RoboticMask

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[–] RoboticMask 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it's because WhatsApp was free at a time where SMS were not (you might have a few included in your plan, but you couldn't rely on that)

[–] RoboticMask 1 points 1 year ago

I am a tech nerd over 30, using a mixture of windows and linux, and watch porn. While I'm not a furry, they have great art IMHO so people can share it even if they aren't 100% into it. Some of it might even be ideologically driven, against the anti-porn drive: Add a lot of good porn content so that in case e.g. Reddit shuts down NSFW there is a good alternative.

[–] RoboticMask 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also heard that. But is it actually the case that a significant number of people don't use the file explorer (because they often use tablets/smartphones and not a desktop/laptop PC as main device, which is what I heard as reason) or is it just something people say?

[–] RoboticMask 1 points 1 year ago

I remember Macron once was like "well, US is too free for us, China is too restrictive, we need to be in the middle".

[–] RoboticMask 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me, it has gone to normal. All the subreddits I frequented are open and populated with the exception of one which has been permanently privated, but not to protest.

[–] RoboticMask 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh, most websites I visit probably aren't that important that they need to be archived. I would assume installing this extension would just contribute to a bloated archive with little additional value.

[–] RoboticMask 2 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's awful. I just use Firefox mobile + Adblock, which isn't very nice to reddit, but at least allows a somewhat decent experience - except for missing features like /r/Subreddit/comments, for which you have to go in Desktop mode.

[–] RoboticMask 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Android, I was not able to install it using Firefox (Button was there, but clicking it did nothing), but was using Google Chrome.

[–] RoboticMask 1 points 2 years ago

Um, I would say that stackoverflow contributes to productivity, but reddit is likely mostly detrimental. Never used Reddit for work, not even programming subreddits, but StackOverflow all the time.

[–] RoboticMask 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Pro essentially offers 10 years of updates instead of 5. Also, you can install some kernel security patches without restarting.

The services are listed in https://ubuntu.com/pro - IMHO nothing relevant for end users there, it's mostly for enterprises where any downtime is really expensive. But for normal users, rebooting every once in a while shouldn't hurt too much IMHO.

[–] RoboticMask 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The compressed archive of reddit from 2005.5 until 2022 is 2 TB: https://academictorrents.com/details/7c0645c94321311bb05bd879ddee4d0eba08aaee

Uncompressed it is likely way larger though.

[–] RoboticMask 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I think Ubuntu Pro is mainly for people who don't want to switch to new releases very often. I think most people would prefer new features to not having to adjust every 4 years.

When I want to give Ubuntu money (tbh only did once, when I installed it on the notebook I am currently using), I just donated something at the form which appears when you download it, https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop/thank-you#contributions-form

 

I looked through the rules on https://mastodon.world/about which are supposed to be also valid for lemmy.world (I think?). There, there is a "server rule" against shitposting (rule 16). However, there is an entire community centered about shitposting on lemmy.world (https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyshitpost) and it is not small, so must be known by the admins.

So I wonder whether I misunderstood something? Are the listed rules not the rules for this instance? Below the rules there is "Moderated servers", where the info is not displayed, so maybe lemmy.world is not affected by the rules at all and uses different rules? Or is shitposting an exception because the whole community is dedicated to it? Or is it technically against the rules but nobody cares as nobody is harmed by it?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by RoboticMask to c/nostupidquestions
 

On another Lemmy instance, I saw that I was not logged in but could subscribe by putting "[email protected]" into the search field. However, when I put it into the search field of this Lemmy instance, it gives me a comment containing that string, but does not allow me to subscribe.

What is the correct way to do it?

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