Which instance/picture issue?

June 4, 2023: First mention of “threadiverse” I can find on Lemmy

Yep, there had been zero discussions about it until that point that I had seen, which is why I posted that thread asking the question!

You can always test it by booting off a backup image. If it works, you have peace of mind, and you can just reboot again from the correct image

If you open cachy hello, you’ll see an option to install snapper support there. I should also add, you need to use grub for the boot images to work when you do a kernel upgrade

Yep, as long as you use btrfs during the install and select snapper support

I don’t know the details, but CachyOS uses a pacman hook to do exactly that, so it’s possible. It looks like there are AUR packages to do the same thing, but I haven’t looked at them

This is such a strange take to me.

I was on the broader fediverse for a year or so before lemmy took off, and I got used to the very strong left leaning environment I found there, where compassion for your impact on the people around you was built in to the norms of many of the communities. I wasn’t used to it, but I was so glad to have found it.

And then lemmy happened. And unlike the rest of the fediverse, which was largely populated by people escaping twitter because it had been taken over by a fascist, the lemmy population was largely people escaping reddit because they could no longer use 3rd party apps. And the difference in ideology between those two groups is night and day.

To me, the broader fediverse feels left wing and comfortable. Lemmy feels centrist, where half of my time as an admin is banning trolls and bigots spreading hate.

tl;dr - Your definition of leftist is not my definition of leftist.

I’m a hobby photographer. I have to keep a windows machine in my house just so I can run some of the software I need for my photography.

I’ve transitioned what I can to linux equivalents, and digiKam and Darktable are my daily drivers now, but Darktable is a HUGE learning curve for someone who hasn’t used it before. You are literally starting again with learning how to edit your images. It’s not simply a case of learning “how to do the same things in a new environment” but “learning a new paradigm, almost from the ground up”. I love Darktable, but it took a dedicated desire not to run windows software and then months of practice before I could start to reproduce things that I could do in Lightroom in minutes with little experience.

And on top of that, dedicated noise reduction software (which requires a good GPU) basically doesn’t exist on linux, and is next to impossible to run with wine or even VMs, because of the reliance on a GPU. And that means I have to keep a windows machine around to run my noise reduction. Dual booting doesn’t even work, because that means my photo workflow suddenly needs a reboot. So, a second machine, which is not ideal…

Which is a lot of words to say that it’s not always about being resistant to change or accepting alternatives. Sometimes there are no alternatives, and sometimes the “change” is a HUGE change. Unless a photographer is driven by ideological reasons to move off Windows like I was, it’s not going to be worth the hit for most people. And even then, I still have to run a windows box too…

I mean if you recognise friendica domain names, yeah, but most folks don’t

You wouldn’t know them if you did see them. They look like any other account

Friendica is part of the fediverse and can talk to mastodon, lemmy etc. Plenty of users out there

Frankly, I probably wouldn’t move either if Windows didn’t permanently break my ethernet and WiFi drivers

I think this might be colouring your expectations a bit, and you might be projecting your experiences on to others.

I’ve said for years that it was gaming that was holding me back from running Linux full time. I don’t do a huge amount of gaming, but it is important to me, so for many years it was a deal breaker.

Now, gaming is good enough, even though it’s not perfect, and I moved to linux full time around 9 months ago.

People aren’t “lying”. They just have different priorities to you…

instances/hubs/rpcs cannot block a user account or community

Why would I want that? That sounds genuinely awful.

Edit - And the plebbit homepage talks about making a 4chan equivalent, and along with this post, there are pepe images everywhere. No thanks. Plebbit can fuck right off

Ok, now it should be working.

Nope, sorry, it’s still broken. I saw the community and assumed it was working, but I can’t subscribe to it either. I’ll see what we can find

Looks to be all sorted

You should be able to now. It’s just that no one on this instance had subscribed to it yet, so the instance didn’t know the community existed. All sorted now though!

And, if you can’t remember the options for commands, fish will offer you suggestions. So, if you type ls - and press tab, fish will give you a list of all of the valid switches and a brief description.

Fish

They were running a self maintained fork of lemmy that wasn’t compatible, though I don’t know if that was the original reason