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PolyWolf
@PolyWolf

watching the most recent Apple event has convinced me to break out my old iPhone 6 to see how it holds up. Might need to send it in for battery service because iirc it has trouble holding a charge, but honestly feels super light and going back to a fingerprint sensor might be nice.

No way I'm paying $1k+ for a new phone that will be exactly as capable as my current one (an 11 Pro Max). Using the allure of AI to drive sales won't work, and in fact does the opposite for me.


PolyWolf
@PolyWolf

for the most part, the iPhone 6 isn't useful. many services have dropped support for the last version of their apps that support iOS 12, and the fact that some do (Outlook, Discord, Google Maps) feels like an accident. this this is basically just good for light web browsing, and even that is spotty because, again, too old. only Cohost runs well on it...

the more i use it the more i'm convinced this is the Correct screen size, Max feels way to big now


PolyWolf
@PolyWolf

battery is shot (can't go 5 minutes without overheating) and Apple doesn't stock replacement batteries anymore. oh well!!! fun to dig it out again & get hit by nostalgia waves at least.



linuwus
@linuwus asked:

I tried adding myself to the 'wolf' but got a message about the "category or url already taken" which doesn't seem very... category-like? I thought the whole point was that people with similar interests joined the same category.

oh wow you actually tried out https://girl.technology!! first of all thank you I thought no one would notice it (and I haven't exactly been good about promoting it either lol)

My initial conception was exactly that: https://wolf.girl.technology/ would simply contain a collection of links that people self-selected into by (1) putting a special file on their website and (2) registering with the service. But it was getting a little lonely when I was the only link in that category, so to put it to better use I changed it to be a redirect. This had the consequence of only allowing one link per subdomain, making them act more like usernames than like categories.

I'm not sure I'll change it back, since I do enjoy the vanity redirect & don't expect it to ever get popular enough that name space becomes an issue. Sorry for stealing "wolf" from u!



I've had https://wolfgirl.dev/cybersec/ running for a while (tho i've been p inactive on it whoops), but in preparation for my post-cohost phase of internet existence I thought it would be good to actually set up an RSS feed there. So there is one, at https://wolfgirl.dev/cybersec/rss.xml, linked in the metadata.

Haven't yet ported all my chosts to something on that site yet, waiting for the official data dump tool (tho, using the one @blep made might not be a bad idea either). Anyways here's the timeline:

  1. Continue to post on Mastodon until this list is complete
  2. Create RSS feed for existing set of posts (we are here!)
  3. Convert all chosts and create feed for those too
  4. Make the website styling better (right now it's butt-ugly)
  5. Make my own cohost-like post composer

Still working out the details for (4), I probably want to re-use the stuff I wrote for crossposter. (2) will likely be very annoying too.

Also if you're looking for RSS reader recommendations: I'm using Inoreader right now and it's solid. Fairly generous free tier (150 feed subscriptions) and good mobile app.

EDIT: or maybe NetNewsWire might be better? Gives me ability to self-host FreshRSS + seems to fetch more than Inoreader. Idk not too worried rn I have a small enough list that porting is still easy



PolyWolf
@PolyWolf

watching the most recent Apple event has convinced me to break out my old iPhone 6 to see how it holds up. Might need to send it in for battery service because iirc it has trouble holding a charge, but honestly feels super light and going back to a fingerprint sensor might be nice.

No way I'm paying $1k+ for a new phone that will be exactly as capable as my current one (an 11 Pro Max). Using the allure of AI to drive sales won't work, and in fact does the opposite for me.


PolyWolf
@PolyWolf

for the most part, the iPhone 6 isn't useful. many services have dropped support for the last version of their apps that support iOS 12, and the fact that some do (Outlook, Discord, Google Maps) feels like an accident. this this is basically just good for light web browsing, and even that is spotty because, again, too old. only Cohost runs well on it...

the more i use it the more i'm convinced this is the Correct screen size, Max feels way to big now