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by akho 5mo ago
What age are you worried about?
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by akho 5mo ago
Yes. The economic reason for the fork is the same.
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by akho 5mo ago
There's a clear intent for EU entities to switch to "sovereign" tech. That means that there's a lot of money on the table. Hence the "EuroOffice" rebadge, and this unpleasantness.
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by akho 5mo ago
Shortcuts still don't work on non-Latin keyboard layouts on Linux. For people who use languages with non-Latin writing systems, this is a show-stopper. (there is, of course, a rich tradition of text editors with the same issue, includi
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by akho 5mo ago
That would be good, but somehow didn't work all the other times.
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by akho 5mo ago
What apps? (idle interest; I use Graphene, but few apps, and everything worked so far)
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by akho 5mo ago
This Pi thing does not have a DAC.
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by akho 5mo ago
it reliably keeps buffers between restarts, including for unsaved files. It's kinda amazing at that.
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by akho 5mo ago
Note how noone clones bbedit for other oses.
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by akho 6mo ago
They don't usually want to. Why restrict yourself in such contortions? Bit it's entirely possible, and common. E. g., uses of Linux in schools and governments are not more terminal-heavy for end-users than Windows setups. Fedora o
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by akho 6mo ago
> The hardware is almost universally agreed to be great There is some agreement in terms of the M chips. There is no universl agreement re keyboard layout, screen technology and surfacing, trackpoints, touchscreens, 2-in-1 form factors,
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by akho 6mo ago
Are we giving strategic advice to Microsoft now? Anyway: consumer OSes are historically cheap, and cannot be easily converted into subscriptions. So the market is low-margin, and shrinking (due to both phones and clouds). I suspect it is al
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by akho 6mo ago
What does “at the network level” mean?.. Anyway; Tailscale is not your only network. If you’re on a laptop, you need to be able to log onto rando wifi networks. If you’re at home, you need to be mindful of your smart fridge going rogue. You
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by akho 6mo ago
You have to use a firewall anyway. If you use Tailscale, you have two firewalls, which is not strictly easier.
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by akho 6mo ago
Tailscale somehow found use for self-hosters, despite being wildly unergonomic for an all-Linux, non-corporate, network. Yggdrasil lacks marketing effort, but is otherwise a great option.
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by akho 7mo ago
I suspect Linux has better hardware support than Haiku, which is not exactly easy to run on laptop hardware (w/ wifi, sleep, &c)
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by akho 8mo ago
Also opposite in terms of feature-richness.
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by akho 9mo ago
You can block your own internet, if you feel that way.
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by akho 9mo ago
I think the most you can say is that they recognized that many male propertied white protestant Americans are American. Maybe some more qualifiers are necessary.
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by akho 9mo ago
So are the other browsers on iOS.
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by akho 10mo ago
Yes. My original question was whether federation is necessary for the kind of communities Mastodon serves, not whether the web must have multiple websites.
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by akho 10mo ago
So did forums, even with no federation.
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by akho 10mo ago
Having many instances is not the same as federation.
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by akho 10mo ago
Why not several identities, and aggregation in the client? You seem to need to be in the community to fully interact with it on Mastodon, anyway.
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by akho 10mo ago
My parents did fine with Linux. My mom still does; it's certainly less maintenance effort from me than Windows would require. It was fine for non-technical users since at least early GNOME 2, if you're ready to help them set up an
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by akho 10mo ago
I use Linux on the desktop since 1997, and there was no point where Windows was even slightly more attractive. I don't know what "prime time" means here. edit: apart from, you know. Applications and drivers for random hardwar
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by akho 10mo ago
At this point, it isn't clear why federation is in there at all. The "forums, bit twitter" concept does produce nice places, but federation seems like a net negative for that.
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by akho 10mo ago
The one with the smaller cemetery.
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by akho 10mo ago
Oh, and you don't hve to use cloud subscription services.
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by akho 10mo ago
Obsidian is an itertion on text notes. Too many waves of this over the years. There is indeed a lot of hardware progress, including 3D printing, but also a general shift to laptops, need to sync with phones, much better connectivity, suffic

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