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- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
Hadn’t heard of it before. Thanks.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
No problem, I understand.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
Has entered the Enterprise-only chat. :)
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
People are saying in another part of this thread that many games with anticheat actually work on Linux.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
Same here. I’m going to be testing Mint and PopOS! soon.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
I think this is the best assessment I’ve read yet of Windows 11. I just switched the OS on my work computer with a fresh install of Windows 11 and have run into a handful of issues and frustrations. This thing has been out for like 3 years now. It shouldn’t still be this problematic. I may end up switching to a long-term support version of Windows 10 that goes to 2027 or 2029. Unfortunately that’s only available for Enterprise editions, so I can’t do the same at home. I’m soon going to be dual- and triple-booting Linux at home.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
Plus one.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
@Legonatic@lemmy.world @birdcannon@lemmy.world - you might want to take a close look at Bitwig. It’s a top-notch DAW developed by former Ableton developers. I hear it’s fairly similar workflow to Ableton, but also that it’s better in certain ways. This is without even taking into consideration that Bitwig supports Linux. I don’t have any association with Bitwig, don’t even own it (yet?), but just wanted to let you know.
I think I’ve heard that some VST support may be tricky though. I could be misremembering, but also worth researching.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
I haven’t switched or started dual-booting yet because I haven’t had time, but I’ve read the recommendation that the best way to do dual or even multiple boot is to have separate physical OS drives and select which one to boot from with the BIOS boot selector. Smaller SSD drives are pretty cheap these days, especially if you get them used on ebay or whatever. I picked up a Samsung 240 with 0% wearout for like $20 bucks.
- Comment on List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots 2 months ago:
True story: I bought my current printer from a homeless man. I had actually found the printer in a box that someone had left on the curb across the street the night before, so I knew it wasn’t stolen. I was going to take it home but was walking away from home at the time and didn’t get a chance that night. The next day I saw it with the homeless man across the street and offered to buy it.
- Comment on YSK that SLS, an ingredient added to most commercial toothpastes, causes canker sores 6 months ago:
Cool, I hope it will be good!
- Comment on YSK that SLS, an ingredient added to most commercial toothpastes, causes canker sores 6 months ago:
Glad to hear. I used to use Tom’s but unfortunately I couldn’t find the SLS-free flavors locally anymore. I just checked their website and it seems they got rid of most of their SLS-free flavors.
Also, unfortunately, the brand I had been using, Jason, seems to be dropping most of their toothpastes. It took me a while to find a new, clean brand to use, but I think I finally found it: Burt’s Bees. It seems to be one of the cleanest toothpastes I’ve ever seen, according to www.ewg.org/skindeep/ and it’s available at my local Target stores!
- YSK that SLS, an ingredient added to most commercial toothpastes, causes canker soresaskthedentist.com ↗Submitted 7 months ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 65 comments
- Comment on Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon 7 months ago:
This is the first I’ve heard of “a couple of devs are shutting out large numbers of contributors (frequently subject matter experts which they desperately need at this point) over relatively trivial issues” and “Lemmy has an awful reputation even among the rest of the fediverse and particularly among people who have tried to contribute”.
Can you give a summary or examples? I’m not trying to argue, but would just like to know more. I don’t follow Lemmy development more closely than reading the dev summaries they post, so wasn’t aware of any of this.
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 7 months ago:
They were big through investors throwing money at a money sink for years. Youtube was losing tens to hundreds of millions of dollars a year for a long time, before it finally became profitable.
A new competitor wouldn’t get such favorable support from investors.
- Comment on Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support 8 months ago:
If you’d be open to try Linux again if it were less likely to break like that, look into the recent trend of what they commonly call “immutable” distributions. This should give you the ability to always switch back to a working OS if anything goes wrong (which should be much less likely in the first place). It’s similar in concept to Android or Chrome OS, from what I understand. I’m watching this space very closely because I’m concerned about experiencing the same thing as you if I switch to Linux, and not having the ability to fix the system myself.
- Comment on The "subscribe pending" issue with Lemmy communities has been mostly resolved now 8 months ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on The "subscribe pending" issue with Lemmy communities has been mostly resolved now 8 months ago:
I had tried multiple times over days, perhaps weeks. However, now I can’t recall if maybe I only tried with kbin communities?
- Comment on The "subscribe pending" issue with Lemmy communities has been mostly resolved now 8 months ago:
No problem, I’m glad it helped. The refresh is only needed to update the status on that page, but it actually subscribes fully in the background, if you check back on your list of subscribed communities.
- Comment on The "subscribe pending" issue with Lemmy communities has been mostly resolved now 8 months ago:
Interesting, thanks. I had seen mbin mentioned a couple of times, but didn’t know the story.
- Comment on Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market 8 months ago:
You’re probably right, but I just wonder where all this AI panic is coming from. There was a story on the Washington Post a few weeks back saying that millions are being invested into university groups that are studying the risks of AI. It just seems that something is afoot that doesn’t look like just a natural reaction or overreaction. Perhaps this story itself explains it: the Big Tech companies trying to tamp down competition from startups.
- Comment on The "subscribe pending" issue with Lemmy communities has been mostly resolved now 8 months ago:
I was not aware of this. Sorry to hear, and I hope everything gets better for him.
- Comment on The "subscribe pending" issue with Lemmy communities has been mostly resolved now 8 months ago:
Yes, I hope so too. I should add that this was just my experience. I don’t have any technical facts to back up this assertion. I had this problem for a long time after I first signed up for Lemmy in June 23. The unsubscribe and resubscribe trick hadn’t worked for me at that time. I just randomly decided to try again today and it worked fine this time. I don’t know if it’s something that was improved in the code, or perhaps just that the Lemmyverse stabilized after a while.
- Submitted 8 months ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market 8 months ago:
AI, climate change, and nuclear weapons proliferation
One of those is not like the others. Nuclear weapons can wipe out humanity at any minute right now. Climate change has been starting the job of wiping out humanity for a while now. When and how is AI going to wipe out humanity?
This is not a criticism directed at you, by the way. It’s just a frustration that I keep hearing about AI being a threat to humanity and it just sounds like a far-fetched idea. It almost seems like it’s being used as a way to distract away from much more critically pressing issues like the myriad of environmental issues that we are already deep into, not just climate change. I wonder who would want to distract from those? Oil companies would definitely be number 1 in the list of suspects.
- Comment on Unable to post to lemmy.world communities 10 months ago:
Thanks. The problem I have though is that I can’t comment on any thread in a community hosted on lemmy.world. I’ve written multiple long replies only to be thwarted by my post getting stuck spinning when I click the post button. It’s frustrating, to say the least. For now I’m just going to follow my idea to unsubscribe from all lemmy.world communities and subscribe to alternatives elsewhere.
- Submitted 10 months ago to sdfpubnix@lemmy.sdf.org | 3 comments
- Comment on Why is there such a large amount of communist and transgender related posts on the Fediverse compared to other websites? 11 months ago:
There are right-wing instances of Mastodon (gab, truth, and others), not to mention many Pleroma ones, as well as Lemmy (exploding heads, and probably others). It’s just that they get quickly defederated by everyone else for various valid reasons (usually hate and abuse, sometimes even child porn), so you don’t get to interact with them much. They just get stuck in their own bubble.