GoodEye8 @ GoodEye8 @lemm.ee

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I'm simply explaining the grievances people have that is stopping them from donating and what I personally would do in your situation to alleviate those grievances. That grievance is the nature of lemmy.ml which you've either voluntarily or involuntarily let slip into promoting a very specific political agenda that most lemmy users don't agree with. If you're genuine in your desire to have lemmy.ml as something that helps development then it should be apparent to you how the current state of lemmy.ml contradicts that desire. If you can't acknowledge that I can only assume you're using the development of lemmy as an excuse to keep lemmy.ml as it is.

Which segues to the end of my previous comment. If you think that's unfair to the users of the instance then the only thing that you can do is step away. You can always start a new instance or you can work something out with the existing instance owners to get the data and feedback you need to develop Lemmy. And to be clear those instances can't be Lemmygrad or Hexbear because those two instances are also not acceptable for most Lemmy users and wouldn't solve the grievances people have.

At the end of the day it is not my concern if you get funded or not. I have no issue funding the development despite your obviously transphobic stance and Dessalines stance on Uighurs because I am capable of separating your work from who you are. I don't have to like you to support your work so I'm willing to compromise here. But me tolerating both of you doesn't mean I'm going to compromise supporting a platform that is actively promoting an agenda I cannot accept. I've already compromised on tolerating you, how about you compromise a bit to meet half way? If you're unwilling to compromise this is my final alternative to supporting lemmy. Remove yourselves from the project, let someone more reasonable than you to take over and I'll donate to them.

You have to understand that at this point Lemmy is bigger than you and its popularity is growing in spite of you and lemmy.ml. The fact that Lemmy is growing but your donations are shrinking should make that point evident. It's up to you if you're going to adjust to the new reality or stick your old ways and run into monetary issues.

Interestingly that's the exact thing I loved about Hollow Knight. I got so immersed in the exploration specifically because I got lost. On my first playthrough I ended up sequence breaking the game and cleared out deepnest, ancient basin, hive and kingdoms end before the city of tears. I was way out of my depth and I loved every moment of it.

I've given it some more thought. There's no guarantee that money going to the developers won't be used to for the instance they are financing. If I give you money and the lemmy.ml funds are empty, are you going to let lemmy.ml die? Considering you said it is used to test new versions of lemmy and measure performance and test how effective the mod tools are I don't think you would let lemmy.ml die. You'd finance it yourself, most likely from the money that is donated for the development of lemmy. So separating lemmy development and lemmy.ml instance costs wouldn't really change the situation.

But I also no longer think it's inherently necessary to step away from lemmy.ml. I get the value a real instance would give to development, so what I think needs to happen is a shift in what lemmy.ml is supposed to be. If the purpose of lemmy.ml is to support the development of lemmy then the primary goal of the instance should be that. Clearly the biggest issue people have is politics and how lemmy.ml is used as a vessel to push a certain kind of political agenda, which means if the primary goal is to support development then the instance right now contradicts its primary goal. It's dissuading people from donating to the development and it's making the main developers (you in this case) focus on the drama (for the lack of a better word) instead of spending time developing. I think the solution is pretty simple, lemmy.ml should take a hard anti-politics stance. Do a purge and kick all politics off the instance, including instance users who discuss politics on other instances. Have it be memes, technology, privacy and FOSS and gaming and everything else that doesn't necessarily lead to politics. Users who want to take part in political discourse can find instances that allow political discourse, and that includes you and Dessalines. If you want to be political create an alt account on a different instance. Communities that want to be political can find other instances to be in political. You don't need politics to run lemmy.ml. And for the sake of clarity also add to the instance about section that the instance exists to support lemmy development because currently that is not written anywhere.

If you think that's unfair to the current users of lemmy.ml I honestly don't see how you could resolve this situation without stepping away from lemmy.ml.

OG Oblivion was super green. So much that the remaster, despite having natural lighting, looks brown in comparison.

I imagine the biggest point are the censorship, disinformation and tankie allegations. These are all documented in this post. Another point worth bringing up is that they are the admins of lemmy.ml, where most of the allegations happen. Lemmy.ml also has something of a tankie problem and one of the devs has said that the donations will also cover the cost of running the instance. So by donating to the devs you're also donating to an instance that possibly has no problem with censorship, disinformation and harboring tankies.

I would be willing to turn a blind eye if I could trust the devs to step away from lemmy.ml and focus solely on the development of Lemmy. But I don't trust the devs enough to actually do that so I personally won't be supporting Lemmy development until someone else becomes the maintainer of Lemmy.

EDIT: just to cover off the inevitable "what will happen if we stop supporting Lemmy. I don't want to go back to Reddit" fear. If Lemmy doesn't work out and it gets abandoned there's always Mbin. Anyone here from the Reddit exodus knows that it's annoying to migrate but Mbin can federate with Lemmy which means going from Lemmy to Mbin is going to be less painful than form Reddit to Lemmy.

I would imagine they'd be stupid if they did use AI. I've seen people use AI to "write" technical documentation that I have had to review. That shit goes straight into the bin because the time I spend fixing all the AI nonsense is about the same amount of time it would take for me to write the document myself. It's gotten to a point where I straight up reject all AI generated documentation because I know fixing them is a waste of time.

