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anothermember ,

Is this mainly a US-centric take though? In the UK, yes we had AOL here and a fair number of people I knew had it, but it was never dominant as far as I could tell (I’d be happy to be corrected, I only came in around 1997). It was MSN messenger that became established as the dominant instant messenger here by about 2000, I don’t really remember too many people using AIM.

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Yes, the differences are fascinating, I know Minitel was big in France. To my mind it was Freeserve that brought the internet to the masses in the UK (and spawned many dozens of similar ISPs in the late-90s), but seems to be a bit of a footnote now. My peers first started messaging through YIM (Yahoo! Instant Messenger) before MSN took over as the default. I remember AOL was perceived as an expensive ISP which limited the popularity of AIM.

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    anothermember ,

    All other pizzas are worse than pineapple on pizza.

    I wonder if pineapple, beans, and sausage would work.

    anothermember ,

    My parents would send me to school with peanut butter and Marmite sandwiches. Slightly annoying that just because there’s a ready-mixed version that people are now acting like it’s a new thing, but at least more people get to experience it.

    anothermember ,

    No milk for me, I don’t think that’s covered by the chart.

    anothermember ,

    Best controllers ever, in my opinion.

    anothermember ,

    Just Thunderbird is fine for me, has all the features I want and I already get my email there (but even if I didn’t I’d struggle to find an RSS reader with its features).

    anothermember ,

    Downvotes are disabled on Beehaw, we don’t see them even on communities on other instances. I find it makes it a much more pleasant experience.

    anothermember ,

    It was Red Hat Linux 8.0 (not to be confused with RHEL 8), I think, that I first dabbled in Linux, that was around early 2003, and then I moved on to Fedora Core 1. But I went exclusively-Linux with Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) in 2006.

    I’ve moved around since then but for the last 5 years I’ve ended up back on Fedora, where I’ve been since version 28, now version 39.

    anothermember ,

    OpenSUSE, it’s what I’d be using if Fedora didn’t exist.

    The 6.7 kernel has been released (lwn.net)

    Some of the headline features in this release are: the removal of support for the Itanium architecture, the first part of the futex2 API, futex support in io_uring, the BPF exceptions mechanism, the bcachefs filesystem, the TCP authentication option, the kernel samepage merging smart scan mode, and networking support for the...

    anothermember ,

    4.20 still feels like yesterday

    anothermember ,

    I’m surprised at that, from my experience I think it’s still more normal than not to have analogue clocks at home, and I would always prefer an analogue watch.

    anothermember ,

    I was mildly interested until I saw “designed for creators”. Seems like a meaningless marketing term that gets added to everything these days.

    anothermember ,

    I’ve never heard of sugarcoating pills, is it a US thing maybe?

    anothermember ,

    I think you’re right then, and honestly I can’t say I’ve noticed.

    anothermember ,

    VLC because it works with everything and it doesn’t try to organise my music collection for me.

    anothermember ,

    It just adds another layer of abstraction when my file manager works just fine. I think it started back in the iPod days, and now you have a generation of people who don’t know how to manage files.

    anothermember ,

    Because anything truly outside of our senses (or ability to measure) is non-falsifiable, so if it can’t impact us it’s essentially meaningless. If it can impact us then it can be measured and become science.

    anothermember ,

    Beehaw is my favourite instance, if it left I would stay with it but and also use a different instance to use Lemmy.

    I would worry that Beehaw couldn’t sustain itself outside of federation though, it needs to be either bigger or fill more of a niche and it doesn’t do either. I would give it some time to grow more first if it were up to me.

    anothermember ,

    One that might be controversial: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I still have a lot of respect for this distro and I really wanted to like it but it’s just not for me. It’s the fact that major updates could occur any day of the week, which could be time-consuming to install or they could change the features of the OS. It always presented a dilemma of whether to hold back updates which might include holding back critical updates.

    So rolling distros aren’t for me, everyone expects to run in to some occasional issues with Arch, but TW puts a lot of emphasis on testing and reliability, so I thought it might be for me. But the reality is I much prefer the release cycle and philosophy of Fedora, I think that strikes the best balance.

    anothermember ,

    That didn’t exist when I tried TW, but that’s something I’ll at least try out on a second machine at some point.

    anothermember ,

    Funnily enough I’ve also noticed that my comments on Lemmy.ml have only been getting 1 point in the last week. Probably because they’re not interesting enough but since you mentioned it…

    anothermember ,

    It’s just occurred to me that that would be difficult to do on Lemmy, since not everyone’s federated to the same instances.

    anothermember ,

    I really wish people would stop calling them adblockers too, they’re wide-spectrum content blockers, and they’re not blocking ads, they’re blocking malicious ad-networks which is necessary for user security. Given the prevalence of online spyware it should be a basic feature built in to all web browsers.

