Was Mint with KDE

Now Kubuntu since Mint discontinued their KDE flavour. (Yes you can install KDE but its a hassle to get everything seemless)

Huawei and Honor can both survive purely on domestic sales before you even worry about ROW.

No idea why you think there are only three brands, or why you think the US is the only market that matters (it’s fairly obvious you are US based)

Spotify has one of the highest quality services

spotify is a great service for spotify

spotify is a great service for the consumer

spotify is a godawful exploitive pile of manure for artists

Or what are some films that are significantly better than the book they were adapted

One of my favourite books, High Fidelity. I think I am in the age range and demo it was written for, so much rings true. When I heard there was a film coming out I was so excited, and then I read it was being moved from London and re-set in Chicago, and my heart sank.

Boy was I wrong. John Cusack was great, Todd Louiso was histerical, and it was Jack Black’s breakout performance. (I honestly am not sure he has been funnier since)

And the Chicago setting 100% worked, better than London would have

Will the people in Russia be able to connect the dots and see how this blood is on Putins hands?

nah, they will claim he was captured by nazi’s and radicalised while in Ukraine

TIL that you could game on a Mac

many 14 year olds in the UK are two years away from finishing school.

Nothing wrong at all with them learning to turn up on time, get on with co-workers, budget their wages etc. Stand them in great stead for 2 years later when they are into the real world. 16 year old looking for work after leaving school stands a much better chance if they already have work experience

nothing wrong with having a job at 14. I was working at 9 years old.

Markets and fair stalls at 9-10, paper round from 9 years old, by 14 i was working in cafe’s. Absolutely nothing wrong with children in jobs if they are paid fairly, arent exploited etc.

but 100% they should not be serving alcohol.

Or even better, it forces a banana suit on you, so you can carry on playing but everyone knows who you are.

exactly this, they can control what is on it, give their journalists, shows, etc accounts and it being a self contained hub for everything bbc, while interacting with rest of the fediverse.

Im guessing they will also get more statistics and information from hosting it themselves as well. its a no brainer.

You don’t need to use loads. You can access all communities across all servers just using your single lemmy.world account (except beehaw)

Yeah, its sad. one more place dead

Overreaction much? Threads isn’t even federated yet.

Worry about bolting the door once the horse is actually heading towards the stable.

half the population voted for Trump

As a Brit, I can honestly say that neither I, nor anybody I know, voted for Trump. I’m pretty sure vast swathes of Germany, France, India, Senegal, did not vote for him either.

Russia… maybe…

I think long term its a “big deal”, but in the shorter term, the amount of panic among people who are actively switching to another instance because the instance they are on has not blocked threads yet is kinda ridiculous.

I am not leaving lemmy.world for another instance because they have not instantly blocked threads (who don’t even have connection set up to the fediverse in a way that lemmy can share content)

So in the short term (like today, this week, this month) it is not a big deal.

In the longer term it is a big deal and worthy of discussion.

But, because someone says “I am demanding lemmy.world unfederate from meta in the next 24 hours or I leave” does not mean they support Meta on the fediverse :D

There is no indication that they never will de-federate from Meta.

All they have said is rather than shutting the stable before the horse bolts, they are actually waiting for the horse to get in the stable first and then address if the door needs closing.

There really is no need to either defederate from meta, or make that decision right now anyway

who knew that firing all your dev’s with no severance would backfire on you.

Sorry, If you ignore all employee protections, and fire people and refuse to pay them what they are owed, you can not really complain about them using those skills elsewhere including things they learned in your company.

I was a manager at a McDonald’s In the UK for five years. Can honestly say our shake/I’ve cream machine never once broke down.

We never took it off early for the nightly clean though, that only took a matter of minutes.

But the regular deap clean, we took it off for that, usually a Monday or Tuesday night as they were quiet, and we were straight up with customers and said it was being cleaned

This is the thing, it is much harder to replicate your network on mastodon.

Lemmy is easy, you just look for communities of interest and join them. It’s largely a one sided affair (you the user), sure, people do have relationships in smaller communities but it’s the exception rather than the norm.

Twitter I follow about 500-600 people, and have a shade over 4000 followers. This is a lot harder to rebuild on a new platform. And many of those connections are (online) relationships built up on the platform over many years.

Moving from Twitter is a bit like leaving school. You might maintain relationships with a few of your closest friends, but on the whole, you will not see most of those people again, however much you enjoyed your time with them

t could be due to coding issues

It’s self inflicted. This is what happens when you turn API’s off or make them unaffordable.

instead of using a low resource API entry, sites now switch to full on scraping which uses huge amounts of resources.

He will end up “compromising”.

You can block people, but only people without blue check marks.

Wanna harass someone, wanna be a troll, subscribe to Twitter blue and you can’t be blocked…