voidMainVoid @ voidMainVoid @lemmy.world

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There's Nextdoor for neighborhoods, but it's a hellhole. You have no idea how many racist busybodies are living around you.

1. Decentralized
2. Open source code
3. Federates with other services
4. You can easily determine what you're sharing with whom (Diaspora's aspects or Google+'s circles)
5. You can easily download all your data if you want to leave
6. Minimal but responsive and attractive UI
7. Accessibility features (i.e. you can add alt text when you post an image)

Diaspora fits most of these, but I think that (early) Google+ had a better UI.

Honestly I’m wandering what would it taste like.

Like fried rice and fish, I'd imagine.

Now they need one about how being clergy is never an excuse.

What about Ubuntu? Pop OS?

Most of the distros I've tried "just work". It connects to my wifi, I can go on websites, I can read my email. What are you trying to do that isn't working?

You can set it up so that it doesn't require a password, but of course it isn't a good practice. I was using a Fedora distro on one of my laptops that didn't ask for a password out of the box. You needed a pw to log in but not for updates. It made me uneasy.

I wish more people would try Linux with an actual interest in Linux itself, not just thinking of it as a "free Windows".

I'm convinced most of this stuff is FUD. I've seen people throw up their hands in despair at the first sign of trouble with Linux and go running back to Windows, but they'll grit their teeth and put up with all kinds of issues with Windows.

When Linux breaks, it's because Linux sucks. When Windows breaks, it's because software breaks sometimes.

To use your car analogy, using Windows is like using a car that has the hood welded shut and can only be opened with a special key that only the auto manufacturer has.

You can't repair it yourself. You can't just take it to any expert to get it fixed. Only the manufacturer can fix it, because the source code (or car hood) is closed.

When I first tried Linux in middle school, I couldn’t manage to install a single program.

I had the same experience. With Linux, you need to install programs with package managers, which are similar to the app stores on phones.

I’d love to transition over my daily OS to Linux

Why? What is it that you like about Linux?

Yeah, they should've asked you about it first! Duh!

Many people have noted how the McAfee virus scanner itself behaves like a virus.

I first discovered Timeshift through Garuda, which had it set up by default. It mitigates the issue of bleeding-edge updates breaking your system.(Although they use Snapper now, which is supposedly better with BTRFS.)

This needs to be higher

So do I.

The planet will be fine. Humans I'm not sure about...

The mental gymnastics you people play to justify copyright infringement is amazing.

I don't need mental gymnastics. All I need are ROMs.

When Nintendo started Virtual Console, I was really impressed, because instead of fighting emulation, they embraced it and made money off of it. All of these old games were just potential profit that they were sitting on. On top of that, they even managed to get games from non-Nintendo consoles onto VC!

Then, they discontinued it, and I'm sitting here, scratching my head and trying to figure out why. Nintendo is a strange company. They have an undeniably awesome product and very talented and creative developers, but also pretty bone-headed management.

Sorry I want a well-managed UNIX system with a nice GUI while not coding?

Linux with KDE.

Why would you answer it? If it's important, they'll leave a message. I'm not going to pick it up and risk having to deal with a scammer or something like that.

I also think there is danger in quizzing children about this at a very young age and then taking them literally.

What's the danger? If a kid decides that they're a different gender, and then changes their mind back later, what harm has been done?

I think it's healthy for kids to experiment when they're still figuring out their identity. The harm comes when adults stigmatize this stuff so that a kid thinks that they're bad or wrong for being different.