For me, it’s neither strength nor weakness. I’m a boring old fart, I’m not here for politics.

Because mastodon is the Linux of social media. One day it will be ready for the average user…

Not just open source. It needs to have a sustainable community of developers. I’m not interested in a project that dies when the one maintainer has other priorities (been there with another lemmy app) Open source just means anyone can fork it and carry on, but if nobody does, it still dies.

I saw the original post in TIL, not in a political community where it may be (slightly) more acceptable. It’s never ok to divert reports of criminality away from the authorities and towards political organisations. And listing a bunch of phone numbers of a political organisation without stating their affiliation is misleading.

Read the top comment by Mox.

I have not googled them all, i don’t care enough, but the ones i checked are democrat offices. And votesaveamerica is a democrat PAC

I thought about reporting it, but not sure if it meets the criteria to be deleted so added my views to that post instead. Edit: sod it, i reported the other post

Thank you, good work.

By learned you mean found it on facebook or x and applied zero critical thinking before posting it here? It’s from a democrats aligned organisation and lists phone numbers of local democrat offices. So it’s bad advice, they are not independent or impartial. (And just to be clear: i don’t have a vote in this election)

This suggests they are far from independent. Go with the advice above people. Edit: i cannot find the hotline page anywhere on their site.

Voyager on iOS has keyword filters

I don’t disagree, but it’s probably not that easy. Universities in my country don’t have the resources anymore to do many orals, and depending on the subject exams don’t test the same skills as coursework.

It’s not just the internet. For example, students are handing in essays straight from ChatGPT. Uni scanners flag it and the students may fail. But there is no good evidence either side, the uni side detection is unreliable (and unlikely to improve on false positives, or negatives for that matter) and it’s hard for the student to prove they did not use an LLM. Job seekers send in LLM generated letters. Consultants probably give LLM based reports to clients. We’re doomed.

Still dead, and not on iOS App Store anymore

Not to be confused with OpenSUSE…

Seems to be back up, just seen a new post there

Thank you. The downvotes don’t bother me, but the attitude of some of these linux fans does. Skills issues my ass. I’m fairly IT literate. I can find my way around basic unix stuff for work, and don’t care if i have to spend some of the time i get paid for on reading man pages. But at home, my computer just needs to work. Linux is not ready for that, and some of these fanboys just put people off.

Did I say I want to keep using windows? I don’t. I want to get off W10 before that becomes an unsupported security risk, and won’t go to W11. All I said, or meant to say, is that I don’t feel comfortable yet to move to Linux, and posts like this don’t make me more confident that Linux is trouble free. It’s not just that I don’t want to spend hours fixing problems, it’s also for the sanity of my family who just need a working computer

Network manager not working well with DNS over TLS is not a Linux issue? Ok, thanks for the education.

Things like this are why I still haven’t switched to Linux. Had a play with Mint on a USB stick and liked it, but I just worry that when I start to use it for real, I am going to spend far too much time searching for solutions to weird problems and going down rabbit holes.