I got my piantor yesterday and i really like it so far, it was a bit of a challenge to set everything up in a way i like. And my writing speed has deceased from 140 wpm to about 30. But that is just a matter of relearning to write on this keyboard and unlearning years of bad writing practices.
I’ve not been well for a couple days, so husband has offered to make butternut squash risotto which I am super excited for! Seems like a lot of effort while the weather is still quite warm, so I’ll make sure he’s well rewarded once I’m feeling better.
Lemmy got a large influx of new people (you probably noticed that), and those new people weren't reading their gidelines (that are more strict than usual) before posting there.
If you decide to make an account there, make sure to read their guidelines first.
It's nominally a personnel/time issue. It's easier to defederate with rapidly growing instances than try and keep tabs on the flood of posts which are coming in from them. Lemmy.World, at least for a time, was still federated with some shitstances, also out of manpower limitations, and beehaw decided to just take their ball and leave. It's the way federation works and is entirely up to them, just as reddit raising api costs and kicking moderators is within their rights. Your server, your rules. We can argue whether it's the best way to manage and build a small platform, but its the state of things at the moment.
disc: I'm a member of lemmy.world, as well as a smaller lemmy instance and kbin, both of which are still federated with beehaw.
I highly recommend trying Manjaro. I haven’t moved past Windows 7, so I can’t compare directly to Win 10/11, but it’s the only Linux distro I’ve found that was Close Enough™ to Windows to make it possible for me to switch.
Like any Linux, things aren’t going to Just Work™ as often as in Windows, but this is the closest I’ve gotten.
I recommend NOT using Manjaro, they have many issues, most described here: manjarno.snorlax.sh
for someone who wants an arch-based distro without tinkering too much there are other alternatives like endeavourOs, and I think Garuda too.
For someone who wants something that looks like windows, no need for Manjaro, just something with a desktop environment that looks like windows. I’d recommend Linux Mint, very simple to use (and for low end computers there is the XFCE edition), or distributions with KDE (fedora KDE, Kubuntu…) or maybe ZorinOS.
edit: also nobara Linux (based on fedora)may be good for games, they have a version that kinda feels like windows
I’ve been using Manjaro for a couple of years now on my desktop (with an Nvidia GPU). Their package situation is not great. Updating the Linux kernel and Nvidia drivers is a process separate from pamac that you have to just know to do, or one day X will break and now you have to figure out how to fix it.
On top of that, because they delay the release of non-aur repo packages for stability testing, but don’t delay aur, some aur packages will just break occasionally. I now manually install discord from their tar ball because of this.
Because of these little unnecessary quirks that you just have to know how to work around, I can’t recommend it for new Linux users, and honestly don’t recommend it to seasoned users either. I’m trying out endeavor OS on my laptop now and I think that is what I would recommend; but possibly only for more seasoned users because it’s arch. Might be more stable if you install the linux-lts package and remove linux.
Journa.host was intended as an instances for journalists. I was able to track news by following both its local feed and following some of the members posting on it.
I’m not involved either. I definitely would never do anything so abhorrent and inconsiderate of rights holders who purchased their copyrights fair and square.
Commenting from Kbin on Firefox, where I have to rotate my phone to landscape orientation to read full comments. If I keep it in portrait, some comments will randomly run off the side of my view, and zooming out doesn't help.
It's not perfect. I'm very much hanging in there until some sort of upgrade comes along. Lemmy.world has been unable to get me signed in, so there's that.
Same here on a lower end Samsung, it's fine. IMHO I also think if people flock to apps for just a UI, it can take away some of the motivation to improve a site.
I guess it would if the repair shops respected it. I am using my insurance to get the screen fixed so I have no idea where it ends up. They just have a big disclaimer which mentions that you should make a backup because the phone will most likely be factory reset.
It would be cool if communities could be grouped by instance and if we could see the latest topic for each to get an bird’s-eye view of the discussions. Local communities should appear in the first group at the top of the page. I’m not sure if it’s currently possible, but being able to tag communities would be nice and allow for better search results.
I think this exists in the "Communities" tab of each instance. There you can see the local communities (minus the latest post, and sorted by number of members I believe?)
Grouping/tagging might be cool though. One thing I'm rather curious about is how the "scattered" communities are going to play together (with multiple technology communities for example).
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