Flicsmo

joined 2 years ago
[–] Flicsmo@rammy.site 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Beehaw defederates like it's going out of style, Lemmy.ml doesn't allow criticism of the CCP. Lemmy.world seems much more stable and neutral.

[–] Flicsmo@rammy.site 1 points 2 years ago

I picked Rammy for the name and the sidebar:

Just another Lemmy instance. We've got a cool mascott though! Open to everyone.

Why trust some Big Tech corporation to host your data when some random geek can do it? All thanks to the power of the Fediverse!

[–] Flicsmo@rammy.site 5 points 2 years ago

I believe it is, yeah. I hear kbin.social's servers are absolutely swamped right now and having lots of issues, so I don't want to contribute to that, but I'm probably going to make a kbin instance my home soon. Does anyone know where to find a list of instances kbin.social has defederated?

[–] Flicsmo@rammy.site 3 points 2 years ago

This is a cool idea! I've seen split keyboards, but never one with the content in the middle. I'm pretty sure the only way of implementing this would be in a custom text editor app as I don't think it's possible to have a system keyboard go to the sides of content and squish it like that (on both iOS and Android), but I'd be happy to be wrong.

My smaller-than-average hands combined with how large phones are nowadays makes me have little trouble with the size of typical phone keyboards - I actually use one that lets you 'shrink' the typing area a bit as I find it more comfortable - but the comfort factor of holding a phone horizontally is big. I don't need to do much typing on my phone right now but if I did, I would definitely download an app like this.

[–] Flicsmo@rammy.site 1 points 2 years ago

Garuda has a Lite edition that doesn't include any of the theming, just vanilla KDE Plasma. It's been my daily driver for a year or two now, I really like it. What sets it apart are the GUI tools for system maintenance and tweaking, in which it'd be easy to mess things up, but they make doing common changes and adjustments easy. I don't know if that makes it good or bad for beginners, I guess it depends on the person.

[–] Flicsmo@rammy.site 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're underrepresenting the complications of NixOS and overrepresenting the complications of Arch. For example, to install Steam I would run sudo pacman -Syu steam. On a typical Arch setup that's all that's needed.

Another example is how to install Steam. In Arch, the wiki must tell you all the manual steps required to enable multilib, install the steam package, install 32bit dependencies, yada yada.

And that's why the Arch wiki is so great - it has details and links about everything that goes into making something work. If you want to learn more or if something goes wrong it's all right there.

But yes, I think you hit the nail on the head at the end there - hackability is Arch's strength, everything is exposed and flexible to tinkering. It's easy to make almost anything work, and easy to learn how it works. That's very different from NixOS's core philosophy of stability and reproducibility.

There are inherent pros and cons to both approaches - it really comes down to a mix of personal preference and using the right tool for the right job. They're apples and oranges, and the article framing NixOS as a superior successor to Arch is as silly as the reverse would be.

[–] Flicsmo@rammy.site 3 points 2 years ago

Well if it's a machine that's 100% correct in its predictions obviously I'd take box B since that'd be a guaranteed billion - but assuming it's fallible, I'd go with A+B. A million dollars is plenty of money, I don't even know what I'd do with a billion.

[–] Flicsmo@rammy.site 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

'Subscribed' is called 'Frontpage' in the app, you can find it in the sidebar. Edit - oops, looks like kuro_neko beat me!

[–] Flicsmo@rammy.site 2 points 2 years ago

The main reason would be fracturing people who would be interested in joining across different communities - someone might find a few LGBT+ communities and miss others, same as if someone made another LGBT+ community here on lemmy.world which some people join instead of yours. Activity, content and visibility in these early days of Lemmy are kinda tough to get, and spreading out across instances makes it tougher.

But, of course you're totally free to make your own community too! That's part what makes federation so cool, if you're unhappy with existing communities and/or their moderation you can always make your own, and people from anywhere else can join. Best of luck :)

[–] Flicsmo@rammy.site 2 points 2 years ago

Some great resources have already been mentioned, but let's not forget https://browse.feddit.de/

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