provided it for free and pre-configured with sensible defaults

Nice :D

I find Linux so much easier, even on my random poorly researched distros and hardware combinations

Oh heck yeah - I think Mint is coming out on an ancient machine over here :) thanks!

Awesome

If you wanna put your qualitative hat on: how much better is today’s easiest distro than Mint was circa 2010?

We wanna grow too and hopefully be a place with more authentic conversations (better anti-bot defenses) - hyperbolic to say “future’s at stake”?

I think truly delightfully UX would be very yuge. I should learn and contribute :)

uh-oh

Leta is not widely used.

Please everyone, help click

https://leta.mullvad.net/?q=hide+body+lake+vs+forest&oc=1

I see what you mean

I will say, when a company tries sometimes they can make small work really well:

There are opportunities to make small desirable. But I know people like their big trucks, I’m sure people like their big phones too.

:)

“Don’t Be Evil” happily indexing while Bingcrosoft sleeps

That’s quite a good point. Here’s a little thought experiment, though: If we woke up tomorrow and Mastodon looked just like Bluesky (but with a different color scheme) and featured 100% two-way integration with Bluesky…

Essentially, if Mastodon became hands down the most user-friendly and engaging option—would that be enough to make a meaningful difference in its adoption curve?

Was it just a facetious complaint?

OK yeah but… we can’t have nice things soooo

Heh

Come to our species when you want to ignore the possibly highly damaging* yet murky and uncertain in favor of prioritizing the certainty of immediate convenience today.

*must be informed to realize this basic tenet

Cheap, thanks :)

Screenshot looks great, gotta try this! Nice work

Also “H” “P”

Voyager iOS is where I noticed it!

I suppose we’ve got to keep at it until we’re at a point where doing something is better than doing nothing. Where, of course, doing nothing is somewhat of an acknowledgement of the fact it’s hard to do something right enough to be able to apply it to all posts and all articles and all that.

An analogy comes to mind: it’s like the difference between telling hikers they’re at their own risk and advising them to bring water, good shoes, and a fully charged battery, and they’ll be fine. If you can’t account for everything, there are arguments to be made with trying to shift responsibility back to people with either more general or more specific warnings.

The “crossed off the list for life“ strategy doesn’t much work for me either… but we’re best off keeping score somehow, for sure.

Could be boycotting companies most recently in the news for bad behavior, or who are doing the greatest harm

It’s no big deallll

Could use this if really desired:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/ffbf633e-f6bc-473e-96b7-b778c0f6a38c.jpeg

Quick and dirty from me too :)

Hey, if you do edit that URL in, re: title would note it’s like… something like:

Windows dropped this whole W11 version before ending life support for W10 lmao

^{(sorry dropped /s)}