Aa!

WSL is pretty good these days. Dual boot with Windows is still a pretty risky move with how easily Windows will overwrite your boot loader. I usually recommend you pick one os or the other rather than dual boot, so I’m in favor of WSL or virtualbox. Personally, I have never cared for needing to reboot just to switch operating systems. I tend to stick with one and the second one does nothing but take up disk partition space.

WSL lets you run both simultaneously without rebooting. Virtualbox lets you do the same with extra setup. Virtualbox makes it easier to do GUI setups than WSL does, and the network configuration is a little more obvious.

The best option is to get a second machine so you can run both. If that’s not an option, virtualbox is the better choice for learning. If you just want a Linux environment on your existing setup (similar to using a Mac) then WSL is usually good enough

Yes, my experience with websites over the past few decades.

NSFW stands for “not safe for work.” What do you think it means? It’s pretty straightforward in its meaning.

It isn’t censorship if you can just turn it off and see everything. It’s a warning for people who want to browse at work but not view content that can get them in trouble

Just turn it off and ignore it if it doesn’t apply to you. The rest of us want the tag to be used for its purpose.

Which you can easily turn off if you don’t browse Lemmy at work.

Just because you don’t use the tag for its intended purpose doesn’t mean everyone doesn’t. The tag has a clear purpose, denoted by what it stands for. Most people with adult jobs understand its purpose. Don’t ruin the tag’s purpose for the rest of us by devaluing it

An NSFW tag isn’t censorship, it’s a warning for people at WORK. if you don’t use it for what it’s for, that’s not working people problems, that’s your fault.

The tag is for warning people browsing at work not to click… Using it to prevent someone from clicking on a post that would be unacceptable to read at the workplace is exactly what it’s for

It’s not like it’s censorship, it’s just a warning tag.

What do you think the tag is for?

People at work don’t (shouldn’t) click on NSFW-tagged content. If it draws your eye even more, then I assume you don’t browse from work.

How would it defeat the purpose to tag content that most workplaces would not be okay with? If you don’t mind seeing the content, then the tag might entice you. People at work will recognize it and not click

The NSFW tag is part of the mechanism to curate the feed.

I’m not sure why people get offended by people wanting to use social media but not wanting to view content that can get them fired. If the content doesn’t bother you, then you shouldn’t filter NSFW content. It’s not like the NSFW tag is censoring the content and preventing you from seeing it if you click it.

For people with jobs, why not make it easier to filter the things that companies don’t like? It doesn’t affect you any.

Taylor Swift endorsed Harris, and she signed it “childless cat lady.” (There’s a little history of the term being used recently by Trump or Vance)

And Musk is responding in the dumbest way, when nobody even asked him

Merlin wasn’t an Asgard, he was an Ancient!

And he lived inside Daniel Jackson for a little while

I usually assumed the “larger than life” giant hills and huge woods were part of the way Calvin looked at the world, rather than the way his parents saw it. After all, he saw his dad as working in a high-rise office, which would be out of place this close to a home like this

Just the same, it was clearly a great place for an imaginative outdoorsy kid to live.

There most certainly is a Federation President. There is definitely government, authority, and laws, with Starfleet appearing to be the law enforcement.

I want an instance already established, very populated, and proven to last long term, so I don’t have to create another account

All true. But it’s in response to Calvin talking about electing a new dad, which also isn’t a realistic view of things

Complaining that it’s called AI is like complaining that smartphones are called smart. There’s no stopping it, you just end up sounding like an old man yelling at the cloud. (Which isn’t really a cloud, but we still call it that)

I’m mostly thinking about before the days of “swipe right/swipe left” but you put in information about your personality and you got recommendations based on that.

It wasn’t so frantic or based on getting every match you could get, it was about getting matches that were most likely to click with you.

Even eHarmony was better than simply saying who was single. The entire concept of “dating apps” is good for hookups, but terrible for dating.

It definitely doesn’t work for me

The browser solves the problem of not having any open API. Each platform wants to handle things in its own way, and the browser is the perfect way to do that. Each service, including both the open and the proprietary ones, can present the feed in the way that they decide is right. The browser already does handle rudimentary account management via form auto fill, as well as a unified notification system.

But as for a unified feed… I think the best example is the issues with that come from Lemmy/Mastodon integration. Mastodon posts have a different mentality than Lemmy posts do, not to mention with structure of responses. I just don’t think it does us any favors to have them share the same feed. Now we have replies that have a clear structure of who they are responding to, but Mastodon users come in adding the user tag into the comment, which is messy at best, and bordering obnoxious at worst.

But I get it, I’m not the audience you’re looking to cater to. I don’t particularly understand the value of RSS readers at all, because I just go directly to the services I want to see the feeds from. Hell, I don’t even use bookmarks. I type in the web address for my services every time

Isn’t this what a web browser already does?

It used to be at the same time, so you’d have to choose between the two

You know which one I was more interested in