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Cheers!!

This is effectively saying, “This article is correct but for the wrong reasons”. People aren’t angry about why hundreds of migrants dying isn’t newsworthy. They’re angry that it’s not newsworthy.

I’m frankly surprised that not enough people find it disgusting that the EU passively killing hundreds of refugees is less interesting because the EU does so regularly.

Oh nice thanks!

Cheers! Yep, I’m gonna give them the down low on Linux. I might even modify the DE to imitate the Windows 11 UX so the transition is easier.

I’m basically boiling it down to Debian/Debian-based OR Fedora…

I should emphasize that a lot of pro-Western outlets and commentators have recently weaponised the term to discredit any diverging points of view re-the Ukraine War. So someone like Cornel West would be a “tankie” by this point of view, which is actually kind of disgusting in how dishonest it is.

This is actually a good shoot. Or maybe something like Gallium OS, but dunno if that’s still around haha.

Thanks for the heads up. My main concern with Zorin and Pop (out of ignorance, more than anything) is that they’re built with more modern devices, and will make the ThinkPad experience extremely slow? You think this should be a concern or it’ll be fine?

Amazingggg, never thought of the YouTube use case, I’m gonna try it myself. I’ve been using NewPipe and Libretube, but they just don’t cut it for me hahaha.

Yep, the UI can be a bit tricky. If I swipe a few times it usually figures out that I’m trying to refresh, and does so.

Perfect! Honestly, my greatest fear is that something breaks and they need to look up fixes by themselves. For a technophobe, StackOverflow and other forums can be pretty intimidating or downright hostile.

Ideally I’d like to opt for a distro that firstly works well on old machines (I’m going for a ThinkPad T400, i.e. an ancient one), and secondly, if it does break, can be fixed with a GUI hopefully.

Based on my understanding, primary uses:

• Read research papers (PDFs). Annotations functionality is a must (includes highlighting, commenting etc).
• Write university essays, including formatting, academic citations etc. I’d personally stick to Libre Office but realistically, they’re gonna use the MS Office suite. So I’d like to either have MS Office offline on the machine, OR let them use the on-line version easily.
• Listen to music fairly regularly, so Spotify is a must.
• Easy access to banking, finance etc.

Secondary uses:

• Streaming-wise, they occasionally use Netflix but mostly stream via one of “those websites” if you catch my drift
• They also like to use a VPN, which I can help set up (I’m planning to use my own OpenVPN instance)
• Social media, i.e. Gmail, FB etc.

So yeah, I think the ideal situation would be one that easily allows:

1. Using MS Office
2. Using Adobe (I’d have used Okular personally, but it’s annotations are utterly inaccessible if I share my Okular-annotated PDF with an Adobe user and vice versa)
3. Browser for everything else (I’ll likely give them Brave)

My thoughts exactly! I plan to use Native Alpha mostly to give the devs ample time to improve Jerboa, and will eventually jump ship (I think)

On mobile website, just click the hamburger menu from the top right and click “Create Community”!

Oh nice, I’ll try this too!

I think you’re right in that the structure is confusing. Personally, I think it’s less confusing than it is “novel”. Like in a world where the fediverse was the norm, centralised apps would’ve been confusing.

Either which way, I think you’re correct – part of it is because we don’t really have a good analogy for how this whole thing works.

This is how I see it: Lemmy is like a house party hosted in a huge venue that has hundreds of doors (i.e. instances). The doors have some slight differences (maybe some are huge, some are tiny, some have bouncers, some let you bring your own costumes etc). But for the most part, it doesn’t really matter what door you enter the party through, as all doors open into the same common space.

However, the door you choose does make you physically closer to one cluster of people than the rest of the party. That’s how I see the “local” filter. But if you’re just interested in getting into the party asap, just pick any instance and join.

This still isn’t a perfect analogy though – if a door shuts down, you don’t magically disappear from the party. But if an instance goes down, you do. Still, for the uninitiated, I feel like this is a sensible enough analogy.

I think I’m going to stick to Lemmy and use Reddit only to promote Lemmy. I’ve been created a few new communities here and will plug them to Reddit users.

Sadly not!

Hey! You can also post this to !beatles@sopuli.xyz if you fancy :)

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If they’re actually going for accuracy, they should make the US the demonic antagonist, and Cuba, South Africa, Laos, Vietnam etc as the protagonists.