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- Comment on Most American headline 2 weeks ago:
Wait until you learn about “vanlords” in Los Angeles.
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 3 weeks ago:
Hexbear is still called that. They were able to recover their domain after all. By my calculations, they appear to be in the top 10 largest lemmy instances by MAU, top 5 by number of accounts, and number 2 lemmy instance by number of posts, out of the regular user-driven (not automated cross-posting) instances, behind only lemmy.world.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 3 weeks ago:
Someone in another thread suggested lemmy.zip and lemmy.today as having similar defederation policies as lemm.ee. That’s probably where I’ll go since I like being able to see pretty much all lemmy instances.
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 3 weeks ago:
Seems pretty prone to defederating other instances.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 3 weeks ago:
Pretty closely mirrors my thoughts. Especially since Lemmy now allows users to block any combination of: users, communities, or entire instances.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 3 weeks ago:
Could be. Let’s see what happens.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 3 weeks ago:
Ok, that doesn’t make sense to me, but Microsoft is pretty aimless these days so I won’t say it’s impossible.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 3 weeks ago:
Windows start menu in Android?
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 3 weeks ago:
Your post came across pretty harsh.
Also, you probably didn’t read my whole post. The point I was making was that the primary reason to use React Native is for cross-platform development, THEREFORE it makes no sense to use it for the Windows start menu because what would be the point of porting that to another OS?
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 3 weeks ago:
Unnecessarily biting reply. Microsoft investor perhaps?
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 3 weeks ago:
At a higher level, as in multiple operating systems. I think it’s probably high enough that it doesn’t care much about the hardware platform as long as it’s supported. But I don’t know the technical details of developing with React Native.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 3 weeks ago:
What in tar nation? Why would they ever do such a thing? The main point of React Native is to make an application cross-platform (i.e., so it can run on multiple operating systems). What’s the point in developing a Windows Start menu that can run on macOS, Android, or whatever?
Unless they’re going for the second point of React Native, which is to be able to develop with JavaScript, which has an abundance of developers (i.e., it’s less expensive). Maybe they thought that this was the main point, regardless of performance issues.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 4 weeks ago:
Jeepers creepers, this is so disheartening. I’m sorry that you had to experience that!
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 4 weeks ago:
One of the major factors to consider here is that public schools in the US are not equally funded by number of students. Instead, most of the funding is provided by state and local property taxes, meaning that richer areas where houses are worth a lot more, get much better funding for their schools. So while those rich areas’ school funding is probably much higher than the global median, the poorer areas’ school funding is likely much lower, in a very high cost of living country in general.
The other factor to also consider is that public schools in the US have fairly extensive athletic programs, meaning that they spend a lot of the funds to build and maintain things like American Football stadiums, swimming pools, etc., as opposed to only funding actual academic education.
References:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Public_school_funding_in_the_U…
This is the best I could find on short notice about athletic vs academic spending, and it’s only discussing teacher vs coach salaries: linkedin.com/…/more-spent-instruction-coaches-per…
- Comment on SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content 1 month ago:
Unfortunately I don’t know for sure. I have not used Funkwhale myself. I did look around at some of the pods listed on that site. I suppose you would need to visit each pod to see if you can tell if what they’re about matches what you want to share.
- Comment on SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content 1 month ago:
You can probably post your music and follow musicians from any fediverse platform, but there is a specialized audio/music one:
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 1 month ago:
Or kick Canonical to the curb and use Incus instead: discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/…/21430
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 1 month ago:
I think I’ve seen people using this on Lemmy, but I’m not sure if it works: fedi.tips/is-there-a-reminder-bot-for-mastodon-an…
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 month ago:
This happened last year and it was a 2018 CPU (APU?): AMD Ryzen 5 2400GE. It’s a low power 4 core hyperthreaded CPU/APU. Now searching the web for info I see that it was unsupported by Windows 11 from the time of release (2021) - see thread linked below. That means the CPU was a little over 3 years old at that time.
Some comments indicate that it may have been AMD’s own recommendation, but still. I was able to return the machine and got one that was compatible, but it was still an eye-opening experience that showed me that Windows was no longer like the old unrestricted Windows that would run on any PC hardware that could run any recent version of Windows, even if dog slow. Windows is now like MacOS with artificial hardware restrictions, so what’s the point of Windows anymore? I can have Linux for games and MacOS for any software I may need that’s not able to run on Linux.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 month ago:
I bought a used PC with a 6-year old CPU model only to find out that Windows 11 wouldn’t support it. That’s when I realized that the only advantage that Windows had over Macs in my opinion (aside from games) was gone.
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 2 months ago:
I didn’t know about these radio broadcasts, but I did use to buy (pirated) games on cassette tape to load on my (unlicensed) ZX spectrum clone using my mini-boombox. Good times. :)
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 2 months ago:
Thanks, I’m still considering my options. Mint is in the list of possibilities.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 2 months ago:
Thanks. I’m a semi-newbie, thinking about going with Debian, but just about to test it on a VM right now.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 2 months ago:
No doubt. I’ve been exploring Linux distros all day today.
- Comment on A “Goofy” DJ’s Secret Life at the Center of an Online Terrorism Network. 2 months ago:
The irony of an EDM DJ hating on LGBTQ+ and POC. What the hell?
- Comment on What exactly is the Fediverse? 3 months ago:
According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse:
The majority of Fediverse platforms are based on free and open-source software, and create connections between servers using the ActivityPub protocol. Some software still supports older federation protocols as well, such as OStatus, the Diaspora protocol and Zot. Diaspora* is the only actively developed software project classified under the original definition of Fediverse that does not support ActivityPub.[5][6]
You would have to look at those citations to see how authoritative they are.
- Comment on The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences 3 months ago:
The best I can think of off hand is to look at the mobile apps that are designed to interact with traditional forums, because they will have directories of all the ones that are integrated with them. For example, Tapatalk and Fora Communities. You should be able to find thousands of forums categorized in those apps? I’ve never used these apps myself, but have heard of them.
- Comment on The best instance to host a big community in Finnish? 3 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse 3 months ago:
Oh, I was more thinking in the context of a centralized service, although technically it should be possible to do this in a federated manner too. I don’t think the resources would be an issue, but the liability of holding this data would be. I don’t know how that works on sites that currently do this though.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 3 months ago: