Kyiv imposes ban on Russian-language culture
When times are tough like they are now, some people will tear apart, but others will band together for a strengthened front. With the amount of concentrated wealth and the difficulty people are having making a living wage, there does seem to be a rise of attempts to unionize and to use those unions to actually get greater benefits.
Now, the real question is if that will be successful. The last couple of times this started to happen in the US at least, there was resistance, sometimes bloody resistance, to the power being given to the workers. And what started with good intentions ended up in some cases corrupt, harming the unions for decades after with bad reputation and associations.
I think that somewhere like antiwork is going to see these things happening and assume that the movement is going strong. Others who don't hear about these efforts at all will assume much more negatively. I believe it will be somewhere in between. A hard and continuous fight, but one that is being fought.
It's mostly a matter of personal preference. I prefer mouse and keyboard to touch controls most (but not all) of the time. I tend to be very wordy and find a physical keyboard to be a lot easier to use than a virtual one. I tend to prefer larger screens over smaller ones. I really like the personalization options that are available on desktop for a lot of things through third-party tools, apps, and extensions that are more common on desktop than on mobile. Things like that.
I have a smartphone and a tablet, both of which I use for particular things and have used for social media (mostly RIF), but if ever there was the choice of using a desktop or laptop instead, I'd go for that. Unless something is enhanced with touch controls, and I have never found that any social media that I use is, I just don't prefer mobile platforms. And for a short time, I had a laptop that had a touchscreen, and honestly liked that a lot more than using my phone for some of the things they could both do.
Just to establish my own timeline, I got my first cell phone when I was about thirteen, and I got my first smartphone when I was in my late teens if I recall correctly. So it's not like I haven't been around them long enough. I just never found a preference for them.
Or just make a NSFW-less account on one instance and a NSFW-ful account on a different instance. You don't even need to log out of one to switch to the other. Just change the URL slightly.
I almost never use mobile devices. I have almost exclusively used social media via desktop or laptop my whole life.
I fully expected to come in here and not know what the movie was and learn along with you by reading the comments, but, yeah, no, I remember that flick. Mirrormask was a trip. I remember being convinced to watch it by being told, "It's like Labyrinth and you love that movie so you'll love this!" I would not say that would hold true in general. I liked the movie but... Man that flick's a trip.
If he doesn't have a topless/nude scene with Reynolds touching his chest for comedic effect, I'll be kind of disappointed. But really, I think he's doing this for a mixture of the tremendous Disney money and because he's friends with Reynolds.
I mean, a bunch of people I hung out with in college, like, four years ago bought these water bottles because they were free that took these awful proprietary flavor infusers. That's about two steps off of a subscription service water bottle.
However, I do have a question: What's the difference between a water subscription service and a monthly water bill from the local utility service?
With Ridley Scott's recent track record of making historical films, I think there's a good chance that I'm going to really enjoy watching this, but then put just a little bit of thought or research into the history and find myself endlessly frustrated.
My biggest concern certainly isn't age groups. My biggest concern is interest groups. The initial influx from the Reddit protests created a lot of communities that will definitely become ghost towns. And there's going to need to be a process to clean that up eventually. The interests that are here right now are good for keeping the people already here. What's going to be interesting to watch is if broader appeal topics will start to grow or not. As I said, I expect a lot of die-off actually in the early days as people try out the Fediverse but then go back to what they were already used to.
Reddit had a lot of help from being a private company when they were growing. Anyone familiar with Reddit's history will know that it got propped up in part, eventually, by really high-quality celebrity events like the AMAs (Ask Me Anythings) coordinated with big names in multiple fields, though most popularly film and television. I worry that the Fediverse, as a decentralized entity, will never have something like that. Producers, movie marketers, agents, people like that are far less likely to take a call from someone running a Lemmy instance than they were from an outreach officer of a private company that had some weight behind it. Now, that's not the only way to grow, but... Damn it helps.
That was more my point. This is a fascinating thing to study! It's new and from very far away and observations around it are odd! That's all exciting! But that's all exciting without having to force in, "ALIENS CONFIRMED???" into the conversation around it.
The U.S. Space Command confirmed with almost near certainty, 99.999%, that the material came from another solar system.
Yeah, but... Lots of things come to us from other solar systems given enough time. Just naturally. Is it alien? Yes! But that's nothing special. Is it technology? I mean. Probably not. This is almost certainly a non-story. If the headline read something like, "Harvard professor studying extra-solar fragments," it would be just as interesting to anyone who actually cares. But that group is very niche. As it is, the headline we get is eye-catching but stupid and malicious.
Early adopters of almost anything tend to be niche. These Threadiverse sites are looking to pick up where pseudo-message boards like Digg and Reddit left off without being extremist havens like Voat and other bullshit. So let's look at who the early adopters of those sites were. Because... They're not that dissimilar to the demographics that you're describing. Reddit didn't start out as the kind of place that just anyone went to. It tended to be tech heads in their mid-twenties or older, gamers, and chronically online people. They tended heavily to be male. And there tended to be some... Really unfortunate widely-shared opinions.
