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Uh… Eerily accurate.

By loaded I meant with servers full, don’t know if it came across correctly. 😅 They’re smaller than lemmy.world though

Time to embrace Infinite Term Support. I’m about to go Debian too, but for other reasons

I hope they’re accepting new members, last I knew about it they were already very loaded with new users.

sigh Based Lemmy devs having yet another big W. Wish my instance did the same

That’s the reason why I don’t main Arch. I’m already past the point where I have all the patience to tinker the conflicts away.

It doesn’t make it less of a crime against good design. Low contrast for reading is bad practice.

It’s really not primed for development. I’d use Arch, Fedora, openSUSE or Debian for that.

What Mint install did you have that had that many issues? Installing apps has been easy for a long time already, just open the app store and pick what you need. Updates is the same thing: app store > update. Whenever something breaks for some reason, there are auto-created rollbacks on the boot menu. My partner is far from being a techie and they managed every daily operation without needing help from my part.

I think we had vastly different experiences, probably because of hardware or release differences, but I never saw the kind of issues you’re commenting :/

I’ve never used it with a Nvidia card, was speaking mostly about mine and my family’s experience. I don’t currently know the state of Nvidia support on Mint at this moment, whether with the proprietary or open source drivers, so can’t give you any info on that.

About being foolproof, it’s about being easy to use without having many footguns, not about being bug free.

This is the best analogy I’ve seen for Arch.

With all due respect, you (and your account) sound too much like astroturf material. The primary business of Meta is influencing public opinion, and that’s the biggest danger it poses to any group.

If you’d like to invite the company that has collaborated with Rohingya’s genocide, feel free to do so. I’d never be able to do so and sleep well at night.

I won’t further engage past this comment our of respect for my own time and for your ability to comprehend my points.

But it can be a replacement with original content. Even if they have the same topics, it’s beneficial to let each community grow their own culture.

Meta’s biggest business has been the manipulation of public opinion for years now. Their entry in the Fediverse is just their latest attempt at keep doing it. Privacy invasion and targeted ads are just tools that enable it for the former, and finance it for the later.

Eugen is either naive or is in cohorts with Meta. As a tech worker, I know firsthand how foolish can techbros be. He.probably thinks he can “negotiate an advantageous position” with Meta.

Bravo. This goes straight to the main goal of Meta: they want us exposed to their manipulation, their astroturfed content and their psychological traps. They want our attention to their content, and the best defense we can have is negating them from having any of it.

They have other ways to gain aside from data collection. Manipulation of public opinion is another possibility.

My main concern isn’t even about privacy, but being exposed to Meta “curated” content. They’ll definitely use the platform to misinform and manipulate public opinion.

Yup, my main concern is being fed stuff Meta wants us to see so they can misinform and manipulate public opinion. I want to never interact with Meta again.

The Wikipedia foundation could be a good player in the fediverse, but they don’t seem too proactive in integrating with us right now.