One for people in the US:

You aren't taxed at the higher rate for all of your income when you get a raise that puts you in a higher tax bracket, only the part that is in the range of that bracket specifically. The rest of your income below the bracket is taxed the same as before.

I've seen a lot of people decline promotions and raises over this, and bosses are very happy to let you continue thinking that's how it works.

Not sure if that counts as not common knowledge, but a lot of people I know didn't know it before.

Discord for me, very difficult to get friends to use foss alternatives because, while I don't like Discord, it just has a pretty good UI/UX (aside from some annoyances) that alternatives haven't really matched yet imo. Doesn't make them bad, but I can fully understand why friends would not want to switch to something like Matrix.

There's actually a video of it too that a lot of people haven't seen (Video visuals are SFW, though there is gunfire sounds in the distance in the second half). The image alone misses a lot of what the guy did, he even climbed on top of the tank.

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/YeFzeNAHEhU?si=bdKE9yo6HukO3Fhc

Private frontend link: https://piped.syncpundit.io/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

Still I’m not convinced of Steam OS compared to Windows 11, since I would like to play also Epic games and maybe some emulators

You can actually play games from Epic Games and other stores on Steam Deck with Lutris or Heroic Games Launcher (or a few other options) and you can install emulators on it too, it has a desktop mode, so you're not locked into only Steam stuff. Also, you can put Windows on the Steam Deck too as an option if you prefer, I don't know many people who have but the option is there.

Just for some extra clarification as not everyone will read the article (not meant rudely), this is $100k to both Godot and FNA each, for a total of $200k, and $1k monthly to them both as well, for a total of $2k per month.

Snaps mount themselves as a filesystem which floods the menu with needless entries when you're trying to monitor/manage filesystems

It's because it has offline updates enabled in Discover settings, its not a distro thing rather that Gnome and KDE have that in their software centers as a setting, and Fedora enables it by default, but it can be disabled.

It's to make your system more stable because no packages get moved or updated during a running system causing unexpected behavior, and you also don't have to reboot when it tells you, it's more just a reminder that updates are waiting to be applied when you do, they could really word that better.

Looks very healthy, I'm glad to have an instance I can trust to not dissapear overnight. Thank you all for everything you do.

Hopefully some more Lemmy optimization stuff happens so it ends up being cheaper to host, I don't know much about it but from what I've heard Lemmy storage use is crazy because of image caching/storage or something like that.

Looks like the Microsoft Store has a 1,500 character limit for the "what's new" section so definitely not a character limit issue, makes it more strange.

I'll still be hanging out on Beehaw regardless of what happens or where it ends up, but in case a migration does happen, are there any good instance recommendations for us that want to keep Lemmy accounts as well but want to have a nicer more moderated experience?

A good bit of the other instances I've tried seem to moderate as a last resort or final straw, which just ends being not very effective overall.

Thanks! Switched to Jerboa a week or two ago and I've been loving it

Planning on playing through Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 for the first time this week. Know almost nothing about the game, nothing about DnD rulesets, just diving directly in because a partner very highly recommended them.

Edit: Ended up buying Baldur's Gate 3 and getting into it instead, looks like I'm gonna be playing it in 3 > 1 > 2 order. As a side note, performance was way better on Vulkan than Directx11 for me, despite common advice being to use Directx11 on Linux for the game.

It's a bug with the Lemmy version Beehaw is on right now, Beehaw team's looking into it. It affects all apps sadly, I added a shortcut to the browser version for now until it's fixed

Ouch, thought that if you used the extension with a self-hosted local server that it was fully open source. Looks like I'll be uninstalling then.

I'm okay with some proprietary extensions and stuff, but when it comes to the stuff that I type, I'd rather be able to know exactly what it's doing with it.

Submitted, I think I accidentally put @beehaw.net on the user field though

It looks like they plan to add it on F-droid sometime, not sure if it will reach gplay though. They originally said no to releasing anywhere but Github but F-Droid is on their roadmap now it seems after a rename and a new icon.

