Some weather we're having, eh?

No and no, it's just hype IMO. But the trickle of new users seems sufficient to make Lemmy a more interesting place to be and a more viable platform long term. That's already quite good if you ask me.

Despite the fact that Lemmy is a fairly new piece of software, which makes these issues more likely, I am really grateful for it being open source, and I really appreciate this level of transparency.

I, too, would like the winter winds to teach me about Rust.

In my experience, these YouTube channels buy that simplicity in exchange for leaving out many (important) details. Sure, college professors aren't all didactic geniuses, but making things accurate usually requires to also make it more complicated.

Roman emperor Elagabalus is my personal entry for the "historical man-children so incompetent it's surprising they even made it that far" category.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus

I think the question was "what's the purpose of posting this on Lemmy?" (not arXiv) because that does nothing for peer review but a lot for stirring laypeople's wild imagination.

Could also help to deactivate the personalized advertising functionality in the Google/YouTube settings (basically wipe currently stored preference, the forbid YouTube from making suggestions based on your interests). This will keep her feed fairly generic (and bad, oh boy) so that she would have to actively search for or subscribe to these videos.

This is a preprint published on arXiv.org, which is as reputable as it gets before peer review (so no red flag but standard practice). But I agree that people shouldn't place hopes in this before it's been peer reviewed and replicated by independent researchers.

I think it mostly refers to a fresh install, which is fairly slim I guess (though not THAT slim either). The package (non-)granularity is still just absurd sometimes.

The true arch experience.

I feel like Windows 7 fills the sweet spot between the seemless UI of the 2000/XP era and newer versions. Windows 10/11 could top that list if Microsoft had bothered to create a proper UI instead of just slapping some material design on a handful of apps, while everything else is still basically 2000/XP. Then again, GTK2/3/4 can be almost as bad.

FOAAS (Fuck off as a service)

Honestly, I've been using Arch for about 10 years now, and I've never met an actual Arch elitist in real life (I guess we don't get out of the basement that much). The only people I've met who would show that attitude were usually either Ubuntu/Mint fanboys or GNU hardliners. Live and let live?

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That's cool. How did you go about finding that? Any communities you can recommend?

Man, when I played, poor Paul got burnt to a crisp. I'm still having flashbacks from that shock.

This may be a stupid question, but how does an app being on Play Store and not F-Droid make it no longer FOSS?

*Badness intensifies*