I used i3 for a couple of years, but I missed the ease of having a DE that just recognised USB sticks and external hard drives, and all the other little things that you have to set up manually

Join a smaller instance. You can still see posts on lemmy.world, and you might find a niche you’re interested in in the process

Nobody is talking about marxists or leftists here, tankies are a breed of their own

Yeah I don’t see the problem here

My laptop is 6 years old and has been running arch Linux with xfce for most of that time. I got tired of maintaining it and changed to an “easy” Linux mint distro. It takes much longer to boot up now and feels generally sluggish in comparison to a minimal arch install. So from experience, in older hardware having a bloated distro can really slow down your system.

I’m not gonna say I know much about his history, but I am surprised so many people are jumping to take his side in this debacle. I would’ve thought in this day and age that people would be a bit more sceptical of CEOs.

Without knowing the real reasons behind it, it’s very difficult to hold an opinion on the board’s decisions

It’s how people have been talking for, like, 20 years now at least

Yeah, that bar isn’t that high really is it. Imagine if they actually kept their word!

I use sync for lemmy, so every time I go on lemmy I see ads. Also when YouTubers have in- video sponsor ads. I skip them but it’s still an inconvenience. Same for podcasts

Seems to me that it took a huge amount of time and resources to reach the new score, and I’m guessing they don’t have the budget to do the same for every model

actually you don’t even have to type all that, just typing ‘yay’ is equivalent

No it’s “literally” been reduced to $1000.

It’s a piece of satire, they were being hyperbolic.

bingo!

just vanilla water

ahaha I am totally enabling this

It’s true they did, and it took me less than a minute to make an account on a new instance. An instance that I know will never block said community, because it’s hosted from here!

what a legend

I mean you still need to pay for your VPN/ Usenet server subscription, but it’s more like $80/ year as opposed to per month