My 9 year old LG smart TV (WebOS, but never connected to the network) will occasionally "overlay" RGB colour artifacts over the entire screen. There's no pattern of time, day, on duration, HDMI source, etc.
It just occasionally happens, probably once every month or two. Putting it into standby and back on again fixes it every time. 🤷🏻♂️
Doesn't Lemmy let users block instances? So no issue here.
The problem seems to be with Mastodon (and possibly others like Pixelfed, Bookwyrm, etc), which I think is controlled at instance level. Fortunately, the admin of the Mastodon instance I'm on has defederated Threads.
I once saw some great advice saying we should celebrate when someone mispronounces a word: it means they learned it from reading.
It reminded me of a time when my uncle was barely literate and pronounced the word 'esoteric' as 'ee-SOTTER-ick'. I realised what had happened, but didn't really know how to correct him, then found a way to say the word myself in the flow of the conversation.
He never mispronounced it again, and there was no uppity nephew embarrassing his uncle. In the years since he's published a number of books, so couldn't be happier for him.
Thank you. My laptop is EndeavourOS+KDE6 - which is solid - and I've spent today preparing to nuke my gaming desktop PC (Ubuntu and an Nvidia RTX card) to rebuild it with Endeavour tomorrow, and the only doubt I had was Wayland and Nvidia with Lutris/Heroic/Proton gaming.
This sounds like co-operative multi-tasking on a single CPU. I remember this with Windows 3.1x around 30 years ago, where the faster you moved your mouse, the more impact it would have on anything else you were running. That text scrolling too fast? Wiggle the mouse to slow it down (etc, etc).
I thought we'd permanently moved on with pre-emptive multi-tasking, multi-threading and multiple cores... 🤦🏼♂️
(Not OP). What kind of tips? It's microblogging but without the algorithm, which many have come to expect. It relies on who you follow and/or hashtags. Likes are only "attaboys" to the poster - they don't impact visibility, etc.
Being decentralised, it means that @user@instanceA is not the same person as @user@instanceB (it could be, but probably not). If you're looking to follow specific people, check their profiles on other socials, their websites, or accounts on Mastodon that provide that kind of information (Fedi Tips, Mastodon Migration, etc).
Your home feed only shows the users and hashtags that you follow. The Local feed shows all public posts on your instance. The Federated feed shows all public posts on Mastodon (that your instance doesn't block).
There are Lists, but only for users you follow (not hashtags, nor users you don't follow).
The Advanced view in the web interface is functionally identical to Tweetdeck. There are some excellent third-party Mastodon clients. The official one was only intended to be a proof of concept. (I use Megalodon on Android, for example).
In my experience, it's an "at face value"/"in good faith" platform, which is refreshing. There is no "quote post" feature, which I like (given how it's used on the birdsite), but you can always paste a post's URL after your hot take, if you must.
Report, mute and/or block freely. You can block entire instances, if you want. Good instance admins often make this a rarity.
Make posts, use hashtags as a matter of course, reply to Local/Federated posts from strangers, have conversations, and follow people you like. It'll grow on you.
There are good and bad instances. Choose wisely. 😊
Withholding judgement on someone's words until you see their actions is an important one to me. As is the flip-side to that - if someone shows you who they are: believe them.
Public figures are good practice for fine-tuning your response to both of these.
Call yourself what you like, declare your position this way or that, fine, but Actions > Words.
My Endeavour laptop got it today. Couple of tweaks and it was running perfectly.
Funny you mention desktop: I've been waiting for Plasma 6 before rebuilding my Ubuntu desktop with Endeavour. Didn't want to jump the gun, find out that it impacts gaming performance, and then have to rebuild back again. :) Guess I have a desktop to rebuild now...
Self-hosted communities (here, Reddit, etc), GitHub searches, alternativeto.net, LibriVox and archive.org, Twitch's "software development" category, and Mastodon hashtags are a few places I find mine.
This is it. Facebook (or Meta, can't recall which) put a value of something like $40 per user per year on their users' data. With a population of 450M, I don't imagine any company to just walk away from $18B per year when they only get these $1-2B fines every few years.
They probably think of it as a tax that they actually have to pay, or a cost of doing business.
Brewchin @ Brewchin @lemmy.world Posts 3Comments 195Joined 1 yr. ago
Exactly. This kind of thing is just a tax they have to pay, unless they can convince a court otherwise. Unlike normal tax.