[-] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

Any second-hand business class laptop that fits your budget, i.e. HP Elitebook/Probook/Zbook, Dell Inspiron/Latitude/XPS, or Lenovo Thinkpad.

Businesses tend to get rid of them after 4 years, even if they're still in good condition. Great bang for your buck and easily repairable if something does end up breaking.

You'll have to install Linux yourself, but generally support for older hardware is OK.

IMPORTANT: make sure the BIOS isn't locked before buying.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

That and without an income source, you can't pay content creators, so you can't attract them to the platform in the first place. People dislike YouTube for running ads, but the ads are what pays for the videos.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

Self-hosted WordPress blogs were actually already able to federate with the fediverse (if the blog admin installs the requisite plugin). The recent news is that blogs hosted on WordPress.com are now also able to federate.

WordPress.com is the name of the hosting service by the creators of WordPress, but you can also choose to host the WordPress software elsewhere (and many do).

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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5143956

Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works.

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I seem not to be able to create a post in the community [email protected]. When I tap the ‘Create’ button, instead of creating the post, it just keeps spinning forever and never actually creates the post. I’m using the regular Lemmy.world web UI on Safari on iPadOS 16.6.1.

How can I solve this?

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5143956

Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works.

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

It's called the Super key on Linux. On Windows it's called the Windows key and on Mac the Command key.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago

Are you suggesting that Linus Sebastian, age 36, is somehow a Gen Zer?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Eh, this is a classic joke by now. There's those jokes on the Windows side too (like the 'delete system32' one).

[-] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

TF2 did it first

[-] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Well, it sure sounds like X is delivering users to Mastodon.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Nitpick: it’s performant (capable of a high level of performance), but not performative (being done as a performance).

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Nobody really knows, but there are two theories floating around:

  • The Lemmy devs paid for their domain
  • Their DNS entries are still cached and it will stop working tomorrow
[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Ah, I understand now. The expression is evaluated like this:

  • $a == 1 ? "one" : $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ? "three" : "other"
  • $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ? "three" : "other"
  • "two" ? "three" : "other"
  • "three"
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