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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

/shrug

I've been using it on my multiple monitor setup for well over a year with no noticeable performance impact.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The DE is the limiting factor here. MX uses XFCE, which does not yet support Wayland. For that, you'll need to use KDE Plasma or Gnome. The former requires an additional wayland session package to be installed, while Gnome comes with it by default.

You could create a new user session, install whichever one you prefer and then see if that works with Waydroid.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago

Nah, NFTs were always about the grift first and the art second.

After all, all an NFT token is is a digital receipt which links to an image hosted somewhere off-chain, not the image itself. All the "art" does is help to persuade people that the tokens are actually worth something and hype up the price even further.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Huh? Gnome has had fractional scaling for ages.

All it takes is changing a gconf setting.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 252 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Why don't you buy Apple products?"

Me: Gestures broadly at this:

Ever the innovators, Apple introduced a new dimension to repair that our scorecard simply didn’t account for: namely, that you could take a highly repairable design like the iPhone 14, install a genuine Apple replacement screen or battery, and then… it fails to work. Following the correct procedure was no longer enough.

Today, you need one more thing: a software handshake, using Apple’s System Configuration tool. It contacts Apple’s servers to “authenticate” the repair, then “pairs” the new part to your system so it works as expected. Of course, it can only authenticate if Apple knows about your repair in advance, because you gave them the exact serial number of your iPhone, and they’ve pre-matched it to a display or battery. This is only possible if you buy the screen or battery directly from Apple. Forget harvesting parts—which is a huge part of most independent repair and recycling businesses. It’s also impossible to pair any aftermarket parts—which means only Apple-authorized repairs can truly restore the device to full functionality.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

To be fair, the community depicted in the show is the communist Utopia that Marx envisioned. The end goal of communism has always essentially been a collection of autonomous, democratic communities.

Where "Tankies" generally go awry is the handwaving away of all the mass murder and totalitarian terror that occured when Lenin, Stalin and Mao had a crack at it.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I didn't really explain myself very well, in retrospect

Like Fedora Workstation, there were quite a few packages that I needed to add after the initial installation - Gnome Tweaks, RPMFusion, Flathub, third party codecs, etc.

Silverblue being immutable made this process more of headache than I felt it should have been.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

This is just my not-at-all-in-depth summary based on playing around with a few in VMs, but as a non-power-user:

Fedora Silverblue
Pros: Good support/documentation
Cons: barebones Gnome/required layering quite a few packages ~~if you want any kind of customization~~ before I could get my system up and running

OpenSUSE Aeon (MicroOS)
Pros: good number of built-in tools (e.g. Tweaks, distrobox)
Cons: documentation is sorely lacking

Vanilla OS
Pros: great ease of use/installation, container-centric
Cons: still very much a work in progress/small dev team

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I understood some of those words.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Is there any reason to think it isn't rooted in the difference in political alignment?

Yes, there is. Lemmygrad is politically aligned with HexBear, but receives far fewer complaints from users of other instances. Why?

IMO, it's because Lemmygrad users usually keep to themselves within the confines of their own instance and generally don't behave like a gang of drunken hooligans.

Hexbear users on the other hand ...

Although I agree that the majority of new Lemmy users are probably not used to political challenges coming from leftfield as opposed to from the right, it seems to me that the core reason why Hexbear users often get under people's skin to such a degree is their overall behavior, not their political stances per se (as deplorable as they quite often are).

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can easily get away with more than one or two. I typically run between eight and ten and have rarely had any issues surrounding updates.

It's really just as simple as waiting a week or two after a new Gnome version drops before you update. By then, the vast majority of the more popular extensions will have already fixed any compatibility issues or, if not, there's a very good chance that an outdated extension can be replaced by a newer alternative.

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