When ive used a project for a while and i have extra cash I usually do a 20$ donation. Ive been low on money last year so I only donated to a few of the projects, listenbrainz and Lemmy.

Ideally I want to donate a small amount yearly to all the projects I use.

Awful, one of the first things I disable along side 1 click folder opening.

They follow each other so you get a few moving in the right direction and a dog to tidy up the stranglers. Also its routine they kinda know where to go.

Fun and weird ways of using the internet socially. Fediverse has the unique opportunity that you can build anything and automatically reach people. I’d like to see people really push the idea of what a social platform looks and acts like.

No

Effectively no. China could stop selling to the US but it really needs the demand to fuel its growth and they dont really care about US actions around the world since they directly benefit from people souring on the US.

Countries dont so things for moral reasons and its in no countries interest to sanction the US over fucking maduro.

Microsoft executives have never used a copilot or any 365 tools and it shows.

I’m feel comfortable expressing myself or being vulnerable around people close to me but i really dont enjoy it. It causes people around me so much extra stress and worry that I’d feel its better for myself to deal with it.

Most of the time i am happy or at least content so when im sad I dont feel the need to mention it or talk about it, its just a feeling to me. If I tell people I’m sad that day they will mine for more information and its just annoying.

Blocked nsfw instance. Blocked Nintendo, apple, genshin impact and the ml news and politics communities.

That preserves most of my sanity. I dont actually find Lemmy interactions to be bad. Even the worst Lemmy interactions feel like there is an actual complex being on the other end of the keyboard.

When read a reddit threads it doesnt feel like real sentient beings. Shoutout to the beyond all reason subreddit for inflicting psychic damage on me every time i read a thread. Its been over 6 months and I’m still triggered over the guy who played for two hours and decided the game has to many units.

Create is such a cool mod. I wish it was around back in the days when i played nodded Minecraft.

Its hard to break into peoples minds with no advertising budget.We can’t tell people on reddit about Lemmy because reddit bans your account.

Lemmy got a ton of traffic after the api black out and it did an incredible Job at retaining a lot of those users. There were 200k active users and Lemmy was much more unstable at the time. Active users did fall off as expected but 50k stayed for 2 years. Thats great in my opinion. If we had another migration wave I reckon the retention would be even higher.

For someone to switch from reddit to Lemmy three things need to happen

1. They need to know it exists

2. They need to dislike reddit or centralised corporate controlled social media on an ideological level.

3. They need something disruptive to happen. Either a ban or a change they dont like.

what other kind of squirrels are there? Saying tree squirrels to me is like saying water fish.

I would have thought they were hibernating. He must not have collected enough nuts inside his tree storage.

Oh yeah linux people have been building like crazy these past 10 years.

Sometimes the user experience is so slick its boring. But the great past of.linux is even when the usage is simple I can always tweak it or modify it to my exact liking.

On Mac it either works nicely or I’m fucked.

Banning Uyghur songs is like the least ban thing china is doing. Its the only thing left at this point because they’ve already done the forced detainment, forced sterilization and forced cultural erasure of the entire Uyghur population.

Not it’d go up the chimney and you’d waste a ton of money.

If you closed thr chimney then it’d smoke so must you’d be forced to leave the house due to lack of oxygen. You would get high but it would not be a good way.

Be efficient with your calories. If you overeat and then you try to cut to 1800 but are still eating ice cream, chips, Starbucks. That 1800 is going to go so fast and you’ll still be hungry.

Eat lean protein, simple carbs a ton of veggies and drink lots of water. You can also reduce exercise intensity if you’re feeling super drained.

Another thing is to not try and cut to fast. Doing a 1000+cal deficit for weeks is going to wreck you. Better to go slow with 250 or 500 and take extra time.

At Christmas the topic of what videos we watch came up and I was shocked to hear over half the people there mention watching AI videos. Its insane, these are decent intelligent people watching shit like that stupid weightlifting cat and bigfoot vlogging. It seemed mostly because they couldn’t get rid of YouTube shorts but still. The family members who used Instagram had it way worse they only consumed reels slop and didnt watch any long form video. It was really are “we are so cooked moment”.

There are versions that ship with the proprietary nvidia driver. The reason people have issues is the distros shipping the open version due to philosophy or distros shipping the open version for compatibility reasons. The open version is worse but at least it works the proprietary version doesnt support a lot of cards.

Thats not actually a problem. Every other OS has that problem.

Mac will never get 100% market share because there will always be people that hate their workflow. Linux can offer a tailored version to everyone’s liking.