I went back through Wikipedia’s current events from June 2025 and put together a rough timeline:

• 2025-06-12: IAEA declares Iran in breach of its nuclear non-proliferation obligations.
• 2025-06-13: Israel attacks Iran targeting nuclear facilities and senior government officials. Iran retaliates with missles and drones.
• 2025-06-17: Donald Trump calls for Iran’s unconditional surrender. Iran refuses.
• 2025-06-22: The US announces it has bombed multiple nuclear facilities in Iran – particularly including sites at Fordow and Natanz which are deep underground – using its unusual ~30000 pound (~12000 kg) Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs. Iran retaliates by firing missles at a US base in Qatar and by voting to close the Strait of Hormuz.
• 2025-06-24: The US and Qatar mediate a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Donald Trump says Israel and Iran “don’t know what the fuck they are doing” as the countries continue fighting initially. It seems to be holding so far after a rocky start though?

Heliocentric orbit like this:

More info:

• Wikipedia article
• Media page on Wikipedia

I’m not sure how to do what you want with customizing Mint directly, but a possibly simpler alternative solution is to just send two clearly distinguishable USB drives (e.g. label them “1” and “2” with a label maker or get two drives with very different colors) and tell him to install (unmodified) Mint from the first and then have him run a program you provide on the second after that’s done to make the other changes.

I have an older version of TrueNAS on it from when it was still FreeBSD based (instead of Linux). I might replace it with Scale whenever I get around to doing maintenance on it next – or maybe just go to stock Debian or something since I don’t use most of the bells-and-whistles.

I run my NAS that way too. I just mount it and play videos with VLC if I want to watch something I have on it. The main reason I have a NAS is because I ran out of drive bays in my main system a few years ago… Works fine for my needs currently; no need to make it more complicated.

Historically, I don’t know, but personally, I prefer YYYY-MM-DD style dates since they sort naturally in basically all computer software without having to think about it.

I have a folding card table that currently serves as my desk. I don’t know how old it is – 1960s, maybe, based on the style of the brand/sales label on the back? It’s almost certainly older than I am, at least… Got it from my uncle back when I was in college and its still working well enough that I haven’t bothered to replace it.

I don’t know what anyone else intends to do, but if I can fix the issues I’m currently looking at – and no one else has stepped up in the interim – I’ll at least take a look at the 1.0 stuff. (I use mlmym and would like it to keep working…)

the thumbnails now are even more clearly 4-pixel potatoes

pictrs’s thumbnail parameter uses dumb raw pixel sampling – which leaves something to be desired… It has other sampling options implemented (with resize, according to the docs), but they don’t seem to accessible on my instance. You can remove thumbnail=96 if you want to get the image without that thumbnail sampling, at least.

make everything zoom 150%

I do this with my browser’s UI (ctrl-plus keyboard shortcut in FF-based browsers works for me).

e.g. right side bar

[...document.querySelectorAll(".side")].forEach(sidebar => sidebar.remove())

You could also just adblock the element with class side.

someone forks and maintains it.

MrKaplan already forked it and is keeping it on life support for lemmy.world. I’ve been trying to make enough sense of it to fix several issues that have been bugging me for a while, and will contribute my fixes there if I can figure them out.

I’ve only got a few hours each weekend where I have good concentration + enough free time to work on it, and don’t know the relevant languages (Go, Rust, TypeScript), so my progress is pretty slow… but I’m still poking at it.

Voting

You could support this by making vote buttons submit a form if JS isn’t enabled. (That’s what mlmym does.)

Can’t manually switch between dark and light mode

Hmm… There are some pretty nifty things you can do with a hidden checkbox, label, and some clever CSS (e.g. html:has(#element:checked) + CSS variables – though FYI :has is baseline 2023.)

Making it persistent would require some more effort – e.g. form + cookies + server side style sheet selection, most likely. mlmym lets users change their theme w/o JS by submiting a form on the setting page. I’d have to think a bit if there’s a good way to make it persistent across multiple requests for logged out users with a CDN caching things in between though…

only automatically based on browser settings

Doesn’t actually work for me in a FF138-based browser w/ JS blocked via NoScript – I always get light mode despite having a dark mode preference set. (Where do you have your prefers-color-scheme media query?)

