WhatsApp uses XMPP under the hood, but doesn’t federate with anyone.

Bluesky follows a model they’re more familiar and therefore more comfortable with, even if its the same model that got them where they are in the first place. Bluesky’s federation protocol doesnt matter so much as the fact that Bluesky is a singular silo that all Bluesky users can see all content and other users in does. Bluesky self-hosted sites will be a ‘nice addition’ that most users won’t have to care or think about.

I love lemmy and fediverse stuff, but even I am stressed out at the idea of having to make sure I have some kind of replication across different instances, having to keep track of who federates (or doesn’t) with who, and always wondering if my home instance is “the right one.”

Must be your region, all of the McDonalds here in my state and the two I travel to next to me seem to be able to get it right, actually talk to me, the screens almost always work (almost), and the orders are almost always right (almost). I’ve never had raw fries, those are usually the best part of the meal. I don’t usually eat it unless I am roadtripping, but that’s been happening a lot recently.

None of this is to invalidate your experience, mind you. What region are you in, so we know where not to get McDonalds at?

You haven’t noticed the issue then. X11 tends to run everything at the lowest common denominator, and doesn’t allow per-monitor scaling.

without something breaking like its arch

I have had seven full-system failures across the last two decades using Ubuntu that could not easily be troubleshooted and fixed.

I have had exactly zero with Arch.

Take that as you will.

You got it backwards though. The root cause is not the change in work ethic. The change in work ethic is the symptom. People have to get nitpicky about breaks and such and show no loyalty entirely because companies stopped being loyal to their employees. This can be demarcated with the death of the pension.

It was a dad joke and you missed it.

Please stop using UserBenchmark, they are dishonest to the point where they started throwing Intel CPU models scores out of whack negatively just to skew AMD results.

Rat Race

Why does Lemmy not prevent duplicate links, at least within a time window?

I avoid all of the modern gnome apps now as a result of this.

Even Windows allows the equivalent of server side decorations…

Everything in KDE is the bare minimum for core functionality. Anything less is not functional.

My problem with Gnome is the foundation itself.

They act like they know best, and rarely listen to user feedback.

They act like Apple, and that is very bad.

Not only that, but they also act like they are the default and only desktop on Linux, and rarely if ever cooperate with other desktop groups to make things work smoothly.

They are dragged kicking and screaming into following standards, and were the biggest source of NACKs (effectively a “veto”) on the Wayland protocol and a huge reason why Wayland still isn’t complete after over a decade of design.

The gnome desktop is pretty, but it is not functional. You can make it functional by installing gobs of extensions, but those extensions don’t follow a cohesive workflow concept, and often break with updates. It’s like trying to mod Skyrim or Minecraft.

To contrast that, KDE:

• Explicitly listens to its users and has scheduled times for specifically taking in user feedback (within the scope of broad goals)

• Actively works to be interoperable with other environments

• Follows standards and pushes them forward

• Has all the functionality out of the box, and can be made pretty with extensions/assets (the inverse of Gnome).

• Functionality mostly doesnt break on updates unless it’s major (like switching to Wayland as the primary development target).

Just your average NieR boss fight.

Wait… Damage is a signed int?

“The south shall rise (ahem) again!”

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Zero-party state let’s gooo

Who touched the boats?

How’d they taste?