CrypticCoffee @ CrypticCoffee @lemmy.ml

Posts

5

Comments

405

Joined

2 yr. ago

Moderating

---

If the people you know and care about use it, you don't need WA. Plus, it trains them in it. You cannot always change the world, but you can change your part of it.

I got my family and partner on Signal. I don't care if they use WA. I don't have to. They seem confident with it now.

I have a Pine phone convergence edition that came with Manjaro Plasma. I installed it on my PC so I could easily dev for it. Updates twice broke the phone complaining about a login screen lock. On my PC, 2 updates broke it as it wouldn't start up the DE.

I have used Mint and Kububtu without issue but I don't like Snaps. I now use OpenSuse as a simple rolling distro.

You may have used without issue, but that is not the experience of others. Devs have complained about them distributing non-master branch features that weren't sufficiently tested or released and got their issue tracker flooded.

They are a really questionable distro quality wise. One of the worst IMHO, and considering they are aimed at new users, it's absolutely cruel to use them.

You may love it and great for you, but people won't give you free reign to advise a bad distro that is going to ruin Linux for newbies when there are better alternatives available.

I used to use it. I updated and twice on mobile, twice on desktop, it broke my OS. I wouldn't touch it again.

Mint is great. Your specification is quite restrictive and will potentially open you up to suffering. Mint doesn't use snaps so not sure why you'd want to avoid.

Ah well. Never used it and have no desire too. A lot of hype seemed to be astoturfing.

"Guys, I needed a poo, and I opened chatGPT. It is so good. I pood faster and more effectively than I ever have before. OMG!"

Sadly incorrect.

Louis Rossman has a video about zoom trying to sponsor him, Jitsi request only what is needed for functionality only and there terms of service mention that explicitly. How do you blur a background without detecting a face etc.

Doubt it, otherwise day 2 would have a high rate also. I think it may have been a dodgy instance federating.

Btw, have you checked canvas recently?

I can imagine some humble pie needs to be consumed.

"What exit strategy?"

Do we need to create a community growing community (CommunityGrowers - The Community Growing alliance) to share hints and tips on what does and doesn't work so that people can follow successful patterns and all of Lemmy benefits?

100%. After an update screwed the OS twice on desktop, twice on Pine phone, I moved to Kububtu and eventually OpenSuse TW. I'm glad manjaro is so bad. It helped me find good software.

Some don't get this right. Manjaro, Mint and Kubuntu are easy. OpenSuse wasn't IMHO, but it's a great OS.

True. I installed this OS, deleted a random component without any dependency analysis and it broke. Plz help.

I don't agree with him, but respect how he sticks to his principles. Also good to see more about his focus on work related stuff.

The world do need folk like him, even if you don't necessarily like him, you know where he stands and why.

I think they put it behind Cloud Flare after some DDOS attempts. It could be that.

Join us at !degoogle@lemmy.ml

You can ask questions or share your wisdom, and we all help each other on that journey to cutting the cord.

I do agree with you that it's a cool option. It would require a distro to prioritise that and architect that in a way that seamlessly switches. Maybe there is a gap for something like that if the UI is nice.

Actually, on reflection, I think Mint did have an option from login screen to use KDE or Cinnamon.

When you click from a reply in your mailbox, you only see that post, you can click View all comments and it makes a request to the backend with max_depth=8. I thought there would be a way to use that parameter on the main post, but unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work like that right now. It's probably worth raising this as a bug on their issue tracker and seeing if they consider this.

The view all comments button, does it add a param to the query string? Could be worth a try.

I think your focus is on ease for distributors rather than ease for users. Unless they had a series of checkboxes to choose your flavour, most won't like it and it won't gain traction.

It's a bit like "why cannot people cook food in a restaurant to their liking rather than a chef doing all these meals and variations?". People just wanna eat.

The more that use Chromiun, the more likely WEI will be rolled out and the death of ad blockers comes quicker.