Nia [She/Her]

Breaking your install within a few days is the rite of passage

I think on a lot of Android phones you can skip the Google sign in step and use it without an account, but it’s limited in the usual ways like no play store access, etc

For League of Legends, that one surprisingly works, even has a wine-ge build made specifically for it https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton8-27-LoL

For CS, that’s one of the rare games that has native Linux support and runs without needing anything at all

For gaming performance, some games run better with Proton-GE which is a custom build containing some fixes that Valve/Steam can’t distribute as a US-based company, some games need it to run at all, some get better performance with it, some run worse, just depends. I’d recommend using GE when a game won’t run with vanilla Proton or runs poorly with it.

Also, checking your games on ProtonDB.com, clicking the PC tab on the game, you can see some tweaks other people did on the game to get the best experience with it, as well as a general idea of how well the game will run on Linux.

For non-steam games, those run good too with stuff like Heroic Games Launcher, Lutris, and Bottles but may require more manual intervention to get working in some cases compared to a lot of Steam games.

Open 4 browser tabs

jokes aside, you’re getting benefits from more caching into ram, and you’re also getting the ability to not have to even think about your ram usage, even if the ram isn’t actively being used by apps you’re getting good use just from having it available, the OS has more wiggle room to use it optimally: I have 64GB of ram and regularly use only about 12-20GB of it, currently 6.1GB is being used as cache

Some apps like Okular (pdf viewer) can be configured to use more ram in the settings, you can set it to be very aggressive about preloading pages so that everything loads faster, set a very high amount of scrollback in your terminal if wanted, etc

I’ve never done this so I can’t speak to how much benefit there is from it, but you can set up a way to preload/cache your most used apps into ram, so that they’re always fully loaded and ready to go

That’s about all there is that we can say, some people just don’t care about their privacy until a blatant violation of it is right in front of their face, and nothing else except for that would ever make them care.

The energy is better spent on sharing info with people who want to do more for privacy, so that eventually it’s hopefully normalized to care about privacy.

The posts, not comments by the users on other instances posts

I don’t know how many times Meta has to literally be worse than a movie villain for people to stop having stockholm syndrome.

They’ve ran experiments on their users putting negative content in their feeds to see how it affects their mental state, if you want that stuff on here, well, I don’t even know what to say.

They have a track record of being absolute garbage for decades.

Why does everything have to have Meta in it?

Seems like they split the video into two different ones after deleting the original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlDsW_xpRr4 https://piped.video/watch?v=HlDsW_xpRr4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCaug10dRE https://piped.video/watch?v=iTCaug10dRE

If every single person who walks on to that street gets instantly beaten, stabbed, or have pedophilia shoved in their face, I would absolutely want someone to stop me from walking down that part of the street.

There is a reason that 500-1000+ instances block these instances of their own accord, and it’s because those instances don’t provide any value whatsoever to any who decides to open it. It’s dangerous to be connected with that kind of stuff at all, there is no neutral stance on this, because taking a neutral stance on allowing the bad actors is just enabling them, as well as opening instance owners and their users up to legal trouble.

There’s a good reason most people have never heard of any instances on this list, and people who don’t want any instances to be blocked would only realize how big of an issue this is the day that they do make an account on an instance that don’t block them, and promptly have their all feed flooded with swastikas and lolicon.

If there’s a street that says “walk down this street to get stabbed” I’d take a wild guess that that street should probably have a safeguard preventing people from walking down it, there has to be some level of moderation to keep things from falling into chaos.

Instances that do not defederate from these quickly become a Nazi bar. I chose my Lemmy instance specifically because of its stance on defederating from instances like these. I’d rather not have pedophilia, swastikas and hate on my all feed when I open Lemmy.

These are the top 50 blocked instances, with tons of instances blocking them, yet most lemmy instances aren’t little 10 user instances, they has a full stream of content throughout the entire day. If this was an issue, it would’ve already happened on Mastodon which is much more popular and much more aggressive on average about defederating with instances, commonly having instances that have over 50-100+ instances blocked, yet are still connected with the vast majority of users.

Censorship is a perfectly valid moderation tool, and is the reason that any of these services are even usable at all in the first place. Without defederation, instance admins have to go through every single one of the tidal wave of reports that would inevitably come from these instances, and that would require a full-time team of a few dozen admins just to even begin to keep up with it, when most instances barely have a handful of admins at all, who are also likely juggling a career in addition to moderating their instance.

Edit: this ended up a bit of a rant, but I figure this thread was a good of a place as any for it. I have a lot of respect for all of the instance admins for voluntarily keeping the instances free from all of this stuff.

One way to think of it is to think of each instance as a person/account, and every instance that they federate with is someone they follow, and anyone that they’re defederated with is someone they’ve blocked.

So if one instance follows (federates) with another, that instances users will see posts and users from that other instance.

If an instance blocks (defederates) with another, it prevents the instance from sending or receiving any new posts or comments with the blocked instance, cutting all communication. In the case of Poast at the top of the list, 1474 instances decided to block it and prevent any new posts or comments from that instance showing up to their users.

Instances that aren’t explicitly federated or defederated yet (unknown) are sort of in a limbo, they won’t be seen at all by any users unless someone from either instance actively searches for a community from the other vir via a direct community link in the searchbox, then those server will follow (federate) with each other.

I hope that made sense, I’m trying to think of better ways to word this but I’m not sure if it’s a good explanation or not.

KDE: https://kde.org/stuff/metastore/

Gnome: https://shop.gnome.org/

Debian (partner stores, some give commission back to Debian): https://www.debian.org/events/merchandise

Opensuse: https://shop.opensuse.org/#!/

Those are all the ones I know of