My main question is if there are plans to allow users per-account to filter out all communities from a specific instance from /all. There are some instances I don't really have an issue with and don't mind chatting with people on it, but the general theme of the instance isn't posts I want to see on my all feed (Ex: porn) and just disabling NSFW doesn't help because there a lot of non-porn NSFW posts that I still want to see. Defederating or moving instances to one that defederates from them also isn't a solution, because I don't mind seeing other content from the users on the instances.

I feel like this will improve everyone's user experience, because a user can avoid content they don't want to always see, but not have it be an all-or-nothing kind of thing.

Edit: This question was answered here https://lemmy.ml/comment/2352489

Best place would likely be their Github issues section, here's the one for Lemmy backend/server, and here's the one for Lemmy-ui for UI/frontend requests which is what you're looking for.

Could this be due to the .ml and a few other domains thing again? The issuer is gradually pulling all of the free domains from people, while leaving the paid users active until their term is up.

It can be used similarly as a lite version of KDE Connect, but KDE Connect is for pairing a dedicated device to your PC. This will allow sharing between phones on the same network as well, and allows easier use for usecases like quickly sharing a file to your friend who has their phone connected to your wifi, without making a permanent pairing of the devices.

You could do the same with KDE Connect but you have to set it up on your friends device and allow permissions and all that. With this, you just choose the files and send, and it can work over a link you send instead if the other person doesn't want to install the app. This is a much simpler version for one-time file transfers and for devices not owned by you/not trusted.

They should for most. If the games are on both Epic and Steam you can check https://protondb.com to get a general idea of how well it will run, for any games that are only on Epic, I'd recommend doing some quick searches to see how much luck people have had getting them to run on steam deck/linux. Most games for me have worked perfectly fine with similar performance as Windows, and installing Windows on the Deck is still an option for the games that don't.

As for the alternatives to the Steam Deck, I wouldn't go for them over the Deck personally, but I have never used them. I would think the games that have been optimized for the deck would run better on the deck than the alternatives due to its popularity. I might consider them if they were a good bit cheaper than the Deck though and it was a good deal.

Edit: I should also note that I play on a Linux Desktop, not the Deck, but aside from the specs difference the games actually working or not would be almost exactly the same between the two because of how Proton and Wine work.

My favorite was Infinity/Eternity for a while, but I tried out Jerboa and it kinda just stuck for me, I really like it

Poll results are pretty interesting so far too

I've been looking around and sadly haven't found any solutions for it myself, although in case you didn't know you can actually self-host LanguageTool and keep everything on your own hardware, it even simplifies the process to connect to it if it's self-hosted on the same device it's used on. Seems like an okay-ish solution that I've been using for now, though it still locks you to only their free features, but it does work without internet access. Hopefully someone can come by with more alternatives to it as well.

Edit: Also LanguageTool is actually open source itself if you're mainly worried about the source code thing.

I'm sorry, but this really comes off as blaming the users and accusing them of virtue signalling for expecting the moderators to be held to the standards they set. If this instance's admins do not uphold their own rules to themselves and then when users are trying to have a productive conversation about it, blames them, then this does not seem like a healthy instance to stay on.

I prefer Infinity the most, but while I'm waiting for it to get more daily-use ready (I mean, it basically is for regular use, but am at least waiting for beta release), I'm using Liftoff and have been very happy with it.

I'd give https://wiby.me a try, its a nice break from all the same 5 sites listed for every search. It priorities small more classic webpages over SEO ones

I find it works best when used in something like searxng along with other engines though to mix them in, since it tends to quite heavily avoid listing those sites, they're useful sometimes but not when they dominate the results.

I'm using Debian 12 stable and I do everything on it, even gaming. I use flatpaks to keep certain apps that benefit from being up to date, and I install backported kernel and mesa when they release for more performance (amd gpu).

I've been on and off with vanilla Debian for years while distrohopping, but I tried out Debian 11 testing and everything just worked for me, am still using that same install but I'm sticking to stable branch now.

