Somewhere between Linux woes, gaming, open source, 3D printing, recreational coding, and occasional ranting.
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Mine was an ELSA Erazor III LT (the name somehow stuck). It was an offer that was bundled with horribly bad and clumly mechanical shutter 3D goggles. I remember trying Half Life with it. It was rattling all the time and the 3D effect was mediocre.
Why does it matter?
I want my data with me (i.e. available in the accoutn I mainly use) and not on some other account I donβt use anymore.
Migrating or moving an account is not part of ActivityPub. Mastodon extended the protocol to have a move activity.
Unless Lemmy devs come up with something similar and extend the protocol, there is no way to properly move/migrate the account to another instance. The current solution is to create a new account on your desired instance and then export the data on your old instance and import it on your new instance and leave a note in your bio for old instance/account[^1]
Start here for details on this. According to the devs this would be nice to have but is of very low priority.
[^1]: ignoring the fact that you need to re-subscruibe to communities with manual approval and losing all your comments and posts history as well as all private messaging history and contacts.
"If you enter a room it feels like someone was leaving" - but in an ironic way.
losing all your comments and posts history
They are not lost, they are still there
Yes, theyβre there, in the old account on the old instance, and not here, where the new account on the new instance is.
Lemmy shouldnβt be used for messaging
That is entirely not the point. (Also: messaging on Lemy and instant messaging have nothing in common and should not be confused.)
you can then start using your new account as if it was the old one.
Except the things I mentioned.
My friend works for a company which requires her to use Microsoft specific application
So the company needs to provide said friend with all the needed software.
I cannot see anything bad here. Blocking an actively malicious actor should be the norm.
"Your code has an issue here's a fix for that".
Corporate: no.
Firefox it is again?
This is basically an article promoting two Tweets (something like Toots, but on a monetized closed source for-profit platform run by a highly questionable billionaire).
Here:
Tiktok
The problem with video content (even short videos) is, that it generates an absurd amount of traffic and needs lots and lots of local data storage. This is also why there are so few PeerTube instances.
PeerTube would be a way to publish your short clips, too. Not as specialized as TikTok, but still ...
Old lady uses Linux β¦ whatβs your excuse?
Microsoft clearly uses dark patterns and FUD to lure you into using Bing.
As long as they're using legal loopholes (or downright do not care because they have enough money to pay any fines) you cannot do anything against it except not using their OS.
Again? I remember they did this years ago when releasing Chrome.
The only REAL replacement I'm still looking for is YouTube. Sure, Peertube and proxy sites for YouTube exist. But the amount of content I am interested in is by dozens of decimals larger an YouTube than on any other alternative combined.
And, yes, of course, the search engine.
It's not about performance, it's about control.
Daily reminder to defederate from and block threads.net (and optionally all instances that do not do the same).
Iβve never seen anything else than just Ubuntu or customized Ubuntu preinstalled on laptops.
Endless OS sounds like an actually good distribution, though. Itβs based on Debian, itβs immutable, they publish their software as FOSS and they submit upstream patches.
The UI (which is a modified Gnome desktop) looks beginner friendly and easy to use.
Also don't add advertising crap that is opt-out and only configurable via about:config.
Dunno, but I have a girlfriend now.
I absolutely dislike βrepost botsβ. I prefer communication with real people.
So again⦠who does this benefit?
It benefits me because I can install 32 bit software as Flatpak without any troubles and without messing up my whole system with 32 bit libraries dependency hell.
They are so heavy on security I have a Citrix environment that takes me 3 logins
My daily routine:
They also have plans to make MFA mandatory for laptop login, too.
Passwords need to be at least 15 characters long for laptops and 30 for servers and 10 for the business-specific application. All need to have uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters and need to be changed every 60 days (for the server login) and cannot be the last 30 passwords.
I heard, this commercial distribution βWindowsβ still uses it. But this thing just recently got a (very limited) package manger. So they seem to be very late with adapting to current technology.
Sad to see they only use MS GitHub instead of selfhosting something like GitLab. Just another vendor lock-in.
I was a long-time Reddit user but over time it felt more and more not right. June last year I decided to register here and remove my Reddit account. I do not miss anything and I actually started participating more instead of just silently reading comments and posts.
It just feels right using Lemmy instead of Reddit. Not only thereβs no corporate bullshit and dumb algorithms I canβt avoid, itβs also a much nicer community overall.
Not again ... Well, let's wait a week or so for the clients to fix that.
Why should I care about a criminal beta male?
Systemd's "soft reboot" has nothing to do with Windows' "fast startup". Those are two completely different concepts for two completely different use cases.
Warp is closed source and [needs a mandatory account, and] Wave is an Electron app.
βThe cloudβ does not exist, itβs just someone elseβs computer.
a decrease in quality mods and mod tools will choke reddit to death.
Thanks to Reddit i learned Docker and everything needed to self-host a lot of cool stuff - without even visiting Reddit.
This. Thread should have officially ended here.
When you need a proxy between your application and your graphics server then something fundamental went wrong long before.
Selfhosting is basically free. You already have an unmetered Internet connection, and sourcing some hardware to run Lemmy would also be super easy.
The βproblemβ is that setting Lemmy up is quite annoying and complex and involves multiple docker containers and volumes and networks. There are various installation scripts but it is still a complete mess.
It would also result in a metric shit-ton of traffic and data storage.
Have you tried what the message tells you?