It’s either this or we go outside, but the sun is out there. And people.

For a while vendors tried to lock down the BIOS pretty hard. Dell might still, I remember having to call and get assistance when a password was forgotten and they had to generate a backdoor key of some sort. Maybe that is less of a thing now that Bitlocker is widely used on corporate laptops and it is sensitive to tampering.

I don’t think I’m the only person who won’t reply to an email until there is something actually productive to say.

In the past they had jumpers for the same purpose.

What fediverse services are set up that way? For most projects, the flagship instance is by far the largest. For Mastodon it is something like 900k difference between the next most popular instance.

That’s why the government makes sure they can garnish you wages and even social security.

It’s unfortunate if the sh.itjust.works folks aren’t speaking, their listed rules seem pretty reasonable and the problem users appear to be breaking the rules of that instance too.

Communities have moderators too.

kbin paused federation while they dealt with the server/network issues, but was federated before that. kbin is actually larger than lemmy.world.

Who is “they”? The users, or the communities? Beehaw creates the communities, that’s why there are relatively few, so I don’t see that Beehaw communities would have much reason to move anyway. Beehaw has no create community button.

Yeah I think it is. If you go to settings you can change the default (under “Type”).

It doesn’t seem like they’ve been doing things like that at all.

You can find some in beehaw’s list of blocked instances.

Not really. Usually you have to request the community vs creating it yourself. Allows the admins to curate.

There’s a good chance your account was activated. I don’t think notifications were going out for a bit.

This has to be the first time I’ve seen someone praising reddit search, as opposed to a search engine.

Try changing the type to what you’re looking for. By default it will show all. Otherwise I’m not too sure what the issue is, if I search “brining up Reddit” this post is the result.

That’s kind of the point. Reddit still benefits from that content.

It needs to affect revenue. To do that it needs to last.

Multiple. Locally I have Timeshift doing btrfs snapshots every so often. This is mostly to roll back to a snapshot if something breaks. I've never had to use it (and probably should).

I use Pika backup every once in a while for a local backup to an external drive. Mostly because it's easy to restore quickly.

I have duplicacy doing backups to a cloud provider. I used to use duplicati for this, and it was fine - although I didn't like that it seems to be forever in beta. I like that duplicacy can do deduplication between backups of different machines which most other solutions I've seen cannot. I like its selection of cloud providers vs Borg/Vorta and some others.

Joining is immediate, where some Lemmy instances require manual approval even now.

The main page comes off as more approachable and familiar. They also have a ton of local communities (or "Magazines") so people can do a lot even without the Federation. I find the Microblog stuff somewhat confusing, I think because it doesn't have much of a UI built around it so it is less familiar than Mastodon. It is fairly centralized though, in the sense that there aren't that many kbin instances out there.