ZFS and BTRFS could update their codebase to account for these (if they haven’t already), but I agree that their extra mechanical parts worry me. I really don’t care about speed - if you run enough HDDs in your RAID then you get enough speed by proxy. If you need better speeds then you should start looking into RAM/SSD-caching etc. I’d rather have better reliability than speed, because I hate spinning rust’s short lifespan as-is.

Try installing this AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-libva1-compat

r/linux4noobs -> !linuxquestions@lemmy.zip or any of the Linux communities seem to be responsive to questions. I think in these early stages the more niche communities need to exist within the larger communities. If the niche community gets too disruptive to the large community it can break out into its own community.

This type of post may be better suited to a community like Fedidrama or something but I appreciate keeping track of events like this so that we’re keeping transparency on instances. If no one gives their side of the story when they get banned then we don’t have records in case of admin abuse. Especially in the Fediverse trust and maturity is paramount when choosing instances to build communities on and to be a member of.

I agree. They’ve publicly and conspicuously begged for donations for years now, and clearly not enough companies have answered the call. Without enough funding they are forcing companies to pay for their usage of the Matrix components by using AGPL and selling licensing exceptions. This is not a great scenario but it is probably the only way the project can survive at this point.

There is a lot of discussion on the controversial switch to CLA here, which most importantly includes several posts from Matthew (username Arathorn) where he justifies their decision. I believe the rationale and I don’t think anyone wanted this to happen, but I’m also ready to cut ties with the project if they pull anything shady with their newfound power.

They’ve been calling for donations from companies using their project for a while now, and now it looks like they’ve had enough.

67. vote manipulation

Just 1 so far. In the future I might make an alt on another instance as a backup or something, but so far it doesn’t seem necessary. My current instance has a ridiculous amount of donations and a good sysadmin so I’m not worried about it disappearing at the moment.

That seems to be their goal, though they are probably targeting specific instances that they notice most often. I think Yiffit tried to convince them to just block NSFW content or just specific communities instead of defederating entirely but apparently that didn’t work - I’m not in the loop on how the conversation went.

For the record Lemmy.ml does actually disallow NSFW, and they defederated from Yiffit.net (a general furry instance) because it has NSFW communities. Tread carefully around them or they’ll remove you from the Lemmyverse, is the apparent message.

Hey this is your friendly reminder to spread out in the Fediverse. Stop making communities on the big servers. Now all those users just lost a big chunk of content and they’re likely to leave Lemmy and spread the word about how the Fediverse will never work because of trigger-happy admins.

Is your Steam installed via Flatpak? If your Steam is Flatpak’d then it might be pulling in some extra Flatpak dependencies (e.g. Nvidia drivers) that Bottles could be using. If it’s not installed by Flatpak then I’m puzzled, because Bottles shouldn’t be using the base system for anything.

At the very least I would try uninstalling and reinstalling Steam to confirm that it is indeed what is causing it to stop/start working, and also to check if any other dependencies are coming and going alongside Steam.

I think the problem may inherently be the front page. Memes are more likely to be upvoted, whereas discussions are probably taking place in smaller communities. I’d suggest subscribing to text-based communities that you want to follow discussions in.

Discord. Too many people and communities on it that won’t use Matrix.

That’s fair - obviously that will need time to grow but I’m not sure what we can do to foster it in the meantime. My personal guess is that getting users onto Lemmy through any means possible will help in all community directions. If Lemmy had 1 million users that were only here because of the technology community, you can count on a chunk of them being good at DIY or cooking also. The more humans that we have here, the more collective experience that we have as a whole.

The second best time to create activity is now. I’m actually very fluent in US-based personal finance but no one has posted asking for help. I think there are a lot of communities that have a lot of subscribers and no activity - just waiting for someone that needs help.

I left reddit totally when I made my account here. Lemmy has been great, but it’s not a full replacement per se. Most often I’ve just decided I can live without the niche reddit content. Lemmy has plenty of its own content, and it’s enough for me to fill that “hole”.

As I’m sure many are aware, reddit has addictive qualities that aren’t always serving your best interest. Just because there’s a subreddit for r/breadstapledtotrees doesn’t mean you should dedicate time out of your day to look at it. All the important discussions to me have mostly moved over here, and all the people who are posting and commenting on Lemmy have a much much higher level of aptitude on these topics than redditors (I like that you can go into a random meme community on Lemmy and pick a fight about filesystems).

We still need to create and fill a lot of niche communities here, but Rome wasn’t built in a day and we’re making great progress here in just a few months. Lemmy feels viable and sustainable and I think we’re past the hard part of gaining critical mass and making daily Lemmy use a habit. My call-to-action would be to stop searching reddit for answers to things and start posting those questions on Lemmy. There are so many smart people here waiting to infodump their experience onto you.

I’ll get 2% cashback.

I just get bagged frozen corn (Great Value/Walmart), is that an option?

All groceries. It might be a surprise to some, but generic brands are usually very good in this area. My approach is to always buy the generic first, and if it’s not good enough then try a name-brand.

Just my luck, the only objective purpose in life doesn’t work as a gay guy. I’m going to try the destroying jobs thing instead.