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wispydust , to nostupidquestions in How do you find (fun & interesting) accounts to to follow on Mastadon?

Every now and then I’d look at the “Explore” tab and follow random accounts.

Doesn’t matter if they only have a few toots that resonate with me… Following costs nothing and I can always unfollow later.

Follow in explore (or boosted toots), unfollow what gets noisy, repeat

Ranessin , to nostupidquestions in Do I understand correctly that I have to subscribe to 5 different NoStupidQuestions on 5 different instances?
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So? Reddit has about 10 sizeable Subs that are just a variation of “Ask Any and All Questions”. That’s not even counting speciality subs like “MedicalQuestions” or “ITQuestions” or “DermatologyQuestions” or “AskTrangender”. Or the different language ones like “FragReddit” (German). In the end 1-3 will become the major ones, all will be a bit different and everyone will find the ones they like most.

Kolanaki , to nostupidquestions in What happened to the French colonists in the US. ?
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Isn’t that where Creole and Cajun people came from?

Chadus_Maximus , to nostupidquestions in How does Lemmy decide what goes in the hot feed?

Poorly.

martinbasic , to nostupidquestions in How do you choose an instance and does that have a significant effect on your Lemmy experience?
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For me, if you are choosing a different instances for your alt account, always have a look at the instance’s server location info and their blocked list, just in case

maniel , to books in Just read Project Hail Mary
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Obligatory: fist my bump!

Jackcooper , to nostupidquestions in How do you choose an instance and does that have a significant effect on your Lemmy experience?

I went with .world because I’m a reddit refugee and it was the easiest to find when I knew nothing about Lemmy

I now have a lemmy.ca account for when world gets ddos’d

jeanofthedead , to mildlyinfuriating in A friend of mine says they don’t wanna “yuck my yum” whenever they’re about to trash something I like and it infuriates me, mildly
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It was just said a bunch by Seth Rogen in ‘Platonic,” so you’re about to hear it even more.

Uluganda , to linux in Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?

I don’t know what average people could do to break their system, considering nowadays, it is practically impossible to break anything if you are using Software Management tool your Distro gave. I don’t say I don’t believe you. Something could break. But I suppose you are trying to do something that average Joes would not attempt.

I installed Linux on my coworkers, friends and families, and nothing break. Heck, I even gave my friend Arch Linux. I told them to only install thing from the Store and never touch command line without talking to me first. It’s been 6 months.

Linux for average people is been there. It’s ready. OnlyOffice is just like Ms. Office but Open Source. If you are willing to learn, LibreOffice is far better than Ms. Office. Linux supports all browser. KdenLive and Krita work better in Linux. GNOME is way easier to navigate than Windows, with superior gesture and beauty Windows could only dream of.

Windows has its perk, but saying Linux is hard is no longer true.

xkforce ,

Once everything is set up, linux is easy. But… that installation process can still go very wrong. eg. The last install I did was Ubuntu 22.04. The version of systemd that shipped with it had a bug that caused the system not to boot. Replacing systemd with a working version fixed that issue. Then it turns out that 5 of the graphics card driver’s dependances were held back (something recent that Ubuntu does, I forget why) so the driver didnt work. Force installing the dependancies (drop to root before KDE started) fixed that.

So yeah if you set things up for someone of course its going to be easy to use. It SHOULD be easy to use after 30 years of development. But that initial setup process is often not user friendly.

iopq ,

I upgraded Ubuntu 20 LTS to Ubuntu 22 LTS in place and it broke everything including the Wifi drivers. Left with a black command line with no Internet, so I just wiped the drive

yhnavein ,

Yeah, but let’s try to install graphic drivers and everything starts to break down. And without them performance is just shit.

Uluganda ,

Are you using the driver supported by your distro? I’m not Nvidia user, but I have fair share of installing Nvidia drivers on Linux. As long as you don’t stray from driver the distro gave you, I never have problem. Literally not once.

