No need. It’s already reported. And known since Dec 2019. 👀

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Yeah. And I’d say with the SELinux problems and with what OP wrote, the security model including things like a failure mode to fall open, …silently… There’s more things to be wary of, than what they wrote in those 4 sentences.

It may not be wise to use a Snap without first understanding the reputation/limitations of Snap.

seems the Debian Wiki has pretty much your take on it 😅

If I had to guess, this isn’t a bigger issue because Snap is mostly pushed by Canonical. And in a bit of a weird way (proprietary backend, exclusive apps) so… reception in the rest of the Linux community is …mixed. To put it charitably. It’s probably not that relevant for most people outside of the Ubuntu ecosystem. And probably also not a priority for Canonical or the proprietary software vendors.

Thanks for sharing your perspective and writing all of this down.

To be honest, don’t worry too much about the dbzer0 users. They’ve defederated from you, I’ve defederated from them. There’s all this other thing going on with them. I share your perspective, I also get to read less slurs and toxicity since I started pulling some ripcords… I don’t like it either. But maybe that’s how it is.

Best of luck anyway. I think the YouTube thing is a good idea. I mean you can probably make quite some impact, considering the current scale you’re operating at. But I also think the entire Threadiverse isn’t huge compared to YouTube people. Larger “influencers” sometimes fill Dicord communities larger than all of us combined. And smaller “influencers” sometimes have a very loyal and committed fanbase/community. All of that is useful and/or positive traits. I see how the hard part is finding someone with overlap and who wants to cooperate. And you’re going to have to welcome them and provide them with whatever their wants and need are… All of this is quite some effort. But certainly worth it in my eyes.

And I don’t think there’s an issue with weirdos in itself, just be a tolerant and positive kind of weirdo and it’ll be alright.

PieFed does have scheduled posts. And some other nice perks.

Hmmh. Thanks for your perspective.

By the way, the Germans kinda established their own niche with (I think) with a noticeably different atmosphere and behaviour towards each other. Not necessarily better, we’re also doing mostly politics and the meme/shitlords are very active… But yeah, maybe we need some niches which aren’t just because of some language barrier. And like… more than Linux content. We also have that. But I see how that’s not everyone’s leisure activity. 😅

So. Any prospect of the future? How do you feel with what you’re trying? I mean you launched an entire instance a while back… Do you have insight on what works and which strategies don’t work? And how willing or receptive are the people you talk to?

Any ideas on what to do? I mean you’ve been here for a long time. I’ve also been here for quite a while. I’ve also made disgruntled posts about the general atmosphere, waited for things (and people) to change. Or a different kind of people join and bring some breeze of fresh air. Some of that is happening, yet on a small scale and usually in niche corners of this place. But I think overall we’re looking at something like stagnation. We have all this potential in the Fediverse… I see sparks here and there, but they never really ignite anything on a broader scale. So overall we more or less stay where we are (or who we are). So, what do we do? Because I think the usual ideas on how to change the atmosphere ain’t working, or we’d see some progress.

If you want advice: Maybe unsubscribe from like the political memes communities and specifically join replacements which are better aligned to what you need. Some people are trying to make an effort.

If you want validation… I see shitty things here as well.

Online classified ads, your neighbour/relative/friends attic, the access road towards the recycling center/landfill, a refurbished PC shop… From my experience the world is filled with old hardware that’s plenty good enough, just doesn’t run Windows 1X anymore so it becomes e-waste. You can of course also buy a Mini-PC on Amazon or use your existing computer if it has enough RAM to host a virtual machine.

… don’t forget about the backups.

And if your major issue is putting things in wrong locations… Maybe learn about some abstraction layers, so next time you’re able to just move it, instead of tearing it down?

Yeah, and what if I have a lot of sex AND do art? Dunno if Freud had friends like that, but these people exist.

And sometimes it’s the other way around. Think of groupies. Art comes first, and that leads to the other kind of desire.

Sure. I should have phrased it a bit differently. My point was more or less, why is the curl developer’s review of the performance in a hypothetical scenario a decisive factor here… That feels like super random information. Same with the other two people. I’m fairly sure this is true and all… There’s just no context given, nor is there a connection being made between the statements and the rest of the content of the article.

Lmao. Just add a big RELEVANCE? I mean why do they cite 3 random people’s opinion on random aspects of the entire concept? It’s supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a blog post…

The “housing bubble” did pop. More specifically the real-estate bubble. And it lead to some 2008 financial crisis and several points of GDP being destroyed. But it probably doesn’t do what you’d think it does? It doesn’t necessarily make houses any cheaper. It first and foremost destroys money.

Thanks for the link! But I’m afraid it doesn’t tell me much. a) FreeBSD isn’t even on the list, so I don’t know the numbers to compare it to. and b) there’s things like survivorship bias. Looking at numbers like this is literally the textbook example of how to do it the wrong way. You have to do statistics the proper way around. For all we know by those numbers, Linux could be the best battle-tested OS in the world. I mean they fixed 3 times as many vulnerabilities as Microsoft did for any of their products?!

Sometimes I wish people would back up their factual claims with numbers and studies.

Also: FreeBSD phone, when??

Uhm, maybe you have the wrong celebrities as role-models? I’m pretty sure I’ve heard some interesting opinion pieces and side projects of some actors in some lengthy Podcasts. All the gossip and random people turned turfs are rubbish, though.

Edit: Idk, I’ve watched entore movies about Weird Al, or Freddie Mercury… Jane Fonda randomly says some good things and she’s 88yo…

I think the added benefit of an OpenWRT router is, you get 3 more ports (for your TV, Playstation and PC), plus a Wifi network. And it’s really hard to break it. But a MiniPC with OPNsense, of course will be more powerful. And some more advanced things have been notoriously difficult to set up in OpenWRT, maybe OPNsense does it a bit better.