monobot
I just checked and my account on lemmy is 3 years old, I was waiting for all of you. At moments lemmy looked like it will take of by it self, but last few months was pretty quiet. I hope this is the push this community needs to succeed.
Reddit got too big for my taste since digg joined in, I don’t think this will kill it ( they have the data how many people is using it outiside official apps), but let’s make space out of it.
It would be useful to share hardware specs so that we can really recommend something for it. You will get best results by trying out multiple distributions and get a feel. Generally, almost any linux will do, problem will be browser so saving as much ram for it would be useful.
First suggestion: get some used SSD for it if it does not have it already (even 64GB will do), second get more RAM if possible.
Depending on the user I would first go with Linux Mint XFCE, that is lightest easy to use distro I have found.
For someone more advanced/less expectations Crunchbang++ is very light.
Keep in mind that it all started 20 years ago with Pulseaudio. Pottering was not really a nice guy (on mailing lists ofc, I don’t know him personally) whose software I wanted on my machine.
Problem was never speed or even technical, problem was trust on original author and single-mindedness that they were promoting. Acting like it is the only way forward, so anyone believing in freedom part of free software was against it. Additionally, it was looking like tactics used by proprietary software companies to diminish competition.
It looked scary to some of us, and it still does, even worse is that other software started having it as hard dependency.
All of this looks like it was pushed from one place: Portering and RedHat.
While after 20 years I might have gotten a bit softer, you can imagine that 15 years ago some agresive and arogant guy who had quite a bad habbit of writing (IMHO) stupid opinions wanted to take over my init system… no, I will not let him, not for technical reasons but for principal.
I want solutions to come from community and nice people, even if they are inferior, I will not have pottering’s code on my machine so no systemd and no pulseaudio for me, thank you, and for me it is an important choice to have.
Others did not exist back than.
Even the career is not important, whole life is ruined. Just imagine family and friends all ar least asking about it and some leaving you.
While I agree there should be severe and swift punishment for sexual offences, there should be some punishment for false accusations. I know that sometimes is just not prooved and sometimes it is in legally gray area, so not automatic, but if it can be prooven that someone was intentional lying - then there should be consequences.
Take a look at individual african channels on youtube. Don’t listen to only white people what is happening in africa.
Calling Mohamed Bazoum “democratically elected” is quite a streach of definition of the word “democracy”.
It us not much different situation for Bola Ahmed Tinubu who is now threatening to attac Niger and the reason is gas pipeline that goes toward EU through Niger.
Inform yourself from different sides, we have internet now it is pre 90s era anymore.
I was thinking it is better if you find it by yourself, because that way you can better asses truthfulness, but I do know it is not easy to find so here are some examples, just listen to few videos on Niger situation:
https://youtube.com/@TheNewAfricaChannel
https://youtube.com/@africaninsider
https://youtube.com/@zackmwekassaenglishchannel2081
Some videos with opinions: https://youtu.be/3IIAB05hh-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47GUA9SiiC0
Those are channels that I never noticed some affiliation beside toward whole Africa.
Also do read the comments bellow videos.