I’ve defended lemmy.ml in the past when people have blamed the entire instance for the actions of a solitary, overzealous moderator, but this genuinely concerns me:

This must have been action taken at the instance admin level, considering all those communities have different moderators.

Is there any way to probe the modlog to see which account it was?

For Gnome I use adw-gtk3 on automatic day/night switching because it makes everything look nice and uniform.

I prefer Tela icons to Papirus as they’re less cartoony.

Yup. People often start fussing over bit depths and sample rates, but more often than not it’s something as simple as a difference in volume.

It’s been working flawlessly for me for quite some time, but I guess other people’s mileage may vary.

/shrug

I’ve been using it on my multiple monitor setup for well over a year with no noticeable performance impact.

The DE is the limiting factor here. MX uses XFCE, which does not yet support Wayland. For that, you’ll need to use KDE Plasma or Gnome. The former requires an additional wayland session package to be installed, while Gnome comes with it by default.

You could create a new user session, install whichever one you prefer and then see if that works with Waydroid.

Nah, NFTs were always about the grift first and the art second.

After all, all an NFT token is is a digital receipt which links to an image hosted somewhere off-chain, not the image itself. All the “art” does is help to persuade people that the tokens are actually worth something and hype up the price even further.

Huh? Gnome has had fractional scaling for ages.

All it takes is changing a gconf setting.

“Why don’t you buy Apple products?”

Me: Gestures broadly at this:

Ever the innovators, Apple introduced a new dimension to repair that our scorecard simply didn’t account for: namely, that you could take a highly repairable design like the iPhone 14, install a genuine Apple replacement screen or battery, and then… it fails to work. Following the correct procedure was no longer enough.

Today, you need one more thing: a software handshake, using Apple’s System Configuration tool. It contacts Apple’s servers to “authenticate” the repair, then “pairs” the new part to your system so it works as expected. Of course, it can only authenticate if Apple knows about your repair in advance, because you gave them the exact serial number of your iPhone, and they’ve pre-matched it to a display or battery. This is only possible if you buy the screen or battery directly from Apple. Forget harvesting parts—which is a huge part of most independent repair and recycling businesses. It’s also impossible to pair any aftermarket parts—which means only Apple-authorized repairs can truly restore the device to full functionality.

Yeah, I didn’t really explain myself very well, in retrospect

Like Fedora Workstation, there were quite a few packages that I needed to add after the initial installation - Gnome Tweaks, RPMFusion, Flathub, third party codecs, etc.

Silverblue being immutable made this process more of headache than I felt it should have been.

This is just my not-at-all-in-depth summary based on playing around with a few in VMs, but as a non-power-user:

Fedora Silverblue
Pros: Good support/documentation
Cons: barebones Gnome/required layering quite a few packages if you want any kind of customization before I could get my system up and running

OpenSUSE Aeon (MicroOS)
Pros: good number of built-in tools (e.g. Tweaks, distrobox)
Cons: documentation is sorely lacking

Vanilla OS
Pros: great ease of use/installation, container-centric
Cons: still very much a work in progress/small dev team

You can easily get away with more than one or two. I typically run between eight and ten and have rarely had any issues surrounding updates.

It’s really just as simple as waiting a week or two after a new Gnome version drops before you update. By then, the vast majority of the more popular extensions will have already fixed any compatibility issues or, if not, there’s a very good chance that an outdated extension can be replaced by a newer alternative.

Possibly, although there’s also the fact that “blockchain” is the trendy new buzzword that companies like to use because they think it makes them look cool.

They didn’t lie, though.

The quote you refer to said:

“Aware of the crypto thing,” he tweeted. “We were told there was no NFT/crypto component but looks like that may not be the case. Waiting for responses to our emails/phone calls like others.”

Which is a misunderstanding on the part of the author of that tweet: blockchain ≠ crypto. While it is the technology that crypto and NFTs are based on, blockchain can be used for a wide variety of different purposes.

So while the organizers probably should have been more clear about how they were going to implement the technology, it appears they didn’t say anything that wasn’t true.

Basically it sounds like a bunch of people getting upset for no reason because they think blockchain = crypto.

Pretty much, yeah. Seems that people heard the phrase “blockchain” and instantly assumed the idea was to flog NFTs, which is unfortunate for the people behind the platform.

That said, this seems to be yet another example of people using blockchain unnecessarily. Wouldn’t a centralized database/authentication server have been a simpler choice?

They didn’t disclose the fact that the passes would be using blockchain technology, apparently. Quite why they thought this was necessary is not clear, but it’s not inherently a bad thing.

Unfortunately for them, however, blockchain/cryptocurrency/NFTs are all interchangeable according to the general public, so this has created a bit of a backlash.

Well, the two aren’t all that different. openSUSE has an better installer, which offers even full disk encryption, automated partitioning for disks in BTRFS with backups enabled.

If you want the above with Arch, the EndeavourOS installer also offers these features.

One big plus I can see in openSUSE’s favour is YaST, the graphical utility for system configuration, and allows you to configure nearly everything in a GUI.

It’s not widely known, but EndeavourOS also has a GUI manager for btrfs snapshots, btrfs-assistant, that offers equivalent functionality to 'Suse.

It doesn’t come pre-installed, but it’s pretty easy to setup.

Ah, that explains it - the community spin changed the default. Thought I was going crazy for a second there 😄

Heresy! /s

Is that really the default font for Xfce-ternimal on EndeavourOS? I use the same distro but with Gnome, which is probably how that little detail passed me by.

My personal ride-or-die terminal font is Jetbrains Mono, which you might want to try out. I know it supports ligatures although not sure about emojis etc.

Nice, that’s a new one on me. That lower case k is pretty unusual.