#indieweb 2022-01-20

2022-01-20 UTC
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[tantek]1 what is a personal library
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Loqi A personal library is an online collection of books that reflects either physical or digital items one owns, wants to acquire, has bookmarked to read, is currently reading, or read in the past https://indieweb.org/personal_library
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[tantek]1 so only books? how about other media like CDs, DVDs etc.?
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[tantek]1 and how about going beyond media into other "things" that you either like to "collect, display, occasionally use/reference" and may even be open to letting other people borrow? like tools: https://twitter.com/libraryofthings
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[tantek]1 peer to peer borrowing of books, media, and other things feels very IndieWeb, like an independent web of stuff
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JBritSteele didn't progress with ad network
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JBritSteele would like to work on it again later
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[snarfed] [tantek] maybe https://indieweb.org/game_play#Related_game_play_list_examples and https://indieweb.org/watch#Related_watch_list_examples should move to /personal_library?
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[tantek]1 even "public libraries" often have CDs, DVDs, and eBooks for "checkout"
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[chrisaldrich]1 my local library started a library of things about a year ago. You can now check out sewing machines, laptops, and even a reasonably nice telescope. 🔭
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[chrisaldrich]1 personal library << Example of a list of books, but which appears visually as a stack of books https://johannesklingebiel.de/wiki/Bookshelf/
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Loqi ok, I added "Example of a list of books, but which appears visually as a stack of books https://johannesklingebiel.de/wiki/Bookshelf/" to the "See Also" section of /personal_library https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=79176&oldid=78877
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Ruxton [chrisaldrich]1: you might just have the most well setup indieweb wordpress in existence.
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capjamesg[d] [tantek] have you done anything recently with your mobile communication idea!
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capjamesg[d] *?
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capjamesg[d] It has been on my mind for a while but I haven’t implemented anything yet.
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capjamesg[d] I think I have a contact page but it is very sparse.
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[tantek]1 I built on the idea of mobile friendly /contact page like that to the same for a /payment page and haven't really taken it any further.
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[tantek]1 welp: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-tells-free-g-suite-users-pay-up-or-lose-your-account/
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aaronpk yep i am very mad
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[tantek]1 I thought this might affect some folks
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[tantek]1 what is G Suite
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Loqi G Suite is a brand of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools, software and products developed by Google, first launched on August 28, 2006 as "Google Apps for Your Domain" https://indieweb.org/G_Suite
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aaronpk i actually have 5 people in my family on g suite and now i have to decide whether to pay $30/mo or get everyone to migrate to ...??
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[tantek]1 G Suite << Criticism: retiring of free usage level with only ~4 months notice: 2022-01-19 Ars Technica: [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-tells-free-g-suite-users-pay-up-or-lose-your-account/ Google to free G Suite users: Pay up or lose your account] / Have a free G Suite account from 2006-2012? You have until May to fork over cash.
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Loqi ok, I added "Criticism: retiring of free usage level with only ~4 months notice: 2022-01-19 Ars Technica: [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-tells-free-g-suite-users-pay-up-or-lose-your-account/ Google to free G Suite users: Pay up or lose your account] / Have a free G Suite account from 2006-2012? You have until May to fork over cash." to the "See Also" section of /G_Suite https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=79188&oldid=73970
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aaronpk if i am going to pay, i would much rather pay someone other than google. but also migrating off sounds like a nightmare
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GWG- aaronpk: I have the same problem... I'm going to trim accounts to start and see where I end up
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GWG- Would love to hear where people are going if anywhere
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[tantek]1 please share your public notes on how you're dealing with this situation, whether account closing, or migration etc.
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aaronpk sadly my story is likely going to be gave up and started paying
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[tantek]1 that's worth noting too
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[Joe_Crawford] my ex-brother-in-law set up a bunch of clients at those tiers a decade ago and I imagine this is going to hit them hard - family, church groups, some small business clients. Painful change.