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d3Xt3r, 10 months ago

I haven’t seen this in person so I can only speculate, but I bet they’ll only provide the sources as a tarball or something instead of a git repo, which will make it a PITA for anyone do actually do anything useful with it. I mean, you could potentially still build a full distro from it, but you wouldn’t be able to feasibly maintain it without the ability to do a sync and merge from upstream. So this way, Red Hat achieves their goal of being able to kill any spinoff distro, whilst still remaining compliant with the GPL.

d3Xt3r, 10 months ago

If your only concern is noise (and not saving power), then the easiest solution is to just sound-proof your case - install some foam pads or something to dampen the noise. Check out www.quietpc.com/acousticmaterials to get an idea of what’s out there and what you can use, but even simple random foam that you’d get in parcels would work to start off with.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

Also r/DatalsBeautiful

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

Protecting a community from this is what the decentralized part is for. That is already in place.

What? How is it solved exactly? If say lemmy.ml is down, what's the point of other servers existing, if most of the content and users are here? Like, I created a few new communities on lemmy.ml, which don't exist on say Beehaw because for some strange reason, the Beehaw admins don't allow users to create communities. So how is going to Beehaw help me, if lemmy.ml is unavailable? Okay, so you tell me I should go to a different server then. Maybe even make a new server. Done and done. But there's very few to zero users on that server, so those new communities and content created there might as well not exist. Also, even though Lemmy is federated, the homepage defaults to "local", so all the new users coming in may miss out on all the other federated communities, and, if I'm reading this correctly, the federation isn't even a fully automatic process, and some admins may even choose to use it in a whitelist mode. All of it makes the whole "advantage" of federation, or at least Lemmy's version of it, seem kind of pointless.

It's like saying, "Hey, Gmail is down so you should just use Hotmail instead." Okay, so I can still send and receive emails, but I can't access any of my old emails for context, and none of my contacts can reach me using my Gmail address, and none of my filters, address book and other content is available so I may not even be able to reach out to my contacts and let them know what my new email is.

IMO the way the way the federation should've been designed is to use something like blockchain technology, so every instance basically has all the content and there's only one source of truth for user accounts and data (distributed ledger), or maybe even just implement the whole thing as a plain old high-availability cluster with load balancing.

Unless I'm missing something fundamental, I don't see how this decentralization is of any use if the content isn't there.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

Fair point, but my original point/issue still stands. The admin here is saying "lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead" and that advice isn't really helpful, at least in the present state of things. Right now, we have an influx of novice users coming in from Reddit, and other servers either not accepting applications at the moment, or they are tooniche/specific (or inflexible, like Beehaw); finally at the moment, majority of the content is on lemmy.ml. So the end result is that lemmy.ml is one of the main viable servers.

If people join some random server which doesn't have the content they're after, they'll either lose interest, OR they may continue to consume the content on emmy.ml via federation, but then that's not really going to solve the load issue since the content on lemmy.ml isn't distributed/replicated.

I understand your point of ever growing data and how it may be better if that data is transient and not there forever, but for a news aggregator and forum type social network like Reddit (and now Lemmy), data is everything. If that data isn't available, or not going to available in the future, or will not be visible to audiences due to it being on some random server, it's going to give content creators much incentive to create content, and no content == no users. This sort of model/thinking will be doomed to failure, or be forever relegated to niche/enthusiast status, where only niche communities will thrive on specific servers targeting that niche. Which I guess is the ultimate goal of federation where every topic/community has its own server? But to get there, you'll need interested users, and to get users to be interested you need a stable, singular place you can point them to, where they can post content knowing. And maybe, as that server grows, the admin could start splitting off the larger communities into their own individual instances?

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements

How/which URL should we link to then? Now is the best time to get users to switch to Lemmy so we need to make it as newbie friendly as possible. Already the application process has put off some people (I do like that bit though, keeps away the low effort folks). Thanks.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

But linking a specific instance is only shifting the problem away from lemmy.ml though, a large sub could still take that specific instance down.

Isn't there some sort of directory or index which we can link to? I remember seeing it somewhere but not sure if it's "official" or if it can handle Reddit's hug of death.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

archive.org, it was literally made for this. Doing it this way instead of saving locally also makes it available for all users.They have a "Wayback Machine" addon for Firefox and Chrome too, so it's just a couple of clicks to save a page. Once the page is archived, you could bookmark it for easier access.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

Text posts shouldn’t have a thumbnail on them

But that would either leave a blank space to the left, or it would misalign the that post with the rest of the content so it'll look weird. Therefore, the current thumbnail works fine IMO.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

Could we also have a rule saying that downvotes should not be used for disagreements? Downvotes should be meant for off-topic, or factually incorrect content. Disagreements should be debated in the comments, respectfully of course.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

Now there's an interesting approach, will have to check out Beehaw I guess.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

If you want old school and quirky, check out https://www.windows93.net/ A little less quirkier version of this is https://windows96.net/

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

There's an NZ Discord for making friends: https://nzfriends.io/

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

XFCE supports window snapping. Just go into Settings manager -> Window Manager and at the Advanced tab, you will have the option to check Windows snapping

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

Flatpak apps are a PITA for interoperability and modifications though, so I'll stick to traditional RPMs thanks. I prefer the ease and flexibility of tinkering with my system more than anything else.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

I'm running Nobara right now on my AMD Thinkpad and it's been great for gaming. Steam, Proton, Lutris and ofc all drivers and codes are already included by default which greatly simplifies install, plus the kernel is already tweaked so there's no need to install a custom kernel.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

Then let's agree to disagree, in my experience they've been more of a hassle to deal with. Eg trying to fix the weird DPI/tiny cursor issue in the flatpak version of Steam was a pain, same with trying to pass custom flags to flatpak Edge. It's just one hassle after another. I can deal with a couple of apps here and there, but I can't imagine having the entire system depend on Flatpak as a crutch.

As for your Wine example, I'm not sure which application you're referring to, but Wine is basically portable and doesn't need installing, eg for Wine-GE, you just need to download and extract the tarball and set the correct WINEPREFIX/path, so you can easily have multiple versions of Wine on your system without Flatpak or anything complicated.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

Me too. Well, I think I've done the original campaigns a long time ago, but haven't completed the Conquerors expansion, nor any of the later ones.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

I'd highly recommend checking out Nobara, it's based on Fedora but optimized for gaming. In addition to supporting nVidia out of the box, it has a ton of tweaks and gaming related apps pre-installed, such as Steam and Lutris, which is a huge time saver. Should be the most out-of-the-box gamer friendly distro, outside of SteamOS I reckon.

d3Xt3r, 11 months ago

General Kenobi!