It matters because American culture currently prefers everyone to have a college degree as opposed to any other type of education. […] If this avenue was cut off then the attitude of the public would change to allow other means of education.

I completely agree that our favoring of, or requiring of post-secondary degrees for employement is an important cultural issue. I don’t agree, however, that the solution is to make the provision of loans illegal – illegalization is rarely anything else than a band-aid on top of a gaping wound. An argument could be made that the government provision of student loans should be stopped (in countries where that occurs e.g. Canada), but I don’t think the solution is to simply make all student loans illegal.

and then yoke them into debt for the rest of their lives.

Hm, that is an assumption. There’s a few issues with that statement. The total cost of one’s loans are directly related to the cost of the post-secondary institution that they decide to attend. There is little reason to go to a very expensive institution. I do understand that some employers are elitist in that they won’t hire anybody outside of an ivy league school, but I would wager that that issue is not very prevalent – the free market should take up the slack. Furthermore, one’s ability to get out of such debt is related to the income that they expect from employment after attaining their degree, as well as their level of monetary responsibility, and savviness. If one decides to blindly go into student debt for studies that will offer little in return, that is one’s own risk to take. You must also not forget that there is no requirement that one must do white-collar work. Trades do not require such degrees, and are just as well-paying, if not better.

I presume that anywhere where interest-free loans are offered, they are offered by that country’s government. Canada, for example, as of April 1st 2023, offers federal student loans interest-free. Depending on the province, some may not have interest on provincial loans, as well.

What issue are you looking to solve? You state that you believe people are able to seek out, and attain their education independently through resources like the internet. So why would it matter if there are alternatives that cost money which one can pay, and receive loans for?

Borg good

Perhaps the next emergent entity is not corporeal, but, instead, of the collective. A good example could be similar to what @kozy138@lemm.ee stated about how the movements of people in crowds are, on the “microscopic” scale, seemingly random, and unpredictable, but, on the “macroscopic” scale, can be predicted quite accurately. One could look at economies, traffic flow, entire nations, etc. as emergent entities that rely on our individual, autonomous interaction. A very interesting such example is outlined in this paper which explains how “Online communities featuring ‘anti-X’ hate and extremism” can be accurately modeled using “novel generalization of nonlinear fluid physics”.

2nd line of what? Oh you are completely right. My bad. Idk why I wrote that. I’ll fix my comment.

I don’t follow what you mean.

I have found that instances that do seem to modify the source code just use the existing “Code” link and simply point it to their own repo instead.

The first two lines of the for loop,

byte upper_byte = input_bin >> 8;
byte lower_byte = input_bin & 0x00FF;

don’t really accomplish anything. The first line is bit shifting to the right 8, and then you just bitwise and it resulting in the same thing. For example, starting with input_bin:

1000 0000 0000 0000
>> 8
0000 0000 1000 0000
& 0xFF
0000 0000 1000 0000

So, every time you go through a cycle of the for loop, you’ll just start with the same values in upper_byte, and lower_byte. To sequentially output each shifted value, you’ll instead want something like:

output_value = 0b1
for i = 1 to 16:
    latch(low)
    shift_out(output_value)
    latch(high)
    output_value = output_value << 1

That is, if I interpereted correctly that you want the shift registers to output the following:

output_count, upper_shift_register, lower_shift_register
1, 00000000, 00000001
2, 00000000, 00000010
3, 00000000, 00000100
.
.
.
16, 10000000, 00000000

Note: Lemmy has a bug where it doesn’t format some symbols correctly, so the left angle bracket gets formatted as <. The same issue exists for the right angle bracket, the ampersand, and I would presume others.

Would you not want to shift out the upper byte first? I could be misinterpreting your setup.

I use Nextcloud’s Calendar to sync to other calendar apps over CalDAV.

occ files:scan --all (or something like that)

I have already done this, as was mentioned in the post.

I enabled that in /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/config.php with 'filesystem_check_changes' => 1,, but it did not fix the issue. It did seem to remove one error that was popping up, but I am still getting a prompt stating that the file could not be created (which is strange because, when I did a file scan, it shows that they were created), and the files are still not displayed.

It should also be noted that I restart nextcloud after applying the changes with # snap restart nextcloud.

Tried this. Still nothing.

for example to 777 as a temporary solution

Just tried this, and still nothing.

# chmod -R 777 data-directory