No, I left it a couple of times before. But every time I left Reddit for one of the new sites, I came back, because it only took a couple of months for those sites to be taken over by Christian conspiracy theorists. I ended up back on Reddit because it was the least bad discussion site, but there were still huge moderation problems and a lot of bots/shilling.
At one point, I posted something positive about a large country with an enormous population which is adjacent to my home country, and how they pulled hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and suddenly found that everything I posted anywhere was automatically downvoted.
There was a lot of paranoia in some specific subs because it seemed the articles posted were curated by people with an agenda, who may not have even shared our heritage. So it was no longer a safe space for us to discuss our community's issues. I got downvoted for bringing up inconvenient facts, like how bombs dropped by the US still kill and maim people in Laos every year.
In the end, outside of some NBA, Star Trek (again, dancing around/ignoring certain issues i.e. Why didn't Star Trek fans like Avery Brooks or what he said with Far Beyond the Stars?), and tech discussion, Reddit was circling the drain.
I found more community, and culture sharing, on TikTok of all places. The community I found there changed my world view.
It's the pwm dimming that causes eyestrain. Not everyone, but a sizeable portion of the population.
I found out about it from my doctor back in 2011 when my 11" MacBook Air was causing headaches. The screen blinks on and off at 240Hz which is enough for your eyes to recognize and try and adjust; but it's not enough for your brain to register what you are seeing.
I used a W530 later on and it was very bad, headaches at anything other than 100% brightness.
Lenovo fixed the issue in 2016 on most of their laptops, and the Retina MacBooks have never had pwm dimming.
Notebookcheck.net tests all their reviews for pwm dimming.
Yes, the LCD on the MacBook is where I learned of pwm dimming to start with. It's a solved issue for most LCD manufacturers.
Most OLED panels in the consumer market pulse at 240Hz. I can't see the flicker, but text is wobbly on the screen for me and I get headaches after a bit. Turn the brightness to 100 ... no more wobble, no more headache, and no more pwm.
XP was garbage when it came out. Everyone wanted Windows 2000's interface back.
Also, you couldn't install Windows while connected to the internet or you would finish the install with the Blaster worm. You had to be quick to download the patch before your computer was discovered.
That's the POS that they released back in 2015, premium glass with ridged metal sides, and they only supported it for about four months with software updates before declaring it obsolete because of the chipset.
Yeah, my wife had one of those. Google Keep would crash and it was generally unusable. I sold and moved to iPhones after that experience for the next 5 years.
As a KDE user since the last millennium, I love the work they are putting in.
But I was burned by the KDE3 -> KDE4 transition. And then the KDE4 -> KDE5 transition.
So I've parked on Debian bookworm for the next couple of years while KDE 6 gets ready. If it's good to go in 2 years when Debian trixie is released, great!
But if it's still a mess of Qt5 and Qt6 libs and still waiting for feature parity, I can stay on bookworm and still have a reasonably stable desktop until forky.
Yes. /r/DaystromInstitute was a level of Star Trek research and discussion that was well thought out, researched, and went beyond the usual "Who would win Borg or Dominion?" that most Star Trek forums fall into.
Flatpak is kind of bringing the BSD mindset of base system versus end-user apps to Linux.
Back in the glory days of FreeBSD, one would have system libraries managed by the FreeBSD team, and then whatever libraries the ports system used in /usr/local/lib which were used for end-user applications. Everything not provided by FreeBSD came from ports and was installed in /usr/local (/usr/local/bin; /usr/local/etc; /usr/local/lib; etc) so you would have two versions of gcc, for example.
With Flatpak, you have your stable, or rolling base, whatever you are comfortable with. In my case, Debian. And it is fully separate from the end-user applications. This is something that I've really missed since coming to Linux from BSD. I can keep Firefox bleeding edge without having to worry that the package manager is also going to update the base system, giving me a broken next boot if I run rolling releases.
Conversely, I don't have to wait for backports from my underfunded, understaffed distro's security team, or ride Firefox ESR.
End-user applications are in containers. So what ffmpeg in the VLC flatpak has an exploit, VLC can only access your ~/Videos directory anyway. It's not going to read your PKI certs or send your ssh keys off somewhere.
Use flatseal to manage permissions of each app.
It's not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.
FWIW, OpenBSD has done this for years with Chrome and Firefox, which only have ~/Downloads access.
