I just don't know if it's finished.

Hello,

There are loads of people who dislike centralised services, like facebook, twitter, dropbox and so on, yet still no one seems to be very curious about decentralised systems. How come?

Lemmy scratches the surface with lots of centralised servers, but pushing it, everyone could have their own soft that, for example, is their "user". A user having "facebook"/twitter/dropbox/sharing capabilities. Still no one seems to even pursue those kind of ideas. Even in theory.

Is it because the dopamine triggering algorithm wins everyone over? The fear of using a soft that communicated on an open port on your device? Or what might it be? But that doesn't make sense to me, because people don't even discuss it. Or am I not invited to those discussions 😁?

It should be trivial to spin up a sharing system, for example (harboring laws would protect you), or some "friends, and friends friends only" network a la facebook in tje early days.

It's not limited by technology, and people are smart and curious.

So where are they?

Edit: I know that even if the service existed, most people wouldn't use it and prefer Facebook et al. But that absolutely nobody has spun up one is what baffles me. Thousands work on the Linux kernel, where are the hardcore network nerds?

Oups, I posted with the image in the body and not in the post, fixed.

Trying a more restricted pallet without green or umbre.

This is wild stuff, very funny, I absolutely recommend!

1 hour to just find the darn place 😁, 3-4 hours painting (my back!) and home under a burning sun.

Will try again.

Didn't have time to finish it all before having to pack up. Am going to try to do something about the topmost color band when it's dry.

I won the ebay bidding war at 100€ +p&p for a Thinkpad p14s gen 1 with broken graphics and/or screen.

No ssd (but I have a 256GB spare) and 32GB ram and a hub.

After tinkering yesterday (sometimes it'd boot, all up to a linux on a usb stick before freezing, sometimes not at all) I let it be and continued today. Screen totally black, not a sign except the fan spinning for a second or two at power. No sign on the external screen. Nothing to do it seemed. So I opened it, removed the battery and ran on usb power. No change. Removed the 16GB (the other 16GB is soldered) and lo and behold, it's the ram socket!

So I'm a happy laptop user now 😁!

Have a nice weekend everyone, but watch out for the goose!

Quick oil study.

Not the big expensive ones for the 100.000€ 2m tall biped robots built by whole teams, but more a sportsmanship class, like small costs, just drive through a city for example?

Also testing out my new rembrandt yellow 😁

Oil painting I made on a whim. I'm still learning a lot lol.

Hi everyone,

I start to feel like in a reddit echo chamber lately, 2/3 of news are about the usa president.

It's everywhere, and it definitely lowers the quality of posts here on lemmy, IMO.

Is there anything to do to alleviate this, can't block every outlet without also blocking other info.

Maybe a sitewide thing? Obligation to correctly tag posts?

😓

It also makes it harder to change reader, gotta re-block and filter stuff (even if that's not enough).

So, what to do?