EnsignWashout

joined 2 years ago
[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So you're complaining that you have to click on it - once every two years - when you reboot...

That's rough, buddy.

I joke. But also, I guess if you feel that strongly about wasting my a click, Linux is definitely the OS for you.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In contrast, I set my nephew up with Linux Mint, and he is now slowly converting the rest of his family to open source solutions.

My understanding is that they keep having conversations about privacy news, and he keeps knowing a solution, which sometimes is Android or Linux based. So now his parents will ask me "Is it true the XY protects against YZ and is free?"

It's been a pretty cool thing to watch.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

I find Garyjay helps with this, by mingling videos from other services.

Sometimes by the time I've tried one of the first videos to load from other services, the PeerTube results have loaded for me.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 7 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Yes.

At this rate, we will be having a "local files are hard for the average user" debate, here, in another decade.

Which, maybe it will be, at that point.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 10 points 7 months ago

It's often the ones we most suspected.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oof. Hopefully a security professional will slap some sense into someone before it gets out of beta.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

Imagine what she can accomplish in an echo chamber, though.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

@retrolemmy username...hm....

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago

He does look like he's going to give himself a heart attack.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago

they say it's worth it

Narrator: They did not.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

because you probably don't know how software is built.

Oh shit. Nevermind then.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

What I'm hearing is: I can replace saying "I have a dumb little WordPress blog that no one reads" with "I host a part of the 'Deep Net'.

Sweet.

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