The lack of working hardware acceleration is mostly NVDIAs fault for not providing open sourcr drivers, and the community’s effort at reverse engineering the GPUs has been nothing less than Herculean. As for codecs, Fedora is derived from Red Hat, which is an enterprize distro and does not include (proprieatry) codecs to avoid licencing issues. Every problem you have listed is a result of corporate fuckery and not of Linux.

As for tech support, with Microsoft you can click the “diagnose” button, which does nothing, or spend a lovely time with an outsorced call Center which again, does not solve the problem.

The “complicated aspects” are the central idea of the platform as a whole. The concept of multiple servers united by a single protocol is not that hard, and any user not being able to grasp something as elementary as that would not make a good community member. Call me a snob, elitist, whatever. Lemmy is not a commercial project and has no YoY growth projections or sharholders demaning growth at all costs, and I would like it to remain so.

Yes, but isn’t it a bit unfair (not to mention hardly enforcable) to demand of new instances not to host certain communities because the already exist on instance xyz? Even on Reddit there were spin-off communities due to powertripping mods. So far the most likely solution seems to be topic clustering, which we can probably expect in some future update.

I really don’t understand the hostility towards nerd/tech oriented communities. Every time an online community dares to be on the nerdy side you get people loudly proclaiming how that’s the worst thing ever, and that we need to expand until every Tom, Dick and Harry has a user acount.

Usually, when a site is adopted by the general public, the quality of the posted content goes down the toilet. Bots, shills and intrusive advertising follows, and the site dies a slow death. Reddit’s r/all was a museum of ragebait, reposts and celebrity gossip, and I certainly don’t want Lemmy to do an enshittification speedrun because some users refuse to learn how the fediverse functions.

Once again, this is a feature, not a bug. Two different servers, two different communities, united by a common communication protocol. This is what separates Lemmy from other Reddit clones, and what made it thrive, unlike non-federated sites who are either splintered and languishing, or attracting an unsavory audience.

Spray all over your family for one last time.

This is the least Warhammer illustration I ever saw in my life.

Why do Lemmy instances automatically federade with every other instance? Wouldn’t be more wise to add instances manually, from a list?

Oh look, it’s almost as Meta is an untrustrworthy actor that plans to EEE the fediverse. I consider any instance that federates with Meta a lost cause, to be defederated as well.

Thunderbird is a pretty decent client, and OSS to boot!

At this point, you will either try to mitigate the harm caused by proprieatry software by adding as many Open source programs to your MS system, or treat the underlying cause and install a FOSS OS.

Ah yes, lies on how North Korea is a stalinist hellhole and not a workers paradise, right?

At this point you might as well design an app that is 100% ads and give the users a cut of the ad revenue.

“End your life in a fiery blaze lmao”

Real binoclard vs. ham sandwich moment.

Tankie here, basically most of us are pro russia not because we like russia, but because a multi-polar world with many different types of influence is better than a singular polar world because wedon’t want one bloc or alliace to have too much influence over the world, brics alliance makes one pole, and the nato/allies make another.

That makes as much sense as supporting Hitler’s invasion of Poland in order to stick it to British imperialism.

Another thing is I personally believe even if Ukraine won the war, they a culturally, economically, and politcally fucked because of the war, not to mention the azov battalion.

And who is responsible for the war? Here’s a hint, not the country that is being currently invaded.

I am fairly new to the community so i probably don’t speak for all of them but we acknowledge some of the bad things that was done, for example Stalin’s role in zionism and the creation of isnotreal

Next time you cretins seethe about being called red fascists I will quote this lovely bit of antisemitic bilge.

Just about every argument you brought up is either nonsense or genocide apologia. Please, remain in lemmygrad.

Sinfest was my jam, it hurts me to see it turned into this

You haven’t given any useful info. What are the specs? What do you plan to use it for? Media? Gaming? Data storage? Please be more specific.

DHCP: LMAO you don’t need that much address space, this is a fucking 10 device LAN. GTFO with this hexadecimal BS before I blacklist you.

The only problem that I have with Debian is that packages are several versions behind what would be considered current. If I had to use it, i would use sid, despite the dreaded “unstable” label.