It doesn’t surprise me. After all it’s the default way to start using WSL.
But for people running full distros, it seems to me most are avoiding Ubuntu these days except if they are required to use it by their employer or something. In DistroWatch it seems Ubuntu’s popularity is slowly sinking.
I would guess that Microsoft has to comply to Chinese privacy and data laws, AND that China’s firewall also might block a lot of the telemetry.
I agree nonetheless. They should be using Linux a long time ago.
Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping!
Yaaaayyyy!!! Nice one!! Congrats on pulling that off!
So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex
Sorry, you what???
Just disabled it with Shizuku + Canta. Hopefully it’s enough.
If I had to guess, most of these ‘books’ are some kink bullshit. Ever since I looked for the rankings in the Kindle section, it was flooded by books with men or women stripping on the cover and some random erotic titles. Among them some rare exceptions (and most of these were some cheap self-help stuff).
That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised this is what’s being actually affected. I can’t see the actual data or content of the article though, because it requires me to subscribe and I definitely won’t.
Exactly what I wonder. I have a list of 110 (and growing) books I want to read, all of them written by human beings, and I discover something new all the time. There’s no way I will buy a random book on Amazon, be it from AI or by some author I’ve never heard anything about.
Just wanted to give you an update. I figured out the issue, it was on my end.
When I copy the link from a Piefed.social community, that’s what I get:
https://piefed.zip/community/piefed_meta@piefed.social/feed
If I try from Lemmy, I get this:
https://piefed.social/feeds/c/piefed_meta.xml?sort=Hot
And I actually attempted that, but didn’t work:
https://piefed.social/community/piefed_meta@piefed.social/feed
It turns out that the original link, from the original instance, is that simple, and actually works just fine:
https://piefed.social/community/piefed_meta/feed
So, just a little suggestion. I don’t know if that’s by design for some reason, but maybe when clicking on the ‘RSS feed’ button it should always (regardless the instance you’re in) return the original, functional link: https://piefed.instance/community/community-name/feed
Thanks, I really appreciate it!
I tried with RSS Guard and Fluent Reader and didn’t manage to make it work with them. Feeder seems to work though.
Is that the same reason why I can’t connect to Piefed RSS links with most RSS readers?
To be fair, people need to set their priorities straight. Even though these are marketed as ‘gaming’ hardware, are they actually?
I have an RTX 4060 8GB VRAM that seems to have people hating all over it, but I don’t see the point, currently, to buy another GPU. It runs smoothly enough every single game I’ve attempted to run it, including stuff like Alan Wake 2. There’s also the fact that most AAA games that demand a strong hardware are barely worth playing.
But as long as ‘gamers’ keep fixating on the idea that gaming can only be enjoyable when they own the best hardware to run things on 4k, 120fps, almost zero input delay, and whatever the fuck else the market sells as essential for a ‘true gaming experience’, that’s what you get: extremely overpriced hardware, that will never feel enough.
I really like Foliate. Great interface, easy to use, enough customization. It’s available through Flatpak.
If you want something more feature rich and don’t care too much about UI, then Calibre.
The person that did it probably just wanted to upscale the image, but regenerated the whole thing instead.
If they used an upscale model on something like Upscayl or Comfy, they’d certainly would have achieved much better results. But they probably don’t know it.
I’ve read it (from here: https://archive.ph/ci9vj#selection-591.0-859.53 because I don’t want to give them the clicks). And? I agree with @chickenf622@sh.itjust.works , it smells like an advertisement. In fact, it doesn’t just smells, it practically screams like corporate propaganda.
I particularly couldn’t care less about Game Pass at this point. I’m just fine without paying Microsoft for anything. But I suppose that’s good for those who still use Windows just for that.
At least I find it interesting to have Linux supporting software that it wasn’t technically suppose to.
Not sure if I understand the thread, but it seems to me it was trying to find out how many people actually reply to posts on Lemmy, rather than just reacting or seeing and ignoring them. And what it seems to find out, is that Lemmy is actually very active. According to it, the median community replies to 74% of all posts, which doesn’t look bad at all imo.
It also seems to compare the numbers to Farcaster, and concludes that Lemmy’s lack of rigged algorithms, focused on chronological feed, creates more active communities with higher visibility and replies. It also seems to conclude that the chosen server heavily impacts the response rate (Lemmy.world with 93% of active threads, compared to 56% on Lemmy.zip).
The biggest problem though, is that it compares Lemmy to Farcaster, which are completely different platforms. Farcaster is a microblog like X / Mastodon / Bluesky, that, by design, is a whole different beast, and also way too niche. Without comparing it directly to Reddit or other comparable social networks, I don’t think it actually means anything that useful (at least not in a comparison).
Also, the data is too short (1 day, 50 posts each community) to draw conclusions, which makes it fundamentally flawed. If the data was extended for an entire week or a month, and done in different times of the day (considering that time zone matters), the conclusions could have been much more interesting.
I think people tend to be naive about Steam.
I mean, I DO think that Steam is miles better than Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Epic and I would say they’re probably one of the biggest responsibles to make Linux that much more popular (both for consumer and for devs) in the latest years.
But I don’t know what’s gonna happen to Steam after Gabe Newell leaves. I think there’s a huge risk for a dramatic shift in Valve / Steam monetization and culture. Things are fine now, but that’s still a corporation, and shareholders will want to get the last drop out of it just as these shitheads do to everything else.
But was he prepared to be under their overwatch?
That’s what Reddit became. A place where you either post alongside the popular belief, or get downvoted to hell so no one sees what you’ve written or, if they do, they question your credibility as a whole. A giant fiasco, where actual discussions are completely discouraged.