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2025-03-26 18:26:51

iFixit

iFixit@mastodon.social

Replacing the battery in pre-Retina MacBooks is easier than you might think! No glue, no fuss, just a handful of screws and a sliding connector.

Check out our MacBook battery guides to replace your own: https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/MacBook_Battery_Replacement
#repair #MacBook #electronics #iFixit

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2025-03-27 07:48:35

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@iFixit

and it doesn't look like you can attach documents to posts

You can't on Mastodon. I could, both here on Hubzilla and on (streams) where I post my images.

But I wouldn't have to. Vanilla Mastodon has a character limit of 500. Hubzilla has a character "limit" that's so staggeringly high that nobody knows how high it is because it doesn't matter. (streams), from the same creator and the same software family as Hubzilla, has a character "limit" of over 24,000,000 which is not an arbitrary design decision but simply the size of the database field.

By the way: Both are in the Fediverse, and both are federated with Mastodon, so Mastodon's "all media must have accurate and sufficiently detailed descriptions" rule applies there as well unless you don't care if thousands upon thousands of Mastodon users block you for not supplying image and media descriptions.

In theory, I could publish a video of ten minutes, and in the same post, I could add a full, timestamped description that takes several hours to read. Verbatim transcript of all spoken words. Detailed description of the visuals where "detailed" means "as detailed as Mastodon loves its alt-texts" as in "800 characters of alt-text or more for a close-up of a single flower in front of a blurry background" detailed. Detailed description of all camera movements and cuts. Description of non-spoken-word noises. All timestamped, probably with over a hundred timestamps for the whole description of ten minutes of video.

Now I'm wondering if that could be helpful or actually required, or if it's overkill and actually a hindrance.

CC: @masukomi @GunChleoc

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #MediaDescription #MediaDescriptions

2025-03-27 07:56:16

GunChleoc

gunchleoc@mastodon.scot

@jupiter_rowland @iFixit I think for instruction videos like this one, the guiding line could be: How would you describe it if you were writing an instruction manual rather than producing a video? How much information is needed so that people can understand what do do to replace the battery?

That's the level of detail we'd be looking for. Look at the Framework manuals for inspiration.

For art, the alt text is part of the artistic expression, so there are no clear rules.

2025-03-27 08:00:56

GunChleoc

gunchleoc@mastodon.scot

@jupiter_rowland @iFixit Just thinking out loud here: If you're looking for a blog-like format, check out Ghost - their ActivityPub integration is currently in Beta. You could write an article there and embed a PeerTube video, and in the video's description also link back to the blog.

It's probably a good idea to sign up with different Fediverse services and play with them to find out what works best for you.