The decentralized and community-driven model that essentially guarantees Lemmy being free from big corporations creating the ad-centric hellscape of centralized social media. That, and the UI is much clearer and feels lighter, even compared to Old Reddit.

Wow, I've never even used Sync but from the screenshot of the Reddit app on Google Play it's one of those UIs so good that make you want to use it. I'm currently fine with the Lemmy PWA but the more feature-complete Reddit apps that get "ported" to be used with Lemmy the better, especially to ease the transition for new users.

• AntennaPod (podcast player)
• Authenticator Pro (2FA)
• Aves (gallery)
• Bitwarden
• Catima (for stores' reward cards)
• Etar (calendar)
• Geometric Weather
• Infinity for Reddit... as long as it works
• Joplin (note-taking software, synced with the desktop client)
• K-9 Mail
• Kvæsitso (launcher)
• Mull (Firefox fork)
• NetGuard (works in the background as a VPN to block network access to certain apps, for example I use it to block every network connection by Gboard)
• NewPipe
• Simple File Manager
• Tasks.org

Definitely not, first of all I love pastel colors and, on the more practical side of things, at least for touch interfaces I do prefer to have some padding: even on larger screens (my current phone is 6.7") I tend to prefer larger and more padded interfaces to avoid hitting the wrong one (and that's the main reason why I don't like to type on a phone that much).

So I might even be in the minority but having a control center with larger but less buttons on each page is exactly what I prefer, I don't mind having to scroll if it's easier to toggle what I need to.

I was an iOS user for nearly a decade but I increasingly grew tired of the walled garden and lack of customization (i.e. not being possible for me to tailor the OS closer to my needs), especially the lack of third-party stores for FOSS apps. Not to mention the fact that the App Store model actively discourages developers of these apps, so it is an ideological question at the end of the day.

Principalmente RSS o (prima) Reddit/(ora) Lemmy, della televisione tendo a sentire i titoli del telegiornale e basta perché in casa all'ora di cena teniamo un quiz in sottofondo.

Per quanto riguarda gli RSS, come notizie generali seguo un giornale online della mia provincia, Il Post e il Guardian; il resto è una serie di blog/siti comunque di informazione (fra cui ad es. Il Fatto Alimentare, BUTAC e il blog dell'UAAR) e un misto di siti piú specifici su vari argomenti.

I agree, also the holding back of packages just for the sake of waiting probably doesn't make it more stable, despite what the devs say; also having 300+ packages updated at the same time might make it worse for troubleshooting in case something goes wrong.

As someone who actually started with Manjaro back in 2020 before moving to EndeavourOS after 9 months, I would say that there is indeed a steeper learning curve as you don't get for example a GUI package manager (Pamac is awful and even as a newbie I used it for maybe three days before I started to use the CLI, but a Linux beginner might want one) and the fact it is a true rolling release means you need to do some more research and maintenance, so I wouldn't call Endeavour a distro for absolute beginners, unless one is determined to learn a lot about how a computer works... but again one shouldn't probably use a rolling release then; Manjaro just tricks you to believe it is easier, but it probably is only if you don't use the AUR.

Maybe Garuda is more beginner friendly than EndeavourOS while avoiding most of the problems Manjaro has? Although I've never used it as I don't see any advantage over Endeavour, and I'm not a fan of excessive out of the box theming and Chaotic AUR enabled as default...

The only reason I reluctantly keep my account is because of a few niche communities I lurk and sometimes comment in. And I'll add that Reddit is usable thanks to the old interface + uBlock Origin and third-party apps on mobile (and we all know what's happening next); I'd call it "alright" just as a euphemism for "not (yet) as bad as Facebook or Instagram".

Mi trovo decisamente bene: è vero, non c'è un grande numero di comunità in confronto a Reddit, soprattutto alcune di quelle che seguivo piú di nicchia non si sono spostate; tutto sommato non è poi cosí male, visto che qui su Lemmy mi sembra che comunque (almeno tolte le comunità piú generaliste) ci sia piú qualità pur con la minore quantità di interventi. Cosí uso anche meno i social rispetto a prima e riesco a fare dell'altro di piú utile...

Congratulations! I'm about to try to get a professional assessment, although in the particular region of Italy where I live it's a long process for adults that involves getting appointments with two doctors before going to the "Regional Autism Centre". That has discouraged me for quite some time but this sort of limbo sometimes is hard to bear and now I just want to know it for certain...

Io sono su Coopvoce da quattro anni e mi trovo benissimo, la rete su cui si appoggia è quella Tim quindi per mia esperienza prende praticamente dappertutto (incluse certe aree abbastanza isolate dell'entroterra ligure e del basso Piemonte dove passo spesso e dove non tutte le altre reti prendono - soprattutto quella Vodafone). Non hanno mai cambiato le condizioni dell'offerta quindi io ho quella da 30GB a 6,90€/mese, che per un periodo era stata anche più bassa per i nuovi clienti. Purtroppo vedo che quella minima adesso è da 50GB a un euro in più.