Also, FYI I had to manually override font restriction – otherwise all your buttons end up as tofu characters. (I think NoScript is being kind of unreasonably strict there by blocking first party fonts.) That’s a papercut kind of issue, but figured I’d point it out in case it might save you some debugging time if you get confused NoScript users in the future.

Ancient internet meme

I picked an RNG name since my old common username (from reddit, etc) was not available when I started on kbin.social (RIP) and I couldn’t think of anything else I wanted to be called. I deliberately kept it short though. Not sure what to make of other RNG names – esp. long unintelligible ones – but I’ve seen at least one account that I think is legit which has a long, bizarre RNG-looking username and a non-English display name, so 🤷️

Yup, I totally ate the onion on this one. Wait, what do you mean it’s not satire!? :p

Hmm. That doesn’t really mesh with my understand of how certain prolific posters post (e.g. via automation), but digging into it a bit more, I do see the proxy link via Lemmy-UI even on the poster’s instance, so there’s something besides just mlmym involved here – whether that really is inappropriate copy-pasting or a lemmy bug or what, I don’t know yet.

Regardless, the fact that the image doesn’t load in the post at all for those links seems like an mlmym bug that should be addressed; it’s loadable via Lemmy-UI.

I’ve set up a new GitHub account for association with my lemmy account and will create issues on your repo in a little while.

Edit – Issue links for future reference:

• https://github.com/Fedihosting-Foundation-Forks/mlmym/issues/7
• https://github.com/Fedihosting-Foundation-Forks/mlmym/issues/8
• https://github.com/Fedihosting-Foundation-Forks/mlmym/issues/9

Thanks. I’m still learning both Go and the codebases involved. I’m pretty limited on free time where I’ve got both large enough blocks of time and energy to concentrate effectively on this. I’m also not very enthusiastic about taking on the administrative aspects of running an open source project – I’m only really interested in keeping a JS-free version of Lemmy usable – so contributing changes to a common community fork you’ve already got up and running sounds good to me!

I do have some specific issues in mind that I’d like to implement fixes for once I’m up to speed. In particular:

• There is improper filtering when a user submits a comment which results in certain text being stripped from the message instead of escaped properly. I’m not sure if this is an issue in mlmym itself or one of the libraries it uses, but I’d like to track it down and get it fixed.
• Federated image links to non-lemmy websites sometimes show up as image_proxy links from the poster’s instance. This is a really annoying issue that results in misleading domains showing up next to posts as well as breaking image display in the post itself.
• Comments sorted by ‘new’ (and maybe other modes?) don’t paginate properly.

I may take on some other issues after that, but those three are what I want to fix most right now.

You can use tesseract -l jpn input.png - on the command line to have it print out the text from input.png into the console if you’ve got the language files for Japanese installed. (There’s also language files for vertical text and a few others for script in my package manager.) Alternatively give the filename (w/o extension) instead of - to write the output into a .txt file.

On Mint, I think I did sudo apt install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-jpn to get it working for the simple case of horizontal text; been a while though.

The seeds from some kinds of pine are edible. e.g. pine nuts are used as an ingredient in pesto.

I’ve tried so many… so… many network filesystems. They all suck in some way.

Definitely agree with you on that! Distributed systems are just fundamentally challenging. Network filesystems try to hide some of that complexity, but it inevitably leaks through in one way or another…

I deal with Ceph at work. Thankfully I’m not the one in charge of its configuration, but I’ve seen enough of the headaches the admin had to go through to get it working right… Once we got it though, it’s been working pretty damned well – but you basically need a full-time sysadmin (or will become one yourself…) when you’re dealing with the kind of scale we’ve got. (My home needs are not quite as insane though; mere dozens of TB instead of a dozen or so PB…)

SeaweedFS is another I’ve got in the back of my mind if I ever outgrown my NAS, but I haven’t worked with it personally.

I’ve got a similar length of experience and plenty of my own horror stories about NFS… but yeah, it’s the most effective way to get what I need done at the moment. (When I outgrow my current setup though I’ll wrestle the tentacle monster and replace it with Ceph… probably.)