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Cake day: February 10th, 2022

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  • That’s a long list of changes, wow.

    Personally, I’m not considering Vanilla OS just yet. It does too many things in a custom way. I am however keeping an eye on the project, since they have interesting ideas and they’re making progress in the area of immutable distributions (which will be the future I figure).


  • I second the recommendation to use NTFS. I don’t have the same use cases as OP, but in my experience it works really well. Back in the days when I was using Windows, I had a system and a data partition (i.e. personal files, pictures, videos… you get it). When I switched to Linux, I kept my data partition and just mounted it on my Linux system. I started with dual boot and didn’t have any issues. No need to manually install a NTFS driver these days.

    That’s a couple of years ago and my secondary SSD’s still that same old NTFS partition. Thought about moving to a Linux native filesystem, since I don’t use Windows anymore, but never had an actual reason to do it.







  • It’s not easy. I see something along the lines of:

    • Tax the rich (we should do that anyway)
    • Introduce a UBI (universal basic income), which we need if automation increases
    • Artists don’t need to make money with their art amymore
    • Art is free
    • Good™️ artists can still earn more via comissions

    I have the — for some quite radical — take that knowledge should be free, labor should be paid. Anything that can be shared/copied without anshy cost should be open to be used by anyone.



  • A network of (“thousands of”) servers has — like most things — pros and cons.

    Some of the pros are:

    • The network is more resiliant against outages. If lemmy.ml is down, all other users can still access the network.
    • It’s hard to take legal action against the network or to buy it out (like Big Players™ like to do to get rid of potential competitors).
    • It allows various similar or even conflicting moderation policies. The network, i.e. the infrastructure doesn’t allow or prohibit any specific opinion (the communities do).
    • It allows for different ways to pay the bills: goodwill of the admin, donaitions, ads, fee or selfhosting. The latter also allows great control over the data so you control your privacy.

    Some of the cons are:

    • Content is replicated across servers, which increases the total amount of data stored.
    • Latency and speed suffer.
    • Interoperability with the wider Fediverse is less than 100%, which can create confusion and frustration.
    • Discovery is more difficult.