And if you are trying to install AMD or Intel proprietary driver. Why? Just…, why?

Gerryflap ,
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This is simply not true in my experience. Basically everyone I know has to deal with all kinds of shit when installing Linux. Broken graphics drivers, random freezes, the touchpad disabling after closing the laptop, wifi not working, etc. There’s always something. Now I don’t mind fixing that, because I enjoy Linux more despide all of these issues. Andost of my friends manage to solve it as well because they’re programmers like me. But the average person might not be able to solve it and will feel like they’re constantly interacting with a broken system.

dmmeyournudes , to nostupidquestions in How does Lemmy decide what goes in the hot feed?

the hot feed is the same as reddits rising feed. its not a hot feed, its just random posts that have gotten an above average number of upvotes in the last hour. this site is next to impossible to use between the lack of a hot page and all of the niche communities not being populated thus making the front page and your subfeed the same 5 communities, and they’re all memes.

CaptObvious ,

Well, if it was a better fit, there’s always Return to Reddit.

dylanTheDeveloper , to linux in Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?
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Its a little more difficult to debug and fix issues compared to windows

RagingToad , (edited )

Is that true? Every error in Linux is logged, configurations are readable. For me, I’m very tech savvy, clicking around in GUIs hoping to find something, spelunking in event manager trying to find an error, is so much harder than in Linux.

This is very personal, I know. How do you debug and fix issues in Windows again? :-) It has been a while.

antihero ,

Yes, and everyone knows the blue screen of death!! It’s so annoying.

RagingToad ,

Well they thoroughly fixed that in Windows 2000 with better memory management. Has happened very rarely in versions after that.

But, yes, it’s also conveys very little useful information other than “I crashed, I hope you saved whatever you were doing”.

(But I’ve had crashes in Linux too, probably because of Nvidia)

dylanTheDeveloper ,
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Event viewer and dumps for bluescreens (in windows 10 and maybe 11 you have to enable it), I just hate having to use the terminal

flipht , to books in What are the best books for someone with depression? to read...

I have nystagmus, so after a full day of reading for work and playing games online after, my eyes are too tired to sit there and read.

I switched to audiobooks about 8 years ago and haven't looked back. It's amazing. Increasing the speed slightly makes them sound more conversation speed, so start with 1.3-1.6. I'm up to 3.3 now, which gets me through books at an insane rate.

Granixo , to nostupidquestions in How do you choose an instance and does that have a significant effect on your Lemmy experience?
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For anyone who lives outside of the US:

Choose an instance that corresponds to your country.

Atemu ,
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Yeah. I think I’d like to move to feddit.de when that becomes a possibility. Though I kinda do like my O.G. dev.lemmy.ml account too.

pinwurm , to nostupidquestions in What happened to the French colonists in the US. ?
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In some cases, they never went away. In New England - especially northern parts of Maine and New Hampshire, there are communities that are plurality Francophone, and have been Americans for generations. 

I think one thing that people often don’t understand is that American English is highly influenced by the French language - accounting for 30% of all words. Words like Lieutenant are pronounced differently in British and American because of the French influence. Or the word “herb” - Americans don’t pronounce the H just like the French.

As far as cultural things, of course the US is known for its wine. Napa Valley is one of the best wine regions in the world. Those wines consistently beat French and Italian wines in international competitions. Finger Lakes, as well. American cheeses like cheddar are very popular. There are entire states known for this, like Vermont and Wisconsin. I think in terms of bread, you see more influence from Italian and German breadbakers then French.

That said, French influence is just one of many patches on the rich tapestry that is America. It was impactful, but the influence was definitely overshadowed by groups like Irish, Italian, Polish, Chinese, and African Slaves - whose descendants have created our greatest modern cultural exports.

FiskFisk33 , to mildlyinfuriating in A friend of mine says they don’t wanna “yuck my yum” whenever they’re about to trash something I like and it infuriates me, mildly

“yet still you don’t intend to stop talking”

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