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I know that recent drama has caused a bit of uneasiness in the community for this platforms future, but I am optimistic for lemmy. It might be helpful to look to mastodon to learn how to move forward.

cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/641633...

What do you do to make the Internet a nicer place?

How is it even possible/practical to obey traffic laws?

I’m talking specifically about obeying the speed limit, doing a full stop at stop signs, etc. After receiving a speeding ticket for doing 53 in a 50, As an experiment I went a full day obeying all traffic laws 100% and it caused so much road rage. For example, there is a 2 lane road near me with a speed limit of 50 (where I...

Comic Piracy is Easy, Just Different.

MaM and Geek and some other sites post a weekly 0-Day dump from the comic usenet boards....

A few rule changes on community's reaction: Elon Musk personal rants, overzealous advertisement posts, non-essential crypto news effectively disallowed | Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ad

Non-essential crypto news covers crypto advertisement, insignificant news that does not affect legit users like XMR/ETH/BTC holders or darknet users, posts relating to garbage like Brave browser and its coin, and so on. Due to the multiple kinds of crypto posts that pop up, this rule will be applied subjectively on a...

Question to the ones that fully left Reddit

How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?...

This is a rant about ASUS and their RGB lighting software

Back in the day, I knew what I would get from ASUS and their AURA tech. Pretty simple, just choose what you want and go. My LEDs did what I wanted, it was simple. But no… no they said. Instead we want you to download most of a gig of bullshit to do the same thing, but with extra fucking steps....

I wonder what fish and sharks think of whales and dolphins that have to surface to breath. I can totally see it "get out of here air breather, go hug the surface."

What do you do with all the free time you got once you stopped using reddit?

[SOLVED] Will Linux Phones ever become commercially viable and decrease to a price point of 200-400 USD?

Don’t say, hey android has Linux in it, yeah no, idc, I want to know how far we are from buying a Linux phone at a price point of 200 USD....

btrfs appreciation post

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/4274796...

New anti-VPN measures at BBC

Today, for the first time, I couldn’t use iplayer. As usual, I switched country to UK, cleared browsing data, deleted everything from temp app data file before going there. Was using Firefox. Tried same procedure with Epic browser. Same result. Chatted with Nord support. They wanted screenshots of results from dnsleaktest dot...

Can someone explain the benefits of Usenet to a long-time torrent-er?

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6240929...

Had to say goodbye to my little man recently, here he is watching the birds

He was seventeen, deep into kidney disease. The ten years I got with him were such a joy.

The new name of twitter is „X, former known as ‚twitter‘“

Craziest/most "exotic" devices able to run Linux?

Something like a thermostat or a smart fridge – have you seen any? If so, please share with a video or two.

"I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same.“ — Angus Young

I just read that quote and felt like sharing it with you. Some AC/DC appreciation....

How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?

I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....

Advice on helping a loved one through alcoholism?

My fiance has been struggling a lot lately with this and it’s taking a toll on me. I’m doing all I can and all I know how to do but it’s getting really hard and exhausting to deal with the constant cycle of abuse and then apology and then abuse and then apology over and over and over again for months. Usually day by day. I...