Lol, I’m a vinyl nerd, I’ve probably given more money to the music industry than to anything else except food

This is one of the things I love about Linux—press the compose key, tap dash thrice, and voilà—a beautiful em-dash for all to gaze upon.

His social media reportedly indicates that he is already in France

Good for him. Pretty ballsy.

I’m guessing by your instance that you’re Canadian?

I was just a (European) kid in 2001, and I believed profoundly that Bush was evil and incompetent, but this did not extend to America as such. I didn’t understand enough of American history yet to understand that the current situation was not an anomaly. I don’t think I truly understood before after Obama.

Easier to let users play music for free when you don’t pay the artists I guess

Same, except I kinda just cut off a bit here and there as adjustments every now and then. So I never really have a new haircut, it stays somewhat stable.

“How do you do, fellow scholars”

The brilliant Marc Ribot translated it to English, and Tom Waits sang it in a pretty melancholic version. Worth a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_pWpW4JlrM&list=RDn_pWpW4JlrM

After the Proton CEO voiced support for the Trump regime and they followed up by deleting their Mastodon account in the wake of some highly valid criticism, I wouldn’t trust this company at all. I guess their encryption works, but anything that requires goodwill I would not give to them.

And very few of them are on record advocating for how we should not have empathy for gun victims. The right wingers whining for compassion here are dishonouring his legacy.

This is very much the response you’d get on here, but changing to Linux is genuinely your best bet.

1. Make a copy of your files somewhere. External hard drive is best, but I guess you could sign up for a free trial of Dropbox or something just to backup the data and then end your subscription once your files are safe on the new machine. If you want to keep your data safe you should probably have backups anyway though. :)
2. You’ll need a USB dongle to put Linux on. Linux Mint is popular among people coming from Windows, and they have a nice guide to creating a bootable USB. It’s really very easy - you install a program on your computer (Etcher), open a file in it while your USB is connected, and press a button.
3. You’ll need to tell your computer to boot from the USB rather than from the hard drive. WikiHow has a detailed description of this. In the best case it’s very easy, but computer manufacturers and Windows have made it harder in recent years so that people will buy new computers every time they get slow or updates run out. It’s still not hard, it just requires finding the right settings.
4. Once you’ve booted from the USB, Linux is up and running, but you have not installed it yet. If you don’t like it and want to go back to Windows, you can just shut off the computer, remove the USB, and restart it back to Windows as if nothing has happened. If you like Linux and want to install it, the option to do so will be clearly visible. If you want to keep the installation of Windows alongside Linux this needs to be prepared from Windows in advance - feel free to ask if that’s relevant. :)

It sounds like an intimidating process, but it’s really pretty easy. :)

In principle I agree, in practice it’ll keep me from accidentally boosting which I appreciate. It’s an action that needs confirmation anyway. :)

Sounds like a pretty toxic take.

Great news. Would love to see the option to quote post Mastodon content into Piefed/the Threadiverse, but that might be too sci-fi.

Still prevents people from jumping on each other using quote posts the way they did back on twitter. They can already take screenshots, this hasn’t been a big problem, and it’s certainly not a problem introduced by this update.

What exactly makes it “horrible” in your eyes? What would you have done differently?

Funnily enough there doesn’t appear to be an official theme for the American flag. The closest you’d get is Puerto Rico I guess, which I think is pretty neat.

This is interesting.

• America does not have an official flag theme, but countries like the UK (127 users), Mexico (30 users) and Canada (59 users) have theirs. Even Venezuela has one with a single user.
• Puerto Rico has two themes, though the second is named “Puerto Rico 3”. There’s no flag for California, Texas, or DC.
• The most popular official flag theme is Flag India 2, at 261 users. An additional 29 use Flag India
• The Palestinian flag has not one, but two official flag themes, totalling at 49 users
• The Israeli flag has a theme and six people use it
• Tibet does not have a flag theme, but China and Taiwan both do
• Russia (3 users) and Ukraine (21 users) are both represented
• South Korea is only Korea
• There are two Iran themes. Flag of Iran is a neutral tricolor without any emblem in the middle; Flag of Iran 2 uses the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the emblem of the Republic in the middle. No love for the monarchist lion and sun.

Other platforms are like “please buy a new iphone to use this app”, Mastodon is like “there’s a new version out for the Apple II”

I imagine they had slightly fewer languages listed back in 2002!

Yeah. A lot of licensing I imagine, but at that price I would at least expect a hemisphere. And even then, it’s not exactly a typewriter.