I'm trying to contact a user on lemmy, but can't dm them (it's not clear to me if this is a bug or if dms don't work across instances or software, but either way it's not working). My next workaround would be to ping them in a microblog post, but lemmy doesn't have a microblog section. Would a lemmy user receive a notification...
Good to know that microblog posts show up on lemmy, although it's a bit awkward that (if I'm seeing that correctly) they show up as regular threads there. I might mention them in a thread that's not as closely directed to them instead. Thanks for the reply. :)
It's usually easier to search via external sites (https://lemmyverse.net/ and https://browse.feddit.de/ are the ones I've been using). You'll still have to manually copy over the magazine name in order to subscribe for it, but you'll get a wider variety of results without having to go to each instance individually.
My family has a file backup system stored on a local network, which we mount to our computers when we are at home. This works perfectly fine for everybody else in my family, but as the only person in my family who needs to use my computer away from home on a regular basis, storing my files on a network that I can only access...
I'm just starting to move over to thunderbird and don't fully understand the differences between tags and folders or why both exist. I'm using gmail at the moment, and am aware that thunderbird's folders are what correspond to gmail's labels. Is there any point to using tags at all? Practical differences/benefits in the way they...
I've been doing similar; been using Firefox, but Chrome is installed for its browser-wide automatic captioning. Not something I need often, but I rely on it for the occasional remote meeting here and there. I'm sure free automatic captioning applications exist for my operating system, but I'd have to actually test each one to see if they actually work, and it's just been so convenient keeping Google's around.
(Speaking of which, if anybody happens to have recommendations for free automatic captioning software that works on Ubuntu, I seem to be in the market...)
This is a rather old post, but given that you've not received any answers yet, I hope replying isn't too inappropriate.
For the first question, I back up my files on a NAS using rsync. It's a command-line solution, but I stored the command in a .desktop file to make an icon in my app list that I can just click to back everything up to the correct places. Makes it easy, and wasn't too difficult to implement.
Your second question might depend on your hardware. I just set up a new laptop on linux mint and had to do significant amounts of troubleshooting, all of it involving the command line, because linux mint didn't come with or know about most of the drivers required. If you're using an older or more well-supported computer, it might work better out of the box. Most troubleshooting will probably be command-line, but there's a lot of support out there for that if you need it.
App-wise linux mint has a fairly robust software manager (app store) with a wide variety of apps on it that, for the most part, don't require a lot of troubleshooting. (I only recently switched over to mint from Ubuntu, and was impressed at how many apps you could access so easily, including a large variety of unofficial releases of software that isn't officially available on linux). Unless you're intent on building obscure software from source, installing and using applications should be fairly painless.
I can't speak to the stability of mint, since I haven't been using it for long enough. However, I used Ubuntu for five or six years and never had to reinstall it, so you could always look into Ubuntu if stability is important to you.
Yeah, I installed a few drivers manually and then came across one that was, for some reason, only available via the newest kernel and not as a separate piece of software. I'd have updated the kernel before that one if I'd realised that it might have been able to fix my issues, but it hadn't come up as a possible solution until then. If you do figure all that out before actually installing the os, you'll probably have a better time than I did. :)
I haven't gotten far enough in my joja run yet to have actually bought the membership (I'm trying to finish a couple of the community bundles) but 1) it's a whole possible path in the game, I have to play it at least once, and 2) autopetters
I'm somewhere around year 8 on my community center save and still haven't found a single autopetter. Apparently I'd need to spend significantly more time in the caverns to get just one autopetter than I had to spend in them to complete the entirety of the perfection tracker. I'm looking forward to being able to buy some from joja.
I'm planning on trying for three autopetters on that save at some point (one for each of my farm buildings) but we'll see how long it takes to get those...
I have never used twitter and am not on mastodon. I'm subscribed to a few magazines that have microblog posts, though, and I've noticed that 1) all of said posts have hashtags, 2) most of them are coming from mastodon, and 3) I'm starting to get the sense that from the mastodon side they're not actually associated with the kbin...
My default homepage is subs, and I don't have nine pages of content on it yet, but I did get multiple 404 errors while going through it. I have auto media preview enabled and it looks like the next page doesn't work until all of the images have loaded on the current page, for some reason. Had no problems with auto media preview turned off.
I couldn't replicate the issue with my homepage switched back to all because I couldn't get to the end of the page and click the next button before all the images had loaded (the next page kept disappearing out from under my mouse just as I clicked it, lol), but page 9 by itself seemed to work fine.
For example, I'm not interested in memes, so whenever i see a community (? not sure qhat the equivalent of sub-reddit is called on kbin), such as https://kbin.social/m/memes@lemmy.ml, I block it....
If you haven't wrapped your head around it yet: magazines are equivalent to subreddits. The "magazines" tab is just a place to search for new subreddits. The "threads" tab is where posts in those subreddits will actually show up — if you're on the homepage, you'll see posts from a variety of magazines just like the homepage on reddit shows you posts from a variety of subreddits. You can then block posts from certain subreddits from showing up on that homepage.
I've changed my homepage to the subscriptions page because I'm just not interested in most of what's on the default homepage. No more memes (or news, or stuff about lemmy). :)
Can lemmy users see when they're mentioned in a microblog post from kbin?
I'm trying to contact a user on lemmy, but can't dm them (it's not clear to me if this is a bug or if dms don't work across instances or software, but either way it's not working). My next workaround would be to ping them in a microblog post, but lemmy doesn't have a microblog section. Would a lemmy user receive a notification...
Missing search results when looking for federated communities (at Lemmy)
Hi all,...
Does Kbin have the saving feature?
I'd like to save useful comments and posts for giggles and knowledge. This feature exists in reddit and Lemmy....
Backing up folders to a local network
My family has a file backup system stored on a local network, which we mount to our computers when we are at home. This works perfectly fine for everybody else in my family, but as the only person in my family who needs to use my computer away from home on a regular basis, storing my files on a network that I can only access...
saving posts (teacup.social)
Sometimes I write a really good post/comment that I want to come back to I the future, such as copying and pasting....
Folders vs. tags?
I'm just starting to move over to thunderbird and don't fully understand the differences between tags and folders or why both exist. I'm using gmail at the moment, and am aware that thunderbird's folders are what correspond to gmail's labels. Is there any point to using tags at all? Practical differences/benefits in the way they...
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
[Questions] I am pondering a switch over to Linux Mint, but have some reservations I'd like some input on
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Questions for those who shop at Joja
Why do you betray Pierre? Why do you hate supporting local economies? How do you sleep at night?
Come help me draw a chicken on lemmy's place! (canvas.toast.ooo)
I’m trying to make a chicken but it’s a big task to do solo, any helping hands?...
How do microblogs actually work?
I have never used twitter and am not on mastodon. I'm subscribed to a few magazines that have microblog posts, though, and I've noticed that 1) all of said posts have hashtags, 2) most of them are coming from mastodon, and 3) I'm starting to get the sense that from the mastodon side they're not actually associated with the kbin...
Does anyone else have issues with page 9?
I can't seem to get anything except a 404 whenever I hit page 9 when browsing (kbin.social/?p=9). All other pages seem fine.
How to see list of things I've blocked, and can I block with wildcards?
For example, I'm not interested in memes, so whenever i see a community (? not sure qhat the equivalent of sub-reddit is called on kbin), such as https://kbin.social/m/memes@lemmy.ml, I block it....