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samxavia , to asklemmy
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@asklemmy What do you think it would take for people to drop Twitter & Reddit and move to the Fediverse?

flashgnash ,

Gen z here, there are still nerds in our generation

Think part of what you’re seeing might be that previously when it was all new and niche the only people using these sites were nerds, nowadays everyone’s using it so by comparison it looks like there are less of us around

I hear Lemmy is very reminiscent of the old internet because it aggregates all the techies together like the internet in general used to

flashgnash ,

I think we just wait, if it’s meant to be it’ll happen organically

Besides, do we really want to bring the entire internet in here? Not sure what reason we have for it and at the moment it’s full of like minded nerds, which is just how I like it personally

That said it could probably do with a wider spectrum of political beliefs, it does feel like a bit of an echo chamber sometimes

flashgnash ,

Via mastodon? Afaik there’s no activitypub messaging system right?

flashgnash ,

Oh yeah I’ve been on signal for ages now. Relatively easy to get people on that though because the UI is so familiar

flashgnash ,

I’ve had basically no resistance with signal. The selling point being WhatsApp but without Facebook spying tends to work fairly well

Nobody wants to be spied on, the only issue is most people also can’t be bothered to learn a new app

retiolus , to memes
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@programmerhumor @memes

flashgnash ,

Helix is great except when you switch to vim for whatever reason and everything is backwards

flashgnash ,

Can you not get an nvim extension? There’s one for Vscode that works very well and even uses your existing nvim config

flashgnash ,

You get everything Vscode does, vscode’s LSPs, vscode’s element rename/jump to definition (which I realise nvim has but I can’t get it to work properly and code does it out of the box), live share sessions, built in split panes and git integration etc etc

It carries over everything as far as I can tell (besides the graphical changes obviously), motions, plugins, shortcuts

I’m sure you can achieve most things Vscode does in neovim but using Vscode/ium and nvim is a massive shortcut

flashgnash ,

Personally I kinda prefer helix bindings but vim bindings I think are far more useful to know when using anything other than helix

flashgnash ,

As far as I’m aware none of the things I mentioned work out of the box in neovim (jump to definition does but only within the same file which is kinda useless for me

BolexForSoup , to linux
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Looking to dip my toes into Linux for the first time. I have a 2016 Intel MacBook Pro with pretty solid specs collecting dust right now that I think I’m going to use. Research so far has indicated to me that the two best options for me are likely Mint or Elementary OS. Does anyone have any insight? Also open to other OS’s. I would consider myself decently tech savvy but I am not a programmer or anything. Comfortable dipping into the terminal when the need arises and all that.

@linux

flashgnash ,

Out of all the distro hopping I’ve found NixOS is the most solid. That said, my built in microphone sounds atrocious for some reason on nix

flashgnash ,

It’s quite good as an all rounder really, I’m using it on my gaming pc, laptop and raspberry pi for some self hosting stuff currently, all of which use a modular config file so I’ve got the same installed programs, hotkeys, user profile etc whatever machine I’m using

flashgnash ,

Absolutely same with the actual hardware thing you can’t get a good feel for an os on a VM

Nix package manager and home manager runs on any distro and even Mac so you can use a home manager config cross machine

There are other benefits though like the fact that you can configure services, system components and other software with like 2 lines of code most the time and it just works

flashgnash ,

You’ll hear from most people who use NixOS, once you try it you won’t want to use anything else

flashgnash ,

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