This alone will make a huge difference with other platforms that will hide that info under seven wraps an report any and all accounts as active users.

Today is my first day using Lemmy with Jerboa, and I'm seeing enough quality and volume to stay.

In the end, once you reach critical mass of quality comments, you don't need the huge numbers of trash filler you find on reddit.

Google Domains has catch-all redirect email, and is on the cheap side I'd say.

Ooops no, I wasn't aware. Drats, Google again doing Google things.

It's nice to have the options. Now I'm trying Summit because of the Mark read on scroll and it also seems good enough.

I second Antichamber, cool mechanics and ambient and on the shortish side. I had it gifted by a friend that knows I like the kind of games you're looking for.

That's my current laptop since 2+ years go and I love it. Battery lasts a day no prob for regular work. If you're constantly compiling it won't, but then on battery it throttles a lot so it gives you good balance.

Anyway, with tlp you can tweak it a lot, I'm mostly going with the defaults, just lowered the max charge to protect the battery.

Only thing not working out of the box on Ubuntu is the fingerprint reader. I read that there are ways but I haven't bothered.