PeerTube migration time! Federate everything!!!
alejandro
joined 1 year ago
The other element to this is the lack of competition. Since companies funded this way don’t need to turn a profit for a long time, they can very easily kill their competitors who do need to be profitable to survive.
So when the time comes for the company to turn a profit, there are few if any competitors left to put pressure on them, giving them the power to do what they want, and leaving consumers with no other options.
Actually I was referring to the background of the comment being colored yellow instead of white. I think it's because it was recently posted when I saw it. It's not yellow anymore, but another comment here posted more recently did appear yellow until after it passed the 10 minute mark.
So I guess lemmy just highlights comments that are less than 10 minutes old. IIRC reddit had a feature like that for gold users, but it only did it after you already visited the comments section at least once.
Why is your comment highlighted yellow for me? (via lemmy.world web ui)
I didn't even know there was a monospace version of it. I think I'm going to try it out lol
Definitely invisibility. If I had the power of flight, I'd probably have everyone asking me to do favors for them all the time.
Extremely charitable guess: they want it to be open to prevent the spread of germs slightly (so nobody has to touch a door), but need the option of closing it after school hours to prevent vandalism.
I've been exclusively using Silverblue (well, Kinoite, which is the KDE version) as my main workstation OS for at least 8 months, and gaming on it is no different from other operating systems. Once you install Steam from Flathub, it all just works. The only difference is that you might need to give Steam permission to access your external drives if you want to add a Steam library on them. KDE Plasma lets you do it from the system settings app easily.
For generic Wine usage, I just use Lutris. Steam does allow you to add non-Steam games and run them through Proton, but IMO Lutris' interface is easier for doing more advanced Wine stuff without having to drop into a terminal. That's personal preference though.
As far as drivers, I didn't have trouble installing the Nvidia driver (I have a 1080 TI). I don't remember exactly what I did to install it system wide, since that was many months ago, but it was easy and well-documented IIRC.
What's more complicated is getting the driver to work in graphical apps launched from toolboxes. If you're doing development, or expect to build graphical software/games from source, you'll likely need to deal with this. Basically, you just need to install the driver again inside of the toolbox, and make sure it's the same version as what's installed on your base system. I have some scripts to automate this if you're interested, but it's not really that useful unless you're planning to use toolboxes a lot.
Overall, I'm very happy with Silverblue/Kinoite. The immutable base system gives me a lot of confidence on the long-term reliability of the system. Originally, I expected it to be a real blocker for most software, but the only thing I couldn't get working was TeamViewer (didn't try that hard tho tbh). I've even been able to get complex stuff to work like Unity, O3DE, Stable Diffusion webui, and a bunch of other AI-related stuff that is normally hard to install even on a regular system.
Fedora Kinoite: 9/10 -- highly recommend
Lmao this reminds me of one time when I opened up Amazon, and my homepage was suddenly filled with My Little Pony products, various stuffed animals, and lube. Idk why that happened, I'm not a brony or a furry or anything like that, and the products disappeared after about a day. Maybe it was because I clicked something brony/furry related on reddit? or it might've been a joke from a bored Amazon employee or something.
It was funny at the time, but it also made me realize how problematic targeted advertising can be. What if someone that doesn't know me that well sees it and thinks I'm a weirdo, and decides to not hire me or give me a loan or accept my college application, or whatever. Or what if I want to secretly look up divorce lawyers, and then every site/video I open starts spamming me with loud obnoxious ads for divorce lawyers? How many intimate personal details about a person can be deduced from the ads they're seeing?!
So yeah, ad blockers and tracking protection for me all day every day. I refuse to give Youtube my money as that's the only choice I have as a consumer to fight back against business models I disagree with. If they want to block people like me, they're free to do so at any time.