I actually have really fond memories of Sabayon, the community was really nice. It also served as a good gateway into Gentoo by giving you a pre-configured usable system, including its binary package manager, but also gentoo’s emerge (not that you should use both at the same time).

Yep, I’m in Sweden, 30 and both know how to and do drive a manual car.

My last phone I kept for about 5 years. I had two issues:

• software support had ended
• the battery was severely degraded

fortunately there was a local shop who’d replace the battery (it wasn’t a fairphone so I couldn’t do it myself). If it wasn’t for the software support I’d have gone that route and would be still using it now. It worked perfectly well for my use case. Unfortunately, I ended up retiring the phone and getting a new one.

I’ve found this too. Generally if I’m okay waiting for the answer I’ll try and find the relevant lemmy community and ask that question there instead of clicking the reddit links. There are times though I simply need the answer and so of course I do click the reddit link.

Even so, if we all try and ask the questions we have here Lemmy will eventually be the place you find this information

I don’t really read news in English anymore, but when I did, I subscribed to the economist. I found most other news sites were too biased and ignored most of the world.

Kmail on desktop and the native sailfish email client on my phone.

I just want to say that I really love this app, thank you for you’re great work.

Yeah, I use ublock origin. I don’t like the ad model and many ads on the web are privacy invasive. I’m not averse paying for content (something I’m doing for some of it) but I won’t watch ads to fund creators.

I live in Sweden. Yeah, the tap water is clean and can be drank straight from the tap without boiling, filtering, or treatment in the whole country.

I use Sailfish OS on the Sony Xperia 10 III.

I choose the OS because I wanted a phone OS which would get updates for a long time, which sailfish has a good track record of and I wanted one which ran linux so that I had the normal things I’m used to on the desktop like systemd, pulseaudio, bash, rpm, etc. I did need it to run android for a couple of banking apps and sailfish provide a pretty decent android support layer. It’s worked really well, the biggest drawback I’d say is that parts of it are not open source and they’re kind of doing their own stuff so while some things do work like KDE apps, other apps would take a lot more effort to get working (gtk apps for example).> Fairphone

I use SMS and Matrix. I’d love to see something like Briar become more popular, or maybe XMPP make a resurgence as it’s been a great federated chat protocol for a long while.

I think I disagree. I have heard this a lot on Reddit and I’ve heard it about Twitter, Google Plus and a bunch of other social networks and I’ve been on small ones and huge ones alike. Honestly, to me, when a social network is large it includes both nuanced discussion and there more casual posting. I don’t see why both can’t exist on the same site and I feel like it often does exist on the same site.

I also think people have a huge range of interests, some of which might be quite niche and having a large user base means these niche communities can thrive. When I’ve used smaller social networks, this typically has been the problem. They often have their tech communities covered and they often have other large common hobbies and interests covered, but if you take for example learning welsh or theremin music or something else, then you typically only get communities about those things on larger networks.

I hate it.

Usually I’m online but what if I’m not, or what if they have server problems, or what if in 5 years they feel done with the game and remove the servers. If I pay for a game, I want to be able to play that game on my terms

It just leads to a worse player experience now, and limited likely an inability to play later

I asked in the nixOS community a few days ago, but since you mentioned you run nixOS on servers too, what’s been your experience of nixOS on a server?

Firstly, I think if you want to try switching to macOS, do, it might suite you better. You could always switch back to Linux if you change your mind, but be aware linux typically runs worse on apple hardware. I would say I’ve read and heard people have plenty of problems on macOS too, so the grass might not be as green as it first appears. MacOS does have one thing going for it, which is integration between hardware and software, apple make both. You can get a similar effect by picking specific hardware in linux, it’s less important, linux runs well on most hardware, but if you for example pick a thinkpad, you’ll probably have a better experience on the whole as lots of linux kernel developers use them.

It could be worth trying to ask in a community forum or IRC about each bug specifically and try to fix them, or you could switch distributions and see if a different distribution runs better for you, although Ubuntu is pretty well used and I think I’ve heard they tend to ship recent kernels.

I don’t think the variety is effecting this too much, generally someone working on some tiling window manager isn’t impacting a user who’s using a vanilla-ish ubuntu install, it only really impacts the folk using it and if you’re using Ubuntu you’re using a well defined, well tested set of software. Yes maybe the variety of package management might be effecting you if you’re using some esoteric package management system, but ubuntu uses apt and to an increasing degree snap, so I suspect that isn’t playing a big role in your problems.

I know it’s a popular mechanic that lots of people love, but I really don’t like games where you die a lot, or where death has significant impact. I generally play games to chill out and just have fun and I often feel like games are punishing me when that happens and I find myself doing sort of “risk management” and becoming a hermit in the game.

It’s not so much of an analogy, email actually is a federated technology just like ActivityPub is and ActivityPub works a lot like email and has audience targeting fields which map onto the same audience targeting fields that email has (to, cc, etc.). Activities aren’t always publicly available, although they can be and when sent to specific people, they are delivered to another users inbox (although if public they can be read from a user’s outbox).

Wow, I am surprised they would go this far if I’m honest. Are they actively trying to piss off literally everyone?

Currently I’m subscribing to all of the “major” ones and hoping in time one will win out in time.

Nope.

I have used federated tools like identi.ca, pump.io and diaspora and I’ve also have a mastodon account, however I almost never posted to these and I rarely log in and follow everyone. I have accounts because I work closely with federation and want federated social media to succeed but I don’t like the twitter format. I have friends which use them but it’s just a flood of posts from friends and I love my friends, but they have interests and hobbies which I don’t share and I have lots of interests and hobbies they don’t share.

I’ve always enjoyed the interest specific communities much better, I generally don’t care who is saying things, I care about what they say and if it’s interesting or informative. I love the model of you go to places which are interesting and everyone upvotes and curates a collection of interesting links and posts and then discusses them. I am really glad we now have that for the fediverse. I knew lemmy existed, but never signed up for it until the reddit shenanigans started because, at the end of the day it’s social and it needs users to be interesting, now reddit has given lemmy users and for that I’m grateful :)