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Hey peeps, I have an issue with a neighbour over a broken concrete fencepost, could anyone identify the possible causes of the breakage from the pictures? (trying to be vague to not influence opinions)
Boosts appreciated.
#HiveMind #fedihelp

I need to assist a nonprofit in choosing:
1. A google-drive equivalent
2. A cloud backup service
3. A tiny server to host a tiny Django app for mostly private use

I can easily find any number of services to deal with the first two (which can easily be one, of course) but it would be great if I could find a provider that offers all three together.

Does the #hivemind have suggestions? Europe-based, because GDPR and to avoid random executive orders.

UPDATE: Found an elegant hack, with thanks to @drhaywardj

for x in 0 20 40 60 80; do curl -sL "https://mastodon.social/api/v1/trends/tags?limit=20&offset=$x"; done |grep -o '"name":"[^"]*"' |cut -f4 -d\"

This yields the top 100 hashtags.

I might run a modified version for the top 1000 every month or so and save them somewhere

Hey #HiveMind,

Is there a quick and easy way to get a list of prominent hashtags on the #fediverse?

I ask, because search in #GoToSocial is kinda slow, and I'm looking for alternate ways of finding useful hashtags.

All I've been able to come up with so far is

curl -sL https://www.fedistats.cc/trends |grep h1

...but that only gives me 20 results.

Any ideas?

I realized on my last trip that it's time for a new point & shoot camera (current one is 10 years old). I'm tired of lugging around my old DSLR. So mastodon #hivemind - what point & shoot cameras do you recommend? and why do you like particular ones? In the past I was very happy with my #Panasonic #Lumix cameras but reading current reviews I'm not sure I'll stick with them. Currently leaning toward #Sony or maybe #Canon. #Photography #DigitalPhotography #Travel #Point&ShootCamera #Camera

Hey #HiveMind,

Is there such a thing as a generic USB-Wireless bridge device?

My idea is that I like my #Wacom tablet, but it'd be cool if it was #wireless, even if that meant it'd have to be twice as thick.

Some kind of generic wireless bridge for #USB that just passed USB commands bidirectionally without changing anything would be really neat. Plug the dongle into the USB host, and the other side (with a battery) into the USB guest, and presto changeo, the wired device becomes a wireless one, and neither devices are the wiser.

Anyone seen anything like this? I'm guessing there might be a way to do it with a couple zigbee devices or something like that, but I've never messed with that.

MOAR #hometheater #technology #hivemind questions:

We have a home Plex Media Server, a Disney+, a YouTube Premium and an AppleTV subscription.

And a Samsung TV that runs all that.

For $Reasons, I am thinking of removing the network from the TV and thus use some own hardware under my control to do all the viewing. Not being able to watch Ted Lasso or Andor or @TechConnectify isn't an option though.

Any suggestions on a couch friendly setup that I can install on ye old Intel NUC?