I got to wondering what sort of social proliferation the telephone managed to achieve in England by 1919. Nothing exhaustive, but this is what I've found:

By the 1930s, it was common for affluent homes in the UK to have their own telephones, with networks spreading far enough for calls to be made across several cities. The majority of callers continued to use local phone boxes or pay phones until the 1950s and 60s, when improvements in home phone technology made systems cheaper and more easily available.

Ref: https://www.italktelecom.co.uk/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-home-telephone

1918

Leeds automatic telephone exchange was opened on 18 May in Basinghall Street - a Strowger-type manufactured and installed by the Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company. It was the largest of its kind in Europe, equipped for 6,800 lines with an ultimate capacity of 15,000, and the first exchange in this country capable of being extended to give service to 100,000 subscribers. It was also the first in which the caller was required to dial five figures for every local call.

Ref: https://www.britishtelephones.com/histuk.htm

So for a cartoonist to be able to imagine having a personal phone at all in 1919, let alone a portable one, is pretty interesting. Maybe missed their calling as a sci-fi writer/illustrator :)

Yes. Like others have said, the content hasn't quite caught up in volume or diversity.

But I think another factor is that when I fire up Lemmy, it feels like r/all in that I'm getting everything. There seem to be quite a number of meme-themed subreddits communities that dominate my All feed. Now that I think about it, I should probably make the effort to block those; I've made that effort on kbin.

In a way, I think it might be nice to have something equivalent to r/popular, fwiw.

Minor nit: "community" ("magazine" on kbin) doesn't have the same 'zing' as "subreddit". We need something like "sublemmy" or "sublem".

"The call is coming from inside the house"

I somehow managed to read this in the voice of John Oliver

I feel like this is the most Canadian thing I've read in decades. And believe me, it's appreciated 😊

Canadian born and raised, but I haven't lived there for a couple decades now.

Sir Lancelot and Brother Maynard enter the scene

The best analogy I've found so far is "it's like having an email address; having a different server after the @ is not an impediment to your participation. Just know that you can only login to the server where your account is set up."

Is this where you come for an argument?

Canadian in Texas. Software testing engineer, although I seem to have my hand in DevOps related stuff a lot for continuous improvements to tools. Fully remote.

"Who's he when he's at home?" would fit here.

Also: meh

Running everything via docker solves both problems no matter which OS you choose since the underlying OS doesn't matter.

Yes, but also no.

Long story short: you can't run Windows containers on Linux. And to run Linux containers on Windows requires essentially running Linux on Windows, and then the Docker engine on Linux. (See also: running Linux containers on OS X.)

There do exist multi-arch container images, but that's the result of proper planning. One example: https://hub.docker.com/_/hello-world

More info: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-run-docker-linux-containers-natively-on-windows-ti1i3uxr

You might find this gem of a video from Jeff Geerling to be helpful/informative:

https://youtu.be/4VkY1vTpCJY

I had weirdness when I tried to upload a pic using Brave on Android. Got the upload dialog, but no matter what it didn't seem to do anything after I'd selected the image to upload.

Hit Submit, and suddenly there it was.

I'll have to try this again using Firefox.

There are a few options, depending on how handy you are.

Here's a video that lists 7 ways. I'm betting #5 will be one.of your better options here.

https://youtu.be/3tjhs-0kFl8

In the past, I've drilled a skinny hole into what's left of the screw, then lightly tapped the short end of an Allen/hex key into it. The key here is to not make the hole so tight for the key that you'll never be able to pull it off after you've extracted it. But there are other ways of getting the junk screw off the key if it came down to it.

Check your local hardware store or specialty auto shop (eg, AutoZone) for a screw extractor kit. Be sure the kit comes with a small enough bit that would fit into a hole you've drilled into what's left of the broken screw. (This is option #5 in the video, btw.)

Before utterly crushing him

Obligatory:

"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women." - Conan the Barbarian

Or perhaps:

"Crush your enemies! Grind their bones into dirt! Make them regret they were ever born!" - Abraham H. Parnassus

depending on whether you have a pesky H. R. Pickens in your life, or not.

I've been using Signal for what seems like years now.

I've got 4 contacts (5 if you include a martial arts school I no longer attend), and only char with 2 of them regularly: my brother and sister.

I've downloaded and installed Briar, Session, and Simplex, and keep meaning to test them out with the help of my wife ('s phone) to see what they're like.

you can watch your dog run away for three days.

That made me crack up :D

And then I shared it with my wife, who also cracked up :)

I need to find the perfect occasion to use this.

Heh. I'll use that term (and various others), but usually with my tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Yeah, buddy buddy.

Dumb question, but how were you able to determine that? Was it just a matter of seeing a post that originated from there (which would be my clumsy approach), or is there a tool/site that facilitates this?

New to Connect. Is there a GitHub repo where folks can submit issues and PR's?