Damn, you’re fast. I’m pumped for the new JFAC. The one successful day of Blue Ridge Rock Fest, I’m glad to have been down in the crowd for their reunion show.
Local from where I live now. I didn’t know about them til they quietly disbanded shortly before the pandemic. Never got to see them live or anything. Such a damn shame. This area has a surprisingly decent music scene for the population size, but very little even close to this level.
I feel like logging in with Facebook and Google on sites is just as much about them gaining access to scrape more info about you as it is for your “convenience.” While there could be value with Lemmy, it’s not nearly what it is with Facebook and Google. So I would say not likely.
I’m digging it so far. My only things of initial note are the account switch button and logout button are pretty close together and, while I appreciate an option to enlarge content text, I think there needs to be an option to enlarge UI text. Some of the stuff, like the subscription list in the drawer, is tiny for my old eyes (and fat fingers). Oh, and maybe a way to tell you’ve up/downvoted something at a glance other than the vote number changing. I’ve added the app on Obtainium to continue following along. 😊
I went down that path about 2 years ago. Working from home and generally being a homebody, I’m basically on wifi all the time. I made the switch to Ting (from Sprint) and pay $15/mo, maybe $20 if I go over my 1GB data on 5G (I have alerts set up). It’s not ideal if you drive a lot and stream music on Spotify or whatever (or if internet/power goes out), but if you literally have no life, don’t go anywhere, and basically have nonstop wifi, Ting is pretty cool. It uses T-Mobile towers, so your mileage may vary. There’s a few places it gets a little fucky, but it’s been pretty reliable overall. I thought about looking into Mint recently, but decided not to even dive down that rabbit hole.
I’ll try and keep it short with a bullet list, as I can tend to be long-winded about everything.
Helped recover files on an old laptop in the Win XP days (how I got started).
Breathed new life into older hardware that was too crappy for Windows.
Thought it was neat, novel, fresh, etc.
Free. Why pay for or pirate Windows?
FOSS and, specifically, FOSS alternatives to paid software I’d otherwise have pirated.
Less targeted for malware.
Windows 11 says no to my aging, but plenty capable, computer (the last holdout on Windows til Win 10 hits EOL).
Reasonable, optional telemetry.
Not having to reboot (possibly more than once) during updates.
Fun to learn.
There are some reasons to like Windows, but it’s harder to justify with the direction Microsoft is, and has been, moving.
EDIT: To actually answer your question about Steam and Linux… because I have a Steam account that I’ve had for many, many years with 1000 games that predates me moving to Linux in a more serious capacity. While I could move to GOG (and have), I’m not just going to throw away my game library. But also, Steam working to make gaming more mainstream on Linux is a net positive for Linux in general. That was always the reason many people gave for why they wouldn’t switch - that, and proprietary software that won’t run on anything other than Windows or maybe Mac.
Run the program. You should start out with Download highlighted at the top. Put in your Lemmy instance and credentials where it asks. Hit the Download button, which will download a JSON file - it’ll pull stuff like subscriptions from your Lemmy account. At the top, tab over to Upload. Put in the new instance and credentials, and hit Upload. It should pull the JSON file it created when you downloaded and “set up” your new account you’re migrating to. You’ll still need to go in and adjust some things, but your subscriptions (for example) should be there.
EDIT: To clarify, Download is for downloading your “old” account info, and Upload is for uploading that info to your “new” account.
Do you know what instance it was hosted on? The only one I’m seeing was created 11 hours ago with two videos, so I’m assuming that’s not it. It’s possible the instance went down. I’d say it’s possible it was defederated, but we’re on different instances, so it’d have to be a big whoopsie to have been removed by multiple instances.