Would the default instance be run by the app dev? Or in collaboration with some instance? It would maybe be risky to do with an unaffiliated instance because if they didn’t like it they could disallow these types of accounts or signups.

Makes sense, that was when I started using it

I’d been looking for Reddit alternatives for years, but most of them were full of sparse content I wasn’t interested in and users who seemed like assholes. Lemmy meets a higher standard, and my interest in gradually moving away from Reddit and supporting others abandoning it has also gotten higher. The decentralized design is also a big plus, gives free network effects to potential new software efforts because they can freely plug into it.

I think the main idea is that it’s an “agent” that runs command line commands and then considers the output. It definitely helps sometimes to show a LLM the errors its code generated.

Yeah but I sympathize, the way money rules your life and how you’re allowed to live it is brutal and it’s only natural to dream of overcoming that through financial success.

AI as a technology sure, Windows on the other hand I think there’s a real chance people will stop using it as it continues to get worse and alternatives continue to get better.

Things like subscriptions don’t seem like they should take up too much space, so it seems like a flaw that there isn’t more redundancy

If Mastodon is federated, why isn’t this recoverable somehow? I thought federation involved making copies of content on other servers, does that just not happen often enough for it to work as a backup?

I don’t have high resolution monitors so most of that isn’t relevant to me but they are different dimensions and it seems to handle two of them fine.

VR issues are like, the headset speakers not being recognized, viewing the desktop from SteamVR shows a blank screen, and launching VR games does not actually cause the headset to switch to them, they just run in the background. Stuff like that. I guess it would be worth trying another DE just to see if it helps.

VPN and domains

What is bad about it? What ‘display features’ are important here? My main problem with Cinnamon was lag spikes every second or so, though that was some years ago and might not be an issue now. Games seem to mostly work fine, except VR stuff still needs more troubleshooting, but I’m skeptical a different DE would fix those issues.

I didn’t want to deal with choosing so I just went with Linux Mint and the default choice (Cinnamon) but it seemed glitchy and I couldn’t configure it the way I wanted, so switched to xfce. Haven’t felt the need to try other stuff since.

I add things to an online pickup order as I think of them, I don’t actually go in the store anymore

I feel like the former is also an argument against dogmatic ideologies, being unwilling or unable to question things can lead to some pretty bad misunderstandings.

So the main complaint is that Pixelfed clients don’t display posts without images even if one has followed the poster? And thinks it incentivizes creation of using multiple accounts/apps when a single one to interact with ActivityPub would be better? That seems like a fair thing to criticize but it seems a little dramatic to paint it as entertainment killing communication.

So then we would tell the alien we use base 21?

Sounds a lot like “how you feel doesn’t matter, your right to exist depends on being useful to me.”

Which calls for acquiring leverage and using it to set boundaries, more than it calls for a rational rebuttal. Just gotta systematically remove the power such people have over you, and then they won’t be able to talk to you that way anymore.

The metal in a penny is worth more than 3 cents though, so it would be worth it if you are willing to break the law

Mobile phones have caused a dark age of UI design

Not really, I always strongly disliked Twitter and the idea of something that’s basically like Twitter never appealed to me. Might try that stuff eventually though.