than once, and then forget, which is what leads to this scenario.

When they forget the new password, but re-remember a previous one, they try to use it to log in. When that fails, they go to reset it again, and they try to set it back to the password they remember. Which doesn’t work, because it is a previous password. But at the same time it is also not the current one.

The supposed catch 22 is that if it can’t be their new password, it should work to log in. And if it can’t be used to log in, then they should be able to set it as their password.

In reality the password has already been used, but before a previous reset. So it is neither a valid new password, nor the current password. This does not occur to people.

This can happen in any correctly configured service that prevents password re-use, and is therefore the far more likely scenario.

This happens because you’re trying to re-use a previous password, which is not necessarily the current password.

The new password can’t be same as any of your previous ones.

Nextcloud Office (aka Collabora) has been the nicest in my experience.

I came from google drive. I did a google takeout of my drive contents, dumped it into nextcloud, and every document so far has opened without trouble.

It should.

Oh man! You just put to words why I couldn’t stand Breaking Bad, and Boardwalk Empire.

I watched the first simply because a lot of people love it, and I try to watch everything that seems worth seeing. The second I saw some clips from that I really liked, but then I just didn’t stick with the actual show.

In both cases, the series left me on constant edge, in a really bad way.

Now I realize that I kept waiting for the shows to grant me some kind of catharsis, but it just never happened. Or it happened rarely and in ways that quickly gets brushed away as inconsequential.

They’re asking because they know that Trump is a pushover that is likely to relent.

The geography of your home instance only matters if you decide you care about it.

No VPNs needed.

I’m using an account on a finnish instance, currently hosted in germany (used to be in Finland, but the admin moved to get a better deal on the hardware running it).

The only practical difference what instance your account is on makes, is what other instances it federates with.

That might matter depending on what you want to access, but it probably doesn’t. Any reputable instance federates with all other reputable ones, while blocking the disreputable ones.

AFAIK, feddit.uk is a perfectly good choice.

Fair.

It does make for a much more compelling allegory for society, as much like prison, it’s really hard to “exit” society.

While opting out of moderated social media is not difficult at all.

Right. Then I’ll just open up your banking history here on lemmy…

Oh wait.

And words have meaning. You can’t just point to their etymology and claim they can be used to refer to everything you consider slightly related.

The fact is, the word panopticon has very specific meaning, and specifically refers to prisons. And you didn’t even get it right. The original concept doesn’t involve constant surveillance, but the possibility of constant surveillance.

Otherwise every single room with someone wearing sunglasses in it, would be one, because you can’t tell whether that person might be looking at you at any given moment.

No. It’s a prison.

Moderated social media is not a prison. Lemmy does not make your financial history public. It does not make your whatsapp, telegram or signal messages public. It does not point a camera at your physical body for all to view at all times.

A panopticon is a prison model where surveillance is possible at all times, and nothing is private.

Moderated social media, is not a prison, and is not mutually exclusive with 100% private conversation outside any given platform, between any two individuals, or within any given group of individuals.

The reason PUBLIC forums need to be moderated is that otherwise they devolve instead of develop conversation.

In the private sphere, the equivalent action taken to mediate conversation is the ability for you to simply stop conversing with a given individual, or for a group to ostracize individuals that sabotage discourse.

Once you reach a group of large enough size, ostracizing no longer works, and you individually blocking someone does not prevent them from derailing topics for everyone else.

Too bad you can’t just draft military hardware.

There’s a word for that, too.

Corruption.

Is it actually being used?

My guess it just doesn’t evict stuff from before the suspend, starts re-loading stuff after the resume, which makes the apparent amount “used” go up.

On a normal linux system, “free” RAM will over time drop down to zero, as the kernel puts the extra memory available to use. But it doesn’t mean there isn’t room to evict less-needed stuff if necessary.

AFAIK linux only starts actively evicting RAM once it fills up.

Like the other guy mentioned, drill down and see if yiu can find the actual program causing the problem.