Clairvoidance

if it’s mandatory to make an instagram account still, there’s literally no point to use it over instagram

you just underestimated these general instances of Lemmy

500~ people come to this forum a month

“I prefer a distribution which is supported by game publishers.” feels like it sets bad expectations considering it’s just “do you want a stable Debian/Ubuntu distro?” and ‘game publishers’ might be a little out of date with their wording/justification

We’re definitely nowhere near “fuck it” levels, as the article says, we sure can make things a lot more awful if we decide now that we can’t do anything about it anyway.
But maybe we need a stronger example than… Bike lanes… Though I get the point he’s making.

I’m kinda pissy cause the guy never even responded to being made aware of data like this and that
(i feel confident that he saw my comment cause he replied directly at my first one in the thread)

Let’s hope they decide to close down Europe access in August too

Browser: Firefox, gonna name stuff i don’t see mentioned yet

‘Multi Account Containers’ + ‘Container Tabs Sidebar’ + ‘Switch Container’ + ‘Temporary Containers’ + ‘don’t care about cookies’ ‘Consent-o-matic’
basically allows you to easily have multiple accounts on websites while also making sure everything stays contained to its own bubble, and anything I don’t have a dedicated container for gets a temporary container that deletes the cookies after a bit in order for me to both not care about cookies and also not get any cookies. at this point mostly because I don’t like accidentally having an account on a non-contained instance

ff2mpv - easily launch videos in mpv, requires a bit of setup

Image Search Options - finding the source of most drawings, spotting which anime a clip is from etc

Yomichan for quick access to locally installed dictionaries (for Japanese in this case)
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My main needs are gaming

Most gaming needs, you’ll have to check protondb to see if you’d be comfortable not being able to play certain games. (games not on steam, you can look to Lutris for community made installers)
While Gold and Silver means games require slight setup (setup is usually explained by user-reports), Platinum means you’re good out of the box, Borked means no chance, you especially want to watch out if your game has an Anti-Cheat (and read the latest user-reports on the game if you’re truly desperate to see if things changed in the last week, like sometimes something like Gundam Evolution quietly enables the linux option in EasyAntiCheat)
If you have a steamaccount, you can log in to get the list of games that you already own on that account to easily see their ratings

local AI

Guides are straightforward, you just have to worry about whether you have nvidia or amd

browser stuff

no issues

I’m sorry for the level of discourse I’m about to engage in, but Zuckerberg knows Jiujitsu, I think if Musk had any actual training in any skillful way of fighting we would’ve seen it - the dude probably knows Zuckerberg knows jiujitsu, maybe he was just hoping that he would ignore the challenge? lmao

[Musk] has talked about being in “real hard-core street fights"

dude’s gonna break his back if he doesnt back out last minute

well that sucks

heresy

I really like Trilium Notes as a Joplin/Obsidian alternative!
I don’t know if this really is as harmful an enshiftification as we’ve come to expect from other projects, it mainly seems to be allowing you to have a “patreon” or “gumroad” type project tied to your actual community. There’s an argument that the centralization is harmful in the long run when everything goes belly-up but this move in a vacuum seems like a logical next step for Discord itself

Well I think it’s kinda hard to imagine a free service that doesn’t do either data collection or advertising or both (read: you are the product), it makes sense through openly being a field that has a lot of money circulating around it

The only other viable model I can personally think of is subscriptions, I find it hard to imagine that only forcing big corporations to pay to use your service, or that having it be donationbased would work with the amount of manpower and serverspace these products from within Silicon Valley typically host where they need millions maybe billions every month until they stop existing

Advertisers are likely to be much more willing to bank their ad dollars with Zuckerberg than smaller rivals.

I’m fine with any most thing that shows you cannot enable harm-to-discourse as much as Musk has. I would sooner them come to Zuckerberg than crawling back to Twitter because it didn’t have an alternative. Twitter is very much a walking corpse right now, but something else coming along to snatch the could-be advertisers secure that it can stay in its fucking pit. (unless various sus governments still somehow see use in keeping it propped up)

Well they did essentially just type it but I agree with the sentiment

They are asking ISPs to lay out their best justification so that they can decide whether it’s valid or not. Judging by their wording, they want a good explanation. It’s good to gain understanding of something before we gut it and who better to ask for the ‘best argument for’ than those who enforce it?

I disagree with assigning blame to the current German government for that. Scholz has been fighting to keep the remaining ones up. It’s not really his fault that there is a big base of anti-nuclear sentiment in Germany.
Coal has essentially only been used as a means of emergency by Scholz’s government in order to sustain Germany while they were trying to survive the strain that Russia’s cutoff gave, and in general we’ve seen the EU move way waayy into green energy as an alternative since the Ukraine war started.

Agriculture is like top 5 biggest ghg emissioning industry though.
I don’t disagree that they should also go after the others but from what I’m aware, they are.

Having the option to have multiple versions of a dependency without needing to have duplicates of the same version alá flatpak seems like it should’ve been a no-brainer on any linux distro.
With that said I’m very comfortable with my current system, so definitely not until I get majorly fucked by my life-choices
Definitely sounds like a competent player in comparison to most distros though.

And I feel like the terminal isn’t as big a barrier as everyone makes it out to be (part of why I say that is because I think the entire concept of “beginner friendly distros” only makes the terminal seem more impenetrable through that wording)

All-in-one config is definitely something I would’ve hoped Arch had as well, and as a bonus I would love a system that kept all things related to the user in /home (I’m not completely sure Nix does but I may as well throw that in) (homed does not do that as it still has entities outside of /home that you better back up, in fact you’ll risk being locked out of your user if you don’t)