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Who reads this anyway? Nobody, that’s who. I could write just about anything here, and it wouldn’t make a difference. As a matter of fact, I’m kinda curious to find out how much text can you dump in here. If you’re like really verbose, you could go on and on about any pointless…[no more than this]

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Hamartiogonic , to showerthoughts in Modern life is so tied with smartphones living without it is increasingly becoming harder
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I’ve been telling people around me to install Signal. If you want to send me messages, install Signal. I’m not installing WhatsApp, any time soon.

Hamartiogonic , to fediverse in Besides tech-focused instances, what other subject focused Lemmy/Kbinstances have you found?
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Thanks. Fixed it. I keep wondering why do I always type too fast…

Hamartiogonic , to fediverse in Besides tech-focused instances, what other subject focused Lemmy/Kbinstances have you found?
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Good catch! Fixed the typo.

Hamartiogonic , to showerthoughts in Modern life is so tied with smartphones living without it is increasingly becoming harder
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And even if you have a smartphone, you are strongly encouraged to get WhatsApp and donate all of your data to Meta that way. Not too long ago someone told me about having sent me messages through a channel don’t even use. I wonder if WhatsApp still shows me as online even though I haven’t used the app in more than 10 years.

Hamartiogonic , (edited ) to fediverse in Besides tech-focused instances, what other subject focused Lemmy/Kbinstances have you found?
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There are instances associated specific countries

edit: I’ve made lots of little corrections here and there, added links and all that. Must be like version 20 by now.

Hamartiogonic , to linux in After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share
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Chasing after the mythical “Year of the Linux Desktop” hasn’t been relevant since smart phones and tablets became mainstream.

Back in the old days, nearly everyone had a desktop or a laptop, but nowadays those devices are mainly used for very specific applications such as work or gaming. Most people used to read email, browse news, do Skype calls with friends or listen to music on their desktop, but the world has change a lot since those days. Nowadays, mobile devices can do most of the things that people used to do with a desktop, so even if Linux gained 51% market share tomorrow, it wouldn’t have much of an impact on most people. They would continue using their phone or tablet as their primary computer regardless.

In recent years, gaming has changed a lot too, and the number of games you can run on Linux has increased dramatically, so in that regard many obstacles have been removed.

Work applications are a very different story though. If your work doesn’t revolve around online tools, you’re pretty much stuck with Windows. If your work involves using special instruments your options are even more limited. Usually, the company that manufactured the device has only tested their application under a very a specific version of windows, and they don’t intend to patch it to work with the next one. Instead, they want to you to spend another 20-50 k€ on another reactor, autoclave, spectrometer, robot, whatever every time you get tired of keeping your computer permanently offline.

Hamartiogonic , to worldnews in BBC reports - Sweden is in!
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Finland and Sweden have been cooperating in matters of defense for a long time. Now they both are NATO members, that united defense should be a credible deterrent to Russia. In Sweden was left out, that structure would have been weaker.

Hamartiogonic , to showerthoughts in joining the fediverse to bitch about reddit is the same as going on a date, and spending the whole night talking about your ex
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If I go to Reddit in order to tell everyone how great Lemmy is, that’s like going back to my X and talking about how great my new SO is. Sounds like a pretty psycho move IMO when I think about it.

Hamartiogonic , (edited ) to nostupidquestions in What are up votes (uplemmies?) actually for?
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“Lemmy uses a voting system to sort post listings. - - You can upvote posts that you like so that more users will see them. Or downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen. Each post receives a score which is the number of upvotes minus number of downvotes.

  • Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time
  • Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published
  • New: Shows most recent posts first
  • Old: Shows oldest posts first
  • Most Comments: Shows posts with highest number of comments first
  • New Comments: Bumps posts to the top when they receive a new reply analogous to the sorting of traditional forums
  • Top Day: Highest scoring posts during the last 24 hours
  • Top Week: Highest scoring posts during the last 7 days
  • Top Month: Highest scoring posts during the last 30 days
  • Top Year: Highest scoring posts during the last 12 months
  • Top All Time: Highest scoring posts during all time”

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Hot sounds a lot like what Reddit uses. They use some secret algorithm where each upvote is like a balloon that lifts the post up and as the post ages, more and more weights are added to it over time so that it sinks down and gives more space for newer posts.

Reading the documentation can be a bit boring, but you can always use Bing to summarize the main points and even ask specific questions about the text.

Hamartiogonic , to fediverse in Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
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When it comes to cutting expenses, government institutions are always very interested, so it makes sense to outsource all sorts of things. On the other hand, political decision making can change the situation completely. For example, some countries have decided that all of mining industry, railways, electricity and water must be kept in government hands, no matter the cost. Same sort of things can happen with IT services once you burn your fingers badly enough.

Hamartiogonic , to fediverse in Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
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I was talking about companies with an email address like myFirstCompanyPleaseTakeMeSeriously(at) gmail.com. As opposed to first.last(at)company.com In the latter case you can still have gmail involved but your customers wouldn’t know about it.

Hamartiogonic , to fediverse in Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
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You don’t see governments or companies using gmail, now do you. Well, small unprofessional companies do, but everyone else has a domain, website, mail server and all the usual internet infrastructure in place. Why should companies and governments use TweetBook or Snapstargram for official communication when they can host their own instance. For the time being, the problem has been that large majority of the people are using these unstable platforms, so companies decided to follow.

Hamartiogonic , to nostupidquestions in How to de-radicalize my mom's youtube algorithm?
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Yes. I’ve nuked my history once to start from a clean slate. Alternatively, you can also delete harmful videos from your history one by one, but that could take a while.

Hamartiogonic , to reddit in Reddit mobile app
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Maybe consider using Firefox for browsing the site instead. The UX can’t get much worse than it already is with the official mobile app. Actually, Firefox won’t be doing sneaky background stuff while you’re not using the site, so the UX should be better in that regard.

Hamartiogonic , to fediverse in I think the average person just simply doesn't care about their privacy.
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Oh, just realized I should probably follow those kinds of people on Mastodon.

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