I think the algorithms are not quite doing what you expect, on top of server delays or whatever.

The way I am set up, I start in ALL and sort by HOT. If the post start to feel too familiar I will go by active, then new.

What I feel works the best however is to subscribe to all the communities that you are interested in (don’t be precious) and you will find that the subscriptions page has the content you want. It is nice, they don’t get lost, or you can jump into a single community and see all they have.

The most useful way to use lemmy of course is to post content.

Yeah, this is not a candid picture. The creator wants everyone to feel uncomfortable.

Speaking of crimes, no one is going to talk about the slices turned out when they could clear be ina disk in that box?

When I first heard about it I was in high school, and even though $10 is nothing for the return in value, I had never paid for anything online at that point and was apprehensive about it.

GameFAQs was my jam. As good as any forum that ever existed. In my limited view, it was the best.

I love it. I am genuinely excited to be on here, and it is literally the only social media I use at the moment.

The single feature I that I think would improve the site tremendously is some kind of indicator to know if I have posted in a thread before. It is silly, but sometimes discussions blow up and I cannot remember everything I write.

Like, just a colored dot next to the title in topics I have posted in would make the experience so much better.

Of the country I live in! I think it is punk term thing I never looked into. East Coast West Coast, Right Coast Left Coast. I am on the edge man.

I have been too lazy to sign in and do it. What is funny is that I had been using Infinity to browse anonymously, but got annoyed that I could not bookmark anything.

I made an account like a month or two ago, and have barely posted anything. I could have done without.

Yet, if Reddit was not fucking up, I may not have given Lemmy a second chance. I tried it before, but I swear most of the posts were meta. Talking about a platform does not make a platform appealing.

MX Linux. It is a debian based, but uses custom scripts and programs from Antix and Mepis that make it super lovely to use.

It strips out systemd and does a lot of work to make popular programs usable that requires it.

Yet, I can still boot into it with systemd turned on, which is useful and more necessary than I like, increasingly so.

I think systemd is fine though. Linux is not unix, variation is healthy and despite what people say I always found it solid.

MX uses XFCE, which I love, and the desktop has some really smart defaults like putting the panel on the side instead of top or bottom, which gives back vertical real estate.

EDIT: I also use macOS iOS. My mom is a dedicated Apple user and I inherit her stuff whenever she upgrades, which is less frequently because I convinced her that what she has is basically overkill for her use cases, ans she does not need the newest thing.

Anyways, I love my iPad Pro. I don’t care if Apple is evil, I got it for free and I reading PDFs on it is a goddamn pleasure.

The MacBook Air is the perfect laptop. Large laptops are just heavy and makes me not want to take them anywhere. Glad I learned that lesson.

Aaaaaaah! Trying to be secure sucks. My main computer has an Intel CPU, and I truly don’t know what bios settings to use, but I suppose that is a moot point.

It is like delinerating over legacy bios or UEFI. One is familiar and reliable but is actually emulated, and the other is modern with a lot of usability features. I finally stopped worrying and used UEFI because it seems more reliable when installing new linux distros.

Same with SystemD. I had some understanding of why people were against it, but it always felt as much as a bias against the author than a genuine desire to keep the init system small and do one thing well, the unix way. I stopped being concerned when I learned Linus Torvalds does not give a damn about how linux distros are composed, I stopped worrying. A lot of great linux distros still use simple init systems, and are wonderful, but often I need to use software that is not in the package manager, and it always requires systemD.

Perhaps I should be a lot more concerned and principled like I used to be, only using the safest FOSS options. Realistically that would require having significantly more programming skills and maintaining my own distro just to be happy. Also, those are not my principles, I did not come up with them, nor do I fully understand or agree with them.

In the future I will avoid Intel.

MX Linux pretty much has me covered, and the option to turn on SystemD makes it the best distro I have ever used. It does everything.

One day I will sit down and finally learn how to use Gobo Linux.

You may not be a Linux user, but everyone is a Minix user!

Just a fancy word for an alarm clock?

Jeepers creepers take a look at those peepers.

I think the answer is the words we use, which are incredibly myopic, literally two-dimensional with LEFT and RIGHT.

This reduction to the binary is exhausting, and probably forces people to think in bad faith. It is all bad faith. The middle ground is meaningless. Bigots don’t like to be called out as bigots, and many people are too afraid to call bigots out.

I think the step forward is to be significantly more precise with our language, avoid the temptation to simplify, and to stop using tired labels that are easily hijacked by bad actors.

I agree. While I generally dislike its usage in media and political discussion, society is the correct term for a population under a shared set of circumstances who are together affected by changes in policy.

I know it unfair to put the responsibility, or blame, on any one invidividual. Even the loudest evil person with a lot of influence is only powerful due to systemic and voluntary allowance of power.

I know companies with their massive waste production contribute exponentially more to climate than the choices of all individuals.

Still, some people have more power and influence than others. Those individuals are empowered to make decisons that affect the lives of millions of people. It is not some evil cloud silently fucking everything up.

Anyways, yes, the solution to these problems will always be collective action. My viewpoint only serve to mythologize the individual and does not address the fact that it is the complecency of a massive number of people that allows bad things to happen.

Yes, I think so.

The self-deprecation might be a little fatiguing, and it is a lifetime habit I am trying to extinguish.

Still, it enforces the wisdom to never take myself too seriously, and that I always have something to learn.

I get that. The fact that I can be “apolitical” exposes the incredible privelage I have, in the place I live, the color of my skin, my gender and sexual expression.

Perhaps my insulation from politics makes me less empathetic than I could be, and makes it so I don’t need to participate in world affairs like I could.

My problem is the sheer redundancy of it all. In my case, a two party system where both sides are shitty, the presidency is an old-ass white sausage fest.

I guess to me the discussion is all noise, because the moral choice is always more obvious than what the prejudiced assholes would have anyone believe.

Yes, I will vote to protect trans rights and lives.

Yay, time to explain! You may be familiar with the term autodidact, someone who crafts their own curriculum and teaches themselves subjects without relying on the guidance of other humans.

So, didactic means to be used for instruction, to teach.

I can interpret my name in two ways I think. First, is that I am an instructive dumbass; my incompetance and consistent foolishness provides lessons, learning from my mistakea. Second, I am a teacher who is also a dumbass.

Left Coast, baybeee!

The proof is in the pantaloons?

I do not disagree with you. I know I am discounting the value of politics, which absolutely does not innoculate me from the consequences of those who participate in it.

For sure, political action is most effective through active participation such as protesting, writing to senators, participating in campaigns.

I think what I am actually annoyed by are the ineffectual joking/memeing and reduction to shouting out buzzwords that seems to have suffocated any hope for a lucid discussion ethical problems and how to overcome them.

Lastly, saying politics controls everything is at best a truism, and at worst it makes it a nebulous term. It is like when people say “society is to blame for ___.” No, people, inviduals are to blame. Saying society is at fault is meaningless. Even en masse, individuals are accountable. Obviously that includes me. My actions, my morals, how I treat others can make world a better or worse place. Politics is not some invisible hand controlling the world.