I do this all the time, although admittedly not when speaking to others… It’s useful for problem-solving if one gets stuck, a little while of no thinking clears the board and allows thoughts to again wander new paths. It’s also useful for preventing headaches from muscle tension!
This is easy though. The amount of times I’ve kicked my toe into something on the way to the kitchen and ended up in 12th plane of torment is innumerable.
One thing I’m not clear about is the impact my home instance has on me. I joined lemmy.world and am currently using the connect for lemmy app. I know when I sort by Local it will only show me posts from lemmy.world, but beyond that are there any things to keep in mind?...
One thing that might not be obvious is that the All feed is different too, as it only shows posts from communities someone on the instance has subscribed to. But since there are ways to search communities across instances, it isn’t really a big deal. Unless you’re on an instance of one or two people maybe.
Federation and moderation are probably where the instance matters most. Also, the matter of who runs the instance is kind of important considering stability and longevity of the instance. (mine for example will probably be gone within a month once I break something)
My set-up of Linux Mint and GRUB seems to have messed up my Windows drive, as now I can’t boot from it directly anymore, but only by going through GRUB first, and I want to uninstall Linux. How would I go about figuring out the issue and fixing it?...
The package managers are actually a huge upgrade, at least in my opinion. I was always annoyed having to hunt for the right site for the right installer, now I can just search and install with a command without even opening a browser. But the biggest benefit is the updating. One command to update everything is so handy, one command and all my applications and drivers are updated just like that. But there is the issue of many programs simply not supporting Linux. For those you’ll sadly have to find replacements or workarounds.
If you want to get rid of Grub instead of what others have suggested, you could try booting into Windows and look for “advanced startup” and do a startup repair from there. That might destroy Grub and replace it with Windows bootloader again. If it works, your Linux stuff will remain on the drive, but Windows will boot like before. (you can easily reformat the HDD drive from Windows afterwards to use it for storage)
Some of my personal tips for moving to Linux:
It’s not Windows. Don’t expect things to work the same way. Trying to force Windows approach often leads to a lot of problems.
Watch Youtube videos about Linux. (terminal, package managers, desktop environments, distros, gaming, program replacements, whatever) This will help a ton to get a better grasp on why things work the way they do and what the benefits are.
Remember that in Linux you have a lot of options. Distro hopping can be useful early on to see different options/customizations. Then you can pick the things you like later.
Avoid graphical appstores. I’ve yet to have a positive experience with them. Terminal is much more reliable and simple.
Try out Arch Linux too, if you have the patience. It’s not as difficult as people often make it seem, and installing it yourself is very educational compared to the easier automated installers. AUR for installing programs might also be to your liking more than how Debian based distros do things.
Learn how to troubleshoot yourself. Learn to search the web for solutions. If you’re having an issue, it’s likely someone else has had the same issue before.
Oh definitely! They didn’t really have any direction for story early on, but with Mahjarrat storylines that began to change. Then they began to weave all the different stories together into a coherent world with surprising success.
I’d say in 2011-2013 the story really started to kick off. Gods for example were turned from simple good-evil entities into actually interesting characters representing different ideologies and philosophies.
Unlike some other MMOs, RS doesn’t have voice acting (for the most part), which allows them to write a lot more dialogue. For example Azzanadra’s Quest alone has ~25 000 words of dialogue. You can probably imagine how much lore a 20-year-old game like that can contain!
Uh, work’s a little slow today, so here’s what I thought the Lemmy logo would look like at a 45 and 90 degree rotation. I have the .svg file, if anyone wants. Or just screenshot, w/e
That’s… actually quite interesting. I wonder how true the part about projecting current emotions on it is. I never see it as anything, but an emotionless face.
I’d also suggest Arch assuming one has patience for some tinkering. Getting familiar with the Arch Wiki and the other resources that exist is quite useful even with other distros! Not to mention the better understanding of the system gained simply by following the installation guide.
Even if one doesn’t stick with the distro, the things learned setting it up will be useful down the line as well. The experience would also be very different from Debian based things, so it could be fun for a distro hop!
Why YSK: Choosing an instance with defederation policies you’re most comfortable with is important to make your Fediverse experience smooth in the long run....
I think it’s worth mentioning the amount of instances full of bots as well. I just started hosting my own instance and decided to check other instances’ block lists to defederate from at least some bot instances. I now have about 50 blocked instances. (instances with 60k or so users each with no posts)
I very much agree. Learning English as a foreign language, it feels very wrong to use plural for a single person. I’m still not quite used to it! Although, had I been taught that early on, I doubt it would feel any weirder than using “you are” for a single person.
