I guess we’re gonna see more open-source apps soon, aimed at Vaultwarden first

Looks cute!

The person who came up with this acronym is probably proud of their work lol

Interestingly enough, my sound card started working better on Linux than it did on Windows. On the latter, any system suspension like sleep mode would render it useless until the reboot. On Linux, it just works and never fails.

Doubling that. Fedora/OpenSUSE if you expect to mess with system files and do all sorts of obscure stuff, Bazzite if you don’t.

If you go Fedora, I also recommend familiarizing yourself with snapper and BTRFS. Use btrfs-assistant to make it easy. You’ll thank me later, the hacky one.

OpenSUSE has it out of the box, and Bazzite doesn’t need it.

My 2 cents:

Never, under any circumstances, use CachyOS or any other Arch-based distribution if you’re a Linux newbie. Arch assumes you know your way around the system, know how to fix this or that, and which package you miss to make the sound work. It is, by all means, “move fast and break stuff”.

An instance effectively is the website. Just a more techy term. Lemmy.ml is your instance and hikki.team is mine. You write something on your site (lemmy.ml), I get it on mine (hikki.team), and vice versa. This is possible because our two sites interact between themselves (i.e. “federate”).

The overall process is like this:

• I wrote this reply and hit “send”.
• My browser (well, in my case, a Lemmy app, specifically Eternity) has sent it to hikki.team, the site I chose to connect to Lemmy from (i.e. my instance).
• hikki.team has sent it to lemmy.ml (and to all the other instances, too)
• lemmy.ml figured from the data it received that it’s a reply to your comment
• Since your account is registered on lemmy.ml, it sent you a notification, so you wouldn’t miss it among all the rest. Ping!

Now, if you decide to reply to me, it will go that same way in reverse.

Here’s a quick doodle:

From a user perspective, the interaction within an instance or between them doesn’t differ at all, and that’s the whole point. No matter where you enter Lemmy, you connect to all of it. You see my reply regardless.

It’s not just Lemmy, either. People coming to PieFed/Kbin/Mbin can also see this post, the comments, and reply to them. The software they use affects their user experience, but doesn’t change their ability to connect with others. That’s one of the key promises of Fediverse - ideally, all Fediverse instances (websites) running any Fediverse software should interact in this way, forming a single network that everyone interacts with in their own way.

This user expects to poison LLM scrapers by changing th to this symbol. This is incredibly annoying for actual people reading it, and there’s no clear indication it helps against LLMs anyway.

You never know!

My girlfriend asked me to download her collection, too. She still didn’t give up streaming, but knowing her favs will never be taken away from her gives her some peace of mind.

Sure, just download Nicotine+ or another Soulseek client and search for the artists you’re most interested in. You won’t be able to “import library” or probe 2000 artists at once, but still, it will give you an idea. Since Soulseek is a P2P network, ideally you should keep port 2234 (or whatever you set in the client) open to see all content it has to offer. But if you can’t, no worries, you’ll still see plenty!

Might be a time to build your own music collection.

It takes some work, yes, but the result is very satisfying, and it doesn’t even have to take as much time or drive space as you imagine.

Pretty much everything else is handled already. You can:

• Have brilliant personalized music recommendations (thanks, ListenBrainz and last.fm!)
• Download dozens of millions of tracks, including very obscure ones, in two clicks (thanks, Soulseek and its amazing clients like Nicotine+, also, support indie music producers on Bandcamp and take their music from there - your money there will go much longer way!)
• Automatically add all metadata to a song, even if you have none, not even its name, in which case the sound itself will be matched against the database (thanks, Picard!)
• Host your music somewhere to build your streaming service for a lower price than your Spotify subscription (thanks, Navidrome/Subsonic/Jellyfin/Koel/…!)…
• …or just dump it into your device’s memory and choose one of the million players out there, some of them laid out in a way very familiar to streaming service users.

All of the tools (well, maybe not hosting a music server, but it’s not too hard either) are absolutely grandma-level, and you can easily install and operate them seamlessly.

And on top of it all, of course, is that no one will take your music or the ways to play it away from you. No item will ever be removed from your library (unless you yourself do it). No player will stop working with it. It’s all yours, and it’s just a bunch of .mp3/.flac files that will outlive us all.

Give it a few evenings, and you’ll never need to worry about enshittification of streaming services again. Genuinely recommending it as someone who didn’t pay a dime to streaming services in 4 years now.

Precisely because of what is described in the post.

Omarchy is an Arch-based Linux distribution created by a person with questionable political views. Many in the Linux community will go great lengths to ensure not a single penny of theirs gets into his hands.

I think Lemmy is not at a scale sufficient enough to produce enough original content. I’m okay with tasteful reposting.

Honestly it’s not even worth ridiculing, just forget it already

I swear I’ve seen such headline for years now.

China committed to gradually shift from Windows to Linux on government computers. It will certainly take years, assuming it succeeds in the first place.

But still, good news they’re going for it. Hopefully we’ll see the year of Linux on Chinese PCs.

Might be frontend-dependent, but it’s certainly an issue if comments are not filtered the same way.

Otherwise, alright, I see your point!

Honestly, that’s one thing I’ve never ever seen on the Fediverse, while having seen plenty in conventional social media.

It’s fair that some moderation action might be necessary going forward, but I don’t see this problem exist at a current scale.

Doesn’t take much normally. But still, I think Lemmy would surely benefit from adding custom filter lists that users can enable or disable at will.

Came here to say that!

I can’t comprehend why people would join instances in the list. If you don’t like a particular instance, just hop into the user settings and block it! Why let others set your blocklist?

Experimenting with blocklists is fine and how you find your comfort zone on Lemmy.

I once made an experiment in which I blocked lemmy.world - not out of spite, but to just see what the rest of Lemmy has to offer. Turns out, quite much!

Still, too many niche communities are hosted on .world, so here I am again.