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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • For the smartphone, what do you mean by software unlocked parts? For the rest I’m in total agreement.

    The high end graphics card market really needs more clean RGB free stuff. My 3090’s lights didn’t turn on despite it functioning just fine so maybe that counts :) ?

    As for case I know you had plenty of answers already, but I recently got a Corsair 4000D my latest build it’s sleek and has no inbuilt RGB lighting.





  • I think federation with Meta will improve Mastodon, and doesn’t affect Lemmy too much. Threads users will be able to post to our groups, but the discussion will be mostly within communities on existing servers.

    The worry is if the bulk of discussion happens in Meta’s space. Yes, people will feel like they are missing out if they are on a Masto server defederated with Meta, but there is enough activity from people outside of that to be engaging. On the Lemmy side, (hypothetically) if Facebook Groups were to become like Lemmy communities, I’d be very concerned that most of the discussion would move away from places like here on lemmy.world and other cool servers to Meta’s. Then by the time Meta decides to leave or do something stupid then people will not have a place to go to.






  • Hi, Micro$oft Community Advisor Alicia here!

    I’m sorry to hear that your software occasionally crashes. Trying some of these steps may help you:

    • Go to Windows Update and search for the latest drivers
    • Run ‘sfc /scannow’ in command prompt
    • Reinstall Windows

    Please mark my post as “Answer” if this helped you solve your problem! Thank you!




  • Rentlar@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldRead the dumpster
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    In North America, large dumpsters for apartments and companies have a colour that is just the company colour, such as Green for WM, GFL, Blue for Waste Connections, Republic, other companies can be Red, Brown, White, Cyan, Orange, Yellow or other colours.

    The use is typically denoted by a sticker, sign or by spray painted letters.

    For residential curbside bins, blue is typical, but some do it differently if it’s separated further into glass, plastic containers and paper/cardboard products. The colours schemes between recyclables and organics is not consistent and varies from city to city.



  • Interesting to hear your experience. It took me 3.5 months to fully remove myself from Reddit. (March to July):

    • I started just poking around Lemmy while using Reddit
    • to occasional commenting and posting on Lemmy
    • to using them about equal time
    • then making a final few posts and comments in the protest weeks and helping people migrate
    • then I was only upvoting
    • then I made a final goodbye post on my Reddit page
    • then I stopped voting but still looking around Reddit and the playplace.
    • then when that was over, I uninstalled my favourite RedReader app and stopped using it altogether

    I’m not one who likes to go cold turkey, but when once I commit to boycotting something I stick to it until my condition is met. In those final days I came across many Reddit users who were like “if you hate Reddit that much why are you still using iiiiiit?”, that was annoying but that’s behind me now and there is no condition for me to go back to it.


  • All/New was the only way you could get an entirely new feed a couple times a day.

    There was still some lore and beefs between servers (like with wolfballz, a right wing community taken down for hatespeech, or hexbear that became incompatible and headed their own way). Feddit.de has a still a bunch of old federated servers cached that came into and went out of existence.

    Between Lemmy.ca (I joined there in March) and Beehaw, there were 10 people posting regularly as in a handful of posts a day. Lemmy.ml had a mix of general news and user “Yogthos” posting pro-China news/propaganda.

    It was a quiet but nice little place. The admins running the instance would often be quick to reply and give you detailed answers whenever you needed them. Now many have their plate full with moderation actions and keeping their site up.

    !Programmerhumor@lemmy.ml was one of the first communities to me that seemed based off a Reddit subreddit theme.

    We knew the change winds were coming, slowly at first in May, then suddenly exploded after May 30th. Beehaw grew from 700 users to 14000 in less than two weeks (during the time the Reddit protest was being organized). That was a crazy change for Fediverse people, new people everywhere, minor trolls popping here and there, Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works being born, admins working overtime to accept new members. All very exciting.

    Second half of June there was some trouble. Beehaw defederated because they couldn’t keep up with moderating users from instances with open signup processes (and I suspect it was triggered by a troll making a hateful post about his dick on the LGBTQ sub).

    Then there was a torrent of accounts made on some instances that originally had one or two users. They had no comments or posts and had a username with a random word and a bunch of numbers. All of a sudden the instances with the “most users” were these completely inactive instances.

    CAPTCHA was better implemented, and dbzero helped create a filter to monitor and defederate instances with hugely disproportionate number of accounts compared to activity.

    There’s your mini-history lesson for Lemmy.



  • I agree. If Reddit won, the victory was pyrrhic if anything. Their whole plan to end 3rd party app support could have been just a small road bump if they had just done it transparently and planned it with reasonably thought out timelines. They instead chose to do a whole front flip over it and get everyone mad, tanking their brand while trying to make it look like nothing happened.

    Anyways, congratulations on your victory. Here’s your prize: ❤