savvywolf

Oh, neat. Surprised that isn't added to the default paths though.

It also still does the annoying name.like.this for binary names rather than just using normal names though.

I'm not entirely sure why this is news. Do people think he gets put into a test tube or something when when he's not needed?

He's a professional game developer, he's probably working on games constantly.

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Opinion disregarded.

As an aside: I really wish flatpaks would put symlinks or something in ~/.local/bin so you could just run them without the flatpak run boilerplate.

I mean, lemmy.world is a big enough instance that it has attracted people with all sorts of views. You probably aren't going to find it better on any other instance.

Probably just block communities which don't moderate people enough to keep on topic.

Or if this is a dog whistle for rightwing centristism... Uh... Stop it?

Some that I use:

• Proton Unlimited, which gives me access to mail, storage and a VPN.
• Linode, I have a VPN which I use for selfhosting some things.
• Various domain names. They're actually cheaper than you think they are.
• Youtube Premium. I watch a lot of YouTube, and it helps creators.
• Discord Nitro. Begrudgingly.
• 1Password. Technically I don't pay for this, as I get it free as part of a plan from work, but I'd probably buy it when that runs out.

I'm kinda interested in watching streams more (to diversify my video watching habits), so am kinda curious about Twitch's ad-free premium plan thing as well...

Of course, there's also donations and patreon/subscribestar/ko-fi subscriptions, but I don't really consider those "subscription services".

Same here. I'm mostly paying because at least some of the money goes to creators, and I don't want to have to constantly be fighting with the adblocker stuff. I watch a lot of youtube (perhaps more than is healthy) and realistically it does cost Google money to host it.

Storage devices can fail at any time for any reason. Always have a backup.

Fwiw, I think BTRFS is better than ext4 and friends at actually detecting whether a block is corrupted or not.

Huh. Lot of people Russian' to conclusions in this thread.

Sorry.

There's the whole "instances" thing which, while not that confusing, is still a barrier to entry. You could make an account on mastodon.social, but there's a vocal group out there that says you should NEVER do that and pick an instance that is good (without any good tooling for finding out what a "good" instance is). The benefits of Mastodon over Twitter or Bluesky aren't as obvious either to non-technical people, so I can imagine people see it like Arch Linux or something. It's something that's good for the people that understand it, but not useful for those that don't.

You also need to figure out how to get content from another instance into yours, which is not really that intuitive. If I give you a link to a Mastodon post, you need to know to go back to your own instance and paste it into the search bar. That's not intuitive at all.

And of course there's experiences people have had with "bad" instances that travel through word of mouth. A lot of furries are reluctant to try Mastodon because a big furry instance exploded a while back, I think.

You have to have technical knowledge and understanding, both to create an account and work around the rough edges.

I used to be a staunch mastodon fanboy, but honestly I'm starting to lean towards Bluesky nowadays.

Sure there's only one big company controlling all the instances, but their federation system has solved a lot of the pain points that have been plagueing Mastodon. I can actually follow artists on it without having to deal with mastodon.art.

And hey, it's an easy to use social media to use for the "normies" rather that the techie Mastodon.

As far as I know, none of the major DEs have Windows-style telemetry turned on by default. So ignoring security issues and apps themselves, DEs should roughly be the same on the privacy front.