Thirded, we agree on the goals but not on how to accomplish them, which is fine. We're both pulling in the same direction just in different ways/paths.

If you mass subscribed then it would help to know what kind of hardware you're running Lemmy on, and what type of connection. Since DB and connectivity issues might explain the issue. Generally you can't "catch up" if your instance is unreachable for any length of time so being available 24/7/365 is important if you want to ensure you get and can see all content.

Yep, but people in general only know Gas = Russia. So to keep buying uranium isn't as politically risky.

It's just the war making Russian gas undesirable for meeting our (western world) energy needs causing our use of Uranium for nuclear reactors to skyrocket. This usage boost of course causes prices to rise. Especially since supply is limited. Factor in also that we're moving towards winter time and we have the explanation for the recent spike, nations competing trying to fill their stockpiles.

I don't really agree. DANE, which builds on DNSSEC, will most likely be used to deny email outright or at least spam mark it in the near future. It provides much needed trust and security to a tool that in many ways is less secure than sending a physical letter. All it really needs is critical mass such that people are forced to implement it or risk their business critical email not reaching its recipient.

Cool, a bit basic but a good start. Getting 10/10 on that should be considered the baseline for having a working email solution for personal use. It verifies DMARC but ignores DNSSEC and DANE which are newer improvements to help prevent spoofing.

This test is pretty hardcore and full disclosure I don't pass it myself fully yet, and I've spent considerable time learning and testing so it's not a small task.

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As someone in the world of eCommerce I wholeheartedly agree.

I strongly disagree. Option one is just giving up on trying to improve the situation in our schools. You're not listening here. "Not caring" as you put it either is or should be neglect in terms of performing their job and thus grounds for dismissal. Then you'll say "but no one wants to teach anyway, there's a shortage as is" and I'll say that yeah, that's another more important issue, that teachers need better working conditions and pay.

That there exists more important issues to fix doesn't mean that banning phones isn't a good idea, it just means that there are prerequisites before it would actually work "in the real world" as you put it.

And that problem is of infinitely higher priority than banning phones in school 100%. Allowing phones is not a solution to that very real problem.

Surface level I agreed but thinking more on it I don't.

Emergencies and early pickups should be the responsibility of the adults i.e. teachers and administrative staff. They are responsible for you while in school so they need to be informed either way.

Late pickups can be discovered when the school day is over and they get their phone back / access to it.

Learning tool for people with disabilities? No they should get real/proper tools and help/assistance. Not just a free pass to use their own smartphone. Not everyone can afford one good enough to be of much help.

Photos of the whiteboard sure but I think that falls on the teacher that they need to have that and being able to hand it out. They could of course take a picture themself and print it/photocopy.

As for laws for if they can take them that is of course needed if they are to be banned properly.

I don't think it creates and us vs them if it's not on the teachers to enforce it. Place the task on non-teacher staff and have reasonable punishments for trying to avoid the ban and it will work to ban them.

Hmm no I used Hamachi as well but that was for playing Halo 2 like on LAN :)

Steam has built in functionality for streaming games however it wants to be on the same network but that is solveable with a VPN connection. It's not ideal but it works. Back in 2009 I streamed Sims 3 to my eeePC at Uni using some specific software but I can't recall the name. That worked pretty poorly. Turn based games did however work nicely.