Everything else in my life is USB-C now - my laptop, my Steam Deck, my ear buds etc. My wife and I are both Android so we only have to have one charging cable anywhere in the house or our bags.
I'm not sure I agree (observing from the outside as a Brit). I feel like Citizens United is the origin of a lot of the problems in modern US politics and that was only 2010.
For those who don't know it, it's a landmark legal case that basically allowed a lot more money into politics. When you make winning politically about who can raise the most money you take power out of most poeple and put it in the hands of rich people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
I agree, but this provides a path towards that. It is Matrix underneath so if we get a proportion of people using Beeper they it becomes easy to transition to using Matrix to talk to those people.
I think they mostly died when GChat turned off XMPP support and became a walled garden.
If Beeper does become a successful business though, there'll be a full time development team "playing catch-up" with money behind them. It's interesting if you read this that they're rolling out features ahead of the message providers in some cases!
They're also leveraging some existing infrastructure. Beeper is built on Matrix which does a lot of the heavy lifting for them.
The best solution I know for this is a browser extension. One that knows YOUR instance and recognises another Lemmy and so can put in follow links. There exists the equivalent for Mastodon, but not Lemmy AFAIK.
This process works for any community whether it's on Kbin or Lemmy, and should work in any client including Voyager. It's the "correct" way that should work whether anyone from your instance is already subscribed:
Get the name of the community and the name of the instance. For example, let's say you want to subscribe to "NFL" on "kbin.social".
Put them together with a "!" and a @ to make an instance link like this: !NFL@kbin.social
Press search on your client and then search for that text.
One of the options will be a link to that community (but your instance's copy, so for me that will be https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/NFL@kbin.social).
Click on it, and then click subscribe when it pops up.
No - that's the wrong way around. If no-one has been to it before, then search is the only way to get to it.
You're trying to get to your instance's view of the community right? That's the only one you can press subscribe on. That local copy won't exist unless someone has been to it before, and the only way to get it to if no-one ever has is via search.
It's great for a server system but I find it less great for a desktop environment. Hardware support take longer to get to the kernel, UI improvements take longer to get to the desktop etc.
You're going to hear a lot of recommendations, but I strongly suggest going with Fedora for your first distro. It's the least pain to get up and running with a modern, performant, up to date distro.
Ubuntu these days is its own little corner of design choices, Arch is designed to need configuration, Debian is a (purposefully) a bit slow to keep up. A lot of people say good things about Linux Mint, haven't used it myself but have used Fedora for years (including at work) and it's rock solid without much faffing.
Proton is a fork of Wine. It was created by Valve and they have done amazing work getting it to support basically everything. It's made the steam deck and amazing machine.
I'm just starting to use Alexandrite (https://alexandrite.app/) on desktop. Seems very well designed and complementary to Voyager. No light mode, but an excellent multi-panel design.
I look at it a different way - it's a miracle the first one was good. If you imagine hearing the premise for the first time, it sounds like a trashy movie with no depth. Somehow it ends up being way more than that, and I'd suggest that's because of excellent direction. Without that it reverts back to trash.
For me - Hot Fuzz particularly. We periodically watch it with friends and play a drinking game (e.g. drink every time someone says "The Greater Good", every time you see a swan, every time the do an action thing that Nick Frost has earlier asked "did you ever...").
Exactly. And that's why banks pay you to give it to them instead.
Banks provide a valuable function to society that works on two sides:
There's a group of people who want to keep their money safe
There's a group of people that need a loan to get started in a business that will then make money and improve society
The bank takes all the money that has been deposited and makes the loan, charging interest. It then pays the depositors (less) interest to incentivise them to put money in the bank (instead of under the mattress).
In order for society to advance and grow you need a source of finance to get things off the ground. Anything from small businesses to massive infrastructure projects. Banks help facilitate that.
Gaming laptops are really just portable PCs. If you're playing on them on in the usual "Keyboard and Mouse" way then you need to put it on a table to make that work properly. Maybe you could do it on a sofa but it's very quickly going to get uncomfortable.
Handhelds on the other hand are extremely portable and happily usable anywhere. They're also a lot cheaper than a gaming PC! I'm a big fan of my Steam Deck and recommend it a lot, but I should admit I also have a Gaming PC which I use for multiplayer stuff with my friends
Someone once told me "if you've never missed a flight, you're spending too much time in airports". I think about that a lot in a lot of other contexts - sometimes being too safe comes with more of a cost than the risk!
Everything else in my life is USB-C now - my laptop, my Steam Deck, my ear buds etc. My wife and I are both Android so we only have to have one charging cable anywhere in the house or our bags.