Distro-hopping is a valid hobby, but it's not for everyone. If you aren't specifically interested in distros and fiddling with packages, hopping around on your "daily driver" can be disruptive. If you just want something that works, there's nothing wrong with figuring out which distros do what you need and using one of those for work and play. If something catastrophic happens to a distro to make it literally unusable, you can worry about that when it happens. There is usually something else which is almost the same. Few people will get much value from hopping between distros which are basically the same, just because the distros are put out by different companies or install different packages by default.

This wouldn't surprise me, among the group buys on GeekHack over the years.

The post volume is still much lower, but that isn't all bad, since the toxicity and quality isn't as bad and unlimited scroll time isn't healthy.

It sounds like SUSE is announcing that it is happy to eat the cost of providing a free distro that is RHEL-compatible, and to offer paid support to customers who want to use a RHEL-compatible distro, all as an add-on to their core business with SUSE. Can anyone correct my understanding?

If I signed up to a mag on one instance, that doesn't mean I want to sign up to it on a different instance.

Nobody is talking about banning users "the moment they mention anything more eastern than Norway."

It stands for Marxism-Leninism, which other people would call Communism.

The issue is not whether there is some individual occasion where some individual person posts "conspiracy shit."

The issue is whether admins act on user reports of blatant anti-semitism.

RTX 3060 12GB works great on Linux using the Nvidia drivers and CUDA. No reason why it wouldn't.

It's the same logic they're still using: they want to monetize Reddit more aggressively, even if that kills its appeal and they have to brutalize their own community to do it.

They fired Victoria because they were trying to aggressively monetize IAmAs in ways that were going to fuck community interests, and Victoria pushed back. Think Rampart, except companies can pay to ensure that it doesn't become a PR fiasco, so it's guaranteed astroturf.

Reddit has been classy ever since.

The mob boss who wants $8/mo for a lame service but won't harm you if you don't want it?

How about affordable housing?

You're right - having multiple copies of everything is a drawback of housing each application in its own container or VM. The standard rejoinder is that disk space is cheap. The validity of that rejoinder depends on what you're doing and what hardware or budget you are working with.

Another problem is that old versions of these dependencies will be baked into an image that is then used for many years without updates. This ensures the application keeps working without being disrupted by an update to a shared library, but it also means things like security flaws persist. Arguably, this is mitigated by only that image having the problem, but one insecure app can be a real problem - especially when it accesses shared resources - and when the same problem applies to many applications.

Compiled code optimized for a specific system's hardware is less relevant than it used to be - even Gentoo users do not focus on this anymore. Rolling your own container isn't much harder than compiling with your own options.

You don't have to be perfect or make zero mistakes. You just have to be careful with a couple things like sudo rm -rf and overriding warnings when you try to uninstall system packages. This is not rocket science and has not been for decades. The average user is not the worst-case user. More frequently something specific is broken, like ssh, so that it would be more useful to have file versioning.

You're doing the right thing. They're just trying to juice their own numbers by pressuring you to say something effusive.

Creating an instance is not free and requires some effort (including a little research). Discord is free and creating a server is as easy as falling off a log. I don't like Discord, but let's be objective about why this happens.

that sentence is not only valid for gender, it's for anything other cultural label (like genders are).

How about race? Can white people elect to be Black?

Execs aren't suffering...

Instances are still privately operated and at the whim of their operators, who are technically free to delete and modify posts arbitrarily. They are not public spaces.

Just like every "grassroots" political campaign on Reddit that suddenly arises, and then disappears just as suddenly after failing.

Discord also excels for punitive struggle sessions where someone is chosen to be "it" and is then verbally beaten by a rotating cast for hours.

Communities move to Discord because it is a catchment: you can set up a server for free on a moment's notice, which gives you a place to hold a decent proportion of your community for continuity. The mod tools are also sufficient for basic use. You're right that it's not a replacement for a forum - terrible for archival and search purposes.

The Matrix Code of Conduct actively condones harassment as long as the Matrix people dislike your politics, which makes all the official forums unsafe for technical coordination.

CS: GO, Don't Starve, and many others work natively on Linux with no need for Proton. This makes for the best experience.

Why are you "subtweeting" about this, just address the person who did it instead of pre-emptively accusing the entire Fediverse of doing it.

It's not like Redditors are all that nice in general, so why construct a narrative that it's so much worse here?

It's based on false premises like "everyone who ever downloaded the Reddit official app uses it forever"

Everyone who downloads the official app (like because they are blocked from viewing many threads on mobile) and then leaves it in disgust and never uses it again counts as a "download." That is very far from indicating what percentage of users are affected.

The Republican party has not been a "law and order" party even before the past decade. Watergate was illegal. Iran-Contra was illegal. The torture at Abu Ghraib was illegal. The outing of Plame was illegal.

It's not just that BIden and Pence cooperated. It's that they didn't steal classified docs to begin with. We already know Trump had been sharing secrets with people to impress them.

Unlike Reddit, there is no barrier to creating third party apps for this. Many of the problems that are softened by third party apps on Reddit, can be solved in the fediverse by communities and users setting up their own instances (with their own policies and customizations).

It depends on whether what you're about to say is "Hitler did nothing wrong." Nazis lost WWII, so the entire world is not safe for them. Nobody cares about creating safe space for Nazis.

You can make your own Fediverse instances and do whatever you want on them, but you will get instance-blocked and you can't force them to "reason" with you about it.

If you want to exist in the company of others, you must regulate your behavior. This is not dictatorial, each person gets to say on what terms they want to deal with you or not.

If someone is posting like a Nazi, it will always be more efficient to block their messages from propagating, than to require each and every user to individually see their messages and then block them.

Flatpak has always been the Red Hat controlled play in containerized app packaging. Red Hat floods Flathub with auto-generated Flatpaks based on their RPMs. Flathub is becoming an app store with an obvious intention of becoming "the" Linux app store, displacing distro packages. Centralization is the whole idea. No significant number of people will ever use Flatpaks from anywhere except Flathub - unless Red Hat makes its own Flathub.

Yes, the robot has tentacles.

This is an important question, because the Fediverse is actually full of instance blocks and incompatible Codes of Conduct.

Perhaps the author considered but rejected the idea of accepting Flatpak because it was not what they wanted, and also the idea of rejecting Flatpak because it was what they wanted.

Not only does Gnome provide the one true way in software, it also literally supplies me with my emotions. Amazing.

Clearly I'd start with Haskell.

Then use it from Google, like a better Quora - but that doesn't mean you log in and contribute content or hang around.