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I didn’t know what to do. I was being threatened with a ban, even after explaining myself and my edits.

At the end of the day the Wikipedia page didn’t matter to me that much. Who cares if people get misinformation about an OS update. I quite literally didn’t get paid enough to deal with that.

It just really changed my perspective on Wikipedia. Unless you look at the history and check out profiles of people who get in edit battles, you really don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes.

At the end of the day the Wikipedia page I was trying to edit ended up being corrected by someone else (who completely disregarded all of my effort), but it took a month, and someone else to do it, before the page wasn’t full of misinformation anymore. RIP to anyone who visited that page within that month and never returned, because they were fed 80% misinformation.

Their profile was banned last time I looked about a year ago. My profile I deleted because it was permanently tainted by that asshole spamming my talk page.

I remember posting about it on Reddit back when it happened a few years ago, and everyone in the comments told me how they’ve had similar experiences. Really just made me weary about trusting Wikipedia. I mean sure, if they get the date of a movie wrong that’s fine, but as for more serious topics, I just can’t really trust it.

Even sources can be garbage. I’ve seen plenty of blog spam cited as sources, which means nothing.

Have you ever looked at the sources? Some pages have some insane blog spam “sources” linked.

Nah.

I edited a page for a new OS update that was coming out. The page was FULL of misinformation, and I cleaned it up, linked official documentation as sources, etc.

My edits were reverted by some butt hurt guy who originally wrote the page full of misinformation, 0 sources, and broken English.

I reverted back to mine.

He reverted back to his.

He spammed my profile page calling me names, and then reported me to Wiki admins. I was told not to revert changes or I would be perma-banned. I explained how the original page was broken English, misinformation, and 0 sources were cited. They straight up told me they did NOT care.

Stopped editing wiki pages, and stopped trusting them. They didn’t care about factual information. They just wanted to enforce their reverting rule.

Firefox always runs in the background on my PC also. I’m sure there’s a way to disable it, but by default it’s always there.

I’ve never had that happen. Either the US version of Windows is fucked, or people are bullshitting hard.

Just checked. All of the “cheap” ones require you to order 2+, and then have insane shipping costs. The rest are $100-120 CAD.

I don’t think these things will ever be affordable. People who want one badly, will pay the money, and everyone knows it. No need to sell them at MSRP.

I don’t buy any pis because they are $100+ in Canada.

Remember when it was supposed to be a cheap computer? Ya…

Old CEO of Twitter is involved.

Usually when something turns to shit, and the original CEO leaves to create a similar product, people follow. With games, software, even hardware.

I think they deserve the same, too. 30+ years for both. Lets not lower the serial rapist sentence to match. Lets raise the vehicular homicide.

But if you copy/paste random commands from the internet and it breaks your distro you’re stupid.

But I’m not gonna tell you how to do it via GUI. So here, copy this terminal command.

The better analogy is 50K people are in a room, 80% of them are mute and deaf (they don’t comment so you can’t talk to them);10% have the complete opposite opinion and you don’t want to communicate with them; and the other 10% share your interests, but they are busy communicating with the other people. So at the end of the day you have 2% of people to converse with.

2% of people finding your posts, upvoting, and interacting with you. Not much.

Truth.

I try linux probably 2 times per year, every year, and at least hop between 5+ distros. Every time I run into issues, I ask the community, and I am completely shit on.

“Go back to microsoft you dumb fuck”. Like ok. Didn’t realize a distro completely nuking itself by me clicking update in the software manager was a me problem, but sure.

Every time you comment something like this, nice people come in and tell you how the Linux community is so accepting, followed by 30 comments telling you to kill yourself lmao.

I wonder why. You seem like a fine person who thinks forcefully having sex with multiple people without consent, potentially fucking them up for life mentally, and possibly physically, is only worthy of 3 years in prison.

I setup the VPN tunnel. It’s a toggle switch on my phone that allows me to access my network as if I was home. It’s free (using wireguard app), and way more secure, as my phone is the only device allowed to access it.

Downside is that I need to add devices manually if I wanted, but upside is that it’s super secure and not directly open to the web via domain.

Thanks! I didn’t realize how dead simple, and free, it was to use the WireGuard app on Android and built in Unraid VPN settings to create a VPN tunnel.

It took me 2 minutes and it’s a simple toggle to access my photos as if I was at home. Incredible!

lemmy.ca and mstdn.ca

Why do you need an app on PC?

I just want to stop hearing about US politics. You guys are so fucking obsessed it’s so annoying.

Oh there’s a post of a puppy falling on it’s back? WELL THAT’S JOE BIBENZ FAULT!!!1!!

Like Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

I personally think the list will decrease. If Lemmy really takes off, i see a few instances sticking around.

Not everyone can afford to run a Lemmy instance with minimal donations, and I honestly see self hosters slowly thinning out.

I would imagine in the future Lemmy will be like 15 big instances, with like 5 of them hosting the vast majority of the users. Then drama will pop up, and they will all defederate, and we will have like 2 big instances.

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