I think the algorithms are not quite doing what you expect, on top of server delays or whatever.

The way I am set up, I start in ALL and sort by HOT. If the post start to feel too familiar I will go by active, then new.

What I feel works the best however is to subscribe to all the communities that you are interested in (don’t be precious) and you will find that the subscriptions page has the content you want. It is nice, they don’t get lost, or you can jump into a single community and see all they have.

The most useful way to use lemmy of course is to post content.

I love it. I am genuinely excited to be on here, and it is literally the only social media I use at the moment.

The single feature I that I think would improve the site tremendously is some kind of indicator to know if I have posted in a thread before. It is silly, but sometimes discussions blow up and I cannot remember everything I write.

Like, just a colored dot next to the title in topics I have posted in would make the experience so much better.

I have been too lazy to sign in and do it. What is funny is that I had been using Infinity to browse anonymously, but got annoyed that I could not bookmark anything.

I made an account like a month or two ago, and have barely posted anything. I could have done without.

Yet, if Reddit was not fucking up, I may not have given Lemmy a second chance. I tried it before, but I swear most of the posts were meta. Talking about a platform does not make a platform appealing.

MX Linux. It is a debian based, but uses custom scripts and programs from Antix and Mepis that make it super lovely to use.

It strips out systemd and does a lot of work to make popular programs usable that requires it.

Yet, I can still boot into it with systemd turned on, which is useful and more necessary than I like, increasingly so.

I think systemd is fine though. Linux is not unix, variation is healthy and despite what people say I always found it solid.

MX uses XFCE, which I love, and the desktop has some really smart defaults like putting the panel on the side instead of top or bottom, which gives back vertical real estate.

EDIT: I also use macOS iOS. My mom is a dedicated Apple user and I inherit her stuff whenever she upgrades, which is less frequently because I convinced her that what she has is basically overkill for her use cases, ans she does not need the newest thing.

Anyways, I love my iPad Pro. I don’t care if Apple is evil, I got it for free and I reading PDFs on it is a goddamn pleasure.

The MacBook Air is the perfect laptop. Large laptops are just heavy and makes me not want to take them anywhere. Glad I learned that lesson.

Aaaaaaah! Trying to be secure sucks. My main computer has an Intel CPU, and I truly don’t know what bios settings to use, but I suppose that is a moot point.

It is like delinerating over legacy bios or UEFI. One is familiar and reliable but is actually emulated, and the other is modern with a lot of usability features. I finally stopped worrying and used UEFI because it seems more reliable when installing new linux distros.

Same with SystemD. I had some understanding of why people were against it, but it always felt as much as a bias against the author than a genuine desire to keep the init system small and do one thing well, the unix way. I stopped being concerned when I learned Linus Torvalds does not give a damn about how linux distros are composed, I stopped worrying. A lot of great linux distros still use simple init systems, and are wonderful, but often I need to use software that is not in the package manager, and it always requires systemD.

Perhaps I should be a lot more concerned and principled like I used to be, only using the safest FOSS options. Realistically that would require having significantly more programming skills and maintaining my own distro just to be happy. Also, those are not my principles, I did not come up with them, nor do I fully understand or agree with them.

In the future I will avoid Intel.

MX Linux pretty much has me covered, and the option to turn on SystemD makes it the best distro I have ever used. It does everything.

One day I will sit down and finally learn how to use Gobo Linux.

You may not be a Linux user, but everyone is a Minix user!

Just a fancy word for an alarm clock?

Jeepers creepers take a look at those peepers.

Yes, I think so.

The self-deprecation might be a little fatiguing, and it is a lifetime habit I am trying to extinguish.

Still, it enforces the wisdom to never take myself too seriously, and that I always have something to learn.

Yay, time to explain! You may be familiar with the term autodidact, someone who crafts their own curriculum and teaches themselves subjects without relying on the guidance of other humans.

So, didactic means to be used for instruction, to teach.

I can interpret my name in two ways I think. First, is that I am an instructive dumbass; my incompetance and consistent foolishness provides lessons, learning from my mistakea. Second, I am a teacher who is also a dumbass.

The proof is in the pantaloons?

Thank you! I will readily admit to ignorance. I apologize for the tired stereotyping.

Yeah. I see how the concept of equality gets distorted through the pervasive lens of capitalism, or just the materialistic view of things.

Political equality would necessarily strip away expectations of ability or productivity. Expectations are itself often violations of boundaries, just forced upon people.

Creativity is not equally distrubuted in your regime. Does not seem very communist to me.

Do you suck out the vitreos humor of unsuspecting victims to preserve your eyesight?

Faulty operating system with an army?

Clever. I actually read it as freewifihotspots before seeing your comments.

Um… Dim Sum but I get my choice of married women? Sexy I guess.

There is literally no mystery to my username.

I died the way I lived, incompetently.

Honestly that would be better. I use Vivaldi out of pure convenience. It is in my package manager as a native app. Brave is awkward, only through flatpak, which I don’t mind but not a first choice. I am hesistant to use anything that pushes cryptocurrency. I would rather outright pay for a browser than look at advertisements.

The odd thing is actually the Peterson Strobe Tuner app, and I guess it needs chromium for direct access to the hardware.

On desktop I use librewolf, and occasionally vivaldi when I need to access something that requires chromium.

On mobile I use the duckduckgo browser, which has a lot of the features built in that I would require an add-ons with firefox. I used to use fennec, but it had the problem of being bloated with all of the default options on desktop like the sign in, which I do not like, and at the same time being anemic with only like 5 add-ons.

Also, fennec really annoyed me by hijacking anything that required a browser, even if one was built into a program I was using, or was a secondary option. I had the most annoying time trying to sign into SoundCloud, until I finally deleted fennec and I was presented with a normal, native login screen.