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Classic Chesterton’s fence principle.

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Reddit is already blocking some Proton VPN IPs…

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This is actually not a good advice, from my experience. If we don’t monitor, refactor, or improve the code, the software will rot, sooner or later. “Don’t touch” doesn’t mean we don’t ever think about the code, but we make the conscious choice not to modify it.

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This + org-mode are enough for me to switch to Emacs.

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Also excited for this. I tried KDE before but I didn’t find it easy to configure (too manually for a declarative guy like me). I like more the simplicity of Gnome.

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It was VPN issue for me. Some IPs in Proton VPN doesn’t work. When I tried a different IP or turned the IP off, I could access again.

Well, but most of the time I don’t care enough to go in.

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Better learn COBOL now.

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The different servers, having to remember other people’s instances along with their username.

This is just like email, I see no problem here.

I think the problem is about the mindset and the onboarding experience. We’ve used too much proprietary products and prefer something easy and not too much diverge from the norms. Recently, I tried to advertise Mastodon and Lemmy to my non-techie friends, which are using X and Reddit. Some did try but gave up. They said they didn’t understand the concept, and didn’t want to bother with choosing an instance in the first place, because they didn’t understand the federation concept. It’s just hard to explain the benefits of the fediverse to non-techie people.

The type of people that the fediverse attracts are FOSS users.

I have the same observation as your view. Current fediverse communities are heavily towards tech. Some of my friends joined but gradually left because they had a few to no interactions or no interesting people in their interested areas to follow.

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Unpopular opinion: just type “Massive Win”. What’s wrong with it?

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I learned the lesson: keep the hope low (so I don’t get disappointed), and never preorder.

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That’s interesting to know. Maybe that’s why add-ons don’t work in Firefox iOS or iPad OS.

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Second. Up-to-date packages and stable at the same time.

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+1 for Kagi. $9/month is well worth every dime, considering that searching is one of my main workflows. Google search results nowadays are full of rubbish—ads and SEO-boost junk articles.

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Default Brave blocks ads more aggressively than default Firefox. Of course you can achieve that with Firefox + uBlock Origin, but add-ons are not available on iOS and iPad OS.

That’s just my experience. I still use Firefox + Firefox Focus BTW. To block more aggressively, I also use VPN + Adguard Home.

It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox (www.androidpolice.com)

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Use Vimium add-on and have a pop-up to search your open tab.

Or if you prefer no add-ons or don’t know how to use Vim keybindings then type your search query in the search bar like this:


<span style="color:#323232;">% my tab title
</span>
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Same. I gave up the first time due to tedious details and weird control. I played it again with some control tweak (can’t remember what I changed) and tried to embrace the slow details, and completely loved the story.

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Seriously, Youtube Shorts, Tiktok, Facebook stories can go to hell.

Let’s build the Internet again, starting from Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. One step at a time.

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Not OC, but I’m using Kagi and super happy. Before I use Kagi, I didn’t realise how bad Google result is. Its results are poisoned by ads and SEO nowadays.

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When you learn to do something, you love it more.

Nowadays, we’re mostly given something and we don’t value it.

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Yes, you can filter by almost any country in the world.

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DUPLICATED, CLOSED, etc.

Joke aside, for an open question I’d prefer posting on Reddit/Lemmy/forums to have an open answer.

SO is too strict on its policy.

h_a_r_u_k_i ,
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“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

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Kinda hate that I waste so much time on it.

You watched some learning materials—programming problems, historical events, etc. That’s educative. At least you learned something.

Also, time you enjoy is not wasted.

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Privacy aside, my Instagram feeds now are mostly filled with posts from random people. I do want to follow my friends’ updates but the recommendation algorithm keeps churning out rubbish. If only I could bring them out of Instagram and Facebook…

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Mostly YouTube, Hacker News, and some mailing lists. I do join some random forums to discuss non-tech hobbies like English writings, games, or classical music.

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The problem with YouTube is that is so easy to just default to letting it feed your brain.

True, a typical example is YouTube Shorts. I hate that 15-second trend.

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How do you do that?

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Haha your post made me reflect my journey. I had fun in college tinkering Arch Linux with i3. Now I’m an Infra Engineer (or DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE, whatver) and still do the same job—keeping the system “reliable”.

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my nerdy friend that went on that journey with me is a musician and fashion model lol.

Maybe his/her experience in keeping the system simple and beautiful helped him/her recognise the passion in art.

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  • The Witcher 3
  • Final Fantasy 7 (Remake)
  • Pokemon Emerald

Generally, I would feel there’s a void after playing something special. The emptiness after finishing the game is hard to describe.

Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ (www.theverge.com)

“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”...

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Ugh, my feed in Lemmy is full of this now. Is it feasible to “lower” the visibility of a keyword like “Musk” or “X”?

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A bit techy: Programmers are also human. The guy is a gem. I laughed so hard, God knows how many time.

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Wikipedia is like our dear friend. It gives us general information, good advice, and direction in life, but never gets too deeply in it. The choice is ours to make.

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Not fully trust, but I trust it more than some listicles and low-quality SEO-boost sites.

When I want to learn something new, I often come to Wikipedia, or Britannica, or YouTube to get to know the subject. And generally, they will recommend me with some valuable reference to dig deeper.

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That’s why I like it. No BS, no ads, no commercials, no show-offs, etc. Just some people with a bit of free time share their knowledge and stories.

I do wish we have more vibrant non-tech communities, though.

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Then you have Clojure - a machine gun that shoots shivs.

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So Reddit would go from a social open hub, the “front page of the Internet”, to a walled garden? Ridiculous.

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I hate Google but they gave us Go, Kubernetes. I hate Amazon but they gave us AWS. I plainly hate those companies, but adore the brilliant engineers that work there.

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Just the matter of taste. For some users who want to get to code quickly, they use VSCode without the hassle. For some power users who want to have extreme extensibility, they use Emacs/Vim.

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Emacs will be there for you, once vscode Windows gets abandoned.

FTFY.

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Good advice only for tech-savvy and people who are interested in self-hosting. There’s so many things that can go wrong like improper backups and accidental networking problems.

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May I ask why?

Personally, I find its UI/UX is annoying. The quality of the sound is awesome, though.

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Why is Google trying to follow the model of Spotify even though the model is not really successful? I hate when browsing my music in Spotify some podcast pops up. I just want to listen to my music, dammit!

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+1 for Proton Mail. The other day I have switched to Proton (from another mail provider in Germany) and love it so far. I can even use a language to customise my filter [1], how cool that is!

Not in a million year that I will come back to Gmail.

[1] proton.me/support/sieve-advanced-custom-filters

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This, for example I love Proton Pass so far. I completely replaced my Bitwarden with Proton Pass. It (Proton Pass) has built-in 2FA authenticator, password generator, Firefox extension, and email generator to hide my email address.

Not happy with Proton Calendar (pretty basic) or Proton Drive (doesn’t support auto-sync, yet) but I’m patiently waiting for them.

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I’m curious: can we match the level of Waterfox with Firefox’s add-ons: uBlock, privacy badger, etc.

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I’m talking about quantum. I switched to Firefox since quantum came out.

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