Woran liegt es, dass Microblog-Nutzer immer so viele Worte brauchen, und ich als Macroblog-Nutzer nicht?

In der Kürze liegt die Würze 😁

#fediverse #microblog #macroblog

Majdnem visszaküldtem az új radaros bringalámpámat.

- https://lipilee.hu/2025/08/29/majdnem-visszakuldtem-az-uj-radaros-bringalampamat/

De aztán nem…na figyelj, elmesélem. […]

#garmin #macroblog #ragmeg

I just healed from what is probably the worst flu I’ve ever encountered. It’s not horrible-worst, and certainly not the worst I’ve ever been — to a cancer survivor everything is relative. But as flu goes, this was pretty miserable. Probably worse than my covid, although the jury is still out (for example, so far I didn’t get pneumonia as a complication. Hashtag crossed fingers emoji.)

But lacking strength to even take a walk, every day (well, when I got better) I did some low brain activity / geek cleanup projects.

• I cleaned up my Kodi mediacenter’s repos (they’ve been very polluted due to a broken Jellyfin addon install some time back), and
• I finally set up my RPi5 (that I got almost as soon as it entered the market — I was on a waiting list), and split my home backup and Jellyfin server. Yes, I’m using a RPi5 as a Jellyfin server now against the recommendation of the Jellyfin folks (RPi5 apparently doesn’t have hw acceleration that Jellyfin needs for transcoding, but I’ll be honest: I don’t notice it. We are a 2-max-4 user household, and watching stuff on Jellyfin simultaneously doesn’t even make the fan turn on.)
• I also fixed an old keyboard (the synthesizer type, not the clickety-typie type), and last but not least:
• I cleaned out our dryer. (Cleaning out a dryer is very satisfying: dryer gunk does not stink, (it’s just wet dust), and there’s a lot of it so there’s a sense of achievement, and it makes a huge, visible impact in the machine’s efficiency.)

I love my Garmin stuff. I know Body Battery and Stress on a Garmin device are more or less arbitrary figures that they calculate somehow and you should treat it as such, but it’s uncanny how well it senses you are sick:

So anyway, I’m back and I have 2 more posts in the making: one on about what is a citizenship and another one about axes. I even have a little teaser for one of these:

https://lipilee.hu/2024/02/07/love-in-the-time-of-influenza-macroblog/

#anamnesis #english #g33ker #garmin #influenza #macroblog

Pixelfed now supports importing your Insta archive, so I did just that.

Looks like the last time I posted about Pixelfed (the federated photo-microblogging platform) was (*checks notes) in 2020 – time moves quickly when flies have fun!
Since then, Pixelfed gained some more ground, some apps, plenty of finesse, a lot of users, and, for the purpose of this entry, an Instagram import feature.

It works!

All I needed to do was go to the Import page, and upload my Instagram archive:

The importer threw an error message at me about half the time, but my images were still imported. I also noticed that after importing 916 pictures, my Pixelfed profile still says I have 480 posts, so somehow the imported ones don’t count against the Pixelfed counter. Oh well, I can live with that.

Side note: Instagram is (still) a mess.

To get my Insta archive, I needed to go to Instagram. This involved logging in and requesting my archive. OK fine, although, language.

While I was waiting for my email with the archive link, I thought I’d unfollow (most) people I followed last time I browsed Instagram.

Well, after about 5 unfollows, computer says no: Instagram treats multiple unfollows unusual activity, and simply won’t do it, and you have to try later.

These little dark patterns, friction wherever you want to do something they don’t want you to do, is a big part of the reason I left.

#fediverse #g33ker #instagram #macroblog #pixelfed