All the time. For websites that are no longer online, it’s invaluable, what’s the alternative?

Things which happened get forgotten because they’re deleted. If something like Internet Archive exists that’s no longer a problem.

Dragon Roost Island from The Wind Waker.

!w List of search engines

I don’t know anything about Minecraft but if Minetest is an appropriate replacement without that minor annoyance I would suggest that’s solicited advice.

On self-reflection I’ll admit that there’s a bias experienced by people, like me, who live in the Linux bubble, surrounded by people who are happy Linux users, to overestimate the eagerness of other people to be on board. It’s also easy to forget when you’re on a general Technology community like this one, where a lot of people are talking about Linux, that it’s not everyone is a Linux person.

In fact I don’t even really detect much of a “Lemmy buzz” around it mainly because I participated in Linux-y parts of Reddit, and other places, before now. If anything from my point of view there seems to be more resistance to it on Lemmy.

It could be that having used it for nearly 20 years I’ve lost my ability to fathom why it would be difficult. But that said, both my parents use Linux and are non-technical users - they were fed up with windows crap like in OP so they asked me to set it up for them and it’s been 5 years now trouble free. So even if you do need to be an enthusiast-level user to make it work, you only have to know one. What I still stand by is that it’s good advice for most users.

I’m used to hearing about how a lot of people are put off of Lemmy because of all the “Linux” people on it, “people pushing Linux”, “elitists”, etc.

And yet I see something like this and think “are we not supposed to give good advice?”.

If is the kind of thing you want for your computing then go for it.

Never forget how he got kicked out of Russia and next showed up in Afghanistan! He seems to have no risk-aversion. I’m almost half expecting him to pop up in Gaza next… He’s made some excellent insightful videos.

This was my original pick, I’ve heard there are some pretty serious allegations against him too which I’m in no position to properly evaluate. But I’ll keep watching with the benefit of the doubt for now because his videos are very interesting.

I was talking about Twitter. 10 years is not a long time.

I don’t see much has changed in the last 10 years fundamentally, if you’re comparing 20 years ago I might agree.

Not sure what you mean there.

It feels like the Twitter from just before Elon when it was still bad but not terrible, I was hoping it would be more like the Twitter from 10+ years ago when it was still reasonable.

I waited 4 months for my invite, took a look around and went back to Mastodon.

I successfully trained myself to wake up at the right time without an alarm. There are methods for doing that, I’ll elaborate on mine if there’s interest. It takes all the pain out of waking up.

Reminds me of this Mitchell & Webb sketch (warning for strong language)

Page load: The biggest and I mean biggest reason someone leaves a page is page load speed. If you’re deep in researching some information, regardless of your internet speed or if the fault is on the user side and your page load is over 3 seconds, you will leave the site. Loading only 1/4 of the page helps with this along with other tricks like caching at the CDN and lazy loading.

The thing that always bothers me about this is that I’ve been using the internet since 90s dial-up, and even 90s dial-up never had a “page load speed” problem when loading text-based articles. An extremely conservative estimate is that modern broadband speeds are 1000x what they were then so “page load speed” is entirely about the design of the website, and it seems that mostly the excuse is “we want to spy on people”. Am I wrong? Otherwise why not write an HTML page that would be just as compatible with Geocities as it would now?

To give a contrary answer; I think it would be a sign that Reddit has turned in the right direction and might actually become a good platform again. A reformed Reddit is infinitely better than whatever Meta are planning.

Which is of course why they won’t do it.

How about, I don’t want to sacrifice features that should be built into phones by default for camera or screen quality!

Depends what it’s on, they’re completely non-interchangeable.

Glad I bought AMD

If it’s significantly better than what I could’ve bought in the 90s I’d go with it, but if it’s not I’d still consider it scammy since a lot of time has passed since then. Thankfully I don’t really need a printer now.

I use a content-blocker to block ad-networks that track me. It was never about blocking ads, but taking a necessary security measure against being tracked. They could still put ads in videos, like on TV, that aren’t part of ad-networks and don’t invade privacy - but they don’t do that, they want to invade users’ privacy instead.

Never bought a good printer since 2003. In 2003 I remember you could get a good printer for a reasonable price with reasonably priced cartridges. Ever since then printer technology doesn’t seem to have improved but they all seem to have become much worse quality and incredibly scammy.