From your other replies it seems like you’re unsure you want kids in any case, but if you do there’s a simple thought experiment here: do you wish your father hadn’t had you? If not, it’s reasonable to think your children would be just as grateful to be alive as you are, sick dad or not.

Respectfully, this is why we can’t have an actual conversation about healthcare in this country. What’s objectively a societal good? Medicine? Sure, but I’m not proposing that we stop practicing medicine. Universal access to healthcare, free at the point of delivery? Also good, and a feature of most healthcare systems in the developed world. The specific funding model where the government runs the entire healthcare system through taxation?

I dunno, seems like it gives good, but not great, results, terrible staff morale, and a permanent state of crisis.

Fair, but I don’t think they will, and I don’t think people will stop voting for them forever, as much as I’m looking forward to the next general election. Even under Labour, though, the NHS gave great value for money, but middling outcomes.

The British NHS should be replaced with a system of national insurance. I’m a staunch labour voter, but the current system is subject to endless tinkering by the party of the day, and it’s broken.

In the UK, the NHS is one of the only institutions that attracts broad unreserved support, though, so this is about as popular as “all college athletes should be locked in churches and those churches should be burned to the ground” would be in the US.

Asus ZenFone 8.

I love it, it’s a nice bit of kit, and the few gimmicks it has are useful: scheduled charging for better battery life, digital well being stuff to stop me being glued to my phone.

Battery would be a problem for a super power user, but lasts me all day with commuting, reading the web etc. Camera is not on a par with flagships but I rarely take pictures.

Prior to this I had a Huawei until the battery died on me. I upgrade when I have to, I hate consumer upgrade cycles.

I have zero android ecosystem products.

I’m Android/Linux all the way unless work force me to use a Mac, which happens periodically, as part of the great cycle of life.

Set it up and I’ll sub.

Seems like storage is the cost prohibitive part. Search is going to be difficult, too. I wonder whether the model there might be community supported shared services. A bunch of instances could jointly run an elasticsearch cluster or Algolia instance and charge for API access to cover costs.

Some things can go faster if you add more workers, some things can only go faster if you make the workers bigger or faster .

If you’re tidying a garden you can get it all done more quickly, and tackle bigger gardens, by getting your friends to help. That’s horizontal scaling.

If you need to get a parcel from your house to Burkina Faso the only way to do that more quickly is to use a bigger, faster machine. That’s vertical scaling.

The way Lemmy is designed right now (says the op, I don’t know the detail) you can only support more users by making the server bigger and more expensive, not by using lots of smaller servers.

Edit: note that Lemmy as a whole scales horizontally: more instances == more users, but each instance has to scale vertically.

I saw someone use “Lemmurs” the other day and I’m sticking with that pending a better idea.

There’s a few posts around about server setups that people are running. The major constraint seems to be storage. Lemmurs uploading gigs of data can get tricky to manage pretty quickly.

Bit of a pain to store in Dynamo, though. You’d need to write a bunch of different views, I think.

One comment thread makes sense as a partition, but listing threads is going to be awkward, and search is basically a no-no.

Usually Indies, a lot of slay the spire recently, but I’ve just started Street Fighter VI.

Tempted by System Shock next cos I never played the original.

I’ve been usung a Moonlander for a couple of months after a friend at work lent me his Ergodox EZ. The learning curve for someone who’d been trying freestyle for 30 years was tough, but I definitely prefer it now I’m accustomed.

Most ergo keyboard users are somewhat zealous, so if you know someone who uses one, they may be happy to lend you one on a temp basis.