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HuwFulcher commented on I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives    · Posted by u/xmasterdev
gaudat · 2 months ago
>home NAS setups aren't realistic for most users

Citation needed. Get a Synology NAS and use their Photos app which backups Live photos on both iDevices and Androids. Buy it for life.

HuwFulcher · 2 months ago
You’re looking at £300ish for an entry level Synology and the storage. That isn’t a realistic expense for many users.
HuwFulcher commented on My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service   shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/04/... · Posted by u/edent
HuwFulcher · 5 months ago
What a weird article. Feels distasteful to utilise a group’s trauma to reinforce your point despite being decidedly anti-child.
HuwFulcher commented on You Need a Content Tap   huwfulcher.com/you-need-a... · Posted by u/HuwFulcher
HuwFulcher · 9 months ago
I've been reflecting recently on our patterns of content consumption online. Curious to hear people's perspectives on the matter.
HuwFulcher commented on Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure   sydney.edu.au/news-opinio... · Posted by u/geox
ninalanyon · 10 months ago
I suspect that regular check-ups for most people would simply regularly confirm what they already know: they need to lose weight, stop smoking, take more exercise, eat more fruit and veg.

The UK now has a sugar tax on soft drinks that seems to be having a measurable positive effect. Whether it is a meaningful effect remains to be seen though:

"The findings suggest that a year after the sugar tax was introduced, adults reduced their daily free sugar intake by about 10.9g, and a reduction in soft drinks accounted for over half of this reduction. This translates to a reduction of around 40 calories daily, which if maintained, and assuming no other changes, could lead to 1.5kg weight loss over a year."

https://theconversation.com/how-do-we-know-the-uks-sugar-tax...

So perhaps instead of exhorting people to do better the state should continue to try to make bad habits more expensive and good habits cheaper.

HuwFulcher · 10 months ago
Yes a regular check-up wouldn't be the silver bullet but it would help expose larger problems under the surface which could be prevented with prescribed exercise, diet, etc.

Ultimately it's down to the patient to put in the work but if the NHS focused more on creating community practices where these things could be more widely available then maybe we should see more meaningful change.

HuwFulcher commented on Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure   sydney.edu.au/news-opinio... · Posted by u/geox
yndoendo · 10 months ago
Until society has better work-life balance to allow for exercise while allowing for cost effect doctor visit to assign supportive and recognized improvement. Cheerleaders are more useful then people think.
HuwFulcher · 10 months ago
This is a big problem in the UK I think. The idea of having a regular checkup with a doctor is unheard of and will get you some weird looks if you ask for it.

The NHS doesn't seem (as an outsider looking in) to do well with preventative care. I firmly believe (without necessarily a lot of evidence) that if we focused more on healthy lifestyles and made them more cost effective for people the amount of money we plough into the NHS every year could be reduced drastically.

HuwFulcher commented on Plausible Community Edition   plausible.io/blog/communi... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili
FlamingMoe · a year ago
I've been a paying customer and advocate of Plausible for over 2 years, and this is not ok.

Marko frequently posts on social media about Plausible's revenue growth, currently at over $1M ARR with a tiny team and little overhead.

They are doing great financially. Yet in this post he tries to gain sympathy by focusing on "we only make $300/mo in donations".

Frequently moving the goalpost on what it means for your product to be open source betrays a lack of integrity and will have me, and probably others, looking for an alternative.

HuwFulcher · a year ago
They make $300/mo from donations from those that self-host. The point they are making is that enterprise level users are self-hosting and not putting back into the running of Plausible.

I still think the way they've done this stinks though.

HuwFulcher commented on Plausible Community Edition   plausible.io/blog/communi... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili
gdsdfe · a year ago
is this like a PR stunt ? genuinely curious
HuwFulcher · a year ago
Being cynical it looks like a way of holding features hostage for the purpose of extracting revenue.

I sympathise with the problem of re-sellers abusing their hard work but they are also creating two different classes of product with this change.

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