Yeah I’ve heard the ‘AMD drivers are better!’ thing for Linux and have always been confused since I’ve had no issues with nVidia cards on Linux or Windows related to driver issues.

AMD stuff on the other hand, has been a mess non stop, except for my ROG Ally for some reason which is fine?

In short: computers suck and are unpredictable, or something.

Counter opinion: mbin and the devs are fine.

There’s a couple of people here who won’t stop hopping into every thread about anything to talk about the things they make/businesses they run/etc.

Feels more like they’re just a little too enthusiastic over their shit than actual shitheads, but that’s just me.

Windows 10 LTSC is still supported for security issues until 2032, so there’s still a non-Windows 11 option, if you really want one.

Since either I missed it, or it wasn’t made clear, and I’m not going to go sign up for anything to check - who is maintaining custody of the Bitcoin with this?

It sounds like it’s web-based which makes me think Proton is, and not you, but again, maybe I missed something?

The annoying part is their drivers are stable…sometimes.

Its an endless game of seeing if any specific version is broken in a way that annoys you and rolling back if you find an issue.

Not exactly a premium experience.

Oh look, a patent troll.

At least they’re going after two of the most valuable companies on the planet, and not shitting on a bunch of little startups, I guess.

It is, but he’s also known for not using social media at all which I’m sure makes him the right person to have an opinion we should listen to.

That’s a pretty great Fairphone ad, ngl.

And yeah, you shouldn’t be buying phones that are going to end up software-obsolete in 2 years. Manufacturers, you should really aim for at least 5, but more is better. You can do it!

And if you can’t, then maybe your business isn’t sustainable and you should consider something else, like running a lemonade stand or a kissing booth.

Honestly I get the feeling the problem they’re having right now isn’t that it was hard to report things to the moderators to action, but rather that telegram is a haven for people who were absolutely there to do unsavory things and were unlikely to report each other.

Perhaps I’ve misunderstood?

I had the vague recollection of him having a small-business-owner-brain moment and going on about how it’s theft, and it’s taking money out of his pockets, or something along those lines.

Looks like I may have been either thinking of someone else, or misinterpreted a snippet of video of him ranting about something.

I will admit to not watching his stuff for a good number of years now, and could be totally conflating things.

Isn’t he the same person who calls adblocking piracy?

I mean I get that Youtubers have no morals and it’s all about money but that seems excessively hypocritical, even for a Youtube “personality”.

Well, Lemmy’s front end talks to it’s back end via an API, which is pretty much how every web app of any scale works these days.

There’s really not any particular difference between a monolithic app vs a seperate front end in terms of “all those API calls” since everything is basically calling APIs at this point, if they’re not made by complete incompetents. (In the case of Mastodon, though, I suppose complete incompetent is possible.)

Well, a fault isn’t just an outage.

You said the other person involved isn’t technical: what if say, a database corrupts itself and you’re on vacation for a week.

Is the expectation that you’ll always be available all the time to fix technical problems?

And, as a failure state: what happens if you simply cannot be reached for that week no matter what. What’s the failover plan for the rest of the people involved in the business?

There are some. Mastodon has a lot of garbagey nonsense, but they do at least have a proper API which will let you make a non-shit front end if you wanted.

I’m going to being contrarian, as is my bit.

I self-host everything and fully believe everyone else should too.

HOWEVER, if your self hosted shit breaks for say, 3 days, how much money is this going to cost you?

For business stuff you really really should determine what your backup plan for ‘Oops shit’s dead’ is well before shit’s dead, and honestly, in some cases, maybe it makes more sense not to host everything and have a couple of things that would wreck your business provided by a SaaS company that has a SLA, and on-call engineers, and all that good shit.

Just a thought to keep in mind, I suppose.

I’m not one to tell developers what to do, but from a user perspective, comments (which is like, most of the damn point, no?) are effectively broken and that makes the whole platform kinda… defective.

I’ve discovered I follow topics but very very rarely care about who is posting/commenting, which makes microblog feeds doubly not my thing. Forums and Lemmy match far more what I’m after than Twitter-style feeds ever will, because the amount of curation to find a single interesting person (who then doesn’t turn out to be an utter monster) is just… too much involvement for some idle time-wasting.

Also I don’t know what you mean about the politics being insufferable on Lemmy, comrade. Perhaps you need to take a nice long vacation to the People’s Re-education Retreat and hot spring?

I’m going to get shit on, but outside of Lemmy, there are just… no active groups on the various fediverse group site aggregators that I’m remotely interested in.

It’s all news, politics, political news, and political peacocking. Which fine, if that’s what you’re after, but I’m here for nerd shit, and Lemmy is utterly completely awash in nerd shit.

The other problem is an ActivitPub problem. Even if you follow someone, if you’re not following every single human on fucking earth, you’re not going to see all the replies to their posts on your server. So your clever post was already made 8 hours ago, and unless you click on another link that takes you to their instance you can’t actually browse what replies actually exist before posting.

Which is just stupid: if I have to visit someone else’s shit in order to see if I should reply, I might as well just you know, use that server and save myself the trouble.

IDK, I liked the UX and it was interesting while it lasted, but it was really just a massive resource drain and had far less interesting nuggets than other options did.

As with all things in life, as soon as I touch it, it explodes, lmao.

I think this means I’m done with trying to host fedi-Twitter. Discoverability on a small instance sucks, maintenance on a small instance sucks, and the software available designed to do a reasonable small instance doesn’t exist.

That, and since relays are almost entirely required if you expect ANY useful content discoverability, you’re just wasting a huge amount of resources on crap you don’t want, don’t care about, and can’t really delete because all of these pieces of software expect you to keep everything from everywhere forever.

Think I’ll just do a rm -rf and get that ~25gb of disk space back and stick with Lemmy (which is my preferred interaction format anyways).

I get it as a means to generate revenue, but I wouldn’t ever want to be responsible for mail deliverability if I’m getting paid for the email.

I’d just outsource that shit to SES, or mailgun, or mailchimp, or brevo, or whoeverthefuck and not worry about it.

The host it yourself thing just struck me as a weird thing that suddenly was EVERYWHERE I was looking and I couldn’t figure out what in the world the use case was.

So basically an RSS feed for people who don’t understand RSS feeds.