dfyx @ dfyx @lemmy.helios42.de

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In a "no time to explain" situation: most of my friends and family

If they actively refuse to explain: maybe my 2-3 closest people whom I trust they have a good reason for that kind of secrecy.

Then please update your category name to reflect that. Right now it says "Self-Hosting" which to the majority of readers means hosting it yourself, whatever the reason may be: privacy, configurability or just being safe from future enshittification.

As far as I know most Lemmy instances leverages paid-for or freemium services to have their instances work easily/properly

Yes but you can't compare a whole lemmy instance to an account on an email server that you share with others. The fair comparison would be hosting a lemmy instance to hosting your own email server and creating an account on Proton Mail to creating an account (or a community) on lemmy.world.

This looks at how technically easy it is to run your own backend (e.g., email server, Mastodon server)

Edit: also the description text "This looks at how technically easy it is to run your own backend (e.g., email server, Mastodon server)". Relying on Proton Mail or similar free services is not running your own backend.

Here I’m a bit in two minds, sure it’s difficult to SELF host email, but in practice it isn’t because there are hundreds (Thousands?) of hosting options to choose from where you can choose your own domain etc. for the low price of basically-free

I would prefer to limit this to actually hosting it on a machine you control. We don't consider redirecting a custom domain to a subreddit "self-hosting", do we? Yes, there are many email providers out there but that's more like existing lemmy or mastodon instances and not like hosting your own where you have full control over your data.

Why are we using a random repo created a few hours ago by a random github user as a reference ?

They aren't. That's the repo that has the latest version of the survey. The actual references are one section up.

Do you notice something? Your comment is still there. Nobody has removed it. Nobody has left a rude comment. So far, nobody has even downvoted it (as far as I can see from my instance).

Most of the time it’s not about the opinion but about how it’s presented. As long as you’re respectful and accept that someone else might disagree with you, almost no lemmy instance will „censor“ you for something like that.

Having set up a couple of mail servers myself, I wouldn't call it easy. Most solutions boil down to a tangled web of dovecot, postfix, ldap and amavis. There are preconfigured docker containers which make setup easier than a couple of years ago but if your use case is even just slightly different than the maintainers', you'll have to dive deep into a few dozen different config files. And of course, you'll have to find out how to configure SPF, DKIM and DMARC to have even a remote chance of your mails getting through to the big providers. I'd probably give email somewhere in the range of 8-12 points in that category.

Other than that, great summary!

For video editing I would highly recommend DaVinci Resolve. So far I've only used it on Windows because I haven't had any need for it since my switch but it's available for Linux as well.

What kind of opinion are we talking about? Can you give an example?

Well, then you have to get more specific what kind of opinions are getting censored. I can't find a single modlog entry related to your account.

Freedom of speech means you can say what you want. It doesn't mean others have to listen or like it.

If you don't like moderation, it's probably best to run your own instance.

So what do I do when I need to get something done on a deadline? VM? Dualboot? Just give up?

Please don't interpret that as an attack, it's a serious question. I would love to fully move to linux. I've put Arch on my laptop about a month ago as an experiment and overall it works great. But every time I need to be productive, I hit a wall. Especially with photo editing but even for software development (mostly C# and C++), Windows 10 + WSL feels like the better choice.

Well, are you a developer?

I am. I have written software, both open source and commercial, for almost twenty years now and the most important lesson I have learned in that time is that developers alone don’t write good software. You need to listen to UI/UX experts, testers and user feedback to make something that people actually want to use.

Just for maybe an hour or so, haven’t had time for more. It seems a bit better but still too different from everything else to assume people can „just“ use it instead of the solution they are familiar with.

Gimp really needs the kind of in-depth UI/UX redesign that blender got with 2.8.

I tried again and again to do the things I need to do with gimp but it still lacks many features and the ones it does have are hard to use. Sometimes it’s not about ideology but about needing to get shit done.

I have used Vivaldi as my main browser pretty much since the initial release and it's great.

Sunday and Mo(o)nday are named after celestial bodies. Is astronomy not scientific enough for you?

Exactly. In a small community that usually doesn't see much activity, if a post gets even one upvote, scaled might consider it relevant.

This is your chance to make one. After all, today you learned that.

There is one thing the article omits which is very important: the time frame. At first it looks like this is based on 2024 numbers alone but seeing 52 million for the USA (about 15% of total population) and 16 million for Germany (20%) made me check the linked source. The data was aggregated over the last 35 years.

It's mostly a "well, technically" kind of thing. First prototypes were around since the 1840s but the first commercial telefax service was introduced in February 1865, a little under two months before Lincoln was killed. Samurai were around until the late 1860s or early 1870s. I can't quite find when the first telefax machine was operated in Japan but 1928 shows up on some lists.

So yeah, Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai if they both had traveled to France just a few weeks before Lincoln's death.