Every post on Lemmy has a comments section, even the ones with external links...
The opportunity to post is there, but that doesn't mean the bot is driving engagement though. The fact that it's a bot actually puts me off from engaging.
You can be the change you want to see in the world.
I am, I'm complaining on the internet. Viva la revolucion! ✊😁
But that's my point. A bot that posts links to external content isn't driving engagement or fostering discussion, it's just sending people to other sites. Even a brief summary of the link would be better, as it gives you a starting point.
A plain link is pointless, other than posting for the sake of it and claiming that it's content. Browsing All and seeing post after post of links with no discussions is just depressing, and doesn't make me want to stick around, and especially not have conversations with bots.
It's not though, is it? You're replying to a question post here, in a community for questions. A significant portion of Lemmy is communities for questions, media, memes, and tech conversations.
Of the posts that share links, a decent number of those are either posted with a summary to encourage discussion, or are at least posted by a human that you can speak to. A headline and link to another site, posted by a bot, does nothing to encourage interaction with Lemmy. It's literally a link that points to content somewhere else
I haven't seen much from the rest of the instance, but I blocked the bot a while ago. It's a bot that drives engagement to other sites by posting nothing but plain links. I don't see how that's supposed to be helpful or useful 🤷🏻♂️
That doesn't mean that your laptop hasn't developed a problem in the meantime. As someone else said, you had problems before you ever tried booting from the USB stick, so before Mint ever ran on the hardware. It looks like a hardware issue.
Couldn't agree more. I put a 128GB card into my action camera last night, then remembered that my first computer had a 170MB hard drive. That's close to a thousand times more storage, and according to t'internet, it's physically more than two thousand times smaller :o
If it makes you feel any better, I did something just as infuriating a few years ago.
I had set up my home media server, and had finally moved it to my garage with just a power cable and ethernet cable plugged in. Everything was working perfectly, but I needed to check something with the network settings. Being quite new to Linux, I used a remote desktop tool to log in and do everything through a gui.
I accidentally clicked the wrong item in the menu and disconnected the network. I only had a spare ps/2 keyboard and mouse, and as the server was an old computer, it would crash if I plugged a ps/2 device in while it was running*.
The remote desktop stayed open but frozen, mocking me for my obvious mistake and lack of planning, with the remote mouse icon stuck in place on the disconnect menu.
*I can't remember if that was a ps/2 thing, or something specific to my server, but I didn't want to risk it
It's one of those things that you hide away for most of the year, but every now and then, when your partner's forgotten about it, you move it to the bathroom in the middle of the night 😁
I've got a few services running on my aging media server, so I want to start doing it properly, and getting a proper home sever going. I've used ssh for some of the basics in the past, but I need to start using that more too :)
Nobody's putting words in his mouth, we're judging him on his well documented public actions. He performed a Nazi salute in public, and on camera, and you're trying to deflect and say that it's not what he really meant.
You recently trolled about how Elon Musk's Nazi salute "has been debunked though"
and then a selection of quotes from your reply, the one I responded to:
Debunked in the sense that, one, what the perception was did not match his intention, and two, a lot of the footage exaggerated his gesture anyways.
Something that's worth noting (or which I don't see a lot of people talking about) is the fact that the salute, historically, was done with your arm stretched out in front of you, not to the side
Musk's salute in the picture, though technically arguable to be the salute (and it's possible more to his intentions might come to light), was more like the Team Rocket pose.]
You've claimed to know what his intention was, that the Nazi salute was done differently to the clip of Hitler himself, even though the video shows that they're almost identical, and then that Musk's salute was an innocent mistake.
They sound an awful lot like excuses for a guy who was caught on camera performing a salute that's all but identical to a Nazi salute that Hitler, leader of the Nazis, performed on video.
Unfortunately I do both. I struggle to sleep, but then I lose track of time and stay awake until the early hours. When I do eventually fall asleep, I often sleep for over ten hours and make it worse.
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Scratch Jr. is designed for kids, and is available on the Kindle devices. My kid loved making the cat character move around with it :)