Well, it sure sounds like X is delivering users to Mastodon.
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That and without an income source, you can't pay content creators, so you can't attract them to the platform in the first place. People dislike YouTube for running ads, but the ads are what pays for the videos.
Any second-hand business class laptop that fits your budget, i.e. HP Elitebook/Probook/Zbook, Dell Inspiron/Latitude/XPS, or Lenovo Thinkpad.
Businesses tend to get rid of them after 4 years, even if they're still in good condition. Great bang for your buck and easily repairable if something does end up breaking.
You'll have to install Linux yourself, but generally support for older hardware is OK.
IMPORTANT: make sure the BIOS isn't locked before buying.
Nobody really knows, but there are two theories floating around:
- The Lemmy devs paid for their domain
- Their DNS entries are still cached and it will stop working tomorrow
It's called the Super key on Linux. On Windows it's called the Windows key and on Mac the Command key.
Nitpick: it’s performant (capable of a high level of performance), but not performative (being done as a performance).
“Ain't nobody got time for that!”
—the builders, probably
Eh, this is a classic joke by now. There's those jokes on the Windows side too (like the 'delete system32' one).
TF2 did it first
Jerboa, because it just works and doesn’t overcomplicate things.
GNU's Not UNIX
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
WINE Is Not an Emulator
You know that they made the software in the first place, right? As in, the WP.org people and the WP.com people are the same people.
There's a Lemmy client for MS-DOS 6.22? /j
Source?
I prefer it that way… I don’t need to be notified immediately, I can just catch up/reply whenever I open Jerboa next.
Any second-hand business class laptop, i.e. HP Elitebook/Probook/Zbook, Dell Inspiron/Latitude/XPS, or Lenovo Thinkpad.
Businesses tend to get rid of them after 4 years, even if they're still in good condition. Great bang for your buck and easily repairable if something does end up breaking.
So I wrote down some of my thoughts below, if you want to chat about it, feel free to leave a comment or DM me. (I don't have Matrix, sorry)
So the core component of any social network is the network effect. In short, the reason we use Lemmy is because others also use Lemmy. We wouldn't use it if there was nobody here (with thanks to Spez).
Indeed, that's why people still use Reddit, Facebook, or any social medium: they don't care about the platform, but about the people.
If Threads federates with Lemmy, they will instantly dominate the entire space: the most popular communities and most of the user activity will all be over there. (There are already 100M Threads users compared to under 2M Lemmy users, so this is essentially inevitable.)
If Meta would then later decide to defederate, the majority of Lemmings will be cut off from their communities. If in the meantime those communities had become important to them, their hand may be forced to sign up for Threads. Lemmy will survive, but it won't be the same for most of its users.
Essentially, we have a choice to make: either we welcome Threads and accept that we will be at the whims of Meta for >90% of our communities and content (given their massively higher user count), OR we choose to be independent at the cost of having smaller communities and less content.
I would argue though, that having smaller communities may even be a pro rather than a con. I've seen many comments that the smaller scale of the Fediverse feels like a breath of fresh air compared to Reddit (and personally I agree with that).
Hi Ruud, you mention in the linked Lemmy thread that you don't see how Meta could ever EEE Lemmy.
I was wondering whether you've read the following blog post. If not, please do give it a read. It goes over how XMPP was embraced and then killed by Google, and the risks that same strategy poses for the Fediverse. I found it very enlightening.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
I would suggest adding some screenshots to your website
And that's why I'm explicitly noting that they're not FOSS, doofus. Besides, if you're using Windows anyway, using its built-in email client is not a huge stretch.
¿Dondé esta la biblioteca?
WHAT YOU SAY?!
Beancount + Fava
They could already have access to your emails, because… you’re running their OS. They can slip in any code they want and run it with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM-level privileges (comparable to root-level privileges on Linux systems).
If you run any other OS you’ll also have to trivially trust the makers of that OS with root-level privileges (or comparable).
(Personally I don’t believe that MS is scanning all your local emails, but they certainly have the technical possibilities to do so very trivially.)
Dude TweetDeck was so dope back in the day. Felt like a mission control center.
I even had the desktop version, powered by Adobe AIR (yeah...)
Crucially, it could be forked if things go south with the developers.
Also, this is my first comment in a Kbin magazine (from Lemmy), hi Kbinners!
The use of 'railroad' instead of 'railway' would seem to indicate American English
Some BIOSes have trouble booting anything other than Windows, so some distros default to clobbering the Windows Boot Manager and trying to manage everything from GRUB. It sounds to me like this is what happened to you except it somehow got borked.
If the Windows install is still present on your drive it should be possible to restore the Windows Boot Manager. Then you won't be able to boot Linux but you'll at least be able to get into Windows.
Try booting off Windows install media and running Startup Repair using the following instructions: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/performance/windows-boot-issues-troubleshooting#method-1-startup-repair-tool
If that doesn't work try one of these solutions:
https://superuser.com/questions/460762/how-can-i-repair-the-windows-8-efi-bootloader
https://superuser.com/questions/612830/how-to-reinstall-windows-boot-manager-on-efi-partition
Good luck!
Also relevant xkcd
ACHINES
You definitely shouldn't need to do that, one account is enough.
Maybe you're confused because communities can be on different instances (servers). But you don't need to make an account on those instances, because all the instances are federated together. That means you can just have your account on one instance and follow and participate in all your communities from there.
1 foot is roughly .3 meters (which is 300 millimeters) :)
I've gotten ads for their photo books and their paid plans
IIRC apt actually does support external media (because back in the day, not everyone had fast internet).
Sheriff? Yes, this commenter right here.
IIRC all plugins you can get via the offical plugin directory are GPL-3
dog knows who's ARM implementation
Self-hosted WordPress blogs were actually already able to federate with the fediverse (if the blog admin installs the requisite plugin). The recent news is that blogs hosted on WordPress.com are now also able to federate.
WordPress.com is the name of the hosting service by the creators of WordPress, but you can also choose to host the WordPress software elsewhere (and many do).