Dating myself, but I remember when cable was the way to get quality entertainment without the network commercials.

And that was escaping broadcast TV, who still had like 45 minutes to a show with just 15 minutes for commercials spaced out mostly in the middle part.

And some of the commercials were actually pretty good.

I honestly don’t think the voting does anything. It’s all about what they feed you and how you move around the screen. And god help you if you click on one thing new but not sure if you’ll like, because now it’s ALL that niche. No likes or dislikes involved at all. Do I see more of the subscribed and liked things I have now? Nope. You’ll see what YT wants you to see.

I shouldn’t talk too bad though, as going to YT with a clean browser and no sign in gets all sorts of garbage, so at least I’m not seeing all of that. I don’t know how though.

He’s so close. If he just adjusted that number up 5x or 10x with the agreement we complain a lot less, he’d have a deal. Call it something like a basic income or something.

Dependencies, dependencies everywhere! https://xkcd.com/2347/

(well, maybe not exactly right, but similar problem.)

“I was there, Gandalf.”

How much loss is there for a converter? I always thought that for the most part they were pretty efficient. Unless you’ve measured and found a difference, you might be trying to solve an issue that isn’t a huge one.

I’ve been very happy with my Cyberpower setup, and the smaller one is powering my router and monitors. It’s still 650VA, so will roughly match the time the larger one would keep my computer alive. I’m not running a server though, so it might still be low for you, but 12V 5A doesn’t seem like a large pull.

My very rough understanding is that ActivityPub is strictly about the protocol of the content and nothing to do with how it’s handled past showing it. So accounts and interfaces aren’t even part of it. Now, could a subset of it, or a parallel protocol for account handling be done (or maybe it is?) It would indeed be nice to have even more feel of a singular “system” but still the pluses of federated across various methods. It might also help fight against some of the bots/spammers who use the many-faced instances to do their stuff making it harder to pin them down.

That might be a bit heavy handed, and could be applied to other things. Just stick with the simple, you can’t enter the building, period. If you sneak something in, you get removed, and maybe fined. No destruction of property, but same results.

It’s a fair article. Mentions that while it may not be the year of Linux (whatever that ever means every time it’s claimed), it does suggest the bot activity validates the death of the internet as we knew it. It also says that Linux is a great platform and they use it for certain things. If the adjusted amount it right, 4.7% is still pretty impressive, as I can remember people celebrating like 1% and 2% once. And for some reason I thought WIndows would be higher… they are slipping.

Good question, the actual idea for both is a great one and not something I was aware of.

Looking up an actual comparison, I can’t find one yet since this is so new, but perhaps that’s part of the plus, since new might mean better transfer process and speed, security, etc. Old isn’t always a bad thing, but some commentary I ran across looking for alternatives to Syncthing was because it had limitations they ran into due to it being designed for specific needs and not general purpose?

Honestly, it could be because of the age of the hardware I’m working with. Just haven’t bothered pursuing why it occurs since I have a workaround. The surprising thing to me is how simple the install was for both Linux versions. I did not expect it to boot the first time with no issues at all to troubleshoot to get things to work.

My first question was going to be specs, but that’s new enough that there’s plenty of flavors that should work fine. I have a 2009 MacBook that I was able to up memory to 8GB, and that opened up being able to put Linux Mint vs. the Kubuntu it was running but struggling with (mainly due to Firefox needing 1GB sometimes which would kill its 2GB RAM).

Only real issue is every great once in a while Cinnamon acts flaky (garbage characters) but I put a shortcut to restart it that seems to fix it without messing anything up. Being a secondary computer for me, that’s good enough.

Yeah, the RAM isn’t the problem if you have it, it’s the CPU/GPU cycles to do what could be done with simpler tools.

Economists just see a line going up.

That’s a lot of electronics waste. Estimates for 2025 e-waste into landfills was around 65 million tons, and it continues to rise each year. It’s not an either/or, we can complain about both, but the scale difference makes the first seem a bit less dramatic. We should do something about our throwaway society.

I had to look twice.

I still think O’Neill was probably right, we could do this if we decided we needed or wanted to bad enough. There’s issues to figure out, but that’s just science. I got hooked on the idea of space colonization when as a kid in the 70s reading an article in a National Geographic issue exploring the idea, using a fictional opener of someone writing back home about living on one. They used some of Davis’ works there.

I’m assuming you mean support ongoing for people learning to adapt as they go? Because it doesn’t have to be on Lemmy to find ways to migrate over and the differences, what works fine and what takes adjustment.

It would be an interesting community to start - one with rules that state the purpose is for people moving from Win11 to another OS only and not for any side topics, but anyone with knowledge can answer questions posed. Seems like it only has room to grow in need since Microsoft wants to tank their whole product line.

It’s a big chunk. I haven’t followed this news though, how much did it go up before?

If the amount isn’t in percentages, the title is probably clickbait. Especially if it’s in a dollar figure and “stock market plunges”. Sure it did.