When you spent time tinkering on your linux box, at least you usually learn some piece of knowledge that can be applied later on.

When you tinker and debug something on windows, you usually have little idea of what went wrong and can derive very little from the experience. At least that was the case back when I still used windows, in the XP and vista days.

Activitypub is the standard all the fediverse application use, and that's what makes the various apps cross compatible (you can reply to a Lemmy thread from another Lemmy instance, or from a kbin one or even from Mastodon).

This standard is used by various WebApps to provide social networks experiences akin to the big centralized networks.

Lemmy and kbin work like reddit.

Mastodon and pleroma do microblogging (default message length is 500 char, can be modified on each server though).

PeerTube is a distributed YouTube alternative, again using activitypub to federate.

Now thread is a new microblogging app by Instagram and it happens to use activitypub, which means it could be interconnected with fediverse apps. You could in theory follow and interact with its users from any of the fediverse apps. But this feature is not on from their side at the moment. And many fediverse server admins plan to block federation with threads.net because they don't trust Instagram / meta.

The French state is a bad actor already.

It's getting harder and harder to get attention apparently. Which is good.

They'll kick you and they'll beat you and they'll tell you it's fair…

My biggest gripe as a non native speaker is phrasal verbs.

Unless you know exactly what they mean, you are screwed. You can't decypher them, there's no link between the meaning of the component parts and the phrasal verb.

As my English teacher used to tell us jokingly: you should never say: "I get on with my brother, but I get off with my sister".

I was not expecting Pikmin 1 and 2 HD ports, but I'll take them.

I'll wait for the physical release to have all 4 and show them to my grand kids 25 years from now, for the release of Pikmin 5.

Seems to me an inability to read plain text during the install.

For instance when you are asked to set the root password, it says that if you leave it blank, the user you'll create will have sudo.
That's the behavior you expect if you come from ubuntu or mint.

À titre personnel je pense que la communauté est encore trop petite pour la scinder en 2 ou plus.

Plus tard pourquoi pas.

Cette petite taille a aussi ses avantages, elle rend les discussions plus lentes et plus apaisées, alors savourons le moment.

I love debian because it's always there for you.

Not yet, but you can bring some of the weird with you.

Do you need a DE? I use sway and a few kde apps (konsole, okular, gwenview, dolphin) + firefox and thunderbird, I wouldn't call that a DE…

What could happen is what did happen to XMPP / jabber.
Google embraced it for its instant messaging app, then after it had become the provider with the largest user base of said standard, it simply changed the underlying tech it used and stopped using the standard. To google users, their weird contacts that were not on the google ecosystem simply vanished, but they were a small number of people. To the users of xmpp servers, many of their contacts on the google side of things became unreachable again.

Now that's a thing that can happen if threads.net becomes the largest fediverse instance over time and loosing access to these users is a big detriment to users of other instances.

However, I couldn't care less if I lose access to the posts of threads.net users. I don't intend to interact with them at all. I don't use any mainstream social media at the moment, and I don't miss the ads, the drama, and the "normie" users, for lack of a better term.

I didn't know I wanted this. Pretty hyped for an old school JRPG with modern visuals.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply and the links.

• PS1 : Little Big Adventure (action adventure with the first voice acting I heard in a game)
• DS : ghost trick (it's getting a remake!)
• 3DS : 1001 spikes (tough 2d platformer)
• Modern era : Slay the Spire (best card drafting and rogue lite game).

Pour le moment j'ai juste bloqué le nom de domaine reddit.com sur mon ordi. Ça m'évite d'y aller en étant un peu distrait.

I use vim macros all the time. For example, you have a bunch of lines that need the same 3 operations done:

• insert " at the beginning of the line
• insert ", at the end on the line
• indent

Press qa, do what you need to do on one line and go one line below, press q again to stop recording the macro, then you can do it 50 times with 50@a.

Interesting. Kept it in my wallabag, if I ever grow tired of sway.

Mon nouveau Nokia 8210 est en chemin. Adieu monde de merde.