smeg

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 19 hours ago

I think that's a deliberate decision, one of the benefits being that a new server doesn't destroy itself by immediately trying to download the entire history of the fediverse!

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

it doesn't pull in all the content unless someone subscribes

I think that's how Lemmy works too

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 20 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

I think it's an alternative way to access the same content, so probably exactly the same number of people you do and do not like

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is this a new paid DLC or just a big update? I assumed the latter but the name "Repentance+" sounds like a new expansion.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

There's loads of Worms games now though they're all the same sort of thing. I think they just announced an "anniversary edition" of Armageddon, which looks basically the same as the Steam version but ported to modern consoles. Still a banger 25 years on!

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

The one thing about patent law I know is that you can't patent something that already exists in the wild ("prior art"), so surely that can't be the case, and if it is then it's open-and-shut, right?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

I am pretty sure I picked up the Android version for free a few years ago and it had The Offspring but I installed it just now and it's gone. It's also now talking about ads and data collection so I assume the original build has been unavailable for a while.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

The WiiU could run the entire Wii OS, so that's pretty good for backwards compatibility

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

I guess that's what instances are trying to avoid by preemptively blocking Threads. If everyone else blocks it then Lemmy carries on existing as it is. And I can't imagine big corpo wouldn't want to create their own name.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Either they federate and all their users are exposed to the rest of the fediverse, or they don't and they may as well be a separate thing

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that's the exact issue I fixed yesterday: the Super (Windows) key is configured to open the whisper (start) menu and this overrides any of the other xfce keyboard shortcuts like moving windows around.

The fix was to go into Settings > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts and change the one that's set by default to open the whisper menu (xfce4-popup-whiskermenu) to something else. I found some bug reports saying that the problem is that xfce doesn't expect shortcuts that are "modifier only" (as in only the Super key), and once I changed that one then the shortcuts to move windows around suddenly started working.

No idea why distros ship with this configuration already broken, but hopefully this helps!

 

Disney World is arguing a man cannot sue it over the death of his wife because of terms he signed up to in a free trial of Disney+.

It says Mr Piccolo agreed to these terms of use when he signed up to a one month free trial of its streaming service, Disney+, in 2019.

 

I'm a regular user of Linux systems but apart from a couple of test Ubuntu installs many years ago they've always been containers or VMs with no DE which I can throw away when I break them. The Steam Deck showcasing how far Wine/Proton has come combined with Windows being Windows has given me the push; I've made a Mint live USB and it's running beautifully on my desktop. I come to you, the masters, with questions before I hit install:

  1. What do you recommend I do about disk partitions? I'm keeping a Windows install for the few things that demand it, does Windows still occasionally destroy Linux partitions? Do I need separate partitions for data and OS? Is it straightforward to add additional distros as new partitions or is that asking for trouble?
  2. Is disk encryption straightforward? And is that likely to upset the Windows partition?
  3. Is cloud storage sync straightforward? It's my off-site backup solution on Android and Windows (using Cryptomator with Dropbox, Google Drive, etc) but I don't think that many providers have Linux clients. Is something like rclone recommended?
  4. Should I just use apt to install software? I know there's some kind of graphical package manager (synaptic?), does that use apt under the covers or is it separate? Is it recommended to install something like Flathub too?
  5. Any other pearls of wisdom? How do I keep everything tidy? Any warnings about what not to do? Should I use a particular terminal emulator or Firefox fork?
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/12861354

Despite today’s date, this is not an April Fool’s prank. At a press conference in Tokyo last weekend, professor Hiroshi Yoshida from the Tohoku University Research Center for Aged Economy and Society, sounded the alarm bell for a looming crisis. By the year 2531, everyone in Japan will have the surname Sato.

 

Not, as I read, "Swan and Paedo"

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