I truly wish to see the day when any computer can easily run Linux painlessly.
I think the easiest ones I've seen are Linux Mint and all the vanilla installs of other mature distros, but I still see cases from time to time with friends and strangers who still somehow manage to get their setups in some issue or another, whether it's their hardware's fault or factory defaults / configs getting in the way or their own.
I'm just glad that these are getting much better than ever as time goes on.
Because it gets horribly fucky when you now have to figure out if a date is actually formatted as MM-DD-YY or DD-MM-YY.
Surely we've all handled reading an expiration date before and have wondered if we're eating something OK or has expired months ago because they chose the other format.
(Honestly, I think both formats are shit, and the only correct way to do dates with numbers only is YYYY-MM-DD. If not, then at least use letters for months, like 30 AUG 2023)
Just use whatever you want. Isn't that why we're all here?
Is the Sync noise getting to you? Just ignore it. It's natural since the app just opened up and there were a significant amount of Reddit refugees that badly wanted their app back.
Sync drastically reduces the barrier to using Lemmy for sure.
I appreciate the vanilla Lemmy experience but Sync has my muscle memory / usage habits after all. And it fixes some of my UX complaints that seem mildly annoying but enough to disengage me from the browsing session.
Once upon a time, I used to care and disabled adblocking by default.
But then they tried adding malware and ridiculous amounts of requests to third-party sites I didn't consent to share, and is actually consuming metered data on mobile back then when unlimited data wasn't an option.
So yeah, I'm adblocking by default now that it's been abused and it's necessary for self-defense.
I think it's par for the course for user traffic to normalize since the platform gets visitors just by simply existing.
But if they actually matched that against old users of the site, then it actually means something. Most of the users that left are usually power users and have used Reddit long enough to use third-party apps and can't stand the bullshit changes.
I use Syncthing with a folder called "Configuration Files" where I drop all my sync-able configs and dotfiles and I simply symlink them as needed.