not heard of it before, do you want to explain what it is or does everyone who is like me have to separately do a web search for it?

And was mocked where it was first posted too I’m pretty sure.

I use neither Arch nor Ubuntu, btw

For a link, you’ll see it after posting if it appears in the list of places the link has been crossposted to, at which point you can delete it.

An image, that is more technically challenging because it requires detecting whether two images are the same, which is not as trivial as it sounds. But for images, I think reposts are no big deal anyway, many people will not have seen it the first time.

I have been using Linux since my mid-teens in the late 2000s (with interruptions). In the late 2000s and early 2010s I really did do a lot of tinkering with the computer, but nowadays I rarely even install new software and hardly ever think of my operating system, at all.

I am not sure I have seen track gauges given in centimeters ever before. Usually I see that standard gauge is 1435 millimeters.

The article missed that SuperTuxKart has a mode that is somewhat similar to Rocket League.

I don’t see a lot of the things you’re trying to avoid on my instance. But I almost always browse “subscribed” and mostly have no idea what’s going on in communities I’m not subscribed to.

I’m currently unable to find a minimum age requirement on my instance, so she could try that. I’ve never given this topic much thought because Lemmy didn’t exist when I was a minor…

Installed, it probably is if it works in Brave… it might not be set up right in LibreWolf though.

happens occasionally, but not only “lately”, I have been using it for many years and it does (rarely, but occasionally) cause performance drops, yes

it’s mentioned in the explainxkcd, so apparently

TBF the last two bullet points are verbose descriptions of the thing it means in C++, Java, and Python too. It’s just that in JS, “this” can also be used in other places.

But yeah, in practice, every time I write JS I want to throw my hands in the air and shout “this is bullshit”, but never know what “this” refers to… :D

The fediverse is somewhat inherently a low-trust environment. Centralized social media (including traditional web forums) has only one database of users, so its administrators are able to keep track of similarities (in geolocation, email addresses, style even of deleted posts, etc.). Here every instance has its own database of users; if you register on another instance, it will be very difficult for anyone to figure out you’re the same person.

The fediverse is also still obscure enough that mostly it’s still a relatively high-quality place and this has mostly not been a real problem. You should join an instance, and communities, that moderate to give you an enjoyable experience. What that means varies according to person; I don’t mind the things you list very much, but am very glad I have not gotten any messages from fediverse chick Nicole in a while by now.

“openly licensed” material is still copyrighted though

Also: copying is not theft, stealing a thing leaves one less left, copying it makes one thing more, that’s what copying’s for… 🎶 🎵

On a German QWERTZ keyboard too, μ is the only Greek letter you can easily type (altgr+m) and I’m pretty sure this is because of micro units.

I may have found one (coincidentally a few minutes after seeing this thread): https://discuss.tchncs.de/modlog?userId=20528183

no, I agree with the above user that it would be better to federate images too, for at least the following reasons:

• redundancy: see the OP
• privacy reasons: images loaded from other instances inform the other instance that one is viewing those images, do you trust all of them?
• censorship reasons: some lemmy instances are blocked in my workplace and I can never look at images from them when browsing at work; others may be blocked in entire countries

If I’m not mistaken, Mastodon already does federate images to other instances, so it isn’t unheard of.

this is your brain on it being ok for governments to regulate the Internet :(

I know that instance had a policy of trying not to defederate from anything (unless very necessary). Is there another instance like this that will not be shutting down?