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Care to explain more?

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Firefox with Bypass Paywall Clean D extension

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Bypass Paywalls Clean (D) on Firefox works

Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

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Which distro did you use? I have a win 10 laptop and I might switch over to a Linux distro

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I’d recommend you create your instance and defederate from the 58.99%. Wouldn’t miss you the slightest!

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Why have a social network if an instance is not social and not a network? He makes pretty good points on why he wants to federate with Threads. I’d personally also like to follow people who are on Threads but not on Mastodon (without joining Threads)

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I believe defederating should be a user choice rather than an instance unless done for spammy/toxic instances. If instances starts to be too liberal with defederation, you create silos and introduce more hurdles for the growth of fediverse. This creates a broken up network that may not be social for everyone.

Obviously, you can be on an instance that defederates Threads.net if that’s your preference.

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Sure they are unethical. But the millions of users who have joined them are not and they are not that tech savvy to have even heard of Fediverse. Federating with them opens 2 avenues: Possibly decrease the influence of X/Twitter as it gets more toxic and introduce general people to the concept of Fediverse and give them an option to easily migrate to one of the better Mastodon instances in future from Threads.

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Is there a custom filter for removing paywalls? I use it and it doesn’t do that for me

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This is the GitHub page of the extension. It details supported websites and other things

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I have EasyList as well but recently added ConsentOMatic. That’s working without hiccups if you’d like to install it

Anyone feels like almost all modern online games are boring?

I don’t feel compeled to play any online game at the moment except if a friend asks me to play with them. Even then, the only part where I am having fun is when some weird shenanigens happen which doesn’t happen at all given how sanetized and “ballanced” games are. I just want to see a funny ragdoll fly off one side of...

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It would be helpful if you could list a few games.

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Why choose this over DuckDuckGo? Genuine question as it has minimal tracking and is free.

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Sounds like Russia wants to have its cake and eat it too. Not that I’m surprised

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Hide read posts only from the frontage. There should be an option to have them visible in their community itself to refer back later.

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@ljdawson my request is a bit different. I actually use Sync. When we hide posts from the frontpage using “Hide Read Posts” toggle, it hides the post from both the frontpage and the community where the post was posted. I’d like to have a setting where it only hides read posts from the frontpage.

Sometimes I like to go back to a community (like Starfield for e.g.) to read posts that I hid previously from frontpage to see newer discussions or just look back at things after a couple of days.

whiskers ,

Umm, I’m not sure as I didn’t use Sync for Reddit, if it was an app specific feature.

In the current Lemmy app if we hide read posts, they are kinda lost. I’d like to visit a community and even see the read posts that were hidden from the frontpage. It could be an option for the user to decide if they want the current method or let the hidden “read” posts be hidden only from the All/Subscribed/Local frontpage (and not from the community page itself)

The first human organ created inside an animal opens the door to manufacturing ‘spare parts’ for people (english.elpais.com)

Edit: Surprised at all the vegans in this thread. I didn’t think there were so many of you. I’m glad you care so much about animal rights, that you’re willing to forego eating them and using products made from them. If you’re not vegan and have moral objections for this, maybe you should look at yourself first and all...

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Cattle are important and precious. There are already immoral practices brought by capitalism while raising animals for slaughter. This doesn’t imply that it’s moral to now bring an animal to life just to steal its organs as well.

Organ transplant can be achieved artificially by just developing the organs themselves in the lab. There already has been work done in that regard.

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Stupidity clearly doesn’t belong only in cattle.

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Poor guy got charged too

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Oh lol, I didn’t read that far into the article.

whiskers ,

It sounds like you should play Starfield

(If you want latest title and not bound by fantasy)

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You can move around in them. Atleast on Android, there is a hidden red bar at the bottom which becomes visible if you pause the video.

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Everyone says subscribe to hashtags to get content. I have no idea how to do that on the official Mastodon Android app. If it’s that obtuse, it’s not going to catch on easily.

Microblogging was never my preference and as it wasn’t easy enough to figure out in the app itself, being a casual user, I never looked it up in a guide/video.

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This sounds quite good to me. Lot of online games have chat abuse that goes unchecked. If their AI is any good it should help.

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They are still getting the data even if we defederate them, right? It’s only us who don’t get their data. This was my understanding on how federation works

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And with a custom userConfig the top tabs disappear like Edge too

UPDATE: So after I broke grub, I tried reinstalling Fedora. Now windows has disappeared from BIOS

EDIT: So after all that, I was able to reinstall windows and download Macrium reflect + my backup. First time I tried to recover it, it failed for some reason, but the second time around I was able to restore it successfully. I’m now back where I started, thank you everyone!...

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Undercover Windows agent terrorizing linux newcomers /s

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ISRO took the fuel efficient route. That’s why a mission launched in July is landing now. Russia’s crashed lander reached moon in ~13 days. They are already quite concious of spending their research grants wisely.

I’m surprised by these people who bring up their hatred filled political agenda at every opportunity. Why don’t you go start an India bashing circle jerk community or instance and please remain there.

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No one wants to see children starve. We can discuss that if you make a separate post about it backed with a reference to facts.

Hijacking this and every other post about Chandrayaan with anti-India politics is not the way. This post is about a scientific milestone and let all discussions be regarding that. Show some courtesy and you’ll get better discussion on the points that you bring up.

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Come on, go spout your hatred somewhere else. This is to commemorate a scientific milestone that the entire scientific community will benefit from.

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From a Reuters article:

The Chandrayaan-3 is aimed at the lunar south pole, a region with water ice, or frozen water, that could be a source of oxygen, fuel and water for future moon missions or a more permanent moon colony.

If it lands successfully, the Chandrayaan-3 is expected to remain functional for two weeks, running a series of experiments including a spectrometer analysis of the mineral composition of the lunar surface.

Edit: This is going to be the site of US’ Artemis-III mission as well. So NASA would be very keen to know about the findings out of this rover and lander.

whiskers ,

Or alternatively, all the comments across them should be visible in-line in all communities.

Either of these approaches gives the agency to users to only reply to one of the cross post and read all the opinions/thoughts on that post. At the same time, it maintains the federation philosophy by not taking a community about a topic down, if the instance fails.

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Thank you for this, worked like a charm!

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Happened yesterday for about 15 mins

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Now go grab the opportunity to start Schwim Tech Tips (STT)

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This is a fair ask imo if the borrowed code is used currently.

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