qaz

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Old account at lemmy.ml/u/qaz

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qaz,

Poland and hungary are constantly complaining about the EU and vetooing laws too

qaz,

I recommend first switching Windows-only software to crossplatform software so you won’t have to get used to another operating system and different software at the same time.

qaz,

It’s okay I guess.

qaz,

Network switch

qaz,

*JSON torrent, it ensures nobody is spreading modified/redacted copies, is hard to take down, and prevents a hug of death.

qaz,

You’re not wrong

qaz,

Skill issue

qaz,

Do you care to share them?

qaz,

TIL, didn’t know that

qaz,

Like RFC 3339?

qaz,

Nah

qaz,

You should ask another demographic, they’re cheaper 😄.

qaz,

You forgot to include the nightcore remix

qaz,
  • De stemming
  • Met het oog op morgen
  • Europa draait door (although I did start listening a lot less to it, it’s still pretty high up on average)
qaz,

I tried to figure out which institution gave them funding but wasn’t able to find anything. Do you happen to know?

qaz,

I don’t get it

qaz,

You’re twisting OP’s words. He just wants to discuss the purpose of small instances, he isn’t forcing people to abolish them.

qaz,

Small instances don’t prevent Lemmy from being centralized, people don’t mind if their instance defederates from an instance with 5 people. Medium-sized instances (e.g. dbzer0) prevent wrongful defederation, because people will suddenly miss a few communities / users.

qaz,

C# and Kotlin both have it

qaz,

I’ve used it some time ago and it seemed to work

qaz, (edited )

I believe this is the one disadvantage democracy has over authoritarianism. While China invests and plans for decades, the US plans for the next election cycle. However, authoritarian governments can provide long term, consistent leadership, but their goals tend to drift away from the needs of the larger population to either narcissistic grandiose delusions (such as the great leap forward) or the needs of the few.

I personally see it in terms of risk management. Yes, absolute power would be beneficial if used well, but it rarely is. Democracy reduces the risk of incompetent or misguided leadership. Spreading power out over a larger group with more diverse perspectives prevents blind spots to potential failure. Having multiple parties that have to form a coalition encourages cooperation and discourages extreme behavior.

The 2 party system fails in both regards, it only provides 2 options and therefore reduces the talent pool which harms the potential the quality of the candidates while also increasing risk.

A concrete example is Lemmy itself, the many instances all have their own leadership and the risk of their actions are spread out. When an instance forgets to renew their SSL certificate, others still remain functional. The federated networks almost act as a coalition, except for the fact that multiple approaches are possible on each federated network. When an instance is too strict or has too little moderation, it is defederated by others. The model encourages cooperation and moderates behavior.

qaz,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5dbb46ef-4f87-4105-a449-bafcb4117e0c.png

qaz, (edited )

The earth is moving at 107226km/h, they would be moving anyway.

qaz,

€300 euro for a device with such low specs seems like a pretty bad deal to me. I just looked online and the first result was a Surface Pro 6 with 8GB RAM and 256 GB of storage for the same price.

qaz, (edited )

Oh, I thought the Go 2 you described was also refurbished because of it’s specs.

qaz,

Because those specs don’t sound like something you would get on a recent device. I thought 8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage was the minimum now for Windows devices but I guess I’m wrong.

How did Lemmy World become the default instance?

World was already the biggest by far when I first started lurking back in July, and it’s just getting more dominant. Before, there was quite some diversity in the distribution of generic communities, but nowadays the vast majority of posts that reach the top are from over there....

qaz,

I first joined lemmy.ml in 2020 but left because of its association with lemmygrad. Lemmy.world had good uptime, decent moderation (I never saw spam until last week), was largely uncontroversial (before blocking piracy at dbzer0), and was open when others closed their signups (that’s why Beehaw defederated).

However, things have mostly settled now, and we have multiple instances with capable staff, so you might wonder why the majority is still on Lemmy.world. I think the answer is simple, it’s still one of the standard recommendations, there is no large disadvantage to using lemmy.world over anything else and most importantly people can’t migrate their account to another instance after joining. I personally plan on continuing to use lemmy.world for the time being.

qaz,

I’m aware of the workaround, but this is far from perfect. It does not redirect replies or comments as far as I’m aware.

qaz,

Your posts will not be moved, due to technical limitations.

I was not aware Mastodon didn’t actually move the posts, that is quite disappointing.

qaz,

The problem with this is that most people will choose a distro based on the default desktop enviroment.

qaz,

Non rolling release distros are completely inappropriate for desktop use

Why exactly? Because you need to manually upgrade to newer versions?

qaz,

I’m not saying choosing based on the desktop environment is a bad thing. I’m just saying that it’s better to recommend something like Fedora and let people choose a spin instead. The desktop environment is a lot more important when starting out. The user can then decide to switch to a different distro after having gained a bit more experience / knowledge about the inner workings of Linux distributions.

qaz,

I completely agree, it seems ridiculous to have to reinstall, manually edit sources or have a large number of programs break on you to stay up to date. It’s one of the things Windows does better. I’m personally considering switching to OpenSUSE Slowroll when it leaves beta testing.

qaz,

But why would I choose Arch over something like Fedora?

qaz,

Well for one, fedora comes with gnome.

There are spins with various DE’s: KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE+Compiz, i3, LXQt, LXDE, SOAS, Phosh (Phone Shell), Sway, Budgie. You aren’t supposed to able to change or install multiple DE’s though as far as I know, but that isn’t a problem for me because I always use KDE.

Also afaik fedora isn’t actually a true rolling release.

That’s true, the updates are a bit slower. But I actually prefer that, that’s why I’m interested in slowroll.

Also pacman is the best and the arch repos are amazing, augmented with the AUR

I have heard a lot of good things about the AUR. I’m currently using a combination of zypper packages, nix packages, Flatpak apps and opi and using a single method would be preferable (system packages and flatpak would be fine too).

qaz,

The output of journalctl might be helpful for troubleshooting.

These errors seemed important. If there is anything specific to look for, let me know. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ee3d4661-18bd-4751-bb65-7a7bc0784adf.jpeghttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b682cc97-f762-408c-ba2a-1b45341fd6d2.jpeg

Also a cat of /etc/fstab

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4729adc8-e33c-4301-9b97-58aa8197ad28.jpeg

Initial guesses from what I can see: Do you have some sort of drive encryption on and does that encryption rely on your tpm?

I don’t use disk encryption as far as I’m aware

Is that disk being enumerated properly? What does lsblk say? Do you see the partition/filesystem at all?

It looks normal to me. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c65c97f7-4fbf-4559-a99d-28c8720042c5.jpeg

qaz,

It works again, thank you so much!

qaz,

NixOS sounds good on paper but in reality it is a long way from a mature product for desktop or general use.

It’s 20 years old already, will it ever be ready at this point?

qaz,

Yes, I only have 1 hour left 😢

qaz,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/60d072c0-1957-4a87-a232-4c71d6c4ae91.webm

qaz, (edited )

1, 5, 2, 6, 3, 4 (Descending appeal, Left to right, Top to bottom)

qaz, (edited )

Yes

qaz,

If people “liked” it, they wouldn’t be taking meds to help them function.

There are no meds for autism

qaz,

People also said that about “Just Stop Oil”

qaz,

Gaza and Ukraine were already too much for the media’s attention span, this might mean the news has to leave out sports!

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