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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I think my instance is now defed’d from hexbear, but when it wasn’t, they were the reason I wouldnt recommend lemmy to my partner. Their “trolling” was pure obnoxiousness.

    The other major issue I think is the lack of moderation, lemmy just isnt a very pleasant space. There are still issues with spam. The CSAM incident a while back hasnt been repeated, but I have no reason to beleive it cant/wont happen again. Porn seems to hit All every so often.

    With an agressively curated block list Lemmy can be nicer, but by default it just isnt.

    Here is an idea for dissection: There should be a default blocklist that instances can provide and update. Defederation is too coarse a tool, but if instances (or third parties?) could provide a list of “bad” instances, “bad” communities and “bad” users that are used as the default blocklist. Users are free to opt out of the blocklist, but with a sane default lemmy could be a lot safer. (Or maybe not, im no expert)


  • Clevo/Metabox have always been my goto for upgradable/repairable machines. I got a Metabox P650SE over a decade ago, and it was rock solid for a very long time (still is usable, but its quite heavy now, so I upgraded to a thinner and lighter laptop).

    Super easy to open and replace RAM, harddisks, clean out dust etc.

    No trouble getting a replacement battery and bottom shell as it aged.

    Definitelt thick as well. Downside is cost, they are not cheap. But also not Apple level expensive either.



  • Looong time ago, and the linux world wasnt anywhere near stable and polished as it is now (neither was Windows either if we are being honest with ourselves).

    While Wubi does not install Ubuntu directly to its own partition this can also be accomplished by using LVPM, the Loopmounted Virtual Partition Manager, to transfer the Wubi-generated Ubuntu installation to a dedicated real partition

    I vaguely recall using something like that and trashing both OS installs.

    Resizing partitions live is very dangerous, which is why normally its done from a bootable CD or USB. Doing it live from Windows wont be easy. And if you have to boot into a usb or dvd environment, may as well just use the regular installation media?