As Reddit grew, it changed. But it took time. It took there being content on Reddit to appeal to a wider set of people. And that's going to be the case here. It needs to reach a first sustainable mass where enough content is being created to engage and keep the users who first joined it. But that userbase is going to be rather similar. There are always going to be subgroups that are different, but for the most part, the same kinds of people are going to be the early adopters. Creating a breadth of content that will appeal to more and attract a wider variety of users over time will help people feel more comfortable with it.
And, yes. The Fediverse is kind of weird to most people. I was in an argument the other day where someone was insisting that saying you saw something on Limmy or KBin was wrong, you saw it on the Fediverse, and could everyone just stop being wrong please. That kind of pedantic culture is only going to make adoption even slower than it already is. Because most people, they like to go to a site and create a login to look at that content. The Fediverse isn't really that complicated, but it takes a little jump in how you think about websites to go from something like Twitter or Facebook to something like Lemmy or Mastadon. But people were kind of confused about the leap from message boards to social media like MySpace and Facebook as first too. They came around. It took time. It took exposure to the content. It took people using it and sharing it.
So, yes. The Fediverse is mostly a monoculture right now, focused on the people most likely to make the most of out it: Tech heads with some time on their hands for hobbies. The kind of people who either might make their own Fediverse instance or who would know the people that would. Those tech heads aren't exclusively Linux users, they're not exclusively over the age of thirty, and tech heads aren't exclusively the user base, but yes, we're going to start out seeing an imbalance. That's normal. That's to be expected. What's going to be concerning is if five years from now we have the same or a worse imbalance. That will mean that the Fediverse is stagnant or shrinking instead of growing. That will be a time to rethink some strategies for sure. But for right now, all we can do is be active, share the site with other people, and try to get it to spread to more diverse demographics.
I disagree with the other user that you HAVE to get DDR5. You probably don't. It really depends on what you want your computer to do and your budget. But it is true that to upgrade your CPU you will probably have to upgrade your motherboard and likely your PSU. If you've ever been riding the line of hitting the max wattage on your power supply, you will need a new PSU. This is a problem that I ran into when I looked to upgrade my computer because modern CPUs tend to have a lot of power-suck potential.
The real question you should be asking is why you want to upgrade and what you're going to use that upgrade for. After that, you can start looking at your budget and trying to figure out what you're going to buy. If you want to stick with older generations or sockets like you have, you're also going to have to keep in mind that you'll likely be buying used as almost no one keeps new old stock of these things. That comes with a sharp drop in price, which is great especially since it often provides the best dollar-to-power ratio. But it comes with drawbacks like the risk of faulty parts and no warranty.
If you insist on sticking with the LGA-1151 motherboard that you have, do know its limitations in excess of which CPUs are compatible with it. It can't run DD5, but you probably don't need it to. DDR5 is still pretty young and pretty expensive. Its raw clock speed is impressive, but you're going to be getting worse timings unless you make some sacrifices. And a lot of users won't be taking advantage of that extra speed anyway. Do know if it can handle M.2 chips because if you ever want to upgrade storage, they're getting to be the best deals around with SATA SSDs often having similar longevity, similar capacity, and sometimes even similar prices, but far lower speeds. And hard drives are becoming less and less reasonable unless you NEED a lot of relatively cheap, slow storage right now like for a NAS. Even then, SSD NAS setups are becoming more reasonable and already are more reliable. That isn't important to everyone, but it's something to keep in mind.
If you want to stick with your LGA-1151, I'm not sure which revision your board/socket is, you can look that up, but that means you're dealing with your same sixth-generation CPU's siblings or their seventh-generation cousins. It's possible that your board might support eighth-generation, but I doubt it as the socket went through a minor revision, and the new one often only supported eighth-generation. This really limits your ability to upgrade. It's likely that if your budget is tight you'll want to upgrade to 10th- or 11th-generation CPUs if you're sticking with Intel or look at some AMD CPUs and see what your options are in your budget range. You might even be able to get a 12th-generation build done for a reasonable price. I recently did a 13th-generation build for myself and kind of regret it. The price-to-performance difference between 12 and 13 is not great and the most recent components have been seeing a higher failure rate, possibly due to changes brought on by the pandemic.
All this can get overwhelming, I know, I've been there. And it takes some time for all the information to start sinking in and making sense. But in truth, it all comes down to asking that initial question: Why do I want to upgrade? If you want to upgrade just to play games, well, firstly, what kind of games? Most games are not going to bottleneck at the CPU, even with one as old as yours, though there are some CPU-intensive titles and genres. If you want it to be a slightly better but not state-of-the-art workstation, what kind of work is it going to be doing? Programmers and accountants are going to want beefy CPUs to process lots of data (more and faster RAM isn't a bad idea for either of them) whereas video editors and graphic designers are probably going to want mid-tier ones and spend the extra on a better GPU and RAM. And a million other use cases. It can be hard, especially if you're just starting out, to actually answer these questions honestly. But I know from experience that if you don't take the time to, you will end up with buyer's regret. I won't be able to answer a lot of your questions, but if you want to ask me anything more, feel free to.
Of course, the unprompted violence against a people must be the first thing to be addressed. But this new policy does nothing to actually help in that fight while doing harm to the peace which one would hope would happen afterward. There have been nations in perpetual states of war, and it's rather horrible. No one should want this to become one.