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Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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This wasn't intended to be misleading. The term "Server" as in a Discord Server is because, be fore Discord were the days of Ventrilo and TeamSpeak. For many of us gamers used to have to run or pay for their own actual server to have that kind of functionality. Then we'd combine direct calling with Skype for small groups and video. The term made sense at the time, but hasn't held up to the test of time. Basically Discord solved a problems of having to pay for those servers, and having to use two separate programs.

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I'm not affiliated with them, but I believe they post anything they find and want to feature once they find on FA and Twitter. I wouldn't say they're stealing it though. They post the source and name of you as the artist. I don't see how it's different than if there was a NSFW furry art community on Lemmy and they posted a link to it there.

They do have a safe for work version of the site too, keep that in mind.

If you still want it removed, there's a t link to a Do Not Post list at the bottom of the form so they don't post any of your art. I'm sure they'll remove it quickly

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Windows and Linux users what are your must have apps/programs when you set up MacOS for the first time?

These are the Mac-exclusive apps I use regularly on my MacBook Pro 14" CotEditor Amazing open source text editor just for Mac BetterSnapTool for snapping windows (old school I know) Image2icon is useful for making my dock icons consistent TopNotch because the notch is annoying TG Pro because Macs get hot Keka because sometimes you run across a RAR or 7z file

These are just Mac apps, but I also use a bunch of cross-platform apps

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Looking for a good solution for a hands-free kiosk.

I would just go with Debian personally since it's not updated very often.

  • You can add Firefox to startup applications several ways, such as startup apps GUI on any desktop environment.
  • Most desktop environments have an "automatic login" option you can configure. You can also disable or remove the login manager
  • You can configure some desktop environments (xfce I know for sure) to not launch the panel. Don't forget to also look up how to disable your TTY hotkeys!
  • Install the unattended-upgrades package and Debian/Ubuntu will update automatically. I hardly ever have to touch the updates on my Debian machines
  • You can make Firefox's config directory read only and it won't be able to write to it

Nice to haves:

  • Plymouth can be installed on Debian, and has a few themes that are simple spinners
  • You can do this. Look up how to do the policies.json file. Since the Firefox directory will be read only, it won't be able to be changed by the user
  • I think you can still install add-ons like an ad blocker with policies.json, but not 100% dure
  • Do a preseed install or similar https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed

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What does this mean?

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Nah. As long as your instance is federating with all the ones that you want to interact with, there isn't much of a reason to have multiple accounts. However, if you want to see and interact with content that your main instance has blocked, you might then make another account.