I've dabbled with Linux over the years, first with Ubuntu in the early 2010s, then Elementary OS when that dropped, and a few years ago I really enjoyed how customizable the gui was with Xubuntu. I was able to make it look just like WIndows 2000 which was really cool....
Just trying out OpenSuse microOS currently, as an alternative to Fedora Kinoite, and the installer doesnt even load.
I'll be completely honest: I loved openSUSE, but they are moving towards a Gnome-first, immutable operating system. Instead of sending more resources towards making KDE work better on microOS, they forked it to die alone.
Since Aeon is the future of openSUSE, and the dev is openly hostile towards KDE, it's time to move on. I have removed all of the installs of Tumbleweed and Leap and will no longer recommend it moving forward.
I am now on Debian with KDE and it works fine. I went to openSUSE because of KDE, and I left openSUSE because of KDE.
Yeah, I didn't want to get into the specifics since that is beyond the scope of the thread here, but I completely agree with you regarding the hostility and pompous attitudes. There is a clear vision of future openSUSE as a containerized Gnome desktop, a shittier Silverblue, which is why I decided to move on after so long on tumbleweed and Leap.
I never cared for Pop!_OS or system76 for that matter. Thought they were just doing to Ubuntu what Ubuntu did to Debian 20 years ago. A theme and some different default settings and getting credit for standing on the shoulders of giants, what's the big deal?
But then my wife wasn't feeling KDE, she hates Gnome .... so I installed Pop!_OS on it and she gets it. Just the little tweaks they did made all the difference, and she is good to go. Plug in a printer, it downloads the driver and works. They made short tutorial videos for everything, less than 2 minutes; she watched them and now she is a tiling pro with the keyboard shortcuts.
So in this very specific instance, the Pop!_OS polish, the refinements and the tutorial videos and even having a theme that wasn't all dark mode (which hurts her eyes), was all the difference in the world. I'm pretty impressed and I don't have to do perform system maintenance for her; its the closest to a macOS install that I've seen.
Now I live in a smaller house, with a small yard. All of my neighbors have small fenced in yards, with dogs running around barking at each other through the fences, going stir crazy. I think it's inhumane to keep them this way.
Regarding cats, it's nice to not have cat fur on all of my clothes, or inside my CPU fan, etc.
We all know about how Reddit closed-sourced back in 2017 and will be killing off third-party apps this July, what will Lemmy.ml do to avoid facing the same fate? Reddit started off like this (open, aiming for freedom) and it all went downhill from there.
Republicans set lose multiple seats due to Supreme Court ruling (www.newsweek.com)
After Alabama was ordered to redraw their Congressional maps, Republicans are facing potential loss of some seats in the House.
for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken?
For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.
DEBIAN 12: More Relevant Than Ever as a Linux Desktop (yewtu.be)
Pat Robertson, conservative evangelist and Christian Coalition founder, dies at 93 (www.nbcnews.com)
How many times have you been nearly hit by a car as a pedestrian or cyclist?
I've lost count personally. Curious as to what other's experiences have been.
What is your boomer opinion
What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years
KDE Plasma 6.0 Stability "Improving Daily" (www.phoronix.com)
What niche reddit community do you want to see find a place on the fediverse?
Personally i'm looking forward to seeing twobestfriendsplay, arkhamasylum, whowouldwin, and respectthreads, on here.
Downsides of Flatpak (blog.brixit.nl)
What tech are you most excited for in 2023?
As we reach the second half of 2023, what are some of the supposed releases, or news you're looking forward to?
Which distro has the best GUI in your opinion?
I've dabbled with Linux over the years, first with Ubuntu in the early 2010s, then Elementary OS when that dropped, and a few years ago I really enjoyed how customizable the gui was with Xubuntu. I was able to make it look just like WIndows 2000 which was really cool....
Are you a cat person or a dog person?
Cats or dogs? Katzen oder Hunde? Gatos o perros? Or something else entirely? Are you sure you're even a person?
What could Lemmy.ml do to avoid becoming the next Reddit after a decade?
We all know about how Reddit closed-sourced back in 2017 and will be killing off third-party apps this July, what will Lemmy.ml do to avoid facing the same fate? Reddit started off like this (open, aiming for freedom) and it all went downhill from there.