Rimu

Well, kinda. To be more specific, he’s mostly betting that Palantir is overvalued, which it probably is. Peter Thiel is a nut case.

It was pretty bizarre how it was published in such a way that it seemed to come from w3c socialcg when really it was just Emelia.

Despite being an activitypub dev I have not seen any of the supposed “heated discussions” probably because I don’t spend time on Mastodon trying to boost ATProto. It doesn’t seem like a widespread problem to me.

Consider using Zram to compress half your ram. That will make your 2 GB into 3 GB, kinda. Do not compress all of it, performance will suffer greatly.

Also, web browser choice is going to be crucial when it comes time to actually use the computer for anything. Try Konqueror, Falkon, Palemoon etc.