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maggoats , 7 months ago to linux_gaming in Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon HD 6000 Series

I had one til a few months ago!

maggoats , 8 months ago to aboringdystopia in Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward

I wonder this too, but I’m coming to believe that as long as investors are throwing money at housing and people need it, it might not burst. With enough wealth concentration, maybe it just all gets progressively bought up and rented out at insane prices, with growth coming from speculation among massive institutional investors.

But I haven’t really thought of this deeply or looked into whether it’s sound.

maggoats , 9 months ago to linux in Does Linux even work properly on Dell XPS laptops?

Got an XPS 13 9350, works fine, bluetooth and all, though I upgraded Ubuntu and the kernel and the integrated webcam hasn’t worked since, which I still don’t really understand.

maggoats , 10 months ago to linux in Need help on installing NVIDIA drivers for old GPU.

This may not be relevant since I have a different gpu and am on Ubuntu, but when I installed proprietary drivers I didn’t have display either because I was using a version of the driver that was too recent (whether due to dropped compatibility or a bug I don’t know). An older one might work!

maggoats , 11 months ago to world in More Wagner fighters move closer to Polish border, Poland PM says

Google en passant

maggoats , 11 months ago to showerthoughts in People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays

There might be some kind of trust system that could work. I have no idea of course but I’m envisioning something like Stack Overflow’s system and a bit of community correction and authority à la Wikipedia.

maggoats , 11 months ago to world in UK renewable energy plans hit after developer halts 1.4GW wind farm project

Why can’t the government just build it as a public utility?

maggoats , 11 months ago to world in US considers 'sun blocking' to cool the Earth: What is it and does it really work?

Yeah, I saw a link to a study that modeled outcomes within the next fre decades where acidification kills enough marine life and favors the reproduction of other microbes. Something about either low oxygen in the oceans and/or the atmosphere, or maybe a dangerous increase in stmospheric toxins resulting from that.

Maybe I’ll try and find it to verify.

maggoats , 1 year ago to fediverse in Amazing growing on Lemmy!!

I agree, based on these statistics. Prior to the obvious jump in bot-farmed accounts, there were about 162000 active users with an active user proportion of about 0.186 (somewhere around >29000 active users).

Now there are 649k lemmy users and an active user proportion of 0.055 (~35600 according to the dashboard). If we assume those 35600 users represent the pre-bot-farming ratio of 0.186, we get 35600/0.186 or about just over 191000.

That’s still an increase of probably 30k true users, unless the proportion of lurkers have also suddenly drastically increased. I don’t think that’s true, because, pre-bot-farming, when the user base started growing with the Reddit debacle, the proportion of active users increased accordingly. I assume that’s because new users are excited to help grow the community.

Still, in the past two days alone active users went up by over 5k (15%). Maybe that’ll continue exponentially, and there’ll be 95k (500k total non-bot) users two weeks from now, or maybe it’ll continue linearly and there’ll be 70k (~385k) users.

I don’t know why I spent so long thinking about this.

maggoats , 1 year ago to fediverse in Lemmy's total users exceeds 740k today, up from 540k yesterday

I don’t doubt there’s a great amount of user growth, but it appears that many of those are account creation spam on instances with 1 active monthly user though.

*Edit to add a comment I made on another post*Basically there might be about 200k real users right now including lurkers, growing at a rate of basically 13.5k per day.