The Guilliman way

Some servers have their list of moderated servers made public, visible on the about page, might be worth checking some around

“End climate change always translates into “end profiteering from environmental destruction” and we have no fucking clue why people don’t like that” - Prager u

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Because it doesn’t always work with recent news and, as shown by dubyakay, it’s not meant to bypass paywalls

People don’t know what choosing a server entails, because it does matter and a lot of people aren’t exactly helpful when they say “just pick any” or “it’s like email”

Server choice matters because:

1. Server might federate with a limited number of other servers;
2. Server might be blacklisted by some servers which you might want to interact with;
3. Servers can be running different versions of software, so people might think about security;
4. Servers can go offline
5. Server choice can significantly impact how people perceive you. “Oh look, another tankie from ml”

So, server choice matters and people coming in from corporate shit don’t know how much they need to know to make an informed decision, thus giving up.

Yup, that one. It’s also available here, sans cover - https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

Quoting from Linux Hater’s Handbook, lovely read

EDIT: UNIX Haters, not Linux hater, my bad

After being bitten by rm a few times, the impulse rises to alias the rm command so that it does an “rm -i” or, better yet, to replace the rm command with a program that moves the files to be deleted to a special hidden directory, such as ~/.deleted. These tricks lull innocent users into a false sense of security.

Unix aficionados accept occasional file deletion as normal. For example, consider following excerpt from the comp.unix.questions FAQ:
6) How do I “undelete” a file?
Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like:
% rm * .foo
and find you just deleted “*” instead of “*.foo”. Consider it a rite of passage.
Of course, any decent systems administrator should be doing regular backups. Check with your sysadmin to see if a recent backup copy of your file is available

“A rite of passage”? In no other industry could a manufacturer take such a cavalier attitude toward a faulty product. “But your honor, the exploding gas tank was just a rite of passage.”

There’s a reason sane programs ask for confirmation for potentially dangerous commands

The handbook has numbered pages, so why use “page X of the pdf”?

Because the book’s page 1 is the pdf’s page 41, everything before is numbered with roman numerals :)

I also wasn’t expecting anyone to try and read with a browser or reader that doesn’t show the current page number

So good to see that, even in 2026, Unix Haters’ Handbook’s part on rm is still valid. See page 59 of the pdf

If your intent is to connect via app, I suppose you’re better off with misskey or one of its forks like iceshrimp. They offer server specific custom reactions and allow crazy code on your posts. I recommend not using them on the web because the pages are HEAVY, like, “did my browser freeze or did it crash?” heavy

Wafrn could also work, it’s more tumblr-like than twitter-like and gets you posts from mastodon/misskey and custom reactions

I found it really odd that your server has to get a registration key from their server

Huh, I didn’t know that, maybe that’s only with the docker image? If not, that’s bad news waiting to happen, I’m afraid :/

Rocket.chat would be my first recommendation, tho it looks more corporate aimed. It also claims to support Matrix federation.

You could also give Jami a try, it’s p2p so it doesn’t need servers.

It’s voice chat features are lacking, it has no video chat yet

If there’s one thing the majority of people that are still on windows won’t care about is “being as up to date as possible”. Hell, even people on android phones complain about updates, “they changed everything, I have no idea where is what!”

Mint being based on a LTS that lasts a while is a desired feature for a lot of people, the kind that don’t follow tech news and don’t want to bother understanding computers.

Go with Plan9, obviously

Agreed, but society is more fucked up

Possibly semi intentional given that Warcraft was almost a Warhammer game and got plenty of artistic inspiration from it