Once this grid is 10x10, then you will know it is time to move onto another site.

Vintage garfield plush does not need your forgiveness.

Spray all over your family for one last time.

Why do Lemmy instances automatically federade with every other instance? Wouldn’t be more wise to add instances manually, from a list?

In my defense, a lot of people (sheeple) are unfamiliar with the term (I am a lemming).

And what would be those “trade secrets”? The ability to make posts and have them being read by other people? I’m pretty sure every forum software since the '70s has prior art. Elons fragile narcissism know no bounds.

Download BalenaEtcher and burn an .ISO of your selected distro to a USB memory stick - Pop!OS and Linux mint are perennial favorites. Bear in mind that this will erase all data from the stick.

Boot the laptop into BIOS (you will need to check with the manufacturer to see which key you will need to hold to do so) and scroll down to the “boot from device” or similar option. Select “Boot from USB”, save settings and reset your laptop.

If all goes well, and your laptop likes the distro, you should see a bunch of cryptic text scroll by. Don’t worry, this is what Linux shows instead of a loading screen. A menu should pop up, asking you if you want to try out the Live distro, or install the OS. Choose the live distro first, this will create a version of the OS that works from the RAM disk and does not install on the hard drive.

You can now play around with the OS, browse the internet, play games, anything except saving locally to the hard drive (unless you Mount it, but that’s another story). When you are good and ready, you can either choose to dual boot to Linux and Windows, or take the plunge and use Linux as your primary OS!

Hope this explanation wasn’t too rambly. Have fun!

Oh look, it’s almost as Meta is an untrustrworthy actor that plans to EEE the fediverse. I consider any instance that federates with Meta a lost cause, to be defederated as well.

Ah yes, lies on how North Korea is a stalinist hellhole and not a workers paradise, right?

Depends what you mean by “best”. Personally, I use Lubuntu, as it is an ideal combo of features vs. resource lightness for me. Linux light and Puppy Linux are also among more popular lightweight distros.

It depends what you mean by “mainstream”. If by that you imply that the Fediverse will become a true public forum, and a place to exchange ideas and form opinions, then yes, I would like for it to be a counterweight to legacy media and corporate content silos. However, if the fediverse becomes yet another astroturfed propaganda outlet, then no, I do not want it to become mainstream. Fortunately, the loose Fediverse network makes it hard to take over and control, provided that the ActivityPub protocol remains untainted by actions of bad actors.

As much as I try to sympathise with the author, he seems to suffer from a terminal case of Twitter-brain, where we all comment on the current-thing until we beat it into the ground and then find another current-thing to dissect to death. Some of us like to separate interest and usernames, without setting up a data mineable online profile. And what’s with Disord being touted as an alternative? It is ok for coordinating and communicating with your gaming buddies, but completely unusable for any forum acivity.

Yeahhh, I really don’t need bleeding edge software on my daily driver box. If you enjoy doing post mortems on logs, more power to you, I have things to do.

I bought the entire CPU, and I’m going to use the entire CPU.

Dramatic writing with philosophical conundrums > Pew pews

The radio app that came with your phone, perhaps?

The first couple of seasons were great, it was interesting to see the allmighty federation as an underdog, and captain Archer as a sly trickster trying to one up a technologically superior opponent.

Then they went with the temporal war shenanigans and I quickly lost interest.

On what metric did Mastodon fail? It has a vibrant community and lively conversations. I have seen what counts as “succsses” by corporate standards - a site that is ad infested to the point of unusability, and where users are kept in a state od agitation by the algorhythm for maximum retention and exploitation. I hope that Mastodon, and Kbin/Lemmy never become a “succsses” by corpo silo standards.

The biggest mistake they made was using the awful new gnome desktop. Seriously, it feels like I’m using those shitty info kiosks you find in poorly maintained bus terminals. Fortunately, I have the option of booting into xfce, and Lubuntu on my laptop has Lxqt.

Snaps do feel like a half baked implementation though.

RMS has never stolen my personal data and sold it to criminals, or deprecated my hardware by deliberately throttling its speed. The worst things you can say about him that he’s a wierdo and a bit of a fanatic. But, he’s a fanatic about personal and societal freedom, which is something everybody should be a fanatic about.