It’s the next evolution of planned obsolescence - it just doesn’t work as soon as you start to use it.

Hmmm

They should just rename the service to “Appliance Systems Service”, so the acronym makes sense.

Ah, home life.

Nsfw?

FSR FTW IMO.

…you’d have the electrical cord you always dreamed of.

It’s also about the design of the ladder. The top plate is literally not a step, and the bearings for it don’t account for it to be used as a step, so the forces involved can mess up or break the connection to the rest of the ladder.

…not that they always will, just that it’s a very bad idea.

A lot of those issues of ‘multiple primaries’ can be resolved with intelligent data types and actions. That is, if we have a notion of how the data is organized, a lot of decisions can be made a priori. Ones that can’t can be read-only during a split.

Comment groups are mergeable sets. Any unique comment is a valid comment.

For any individual comment, any tombstone causes a comment to be unseeable (and ideally be deleted). Any edits are latest-wins.

A lot can be sorted out that way - enough to be usable. Some databases even support that on a db level.

If you do try Linux:

• buy hardware that’s supported. For some things (storage) virtually everything works. For others, (video cards, latest-gen wifi) you need to make sure it’s supported out-of-the-box. It’s not worth the headache of trying to get it to work unless you just like geeking out.
• if some piece if software or hardware doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. If you spend more than a half hour (or whatever your limit is) trying to get it to work, just say to yourself ‘not available on Linux right now’ and move on. Linix has way more access to beta and alpha-level stuff, and that can make it tempting to try to fix whatever problem. Just don’t bother.

That said, most of the systems I use Linux on, it just works.

Meh. Most of the top comments are pretty reasonable.

fwiw, I’m now pretty darn happy with Linux and gaming. Granted, I use Steam, so there’s that.

There are issues sometimes, but I just keep a copy of windows around for windows-only things. Generally, Linux “just works” for me, but I’ve also learned to just skip it when something requires too much involvement to get working.

Times change, and people are slow. ‘Colored people’ used to be the most PC, now it’s an insult. Because it could, in any old fart’s brain, be either the most PC thing or an insult, you never know if the person is doing so intentionally or not, which sucks because:

• if someone uses it unintentionally and people jump on them, that just makes them bitter
• someone who is racist can use not knowing as a smoke screen
• people who are really “with it” on social issues can also be quick to blame, and low on tolerance, and high on trauma or virtue signaling.

…the divide just grows until people resolve it inside themselves.

I think this might be interesting:

• permit separate, low-traffic, highly rate-limited, auth-only servers. They would be strictly rate-limited and only accept connections from whitelisted partner servers, because they only handle auth.
• any partner server can authenticate a user and handle content for the server/auth-server pair, but only does so under certain conditions (determined by the partner - all the time, when ping api call > n seconds, or manually, for example)
• user@lemmy.world can’t log in, so the client tries the list of partnered servers. user succeeds at lemmy.partner.net.
• user@lemmy.world@partner.net says… ‘…something’ and all other servers accept it as being from user@lemmy.world
• lemmy.world recovers, and claims all of the @lemmy.world@partner.net posts. Partners then forget the extra stuff they’ve been hosting.

Be careful not to cross that line of request vs desperation.

Like on YouTube - A tasteful “don’t forget to like and subscribe” is fine, but mentioning it multiple times during a video is just increasingly demanding or cringe.

Jerboa? Dead in mouse yrap. Liftof? V good much use.

Qualcomp: L > J Usecomp: L==J || L > J Multinodity: L==J Sanity: L ftw

Do not eat cats unless metaphorical

Relationship casino, scammers, sex advertisements (a match isn’t a match but an opportunity to do something or have something done for you for sex).

…but the whole of online social networking is fucked. At least crypto is verging on DID, or self-sovereign IDs.

Like an anonymous account somewhere, only you create it yourself. The account gains a history, and your reputation matters, but it’s not necessarily tied to your real ID.

After self-sovereign IDs, there’s diatributed truat networks that need to be created. Trust people’s moderation, and see a filtered version of things - or do your own, and filter the people-results for ‘online dating’, ‘x seeking y’, and ‘positive ratings based on the people and groups I trust’ - or whatever other filters you want.

…but all of that needs to be decentralized, with monetization a subordinate factor to usefulness.

Proper instruction.

Back buttons may have limited use. Someone was complaining that in xinput mode they didn’t work.

It’s been a little annoying. Anyways, thanks for thinking of FMHY.