on Windows they keep waking up when nobody asks for it

Good to hear.

Pretty convincing arguments. Thanx.

Tells you that you can take your social media back from big tech then casually recommends Bluesky. Gimme a break.

I generally agree but I still feel it’s important to keep some perspective. Bluesky is not the solution but it’s definitely progress compared to existing corporate platforms (because it has real fundamental differences - several articles posted here went into detail about this).

IMO the best argument against Bluesky is that it will suck up the oxygen for other, better, solutions. That’s a fair theory but it seems to me that there’s plenty of market share to go round right now. Everyone is still on the evil corporate platforms.

RSS still exists and it’s still beautiful.

Agree, I use it every day.

This is why we (still) need a Flattr-like service to somehow gain critical mass.

Ignore all the well-meaning geeks here urging you to become a full-time programmer, go with either of the choices you suggest, and just follow the prompts. You’ll find it’s all incredibly easy and that you’re worrying for nothing.

If you want to tweak things, then think about that later. Just get started.

This is from 20 years of experience. Personally I use nothing but the terminal and a web browser. But the reality is that you only need the latter in today’s computing.

Yes, good parallel, didn’t think of that. Perhaps there’s just a limit on how much you can decentralize without things breaking down for either social or technical reasons.

Very interesting, thanks.

Atproto scales quadratically, […] harms performance AP scales horizontally

Clearly true. But this suggests to me that ATProto might still work well with, say, 5 or 15 "PDS"s. That is still enough IMO to guarantee a high level of pluralism.

In a commercial market, let’s say for telephony or cars or web browsers, we readily accept that there are only a handful of players. Indeed, there’s generally an optimal number, high enough to guarantee competition but low enough that we can keep track of the brands and trust that they won’t go out of business tomorrow.

And nothing is stopping at least one of those few brands from being a “good guy”, akin to Mozilla’s historic role in the web-browser market. It could be run by say, Wikimedia, for example. At least we would know that it would not disappear tomorrow, which is more than can be said for most Lemmy instances.

I agree that there should be enough space for both ATProto and AP to thrive.

Very useful, thanks.

As I see it, Bluesky is fundamentally different from Xitter and it is a major step in the right direction. It is short-sighted to reject it because of some technical imperfections.

The fundamental question IMO is whether there is enough mindshare (i.e. users and attention) to allow ATSocial (AKA partial federation) and ActivityPub (AKA total federation) to both be successful. I’m thinking there is. After all, the vast majority of people are still on ad-fuelled corporate social media, with all its internal contradictions.

Bubble-dwelling can indeed be a kind of sickness.

It this was subtle parody then hat’s off, nicely done.

its not difficult to pipe a file of packages into a shell loop to get the behavior as described

It’s possible, but “not difficult” is a bit of a stretch. FWIW I’ve used this in the past, among other hacky solutions that don’t always work as expected:

# Print packages installed from different origins.
# Exclude standard Ubuntu repositories.

grep -H '^Origin:' /var/lib/apt/lists/*Release | grep -v ' Ubuntu$' | sort -u \
| while read -r line; do
    origin=${line#* }
    echo $origin:
    list=${line%%:*}
    sed -rn 's/^Package: (.*)$/\1/p' ${list%_*Release}*Packages | sort -u \
    | xargs -r dpkg -l 2>/dev/null | grep '^.i '
    echo
done

As a non-Nixer I completely share your frustration. Immutability, i.e. tracking of config changes, is so obviously a good idea. It’s high time it became universal.

Immigration policy, hmm?

Positive sign. This country is always ahead of the curve.

This seems less a technical problem than a human one. Specifically, the need to avoid dispersal and fragmentation. If there are 5 different knitting communities, then the real problem is that there are 3 or 4 too many knitting communities and they should merge.

More irrelevance about desktop market share in a world where soon almost nobody will have a desktop computer.

I’d say you’re looking for a word other than “minimalist”. Maybe “modder” or “tweaker”.

A minimalist doesn’t necessarily have any interest in spending hours making their computer 0.01% faster.

The boss being an asshat doesn’t automatically disqualify a product made by his employees.

It was all worth it, then. Thanks.

As you say, Algeria sat on natural resources. It also had a “better” experience of empire than Korea, which was absolutely brutalized by Nazi-adjacent Japanese, leaving it (IIRC) the 2nd poorest country in the whole world. Korea has no natural resources, as doesn’t Japan, possibly the world’s least colonized country. The different trajectories of these three countries suggests very clearly to me that degree of empire-suffering - at the hands of “white” people or otherwise - is not the determinant factor in human development. Nor are material resources. It is something else. But anyway, none of this is falsifiable, neither of us is going to convince the other and nobody else is reading, so let’s call it a day there.