Welcome back, I’ve been here the whole time and currently it seems a bit more toxic and hostile than when RIF shut down, I feel there are a couple more contrarians now than before but it hasn’t been a steady decline. There has always been the odd jerk and troll on this site. I would say the time Lemmy was most wholesome when [email protected] flooded the front page with black cats, it was such a cute problem for us to have. Anyone else remember that?

Like others I’d say it’s cyclical month to month. This year there’s daily doom in the news with US politics. If you want to avoid that then block [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and other news and politics if it fills up with Trump posts. 2024 was a lot more hopeful and I think that reflected in the average user’s demeanor even if there was bothsidesism, Gaza stuff, Ukraine stuff and Trumpism stuff. You’ll be informed of important developments as Trump stuff leaks out on occasion but you don’t need to be constantly engaged. Also if you do curate your All/Local feed then maybe some new communities sprung up that need pruning to fit your desired vibe.

Also: If you see a crapton of comments on a post with low votes then you know best to turn and run from the thread where most of the comments are.

Maybe as a Christmas gift to myself. My current one is an EIE pro that came with my guitar second hand. The linux “driver” only sort of works.

And it’s not likely to be the last.

If you want to delay your switch to Linux, there are scripts to enroll in the ESU, but unfortunately the local account script stopped working on the one I used. Have not tested massgravel’s. Other options are to get Win 10 LTSC, or keep your system disconnected from the Internet.

An aside: My main desktop is Linux but I am currently trying Winboat to get the last piece of my hardware dependence off (my 20 year old DAC and rocksmith 2014) to work. Then, I can finally nuke Windows off of my secondary laptop because I’m sure as hell not giving it Win 11.

The penalty of doing it wrong needs to be higher than the cost of doing jt right.

I don’t get it? Why can’t car companies just release software updates that get deployed with the regular service interval, like once every year or two? That way the repair service or dealership will be close by if problems arise.

On the topic of ‘hills to die on’, I will say I have gained a significant respect for you over the last 2 years, for sticking to your principles on this and following through on them.

We might disagree on the best way to do things. I’d witnesed you in the past receiving a lot of pushback (to put it lightly) for a well-intentioned but controversially implemented project (the whole Reddit mirroring and account claiming thing you tried). If I had been in your shoes at the time, I would probably have quit Lemmy and the Fediverse entirely for something else in order to try to pursue that vision. Yet, you’ve stayed with it, with the aim to refine your ideas on how to better bring decentralized social media to the general public. So kudos to you for your resoluteness on this.

Hooray for cancer, asthma and bronchitis! Make America Healthy Again. Lung health is like Karate – black is the best!

• Atari Paperboy (there were various ports but the arcade version is the best one IMO). It’s fun, unique with no real successor (more are like Frogger).
• Ghosts n Goblins, the 1985 original (there are modern instalments but I think the original is just as fun, just hard af for a filthy casual like me).

I mean it’s interesting that it has surpassed Kilmister as the top result in some regions/contexts and is definitely more numerous.

Slowly, over the course of 3 months.

I stopped posting, then stopped commenting, then logged in every other day, then deleted Redreader and stopped going regularly.

I joined Lemmy in March 2023 on my six-year Reddit cakeday, API-calypse happened in June, swore never to write a word on Reddit again in July and I’ve since kept that vow. Now that I’m fully weaned off, maybe next year I’ll break it specifically to invite people to Lemmy [email protected]

Putting all the kids of a certain age together and teaching them all the same won’t work. Plain mix-streaming with status-quo curricula is an idea born from penny-pinching education departments pretending to do it for “equity”. We need more comprehensive ideas with more nuance and complexity to achieve equity for children while letting each individual child succeed to the best of their potential.

The education system should be tailored to be able to challenge each kid at their ability level. If that means that a few grade 1 kids should be given grade 3 assignments, and some grade 1 kids should be given kindergarten assignments, it would be better.

As an analogy: Does it make sense to have swimming or skating lessons always at the same pace for everyone? They should offer it equitably, but not unnecessarily slow down or speed up kids on their progression to fit a one-size-fits-all model.

https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project (Archive version)

The plan probably involves bears.

One could imagine that conveniently, Microsoft’s online support pages and the amount of support staff were designed to only handle hundreds of thousands of cancelations at a time.

Intel: did I hear somebody say we should announce our newest 14nm+++++++++ platform?

I consider trust a network, where you are the root CA (certificate authority) or like a tree where you are the trunk, with a locus of control. You have to figure out where your ground truth comes from and re-establish if it if you can’t locate it, whether it’s your upbringing, your life experiences, your family, the books you’ve read or the shows you’ve watched, where you’ve been or the friends you have/had.

Everybody sees the world at least a little bit differently, so you have to kinda figure out where they get their beliefs from and try to connect on the common points while also respectfully figuring out where and why there are differences.

So as just a random internet person I can only recommend two things:

• Ignore most stuff coming from influencers and people that change their principles willy-nilly to suit themselves or chase every fad, there’s very little for you to gain from that.
• If you get stressed or panicked thinking about the chaos of the whole world, slow down, step back, remember the locus of control, think about the things you want to change, can change and can’t change and take the first step of action from amongst the things you have direct control over, and worry less about trying to do anything more than your best to make the situation better.

@[email protected] has. I haven’t deleted my Reddit account but I swore to myself not to comment or post again after July 2023. Reddit’s completely out of my routine replaced by Lemmy. I peek at it logged out sometimes, and log in maybe twice a year. Perhaps at the 3 year anniversary, it will be long enough I can break my personal vow, but only specifically to invite people over to the Fediverse in threads like these.

In Asia, 8s and 88s are considered lucky.

Luckily the Fediverse runs on a field of potatoes, rather than just a single spud like the other place.

If we want to use the Nazi bar analogy, Cloudflare is like a company that bought up so many bars in town that some end up not vetting for Nazism well enough, letting it slip through, not necessarily playing favours towards or against fascism but they would technically be a ‘Nazi bar’ under the analogy’s definition. Cloudflare is so big that they probably don’t have controlling interest about the pet projects they kick some pennies towards.

If you want to boycot Cloudflare itself, that’s fine and noble and all, but also staying away from anything they’ve ever donated to, you’ll put yourself in a bind. Like if Cloudflare donated to animal welfare, should one be against animal welfare simply due to second-order links to fascism?

Also there is a lot of reading into the comments used to link the two projects to the fascist regime. Very much a stretch.