Also, proprietary drivers are now officially supported by Debian as of Debian 12, and are available to install out of the box without needing to search for them or add the non-free repositories now, which was a pretty big roadblock for a lot of people.

The only ones I know of are ClamAV (ClamTK for a GUI) on PC and Hypatia for Android (F-Droid link)

Not a bad idea really, if you update tons of stuff without rebooting if you have it disabled sometimes weird stuff can happen, but its not very common and usually not very bad at all. I'd leave it on if you want that extra little bit of stability, but if its just a regular every day use computer I think either way is fine.

Going good! Got a few new games, been feeling a bit blah but am getting over that gradually. Been cutting my social media usage a bit, I deleted my microblogging fediverse account and pretty much just have Lemmy now which still eats up a lot of my time but still a huge improvement since I'm not spending nearly as much time online anymore as I was, it was getting to be a bit too much.

Edit: Also just today, I decided to drop my Japanese studying that I've been doing for a few years and fully focus on Castilian Spanish that I've been learning on the side instead. Japanese was getting to be way too much of a workload and timesink for me. Hoping this helps get rid of some stress.

Just realized there was one of these. Hi, I'm Nia! I'm a trans girl, and I've been around on Fedi for a few years now with multiple accounts, came back to Lemmy with the initial Reddit migration when they first announced the app thing. Tried Lemmy years ago, but it didn't stick back then. I'm into Linux (Debian 12, Plasma DE) and open source stuff, gaming and a few other things, but that's the main stuff.

Enjoying my time on here and looking forwards to meeting more people. I have a few accounts on Lemmy instances right now, but I like Beehaw the most so far.

Yeah on mobile it hasn't been the best experience comparatively so far on its own, but the extensions have made the difference for me. They're planning to open up mobile to a lot more (all?) of the extensions soon and I feel like it's gonna get a lot nicer to use after that. Could technically already use them all via beta or nightly using collections or something, but I prefer to use the release version.

Same here, I love what Lutris has done and it's made a ton of games way easier to run on Linux, but Heroic has given me that "download and click play" feel that I missed from Windows. It abstracts away a lot of the process but still leaves ways to configure it heavily for those who need.

Am a fan of the simple by default, powerful when needed approach.

Ah, I didn't know it was all at once, yeah sounds more like what you said in the other comment about Hetzner or providers pruning customers then.

I think they're actually planning on adding that soon, one of the devs mentioned it during their AMA that it's one of the next big features they plan to try to tackle. (Edit: looks like the work is mostly done, it's just under review https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869)

Also kbin already has it, but I prefer Lemmy's UI much more so I just deal without having user instance blocking for now

I'm all for the second USB-C, I feel like this is more likely to possibly happen compared to getting the headphone jack back, plus it would just be useful to have in general

I don't have it but I've seen admin/dev comments on this, with 1.0 release they plan to add offline singleplayer, and currently online is required on character select/launch, but losing internet connection during play will not kick you out or interrupt it.

I'm keeping my eye on it and will probably pick it up when offline singleplayer is added, but that being included is the deciding factor on if I'll get it or not myself, since it's just a promise for now and those can be broken.

Edit: apparently its already added according to other replies

They also offer a version with KDE Plasma preinstalled as the desktop, but the dev/maintainer personally uses Gnome so the KDE version gets less attention from them, though that doesn't mean it's bad, just not customized like the official Nobara version, it's just vanilla KDE Plasma

They're still active but it's slowed down a little. Their activity is spread out across a lot of different repos so some look inactive, sort repositories by last updated at the bottom of the page here to see the current activity https://github.com/revoltchat.

edit: iirc they're also in the process of doing a major UI rewrite, not sure if certain parts of that are public yet or how far along they are on it.

I barely used Reddit and just lurked occasionally, but I dropped Reddit and went back to forums + Lemmy.

I tried to join Lemmy a few years back too but I didn't stick around long, this time it did stick. Since I tried Lemmy before for a month or two back then it was really easy to just switch back.