I imagine legal documents have to be at least as precise as technical documents, so if they're checking the output I seriously doubt they're saving any time or money by using AI.

Verstappen is just a beast. How he finds the pace to out quali McLaren is just unbelievable.

And excellent quali by Kimi, I wasn't expecting him to get this fast this soon. I already had high expectations for him and he's just exceeding them.

But will it fuck up my formatting when I add an image?

Really got me hyped up for 2027 when he's probably experienced enough to fight for the championship. Imagine a 3 way WDC fight between Verstappen, Piastri and Antonelli. Maybe even add Hamilton into the mix if he finds his form again.

I don't know the specifics of how the law is implemented but the self driving levels are defined such that from SAE level 3 onward you may have a case against manufacturer. I haven't kept up to date with Tesla SAE level but I imagine they're still officially on level 2 because it lets them keep their hands clean.

Considering Xbox already announced Silksong releasing within a year a few years back I'm not even going to believe the release announcement unless I can put the game in my shopping cart.

Imagine thinking you're so important that others should care about your opinion.

He still has the 10th most subscribed channel on Youtube, him endorsing Linux is huge due to the reach he has. His video has 3.2 million views, other content creators are making their reaction videos to his video. You don't have to like him to see how big this is for Linux.

I didn't know the original game was remade. I assumed you meant layers of fear 2 because the original layers of fear wasn't even on Unreal Engine and Layers of fear 2 is on UE4. Nothing I said was explicitly wrong. It was wrong in the context only because you weren't precise with what you're saying.

And how nice of you to pick out the one thing I was wrong on while completely ignoring all the other examples. For instance how the fuck can you put Subnautica 2 on that list when it's not even in early access?

Well that's a pretty shit list. You have there games that aren't using UE5 (Layers of Fear 2), that are known to have poor performance (STALKER 2), that just released into early access (Inzoi) and that haven't even released into early access (Subnautica 2).

I'd throw half the list out the window, actually probably more because the other half of the list are mostly games I don't know enough to evaluate their performance.

I'm terms of working hours it could get better. You might end up doing 0 hours a week, because you'll be unemployed.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213095

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/6564-cant-boot-into-the-lts-kernel/3

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/4899-let-s-talk-about-the-lts-kernels

lts kernels should not be used with newer hardware… because they don’t have modern software support, anyone that uses modern hardware risks being unable to boot with them. I shouldn’t have said crashes but the issues are numerous.

So you don't have stats you have anecdotal evidence.

The second thing doesn’t require a source, they don’t have the manpower to implement it in cinnamon, look at the github pulse: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/pulse

It clearly requires a source because Cinnamon 6.0 has Wayland as an experimental support and Mint team has said they are planning to eventually move to Wayland.

https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland debian, notorious for being the most stable distro by far already uses it by default…

For Gnome. You've been pretty much talking about KDE (unless you're now magically going to do a 180 and start saying how Windows users would have a better time learning GNOME), which if you bothered to actually check what you're saying would have noticed the

however you are recommended to read the detailed wiki section for KDE on Wayland, especially if you are using an NVIDIA GPU.

Clearly implying you should expect running into issues.

i have only used industry standard terminology and what I said is straightforward…

Somehow the things you say are straight-forward seem to be nothing but.

kernel has drivers, old kernel no has new drivers, new drivers needed for hardware support, lts kernel old.

In theory. Except in practice we're not talking about kernels that are 5+ years old. Latest Mint version is running on Ubuntu Noble which is using Kernel version 6.8 which supports all the latest CPU-s and GPU-s. Just because it's not using the very latest kernel version doesn't mean it's not capable of supporting the latest hardware.

They can crash more frequently.

Where are your stats for this.

and the reason mint stays on x11 has NOTHING to do with this

source?

stable distros have worse support out of the box because they use an older kernel version and the kernel ships the drivers.

At this point I don't even know what that means because maybe you have some other weird definition to pull out of your ass. Give me that in 5th grader level.

Mint focuses on stability reliability as evident from its decision to use Ubuntu LTS versions as it’s base. In case I need to spell it out, LTS versions are generally more reliable.

And you brought up X11 as a negative, but there’s a good reason Mint is staying on X11. Yes, Wayland is the future and eventually Mint will adopt Wayland as well, when Wayland becomes more stable reliable. I’m the mean time Mint stays on X11 because X11 is very stable reliable, extremely stable reliable compared to Wayland if you have an Nvidia card.

Mint also has better out the box support. For example to my knowledge for Nvidia Fedora comes with Nouvuea drivers which means for gaming you need to go through an extra process to get proprietary drivers. Mint has out the box support for Nvidia drivers. This is less of a thing when compared to Bazzite, but still a reason why to pick Mint as a beginner distro.

FTFY you little grammar nazi.

From your own article

Or, the fact that the same term is understood in two different and sometimes conflicting ways may indicate that the term is not an ideal one in the first place.

I'm sorry that English is not my first language and I'm not aware of the subtle difference in meaning you're after, but really all you've proven is that you're a pedantic little troll who understood what I said and still chose to be obtuse about it. Another example how of this discussion is a waste of time.