I’m aware it’s a thing and not really a plural. What I was trying to say is that it looks plural and since I didn’t learn about this part of English until several years into my studies as a kid, it isn’t as well established in my mind as “you are” is (that also looks like a plural, but I’m used to it).
“They are” for a single person catches my mental error filter the same way as “I are” or “you is” would, which is highly annoying.
I’d say what’s intuitive is very subjective. Most of a language tends to be intuitive to its native speakers, no matter how unintuitive it seems to someone else.
To me the intuitive genderless option for “he/she” would be “it”. Coming from Finnish, it seems much more natural to have “it” include people instead of using “they” for both singular and plural. Or if using “they”, it would feel intuitive to say “they is” instead of “they are”.
The primary incentive that comes to mind is improved availability. Often, instances can become slow, so I use another. By hosting a local instance I could always have a smooth experience....
I tried setting up an instance for my personal use today out of curiosity. So far the most notable personal benefits have been much more responsive site and easier time curating what I seeon my feed. The latter is easy enough since my feed only includes posts from communities people on my instance have subscribed to… which is also quite a downside since I’m the only one on the instance…
Oh and I’m able to federate with whomever I want, compared to if I were on lemmy.world, I couldn’t see posts from beehaw.org and vice versa. I’ll also sleep soundly knowing that the stupid pictures I’ll be uploading (too lazy to upload them on external site) won’t be filling up someone else’s precious servers.
It was… a project. I’m guessing if one has more experience in hosting it would be easier to figure out. I kept running into error after error, but eventually after spending most of the day on it I did somehow get it working… for now.
After all that I open Lemmy and see a post about easy deploy (linked by squid in response to your comment)… So I decided to give it a try and instance was up in minutes without any errors or issues. That was both very nice and very painful to see!
Thanks for the tip! I thought something like this probably exists, but didn’t have energy to look it up after the installation fatigue. I’m not quite yet decided whether I want to add communities manually or automate it, I’ll probably first see whether I’ll add a couple of friends to the instance or not, and what they might think.
Even if I don’t add anyone to the instance, using All as a type of custom feed would be an option too, adding communities more liberally than I would for Subscribed… Perhaps the way Lemmy does this isn’t as bad as I first thought!
Where is that sound coming from! (lemmywinks.com)
Seeing how good Lemmy is makes me frustrated with Mastodon
My Problems with Mastodon...
It all makes sense now (i.imgur.com)
I somehow did that. It was a long time ago... (lemmy.ml)
Fuck you, I won't do what you told me (lemmywinks.com)
This happens with me all the time :3 (lemmy.world)
What does your 'home' instance really matter?
One thing I’m not clear about is the impact my home instance has on me. I joined lemmy.world and am currently using the connect for lemmy app. I know when I sort by Local it will only show me posts from lemmy.world, but beyond that are there any things to keep in mind?...
My thoughts on Linux (and a troubleshooting request)
My set-up of Linux Mint and GRUB seems to have messed up my Windows drive, as now I can’t boot from it directly anymore, but only by going through GRUB first, and I want to uninstall Linux. How would I go about figuring out the issue and fixing it?...
skill (discuss.tchncs.de)
Is Sisyphus happy tho? (lemmy.one)
Little me just wanted to learn (zaros.club)
Little me just wanted to learn (zaros.club)
Little me just wanted to learn (zaros.club)
Little me just wanted to learn (zaros.club)
Since we are bringing ancient memes (lemmy.world)
18+ F for left shift (lemmy.world)
Lemmy, from a new angle! (lemmy.world)
Uh, work’s a little slow today, so here’s what I thought the Lemmy logo would look like at a 45 and 90 degree rotation. I have the .svg file, if anyone wants. Or just screenshot, w/e
Suggest me a distro
I have already tried out Linux Mint. But I want to try out other distros....
Good boy (lemmy.world)
welp
YSK: What other instances have the most notable Lemmy instances defederated with (pixelfed.social)
Why YSK: Choosing an instance with defederation policies you’re most comfortable with is important to make your Fediverse experience smooth in the long run....
She did her best ok? (lemmy.ml)
What are the incentives for hosting a Lemmy instance?
The primary incentive that comes to mind is improved availability. Often, instances can become slow, so I use another. By hosting a local instance I could always have a smooth experience....