Well, I was planning on looking into RealDebrid over my week off in winter, but I guess that’s done now, damn.

I use Xfce, as do most of my Linux friends, it’s lightweight and simple yet also very customizable.

Because the rich pretend like it’s in peoples interest, people believe them because oh they are rich they must know what they are talking about, and because people are stupid.

I have a few Norweigan friends and they say the same.

I think a lot of the future of social media is going to be determined by ease of use/beginner-friendliness.

The issue (and strength) with Lemmy is there’s multiple instances. You’re not gonna be able to explain it to non-technical people, even as an experienced programmer myself I sometimes find myself getting confused by Lemmy. People don’t want to learn, they just want to use something that works.

Then again, KBin only had the one instance pretty much I think, and yet that died out anyway. So I think part of it is people just want to go where everyone else is, and that did end up being Lemmy and not KBin (although the maintainer of KBin also refused outside contributions which helped seal its fate lol)

If Bluesky has the one instance, and you literally just go to bsky.app and sign up, that’s going to be a lot easier than trying to sell people on Mastodon or Lemmy when they Google those. Then again, I just googled Mastodon and it took me right to Mastodon.social so maybe I am mistaken.

I use DDG but I’m always open to alternatives.

I use Ubuntu because it’s the most popular and well-supported.

I’m going to be switching to Mint at some point because it’s basically a community-run fork of Ubuntu and I don’t trust Canonical anymore, but it’s hard to justify installing my OS from scratch considering I’ve been using Ubuntu since 2017.

I recently ordered a Thinkpad T14 Gen1 with an R7 4750U, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD and you better believe I’m going to be putting Mint on that as soon as I get it.

Technically yes, you’d have to find an exploit for your TV that allows for installing your own OS.

It’s not super feasible but it’s technically possible.

Partial returners seems like a good name for it.

It will be interesting to see which one wins out, like how Lemmy won out vs kbin/mbin, since kbin never accepted any outside help and stopped contributing. Not really putting the open in open-source that way, IMO.

Wow, that’s kind of a lot more Linux than I was expecting, but it also makes sense. Pretty cool tbh.

You can still pay people to write public code, though. Just because you can use it for free doesn’t mean it always has to be written for free. In some cases, sure, it can make more sense to have it for free if it’s a fully non-profit volunteer-run project, but that is not the only way to write open-source software. Talented developers are still talented, open-source or not.

It’s overhyped but LLMs have become basically an essential part of my daily workflow. I can’t imagine developing without it now and I’ve been using them for less than 12 months. The technology is only going to improve, and that’s both cool and scary to think about.

Holy shit, that should be illegal. I say should because I know there’s no way that it currently is.

I selfishly wish he had a son or daughter to carry on his legacy lol

More generations deserve to know how good Valve is.

In a way, it kind of is their fault for trusting companies like this in the first place. I’d never consider using companies like this and both think and hope none of my family members would either.

Obviously, the breach is the company being incompetent like many companies are when it comes to security.

For me it was 2017 lol never looked back since

That’s because it’s Charlie, he’s entertaining enough he could commentate paint drying and it’d be the best video I’ve seen all day lol

Well that’s good at least but ideally I’d like some way of automating it like through an extension. I try viewing an answer to a question on reddit, and I get redirected to somewhere that stores the answer without giving reddit any traffic.

I redirect from reddit to lemmy in my main web browser. I wish there were some sort of proxy so I could read reddit without that information being lost - but that’s exactly the sort of service the API changes have killed. Fuck them for what they did to reddit.