@cstross everything is fine!

@itsfoss it may seem funny but linux users prefer to unmount before fsck! safer fsck-ing somehow, they say . . .

@joeroe There is a tension between the person who accesses content having choices about the presentation and disposition of the content, and the creator retaining control of that content. I think the perspective of separating content from the control of the creator is one of, if not the main inspirations for replacing the corporate model of social media with the fediverse. When I post content, I may choose to broaden its accessability by, say, adding alt text to an image. But I would not be excited about a system where such alt text is added without my consent - certainly not as long as the content is attributed to me. I think that would extend to systems that sought to index or otherwise make my content more searchable than is already the default (where I can remove it from the fediverse, if not from external internet archives).

@joeroe In a sense, tracking and citing social discourse is the antithesis of fediverse development. I trust my local instance owner's moderation efforts and personal information security, but I am not interested in any overarching repository of my utterances (nor even my citations of papers) being stored for posterity. I think a lot of people would feel the same.

@aral whenever I turn off my Android TV, it turns itself back on after a few minutes and then turns off again a minute or two later. I presume it is listening because why else turn back on? We don't converse during the "restart" - just observe some moments of quiet reflection on the state of the world.

I would not know of the restart interval, except for the unusual way my TV audio is configured - instead of an HDMI connection to a soundbar, I have a bluetooth connection to a separate music system. When the bluetooth connection is made, the sound system announces the connection (not the TV).