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- Comment on PeerTube v8.1 is out! 14 hours ago:
That’s been a problem with the platform for a couple years. It goes something like this: Video hosting is expensive, and moderating video is complicated. So most instances don’t allow open registration and posting.
When you have a video platform without anyone allowed to post videos… Well, it’s not gonna be good.
The only videos that could get posted were from people with an established audience on another platform like YouTube, or else someone passionate enough to run their own server (which requires lots of time, money, and technical know-how).
For a creator who already has an audience, there is absolutely no incentive to jump to federation. It’s more effort for a smaller audience on a less reliable platform. So of course it’s all Veronica explains Linux because that is the only kind of creator who would have an ideological interest of doing it despite the disincentives.
Or else it’s not a knowledgeable and capable creator, but someone with just a lot of time, money, and passion. Do you read a lot of self-published books? Not too many Pulitzers in there. There is a reason you can count on one hand the number of self produced films that are actually good.
Creativity requires openness and freedom. Peertube has been (ironically) one of the most closed video platforms on the internet. For new creators, it’s been impossible to get on and just experiment. That means no innovation, which translates to no good content.
From a cursory look, that seems to be changing. There are now a few instances like that appear to be stable and have open, moderated registration. If that continues, we will begin to see more variety of quality content.
- Comment on PeerTube v8.1 is out! 1 day ago:
I gotta admit, PeerTube is really beginning to stabilize into a platform I’d consider using. Imma have to take another look when I have to time.
- Comment on RIP 1 day ago:
They have to be reflective lenses, dummy.
- Comment on Shuffel them cards 2 days ago:
I swear one of those has a “G” on it. Grandduke of Spimonds?
- Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation 2 days ago:
Can’t they just pay me in NFTs?
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- Comment on Meirl 4 days ago:
Me only looking one way because my finances are a wreck
- Comment on Did We? 6 days ago:
But at what cost?
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
This kinda seems like a roundabout way of avoiding government /corporate age verification laws? Like it doesn’t require ID verification or biometrics and runs a local api to verify age.
Can someone smarter than me please explain if this is a good thing or not?
- Comment on Tempus v4.12.0 android subsonic client release 2 weeks ago:
Great app! If there were Android TV support, I’d switch today.
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- Comment on Medusa likely would have had tiny snakes growing from her upper lip and chin as she aged. 2 weeks ago:
Like this?
- Comment on Realistcly how much can be cleaned out of a house, as a child of a hourder? 2 weeks ago:
If possible, work with a therapist for this kind of support.
You can rent a roll off dumpster from your local waste management company, and remove a lot in a matter of days. But if you are living with a hoarder, then the mess will just accumulate to fill the space you clear out in a couple months.
This is not a logistical problem, but a behavioral one.
- Comment on Do smoke detectors have little speakers inside them? If yes, would it be possible to hack them to play a little jingle? 2 weeks ago:
Usually it’s not exactly a speaker, but it does involve a controlled moving diaphragm. In a piezoelectric buzzer, a current applied to the diaphragm causes it to oscillate, and the size and shape of the diaphragm determines the tone AFAIK.
It may be theoretically possible to engineer such a device into a rudimentary speaker. I mean, people have done it with Tesla coils and player pianos, so hey, anything is possible?
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 2 weeks ago:
To me, this would be like if VLC made an angry post about the evils of MP3 instead of just making a great player that can handle it (which they have). People still use VLC because we know that it will handle anything. Plus, they’ve kept the interface simple and intuitive, with most needed functions front and center, with lots of specialized features in menus and settings.
LibreOffice is losing ground because they don’t take design seriously and instead of making interoperability a priority, they would rather complain about user preferences.
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 2 weeks ago:
I last ran serious testing a year ago. I ended up going with OnlyOffice. Despite some drawbacks, it was an easier switch that offered less friction and better file compatibility coming from MS.
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 2 weeks ago:
As per my previous comment, it should offer reasonable use of screen space, visual hierarchy, and well-reasoned organization. Moving bad menus to a different arrangement on the screen doesn’t magically make them into good menus.
As a first step, it was a good move, although it was a decade late when it came out. They still haven’t done a major redesign another decade on.
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 2 weeks ago:
True, but it is a purely aesthetic rearrangement of the menus. It doesn’t make it any more straightforward to navigate. Plus it doesn’t really function correctly on Windows (and it takes up just as much screen space).
It was a good step when they rolled it out about a decade ago, but they still haven’t done the work to make it better organized or show appropriate hierarchy.
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 3 weeks ago:
I’ve had a relatively good experience with OnlyOffice, although it has some issues.
Personally I don’t see interoperability as an anti-open issue, but I can appreciate the stance. I think I have to investigate to understand how the Microsoft format diverges from the open standard for office XML files, or in what way the format remains proprietary. I had been under the impression that OnlyOffice follows the open standard.
OnlyOffice does ape Microsoft Office in a lot of ways but I see that as a positive. Users are far more likely in my opinion to switch to something that looks and feels familiar.
LibreOffice is hard to use. The menus and shortcuts are not well organized and the entire suite feels like a relic from the early 2000s. If they invested in a modern UI with less friction for users who are looking for MS alternatives, they wouldn’t be facing competition from projects like OnlyOffice. If they invested in feature parity for mobile users, they wouldn’t be losing potential users to those who offer it.
They have an incredibly powerful backend with far more capability than the more junior OnlyOffice. Yet they fail to recognize why that just doesn’t matter to the majority of users. Most users just want to quickly author and edit files, share them with other users, and get on with the next task. LibreOffice has become overly fixated on niche features and optimizations that are very cool from a technical standpoint but are totally out of touch.
By the way, LibreOffice also supports OOXML, so… do with that what you want.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been running Booklore for a while now, and was actually looking into calibre-web automated lol.
I’m interested if it has WebDAV support. It’s maybe a niche feature but I just discovered a great app that has it for backup option.
- Comment on Too young to understand what this is? 3 weeks ago:
Elvis is more than one Elvi
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy has been a big part of it.
I’ve never been fond of paying big tech to spy on me. It has been getting gradually more expensive and more intrusive for years. Around the time I reached a breaking point, folks here helped me realize that digital sovereignty is possible.
One day I was just like, “Why does Google need to know when my lightswich is on?” And that was the start of it.
- Comment on Is it better to follow your parents footsteps and help them with their thriving small bussiness, but you have to deal with toxicity, or trying going your own way and risk homelessness? 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like a good situation to connect with a therapist or coach. Talk to someone outside the family who can help you formulate a strategy.
It’s not all or nothing, and it’s not a forever problem. You can use the family business to launch into something more stable and healthy in a few years. Whether that’s education or career planning or just building a financial parachute, I promise you can start taking steps now that will leave you in a better place in the future.
You are a survivor.
- Comment on Any Good Desktop or Phone Clients for Lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
That page is chronically out of date. A better option is www.lemmyapps.com
- Comment on Any Good Desktop or Phone Clients for Lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
Check out !lemmyapps@lemmy.world for updates on the latest apps
- Comment on Is it better to follow your parents footsteps and help them with their thriving small bussiness, but you have to deal with toxicity, or trying going your own way and risk homelessness? 5 weeks ago:
How thriving? Is it just summer home thriving, or is it private jet thriving?
How toxic? Is it just criticizing your significant other toxic, or give away your dog to punish you toxic?
- Comment on Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover? 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 5 weeks ago:
Why do humans allow cats to ride in their arms?
- Comment on A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more 1 month ago:
Dead internet is only a theory. Like gravity.