    It just gives spyware-promoting sites the ability to say “but you’re hurting our revenue” which is a completely separate issue.

    anothermember ,

    I really think that’s a separate issue, which needs to be discussed as a completely separated issue. I agree ads by their nature are manipulative, they serve the website and the advertiser not the user. I think that once ads are non user-tracking then we can have a discussion about advertising ethics and deceptive advertising (online ads have always been terrible even before they were privacy invading) but you can’t have that discussion when it’s mixed in with privacy issues. Only once you take away the privacy issues then we can have the conversation about ad-pollution versus website revenue.

    anothermember ,

    Can’t even vote without a Google account.

    anothermember ,

    Beehaw is a quieter experience than most because it has narrower federation, but you do tend to get a better signal to noise ratio since you miss the spammier instances - I like it.

    Beehaw also doesn’t federate downvotes which I think is an improvement.

    anothermember ,

    Only issue is I recently opened another account because theyre leaving lemmy eventually and currently my posts dont federate and all my subscriptions are pending.

    Nothing’s concrete yet. I have accounts on several instances for their various advantages, but Beehaw is what I’ve settled on as my main “default” for now. The Subscribe Pending is a bug, I don’t think it affects your posts federating so they’re separate issues if that’s the case.

    anothermember ,

    Posting from a Beehaw account I think does have a psychological effect on me that causes me to naturally tone things down a bit. I think it’s been good for me.

    anothermember ,

    I don’t get it…

    anothermember ,

    Oh right, I was stupid, I see it now.

    anothermember ,

    Saluton!

    anothermember ,

    For power users, I recommend to use a plugin like NoScript though, to block Google/CookieLaw’s hidden JS spyware on the site (they’re on 2/3th of the web tho).

    noscript.net

    Beware, NoScript will break some sites, and will require you to manually enable/whitelist JS (JavaScript) sources for sites + CDNs to fix this again.

    Can you not use uBlock Origin to block 3rd party scripts? Enable advanced mode and add * * 3p-script block to My Rules.

    I ask because I want to keep the number of extensions to a minimum.

    anothermember ,

    It’s the best Chromium browser, but unfortunately still a Chromium browser. Pleased to see it in Flathub though.

    anothermember ,

    I had one of those printers in the 90s.

    anothermember ,

    The real power for btrfs for me is incremental backups; you can take a snapshot of your home partition and send it to a backup device, then you can take a second snapshot a week later and just send the differences between them. I do my weekly backups like this. You can keep many multiple snapshots to roll back if needs be since only the differences between snapshots take up space. This is the tutorial that got me started.

    anothermember ,

    I suppose it depends on how much stuff you have, doing a full back up of my home every week is too time consuming to be practical but takes a couple of minutes with this method.

    Keeping multiple past snapshots is overkill for me but I do it because I can, more-or-less. It would be useful if I accidentally delete a file and only remember it months later.

    anothermember ,

    It’s the first time I’ve seen it.

    anothermember ,

    Completely agree. Now my hot take for this thread:

    If governments some time in the 90s had decided from the start to ban computer hardware from being sold with pre-installed software then we wouldn’t have this problem. If everyone had to install their own operating system from scratch, which like you say isn’t hard if it’s taught, it would have killed the mystery around computing and people would feel ownership over their computers and computing.

    anothermember ,

    I guess I just unsubscribe from communities where there are a lot of low-effort memes?

    But seeing it here is fine, it’s started some discussion.

    anothermember ,

    Given the importance of computers in our time, isn’t it only proportionally justified to spend an enormous amount of time and dedication in teaching it properly?

    anothermember ,

    I was playing a degree of devil’s advocacy there because I was interested in how the person I replied to would respond.

    I don’t think it needs to be as intensive as that, I think a small amount of education would go a long way. Like teaching school classes how to install an operating system on a blank machine as a basic entry point - that would do wonders for gaining a basic appreciation for ownership over computing.

    anothermember ,

    I don’t understand why people are so cynical about this, it seems like a harmless demonstration of the current state of the technology.

    anothermember ,

    Most people aren’t professional musicians though.

    anothermember ,

    My thought on that is if you generate multiple images through a random number generator and find one that’s interesting or aesthetically pleasing, then you are the creator since selecting it, while low effort, is the creative process.

    anothermember ,

    Essentially yes, I would give the person using AI to generate an original image the credit as the image’s creator. I’m willing to bet that anything “good” AI generates is a result of many attempts and refinements and a human selecting the best result, and to me that makes it a human-driven creative process using a tool, the same as using a random number generator.

    I’m deliberately not saying “copyrightable” because I don’t personally believe that digital files should be copyrightable (since recognising a copyright of a number is insanity), but it should be copyrightable in a society that recognises number copyrights.

    anothermember ,

    Not within Lemmy, but if you were on, for example, a federated Mastodon instance it’s perfectly possible to boost that comment that would appear like a retweet to Mastodon users.

    anothermember ,

    They’re not making an argument for the filter bubble though.

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