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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • It bothers some people. I think it’s just something you need to be aware of. If you want to stop seeing someone’s posts without hurting their feelings or whatever, you could always mute.

    What I think is a tougher problem is that if/when it actually federates with a third party, the third party may not treat blocks the same way. I haven’t looked at AT proto in while, I wonder if that is addressed or it will have to be a shrug.

    Kinda how on Lemmy votes are hidden for plebs in the UI, but not on kbin.














  • Bilb!@lem.monstertoLinux@lemmy.mlNostalgic Distros?
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    7 months ago

    Anyone else get free Ubuntu CDs shipped to their house? I think I had 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon) shipped to my house back in 2007.

    Otherwise, Mandrake Linux was my first “good” distro. I first tried one called Lycoris which claimed to be an beginner’s distro with it’s own DE, and it was impressive how well it handled setting up a dual boot installation and at the time it was a revelation that I could use a computer without Windows. I didn’t begin preferring linux until I tried Mandrake with KDE 3, though.


  • Bilb!@lem.monstertoLinux@lemmy.mlHow bad is Microsoft?
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    7 months ago

    I don’t think they’re pretending. Open source software is a valuable resource for basically all major tech companies, and a lot of it is driven by major tech companies. Some kind of combination of open source and proprietary software will always be a thing for them. This isn’t some major contradiction, they use either model based on the specific needs of the project.

    This is why some think “Open Source” is too permissive since they see it as free/cheap labor to be exploited by huge corporations.

    I’m not sure that I see it that way, but I can see their point.