In realtà sono in parte nella tua situazione perché controllo ogni tanto quali offerte ci sono, non perché mi trovi male - tutt'altro - ma per risparmiare qualcosa visto che in media uso 7-8GB al mese. Solo che piani tariffari che costino meno e che non siano veramente quelli con un giga solo è da tempo che non ne vedo (e di preferenza mia non voglio un operatore che si appoggi alla rete WindTre, visto che è quella che ho già a casa, per un minimo di sicurezza che se non ne funziona una almeno posso usare l'altra...).

ma voi comprereste un qualsiasi prodotto elettronico con un sovraprezzo obbligatorio dovuto al fatto che qualcun altro l’ha “impostato” per te?

Assolutamente no, a partire dal fatto che non vorrei mai e poi mai che qualcuno imposti per conto mio un telefono o peggio ancora un computer (dove l'unica impostazione che mi serve è installare una distro Linux a mia scelta...), tanto piú in un megastore. L'unica eccezione per cui potrei pagare un sovrapprezzo è il caso che citava @Utzmetah nel suo commento piú sotto, ma quello è effettivamente un servizio, mentre almeno per me un'impostazione fatta in una grande catena sarebbe piú un disservizio che altro...

Quanto meno devo dire che delle tre grandi catene che ci sono nella mia zona (Mediaworld, Unieuro ed Euronics) di solito se devo prendere qualcosa vado da Unieuro che mi sembrano i piú onesti come prezzi e (per fortuna) "servizi" del genere non me ne hanno mai proposti, neanche per dei portatili.

Manjaro was the first Linux distro I used as a daily driver, from October 2020 to July 2021, when I switched to EndeavourOS. To be fair the main reason I switched was all those previous mess-ups by the developers and the troubled past, which I didn't know of when I moved to Linux. In the year or so I used it, I didn't have any messed update or crash myself.

I would say it's still a fine distro for beginners who want to try a rolling release (as EndeavourOS is imho better in every way, but it doesn't come with any GUI package manager so I wouldn't call it a distro for absolute beginners), but can't see any other usage case, as it's especially risky if you want to use packages from the AUR.

LibreOffice, as I've been using it from soon after it was forked from OpenOffice and I'm used to it, and I don't think it's worth it to learn how to use another office suite when the one I use works fine for everything I need to do. I had tried OnlyOffice on another computer and I was positively impressed, but not quite enough to feel I should switch; in the end I only even use a small subset of the features LO has.

Couldn't agree more, two years ago I was gifted a small wireless speaker which works fine and everything but I sometimes even forget to charge it because its cable is a 15cm short USB-A to Micro-USB one which somehow is the only Micro-USB cable I have left at home as I didn't have any other device with that port in years and I had thrown away a few cables when I last moved. Now whenever I am looking for a new electronic device USB-C is one of the first things I check and it's a deal breaker for me.

I had been lurking on a few Lemmy instances for years (more or less since mid-2020 when I started getting more interested in FOSS) and with the Reddit shitshow I finally decided it was time to join, so I was already quite familiar with the concept of instances and how the Fediverse works on principle.

I'm slowly exploring more to find interesting communities to interact with, and hopefully there'll be more incoming users from Reddit creating more niche spaces.

Devo dire che fra tutti i sistemi di votazione quello che mi sembra migliore è quello di Discourse, dove alla fine il "mi piace" (o la reazione con emoji che credo sia a discrezione del forum, fra quelli che conosco vedo che il nuovo forum di KDE ha solo il cuoricino/"mi piace" mentre quello di EndeavourOS ha messo la possibilità di usare le emoji) grazie all'interfaccia risulta meno in evidenza rispetto ai voti di Reddit/Lemmy, quindi mi sembra piú un modo di apprezzare o di suggerire un determinato intervento senza inondare di risposte.

Il che, ovviamente, per la struttura da forum è sicuramente piú adatto, tutto sommato forse non sarebbe male per Lemmy ma credo sia sostenibile solo con un massiccio intervento di moderazione che per la struttura piú da social che da forum probabilmente non è sostenibile...

I have an HP LaserJet P1005 from 15 years ago which mostly works fine with Hplip except that every once in a while it asks me to reinstall the proprietary plugin needed. I'm taking note of how other brands seem to work better but to be honest I print so little since I digitally sign everything that once I run out of toner it's far cheaper for me to have something printed in a shop than to replace it.

probably under the influence of reddit, where this has become completely gamed–i can’t stand this style of information sorting.

I've actually noticed myself doing this by instinct as in the last few months I mostly read Reddit comments sorted chronologically. Part of that is because of the hivemind problem in certain subs, which frankly is even less tolerable the more trivial a subject is, as in, for example, subs for fans of a certain artist where other users jump to downvote people who dare say that not every thing the artist does is perfect. And what's even the point in discussing things if everything is "how good this is", "how amazing this is", etc.?