Can I introduce you to the concept of “fire” :D

A single bitflip wiping your novel is incredibly unlikely, to the point of being almost impossible. Modern OSs and filesystems are fairly resilient, and the data is likely all still there.

That would be really cool. And kinda fits the “organic growth by subdividing” model

It’s part of the same family, so I don’t see why not.

I’ve not experienced piefed first hand, but from what I heard it joins Cross posts somehow? Lemmy you can create your own feed by subbing to communities, is piefed different?

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Because I was getting caffeine from softdrink, a soft drink a day was not healthy in of itself. So that’s why I quit caffeine.i can’t stand the taste of coffee.

Other than the 5 days in bed, I’m pretty happy now, so was worth it.

I went from one caffeine drink a day (albeit soft drink) to zero, and it still wrecked me for a week. Dunno if that’s because soft drink has more caffeine than coffee?

Awake, but not terribly functional. I basic stayed in bed for about 5 days when I quit.

I think those are different in that you don’t need discourse. You can post away, and if no one responds its not a big deal. But other communities, especially ones that people might go to for help or advice, getting zero responses to a question is spirit crushing.

This is just the same “Year of the Linux Desktop” copium regurgitated.

I love using Linux, but there functionally is nothing wrong with Windows either. Much of the world is happily using W11. And Linux has some very rough edges that aren’t going away either, we just learn to live with them.

I personally dislike the cross posting in lemmy, as it results in seeing the same post 3-4 times in a row, which is kinda annoying as well. I believe piefed does it better (dunno if anyone can confirm that?).

Those niche communities work on reddit because there is a huge userbase to keep them alive. If you create them here, you get an empty community that looks dead, which discourages people from posting.

Having an active “hobbies” community going first, and then later splitting off the “knitting” community when it’s clear that there are lots of knitters means that you don’t get empty dead communities.

You can’t force the niche community into existence, it has to grow organically.

Does become a bit of a philosophical question though doesn’t it: Is a community really moderated if it has zero activity?

Also, I somewhat object to the framing of “moderators owning communities”. I don’t own the community I mod, I serve it. If it was a ghost town, and closing it down would prevent people stumbling into it and wasting their time, I would be completely in favour of it.

I was using X and Y to refer to Windows/Linux.

I do currently dual boot, using UEFI + grub2 (and also macos bootloader+asahi linux), and yes, it definitely is a personal disdain. The various bootloaders themselves don’t really change the experience that much its that you have to choose your OS during the boot process that cause the UX friction.

It may be the same as a user login screen, but it doesn’t take the place of one. So you press the on button -> wait a bit -> choose your OS -> wait a bit more -> choose your user -> wait a bit more. That extra step in there just really gets on your nerves, especially if you just want to turn on the PC and get on with something. If there was a way to set the boot choice before pressing the on button (like a physical toggle switch or something), that would be slightly better, but afaik, that doesn’t exist.

I’m not telling you to shut up, but I would suggest caution, it only takes one bad experience to irreparably damage your families opinion of linux, sometimes its better to let them come to you when their ready. But USB to demo the experience is definitely a good way to go about it. But when they are ready, I’d go all in on the distro of choice and spend some time with them to iron out all the issues. A little hand holding early on will save you a lot of headache later.

Yeah, the ship has largely sailed. But also, there are lots of communities that are empty and also functionally unmoderated, so some could be removed.

Honestly, I think we have way too many communities. Cull them back to a small set of fairly broad communities: Arts, Tech, Politics, etc. Once those are active enough, then start to subdivide as the sub communities grew to a sufficient size to self-sustain.

What happened instead, was people tried to create all the same communities that reddit has, without the people to sustain them, and now it looks like a ghost town.

People want to turn on their computer and have the OS boot and get out of the way. Adding a bootloader in between is just annoying. You either default it to autoboot X, and then find it frustrating that you need Y, or you set it to always pester you to choose, which is annoying in of itself. The UX experience really hasn’t improved ever and kinda can’t.

I’ve been dual booting since fedora 4, and whether it’s stock GRUB, or one of the flavours of the month GUI boot loaders, it’s the same lowsy experience. I can live with it, but I wouldn’t dare inflict it on a new user.

UEFI has somewhat changed it, as I now just default boot to Linux, but from Linux can run a script to set it to boot to Windows on next boot, and then reboot, but it’s still pretty gross to use.

USB boot is okay, but perhaps use a USB SSD, standard USBs can be very slow which will give a poor user experience. I also don’t think distro is that critical, as long as you stick to the mainstream ones. Make sure it’s one that you know well, as realistically, your gonna end up being called for support.

Programming.dev has been hiding a lot of those kind of communities by default, others could as well:

https://legal.programming.dev/docs/hidden-communities/

But even with that fairly substantial hide list, I agree, we do drown in news and politics.

I can only imagine how their UX is declining day over day.

They are probably just fine. Most people are perfectly happy with Windows, we are a minority.

That said, don’t dual boot for noobs. It’s a pointless exercise in additional complexity. If you default it to Windows, they’ll never leave Windows. If you default it to Linux, they’ll be forever frustrated that it booted to the wrong OS.

Install Linux on a new disk, insert it on their box, and if they hate it and ask for Windows back, give it back. Forcing them into Linux land will just make them resent it.

Damp cloth to capture the dust? Or a strong vacuum to capture it once airborne?

Kept getting caught by contentid: