All your old stuff will stay visible even after lemm.ee goes down, but it won’t be linked with whatever new user you create on another instance.

If export and import of posts and comments was possible it would result in “duplicating” your posts and comments to your new account, which as you might imagine would be an absolute mess (not to mention technically infeasible - how would comment chains with other users work?) so you can presumably understand why it isn’t.

It’s quite annoying for sure (and I’m a lemm.ee user too, so I’m also annoyed with everything I’m losing) but this is the trade-off we accept with federation that allows Lemmy as a whole to be robust and keep going even without lemm.ee

Back in the early 2000s I was a teen on a 56k dial-up modem. There would be frequent connection drops, or if not that, my dad would simply kick me off the Internet so he could make a phone call. Trying to download large files through the browser would only end in tears, so a download manager that supported resume was absolutely essential.

I used something called FlashGet (I was a Windows user back then) which looking it up now apparently turned into a malware-riddled mess towards the end of its life, as did so many things. But it was an absolute lifesaver at the time.

What’s the (de)federation like on lemmy.zip?

The best thing about ee was that it was federated with almost everyone

Captain Picard very much became a Captain to all of us, I think.

Of course he’s got some flaws for sure (his stubbornness, for one!) but he really set the bar for what a civilised person and a good leader should be.

He’s principled, fact-based, fair in his judgement, respects the differences of others (both individually and culturally), solves problems with understanding and empathy rather than force, and he’s forgiving of mistakes.

And he does all that while still being a “strong” man. In fact, it’s these very traits which earn him the respect of his crew.

I’m glad I had Captain Picard as an influence in my childhood, rather than whatever youtube channel trying to make me angry for all the wrong reasons.

Yeah. Soft furnishings like carpet, rugs, sofas and beds all feel a lot more “natural” to cats, as if they are outside on the grass, so they prefer to do it there.

Unlucky for us it’s the absolute last place we want them to be doing it.

VSCode is by far and away the best thing Microsoft has ever done. (I’m sure therefore they will ruin it eventually, but that’s a separate issue)

Its good for two main reasons IMO:

1. It is plugin-based

2. It is (therefore) language-agnostic

Plugins mean the DE starts as a very lightweight thing that is basically nothing more than a text editor. You can then add as much or as little as you want to get the level of features you are comfortable with but without being too bloated.

And then, because it’s all plugins, you can work with any language and still stay within the same editor. Divine.

I personally love how lightweight it is compared to a full IDE because I don’t like it when IDEs hide the magic behind UI. Press the button and it compiles huh? But how? What’s going on there? What toolchain and commands are being executed?

I much prefer a good MAKEFILE where you know what your entry points are and what is going on, because it makes everything so much more portable and also improves your own knowledge and understanding.

The same people who complain on Amazon reviews that the cable broke for “no reason”

OP specifically said they don’t want to dual boot, and I honestly understand why they would say that.

When you dual boot you need to worry about what bootloader is in use and how it is set up. You might find yourself in a situation where you later decide to move fully to Linux and use the old Windows drive as storage but you can’t because if you wipe it then everything stops working.

Windows has even been known to destroy dual boot setups occasionally during Windows updates.

All very solveable if you have the right knowledge, but if you want to keep your life simple then swapping hardware has guaranteed safety (nothing can go wrong with the contents if a drive if it’s not plugged in, after all) and it’s very predictable and understandable.

Maybe it’s a really really small book

Personally I feel what it gave them - primarily - was the ability to be independent of Microsoft, not beholden to them in any way whatsoever, and not having to pay them any license fees.

The fact that after putting so much work into making Proton and that whole toolchain amazing it’s actually faster than Windows is just the delicious icing on the cake, from a commercial perspective.

Its not, but you can’t just keep a passenger on your plane who is flipping out and might try something else crazy apart from that.

Yeah, identity is a problem (though I’m not in the US)

“The squeaky wheel gets the grease” is an adage that is unfortunately true, and I find it absolutely infuriating.

I would much prefer that we can all be polite and courteous to each other, so when being polite fails but having a screaming tantrum gets results it really makes me annoyed at the unfairness.

Spend it on completely mundane and practical things like securing a place to live, and buying a suit to interview for a job - because 5k simply isn’t enough to make any immediate life-changing money on, even if you’re from the future.

And I really need a place to sleep.

5k might be quick money if I was a sports buff and could remember match results, or knew the exact dates of significant events, or remembered a bunch of old lottery numbers, but that’s not the case so it’s off the table.

So yeah. Get a place. Get a suit (it’s 1990, you need a suit), Get a job, earn some money, and spend half my wage on shares in Microsoft and other companies I remember as doing well.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they use it for creation in some cases, depending on locale, or if you seem “suspicious” to their metrics in some way, e.g. registering while on a VPN

Algorithmic recommendations happen on the backend, so no chance of that unfortunately

Even Andor is true to that formula.

In one part, two characters are speaking over “radio” comms using code talk - presumably in case there are any Empire operatives listening in. And prior to that they kept missing each other because they weren’t at their radios at the same time. Derp!

So you’ve got hyperspace travel and laser guns, but no data encryption, or text messaging. Alright then.

Except of course, they do have those things when the plot calls for it, and that’s another reason to consider it fantasy. In most sci-fi the rules stay pretty consistent, but in fantasy it’s flexible.

*in the past! :)

(“A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”)

The way 2. is written is basically a death sentence.

What they presumably meant is “never exceed your ideal weight no matter how much you eat”

I guess some of us just like to think the search bar and the address bar are conceptually different interface elements with different reasons to exist.