Lemmy does have a way to view votes, but it's only visible to admins. It's weird because admins can view votes for anything, even posts and comments not on the server they admin. I'm not sure why they did it that way.
It's currently impossible to have private upvotes and downvotes with a federated service. It could probably be done, but it'd need a big revamp of the ActivityPub protocol, and apps would need to adopt the new protocol version. It's not trivial.
Just hiding the data in the UI doesn't solve it, because the data is still there.
Additionally, a lot of other social media sites have public votes/likes, as long as the content is public. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Discord, LinkedIn, Telegram (if you consider it social media?), and probably some others all have public likes by default.
Says who? Voting/likes are public on a lot of social media sites, as long as the content itself is public. The only mainstream ones I can think of where it's not are YouTube and reddit.
I don't believe you can go find someone's vote history just from the normal Lemmy ui
If you run your own Lemmy server, you can probably just query your server's database. Lemmy admins can see upvoters and downvoters for all comments (and posts I think), not just comments/posts on servers they're an admin on, so that data must be in the database.
There's a P2P app from the same era as KaZaA, originally released the same year (2001), that's still in active use today: Soulseek. It's a great way to find obscure music, some of which isn't on streaming services and is extremely difficult to obtain otherwise.
Usenet is good for less popular stuff too. Torrents die once the last seed is gone, but some Usenet providers have over 10 years retention, and you always get full speeds over an encrypted connection with no uploading required.
Edit: Support artists where possible, but sometimes there's music that's impossible to find, and that's when these services come in handy.
It has to do with what happens with excess solar power you produce.
Before NEM 3.0 rolled out, there was 1:1 net metering. If your electricity price was $0.50/kWh (for example) and your solar system produced an extra 10kWh that you didn't use (meaning it was exported to the grid), you'd get a $5 credit (10 kWh * $0.50) that would offset power usage when the sun isn't out, like at night.
NEM 3.0 changed how the value of exports is calculated. You may pay 50 cents per kWh for power you import but might only receive 3 cents per kWh for power you export. This means it doesn't make sense to get a solar system without a battery in California now, and batteries are expensive.
People that got solar before April 2023 are grandfathered in to NEM 2.0 for 20 years, but the power companies are doing all they can to try and break those contracts, including reducing the price per kWh and instead having a large monthly fee just to be connected to the grid. They want to extract as much value as possible from customers with solar, as they're not making enough money from them.
Yeah I think so. I switched from GNOME to KDE a while back, so haven't tried it recently. It worked great last time I tried it though, and it works well in KDE too.
A lot iPhone apps already use React. There's a sample of a few on the React Native site: https://reactnative.dev/showcase. It's almost certain that you have at least one React Native app installed on your phone :)
I'm not sure what being able to run different browsers has to do with Electron, as Electron doesn't run on mobile at all.
Sites already misbehave in Safari because there's so many Safari-specific bugs. It's similar to IE6 in that sites often need Safari-specific hacks to make them work properly.
Solar panels are worth it in California (or, they used to be before NEM3 went into place - not worth it without batteries now). I'm in norcal and had 11.2kW of solar panels installed after buying a house. I estimated it'd take 5 years to break even, but the electricity prices have gone up quite a bit since then, so the break even point keeps getting closer and closer. Electricity usage has gone up (my wife and I have two EVs now) but I still pay very little to the electricity company.
Legally they have to tell you to delete all copies you have of it, but it's rare for companies to actually check, and they usually consider removing the torrent as sufficient. You should probably delete the file from the seedbox just in case.
Add a second SSD, if the motherboard has a SATA port (I assume your current one is an NVMe drive). A SATA SSD is still more than fast enough as a second drive.
Moving to a bigger SSD also isn't too difficult, as long as you have a system where you can have both the old and new SSD connected at the same time. It can be a different system if needed. Download Clonezilla onto a USB stick with Ventoy on it, and boot into it. Just make sure you have backups and do the clone in the correct direction (don't clone the blank new drive onto the old one!!)
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Lemmy does have a way to view votes, but it's only visible to admins. It's weird because admins can view votes for anything, even posts and comments not on the server they admin. I'm not sure why they did it that way.