Do you need a DE? I use sway and a few kde apps (konsole, okular, gwenview, dolphin) + firefox and thunderbird, I wouldn’t call that a DE…

if you want i3 but on wayland, you could try sway. It is exactly that, you can even reuse most of your i3 config file.

When I used it, I mostly switched between the 9 apps in my favorites/dock with the Meta+digit shortcuts. I rarely used anything besides those 9, and then I just used alt tab. It worked really well, no complaining.

Today it’s mostly the same, but with a tiling window manager and the same numbers: 3 is thunderbird, 5 is file browser for instance. It’s muscle memory at this point, feels great.

When you spent time tinkering on your linux box, at least you usually learn some piece of knowledge that can be applied later on.

When you tinker and debug something on windows, you usually have little idea of what went wrong and can derive very little from the experience. At least that was the case back when I still used windows, in the XP and vista days.

Correct. It’s hard to give generalities and be correct on all the details, as you know.

What could happen is what did happen to XMPP / jabber.
Google embraced it for its instant messaging app, then after it had become the provider with the largest user base of said standard, it simply changed the underlying tech it used and stopped using the standard. To google users, their weird contacts that were not on the google ecosystem simply vanished, but they were a small number of people. To the users of xmpp servers, many of their contacts on the google side of things became unreachable again.

Now that’s a thing that can happen if threads.net becomes the largest fediverse instance over time and loosing access to these users is a big detriment to users of other instances.

However, I couldn’t care less if I lose access to the posts of threads.net users. I don’t intend to interact with them at all. I don’t use any mainstream social media at the moment, and I don’t miss the ads, the drama, and the “normie” users, for lack of a better term.

Activitypub is the standard all the fediverse application use, and that’s what makes the various apps cross compatible (you can reply to a Lemmy thread from another Lemmy instance, or from a kbin one or even from Mastodon).

This standard is used by various WebApps to provide social networks experiences akin to the big centralized networks.

Lemmy and kbin work like reddit.

Mastodon and pleroma do microblogging (default message length is 500 char, can be modified on each server though).

PeerTube is a distributed YouTube alternative, again using activitypub to federate.

Now thread is a new microblogging app by Instagram and it happens to use activitypub, which means it could be interconnected with fediverse apps. You could in theory follow and interact with its users from any of the fediverse apps. But this feature is not on from their side at the moment. And many fediverse server admins plan to block federation with threads.net because they don’t trust Instagram / meta.

I have kept most of my Nintendo systems, but I sold my GameCube and now I regret it.

Games are still playable on my Wii, but I would have modded the GC to load games from a sd card to make it more future proof, as the disk reading part is the most fragile.

I love debian because it’s always there for you.

Interesting. Kept it in my wallabag, if I ever grow tired of sway.

It really depends what kind of game you want to play.

If you want a fiction first game where the characters are a bunch of “freedom fighters” in an hostile environment, you could try either Spire or a|state, but you would need to heavily modify the settings. It would be a lot easier with a|state, which is a dystopian future hack of blades in the dark.

I love his skits.

Even though he tends to talk about games I have never played and don’t really intend to play or run, I still watch his content, for the goofs.

Honestly, you don’t need any app. I’m using Firefox on mobile and it’s way better than the app I tried.

my bad. I guess city and road planning is very car-centric as well.

You live in the US I presume?

Here in Lyon, France, the local government is removing car lanes downtown so we get wider bike lanes. Some are not happy about it, but if you look at the number of people passing through at rush hour, cyclists really outnumber cars, and bike traffic is never jammed.

I refuse to bike on this kind of lane. I just bike on the road, f that.

Seems to me an inability to read plain text during the install.

For instance when you are asked to set the root password, it says that if you leave it blank, the user you’ll create will have sudo.
That’s the behavior you expect if you come from ubuntu or mint.