In my experience, WhatsApp does not send an image unchanged. So it doesn’t matter if the recipient can handle it, as long as WhatsApp’s conversion can

Great battery life and linux unfortunately are a hard task and linux support is often spotty for consumer devices.

Sticking to used business hardware is usually a good start, but you should check for compability issues nonetheless.

Used t490 / t480. Can you elaborate on the “heavy limited by space”?

No I’m not catastrophising.

2024 is going to be the beginning of the end of us all

Yeah, I don’t know about that.

Yes, as the semantic of words is context dependent.

I can’t quite figure out what would be the use cases where bcache would excel, except for hdds without cache or systems with very limited ram. Can you help me out with that?

That’s a bad comparison. Without a lock you can just open the door from the outside.

If you rent a VPS that might get you kicked, so check your terms first.

You’re having way too many thoughts about this. I’ll give you a simple choice: It’s either Xubuntu or Linux Mint.

Simply choose by which one looks better to you. Done.

In a year you can look back at your post and decide again if there is anything you want to change or you’re in dire need of a Linux hobby and Gentoo is all you’ve ever been looking for.

That’s a horrible recommendation!

I hardly know anything about the graphics processing / posix, can someone explain why applications need to handle it themselves?

Imho that’s a horrible idea. A large part of content on the instance I’m on has become bots just reposting news articles without any own contribution, no discussion, nothing.

Of course it’s not about centralisation per se, but the problems that a centralised platform does not have to deal with.

I came from all with active sorting. To me that indicates that Reddit seems to be a major topic in the fediverse.

It’s a good thing that it’s more contained now with this community and it’s absolutely legit to have those discussions here, but Reddit news still are echoed in most tech communities.

I came from “all” with active sorting.

Reddit doesn’t need to fall for lemmy to be a great plattform.

Why are some here so obsessed with Reddit? I’m not here to constantly read about Reddit! I understand that some of you are seriously upset about what happened and it’s okay to vent for some time, but please move on for your own good.

Extra config options always result in more complexity, so I would strongly prefer to change the hardcoded pruning interval instead.

Why would that be the case?

Are there any statistics about the usage in the network that allow to figure this out? I’d assume that your position might be correct for the fediverse users that have been around before the Reddit fallout, but certainly not for the majority that joined just for a Reddit alternative.