Beehaw is a quieter experience than most because it has narrower federation, but you do tend to get a better signal to noise ratio since you miss the spammier instances - I like it.
Beehaw also doesn’t federate downvotes which I think is an improvement.
Completely agree. Now my hot take for this thread:
If governments some time in the 90s had decided from the start to ban computer hardware from being sold with pre-installed software then we wouldn’t have this problem. If everyone had to install their own operating system from scratch, which like you say isn’t hard if it’s taught, it would have killed the mystery around computing and people would feel ownership over their computers and computing.
It’s the first time I’ve seen it.
Is there a reason given why they can’t use their current logo?
That’s not true of all of the rest of the world though, you will get great tea in other tea-consuming areas, France is quite low down on that list.
I think steeping is the American English for what in Britain we would call brewing. (S)he is saying you’re brewing it too long.
Hákarl, the Icelandic fermented shark - while not exactly pleasant the first time, it’s nowhere near as bad as people make out.
Ostrich - looks like it would taste like beef, but actually it’s more of a strong chicken-like flavour which makes sense really.
I guess you could say horse, but that’s common in a lot of places in Europe. Like beef but less flavour, too lean, I’m not a fan.
The point is that YouTubers pay for that with their own reputation, if I followed a YouTuber that promoted exploitative companies I would stop following that YouTuber - why would you want to watch their content anyway?
Blocking YouTube’s advertising is necessary for privacy, and it punishes YouTube for their bad business practices.
But sponsors aren’t underhanded like that and I feel like they’re the type of thing we should really be promoting as an alternative to privacy invading ads, and hopefully a way for creators to move off of YouTube eventually.
Set calendar alerts for routine tasks that need to be done less frequently than once a week.
Things like washing the vacuum cleaner filters, descaling the kettle, replacing the water filter (I’m in a hard-water area), servicing various appliances, cleaning all the things that need cleaning but don’t need cleaning every week. All small things. It removes a lot of cognitive effort and makes sure those things actually get done.
This isn’t a Guardian article, unless I’m missing something?
Using Fedora Silverblue has gone a long way to dispel that concern for me. It goes out of its way to be much more user-centric than that. I can’t speak for the others yet.
Call me old fashioned, but I think marketing an OS from a spyware company to naive users who don’t understand the risks is an extremely horrible thing to do - therefore it’s the worst distro, if it can be called a distro.
1: Use Linux
2: Mullvad browser (Firefox-based) - while I don’t use it myself (I have my own customised Firefox in-keeping with my threat model) for an average “normie” user this seems to have the most sane defaults for privacy including uBlock Origin installed by default (and fingerprint resistance).
3: Keep your software updated (too overlooked by so many users).
This is a great release, GNOME 45 is looking really nice.
Recommended reading: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-39/
I do, I don’t even have Tweaks installed.
I used to be an avid customiser of software, but one day I realised that I spent a lot of time tweaking things and didn’t get a great workflow anyway.
The thing about GNOME is it has a great in-built workflow and I work more efficiently now I just let it make the decisions for me.
I also kind of think that if you’re the type to install a lot of extensions you’d probably be happier with KDE anyway.
Well, almost the opposite of you, I currently use Fedora Silverblue (including BTRFS which I very much appreciate for versioned backups), except that I override GNOME Software (never got it to work properly for me) and Fedora’s Firefox (I use the Firefox from Flathub but not Fedora).
Seems bold of them to assume who your friends are. Glad I never used that site.
You can just install Dolphin on GNOME, you don’t have to go the whole way.
Posting from a Beehaw account I think does have a psychological effect on me that causes me to naturally tone things down a bit. I think it’s been good for me.