Munich, Germany. I absolutely loved the city square.

My problem is I like sunny destinations during the summer so much that there’s never much left in the budget for city breaks. Maybe in the future!

I’ve seen this raised quite often and, to be honest, it was kind of true in the beginning and that’s probably where the opinion came from.

Ultimately, software like this is free and open to everyone; even those we don’t agree with. We’re going to have to come to terms with that fact because our own freedom rests upon it. There were going to be authoritarian left servers at some point, it just so happened to be at the beginning. There are also going to be authoritarian right servers if there aren’t already. The software doesn’t discriminate but it also doesn’t discriminate against anyone else.

As for optics, I think all you can do is focus more on the beehaw community or whichever community you want to promote. This post was written to capture the spirit of the community if you need some inspiration. Some might not be convinced and that’s okay, we just need to convince enough of their friends :)

If it really matters, suggest Kbin too. We can interact with Kbin magazines and users so Kbin’s success is Lemmy’s success and vice versa.

I used Ubuntu years ago and left after trying 11.04 (has it been that long?) because the new Unity desktop environment was awful and buggy and the release generally didn’t work even after I switched desktop environments. Rightly or wrongly, I came to associate Canonical with buggy bloatware.

I like how reliable Debian is for my servers but the package versions are too old for a desktop. Even then, a few days ago, I had to install rust with curl | sh because Debian’s package was just too old to build what I needed it to.

I distro-hopped a lot trying to replace what I used to like about Ubuntu on the desktop. Fedora has survived many reinstalls now. Like you say, it’s on the cutting-edge but it also doesn’t cause major issues most of the time. They’re also pretty predictable and don’t try anything insane.

Getting dark sky is very challenging. I live on the outskirts of a city so I usually load up the car and drive. It’s a shame but, at the same time, telescopes weren’t always so affordable!

I started with binoculars and still use them to take on holiday (the telescope is way too big) and you can have a really great night with them.

/r/telescopes or any equivalent for practical astronomy. There are a couple of communities but they’re not active at all.

Wake the fuck up, Samurai. We have a city to burn.

Yeah, it’s just nice that I get to have more time around the person I practically chose to share my life with. It is sad to think how much time we’d have to spend away from each other if none of this happened.

True and Matrix isn’t bad. I wish we went there instead of Discord.

I really wish IRC survived. I was in a small IRC community a few years ago but, once everyone got jobs, there was little activity because it’s not mobile friendly. The apps mostly suck and there’s no push notifications.

Now we have a discord which is bridged to the mostly inactive IRC and, to be honest, I kind of hate it. We don’t own it anymore and it’s a proprietary app like the rest of them. I’d rather have a Signal group chat.

I miss the days when sites would run their own forums (remember phpBB?) and we had huge, organic communities for everything.

I think the mobile web killed most of that off or at least struck the final blow. The sites weren’t particularly mobile friendly and they’d ask you to install an app like Tapatalk which nobody wanted.

It’s almost all I’ve known at this point. I had a normal placement year, finished Uni, went back to work and then started working from home half a year later due to COVID. It’s turned into hybrid but I’m starting a new job soon which will be almost entirely remote.

I like it. I feel really lucky that I get to be with my partner on the days she works from home, even if I am working. We go for a walk at lunch and have coffees. It’s also closer to what I used to do as a hobby in programming; work with a team of people from my home. Saving money and time from daily commuting is a huge plus.

Your break sounds amazing. Anything that changes your focal point from a screen to something like entire fields are the best for desk job workers.