I think Debian unstable works great on laptops, and it’s hard to beat for stability.

I know it isn’t really the point, but your setup is so visually pleasant. Very aesthetic.

The books Walkaway (Cory Doctorow) and Accelerando (Charles Stross) both give me nostalgia for a time when the future seemed like an exciting challenge instead of an unbearable one.

This might be a stupid question, but I’m only so-so at wireguard. Do you experience that kind of loss using WG at home, on wifi, between your phone and server?

I hate this comparison. I’ve seen it so many times in the last four years or so, but I feel like it always adds more confusion. I don’t think most people know how email servers work. I run a server and have messed with Postfix, and I don’t have a good grasp on it myself. I’m not sure how to improve it but there has to be something better than that.

What is a king to a god?

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

Yeah, the caption says “U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.”

I misread. Sorry.

I have a samsung A52 and I locked myself out misinputting my pin repeatedly while exhausted. It let me try again after ten minutes or so of lockout. If it helps, there is an fdroid app called “coffee” which will keep the screen on permanently until you manually turn it off.

I feel like this option is honestly worse for most people. You have the new security problem of having to transfer the file everywhere, but now the huge inconvenience of potentially losing it or not having it on a new device.

I do not believe either mastodon or lemmy federate your email address at all. Only the server you join has that information. You might have to worry if you have signed up to an uncrupulous instance. That instance admin could sell your email, I guess. They would have access to any email you gave them, so changing it would probably not help. I think the problem is a little overstated, honestly.

Just, try to be a good person and to learn as much as you can. Any revolution will need doctors, engineers, agricultural scientists. Keep the faith and be a good example to those around you.

I don’t believe it’s possible to reform anything purely online. At some point you have to organize with your neighbors. Maybe try finding a local group, or local chapter of a national group and get involved with them. The DSA could be a good starting point, at least to help you meet other people with similar beliefs.

I wish there was a “log in from other instance” button, but I don’t know how you’d implement that.

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I’ve been using it mainly as a way of keeping track of what I read. I guess I could use a text file, but it’s nice to be able to see it from my phone or share it.

There already is one, it’s just that nobody posts there atm. !guns and lemmygrad!firearms.

I don’t think that’s really possible. I saw what happened when twitter users started trying Mastodon. There was a ton of confusion, and almost none of it was about terminology. The confusion was stuff like “Why doesn’t search work like Twitter’s” or “I can’t see this person’s posts”. Trying to dumb it down only works when the details don’t really matter.