I think you’re right that the community could be more welcoming to newcomers. I also think there is a great point that newbies should be prepared to learn the technical side.

It is terrific that nontechnical people want to self host, particularly as a way of keeping their data and services under their own control. But a large part of the attraction that corporate services like Google and Microsoft offer is, they remove the entire technical layer from users’ view.

As a result we have a few generations that largely don’t know how to even host a basic website, much less rather more complex server software. If you want to admin a server and several services on it, it really is a good idea to know what is required to serve it securely, even only on a local network.

And I’m coming at this from an end user’s perspective, having dappled in home and remote servers for small projects, picking up some limited skills in the process. I have appreciated the GUI offerings that make it easier to set up a home lab or other server for beginners, but at the end of the day, I really think everybody should have (or try to attain) the technical knowledge required to operate or at least maintain the technology we use.

This is not meant to trash on your Safebox project, but a more general viewpoint.

TIL. Will have to look it up for future updates. Preserving root is really the only drawback of updating LOS/mG.

For updates between minor versions, I just use the LOS updater in settings. I haven’t seen any suggestions to uninstall Magisk beforehand, is that device specific perhaps?

I do usually need to patch and flash a file to get root again after installation.

Ley lines. Hey, they’re real!

Also, the idea that somewhere there is a species that’s just unquestionably, irredeemably evil. Trek has toyed with the notion before (Hi, Armus!), but this feels like a Pandora’s box moment if they stick with it.

Also also, why did all the scifi of the finale feel like it was streamlined to make space for a Harry Potter wizard battle?

It’s the first Trek show that I have no desire to rewatch. Especially the s3 finale had me ready to just jump ship.

And it’s not the fault of the cast or directors, people on set running around to make things go brrr. It’s the decision from above that SNW’s sole purpose is apparently to set up a) TOS (and messing up what we thought we knew about, say, the Gorn in the process), and b) another show with Kirk, Spock and the gang which will also setup TOS.

We get it, Akiva Goldman & co have a big, collective fetish for TOS, but could we please let SNW be its own thing…?

It’s just the inevitable exploitation of any word that van be randomly put next to “economy”. It’s a bullshit con is why.

“Meme coin” 💀

Ah yes, the toolchain changes appear to be a stumbling stone for the Fennec devs as well. That kind of thing doesn’t exactly speed up new releases, I’m sure.

What are your experiences with Mull? Is it generally compatible with Firefox plugins, and are there performance improvements as well as in security?

Yeah, more or less right. On Mastodon I’m a heavy filter user, so loads of terms and hashtags just GTFO. I don’t see anything near that capability baked into Lemmy.

And I have to say, the more I think about it, the more important link source filtering is. Given how many posts are links to external sites I think it would be a great feature to sift out the chaff before you even have the chance to roll your eyes at it!

I will suggest filtering, by term and by source URL. I think it would help customize individual feeds, making it easier and perhaps more comfortable navigating the news.

Example A: term filtering: This should be fairly obvious. Say I’m a Linux user who could care less about KDE. But people keep gushing over it in the Linux subs I subscribe to, and the damn developers keep pushing new releases that also get posted. Argh! Filter out posts (maybe even comments) that mention KDE, Bob’s your uncle. And I can still enjoy all those delicious GNOME posts. Definitely not a real world inspired scenario.

Example B: URL filtering: Simply(!) filtering out link posts by source URL. Not a fan of Fox News and/or WaPo? Filter out one site or the other by root URL, like *.foxnews.com or *.washingtonpost.com. Me, I’d gladly filter out all and any YouTube links unseen by default. That’s a constant noise generator I could genuinely live without. But I digress.

I hope the examples illustrate my point because I could clearly never explain a feature request succinctly nor to the point.

I mean, that quote is truer for any regular currency than it is for shitcoin. The only unique thing about cryptocurrency (and especially POW ones) is that it’s flushing the environment down the drain even quicker than bog standard hypercapitalism. And still you can’t use your fucking monopoly money to buy a bottled water.

BECOME BITCOIN BECOME LIGHTNING

LOL, not in a million years. Dumping this like the cryptocurrency infected garbage it is.

Phanpy, a mastodon frontend is somehow going to co-lead a battle against Meta? I’m not at all against unionising, but it sounds like you’re cherry picking whatever you personally happen to use as representative of the fediverse.

federates the Dominion

FTFY