I recently gave up on daily driving Pop OS. About 6 months ago I got a new laptop with Windows 11, which for various reasons I am not a fan of. I decided it would be a good time to try an experiment and install Linux. The biggest issue right off the bat was lack of hardware support, the fingerprint reader and the speaker amp are not supported. I spent a bunch of time researching and seeing if I could make them work but apparently it has to do with the kernel and isn't really something I can fix. This didn't seem like a big deal at first because I can get sound out of the headphone jack or via bluetooth, and while it was convenient to login via a fingerprint reader, it wasn't something I really felt like I needed. Since then I've become much more reliant on biometric authentication, it's just so much more convenient to be able to auth bitwarden with my finger instead of having to type in a password. More recently, I started using Proton VPN and the client is pretty crap in Linux. Switching over to Windows 11, I can login with my finger, all of my passwords are a finger print away, Proton VPN works natively with wireguard and is generally much more reliable and easier to use. It's just a much better user experience, there's nothing weird and janky to deal with, I don't need to mess about in the command line to do basic things. I really loved Pop, and I'm sure I'll boot back into it, but I'm daily driving Windows 11 until I can sort out the hardware issues and get Proton VPN working better, and I think both of those issues are out of my hands so all I can do is wait.

I miss the old massdrop. They used to be awesome and do interesting things.

MSG isn't "bad" at all, it's just another ingredient really. The campaign against it was entirely bullshit that was driven by racism against Asian people because it's a common ingredient in Chinese food.

AM is more effective for true emergency situations where civilization has broken down because the section of the spectrum it uses naturally propagates further. You can hear an AM station over a much larger area than an FM station.

His inability, or unwillingness, to even put on a show of trying to finesse the community is one of the strangest things about the situation. Handling things in the most ridiculously hamfisted way he could and picking a huge fight with the people that provide him with free content and moderation, and right before the IPO... it's just so bizarre and dumb.

Ya, it couldn't hurt to unplug it. Once an appliance starts malfunctioning I'm always concerned about it starting itself on fire. I don't think it's especially likely but it feels like it's worthwhile to mitigate the potential.

I'm not an expert but I believe microwaves are generally designed so they can't run with the door open unless you very intentionally modify them to do so. They shouldn't fail in a way where it's possible. That may not be correct, and I would say that regardless you should replace a malfunction microwave because it's inherently unsafe for other reasons too.

I'm one of those people who would want this. I still enjoy coffee but since quitting caffeine several years ago I've become hyper sensitive to it so even decaf can potentially keep me up. It would be nice to have a decaf that was even more decaf, then I can have coffee whenever I want without worrying about my sleep schedule. I definitely recommend tapering off caffeine, it's actually extremely powerful when you're not slamming your body with 250mg at a time for years on end. Getting used to lower and less frequent doses before quitting was a lot less unpleasant than trying to quit when I was still drinking coffee and energy drinks all the time.

He does seem very defensive, and aggressive. Reddit is all his data he owns so we're the leaches who just don't want to pay, he has been so magnanimous to allow us to waste his money all these years with our stupid API calls. It's amazing they let this guy be the CEO, it's like he wants to piss people off at this point. Reddit IPO has broken his brain. I was ready to start paying Reddit to keep using RiF when this started, now here I am free from that shitshow forever and ready to spend that money supporting the growth of Lemmy. Incredible leadership from spez.

That allegedly happened recently with some German language subreddit, the admins had prepopulated it with badly translated comments from a bunch of bot accounts they control. I never actually verified that was true and don't know German to verify, but that's at least a recent allegation I've seen within the past several months that is supposed to be backed by evidence.

I use a full case, with built-in screen cover. The case is banged up and the screen cover is scratched up but the phone inside is still basically pristine after about 5 years. I've replaced the case once a few years ago and probably will again if I don't get a new phone. In the past I didn't use protection and my previous phone had the screen break from a ridiculously short drop so I decided to go all out on protecting my next phone. It's worked out well because I literally toss my phone wherever I want without really worrying about it now.

From what I've heard, there's thousands of applications they are working through so it may take a bit to get caught up.

I have a Hiby R6, in some ways it's like having a phone that can't make calls but also it's great having a dedicated device for audio.

As far as I know, it's not really true that those marks have to be included to protect a trademark. Definitely there's no expectation that individuals should be using them in normal communications. Unless you actually work for the company and are told to include a mark on company branding, it's really not something to ever worry about.

I run Pop on my laptop and have been really happy with it. I'm not really a Linux person and it's been totally straight forward for me, it seems very user friendly.

I used Power Delete Suite to overwrite my comments and posts via API, it includes an option to export everything from your account to a CSV before it takes any destructive actions, and it's super easy to use.

It is such a bizarre and creepy industry, everything about it is gross. I support you for world dictator!

That may be a feature eventually, I think Lemmy development isn't very far along yet and the devs weren't really expecting a flood of people to suddenly show up from Reddit. I'd expect it will get a lot more polished, and additional features, now that so many people are using it and more devs are contributing to the project now.

It was really easy with Power Delete Suite, took about 30 seconds to configure and then everything is automated after that.