Lots of UI/feature updates will be shipping soon along with the most anticipated feature: federation.
New here? Remember that Twitter is optimized to make you into passive consumers, by en(r/g)aging you with content that you don't choose yourself.
Here, that doesn't happen. But it also means you're responsible to find people to follow.
It will take some work.
If you're willing to put that in, you'll find a wide variety of friendly people that will be happy to have meaningful conversions and laugh and cry together with you.
Start by searching and looking at who other people follow.
The fediverse is kept a largely safe and happy place by a fortress wall of medium articles the bemoan the fact that the fediverse is hopeless and will never succeed. That fortress wall was shoddily built for us by techbros and journalists and we must take responsibility for maintaining it. If we don't start repairing the cracking masonry with new medium articles about how mastodon simply can't grow fast enough for real humans to use it then the walls will crumble. Do your part.
I'm just saying ...
As an alternative to making users edit fstab:
right-click
-> option: "Automount at boot" (prompt for admin password)
-> select mount point
-> would you like to create a shortcut to this folder?
-> select location for the shortcut (eg: home folder or desktop)
Or is making things difficult for normal users the way that #linuxgeeks maintain their illusions of status?
#library friends I have a question for you: a curator at MPOW wants to know why so many books have a letter underlined in the last name. They passed along the image below with G in Gladstone marked.
We haven’t been able to give him an answer, just that potentially it helped identify an author quickly. Do y’all have any thoughts or insights?
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I like "living" in the console. But I wonder if doing that is making me want more brutish Web experiences.
I'm going to toy around with https://github.com/veonim/veonim in December.
@61 @Purism Purism is doing incredible work integrating Matrix as a first-class citizen on the Librem 5 phone and that is our main focus.
Signal serves a "bridging" purpose: users who are currently in the privacy/digital rights space will expect it to run or have to use two phones (making long-term commitment to Purism very unlikely). This is especially true for our early adopters.
We can't tackle network effects overnight and force people into our choice of E2EE client.
Just got a year’s subscription to AzireVPN, which I use via Wireguard. (I’m not a fan of Black Friday/Cyber Monday to put it mildly but they are apparently having a half-price sale right now.)
** Many people have told me this is one element in Peter Watts' "Blindsight", which is available for free (to read online, or as PDF, mobi, or epub) on his website: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm Looks interesting. **
MIMS 2010. Living in Western Mass. now and working as a PM.