RAM transfer rate is is not important when swapping as the bottleneck will be storage transfer rate when reading and writing to swap.

Which I doubt Apple can make as fast as DDR4 bandwidth.

I don’t think latency is relevant in an application like lemmy. If you can’t get posts from the server it’s not latency but the server being overloaded.

Nobody said they would confiscate millions of com or net domain names or random non-Americans. We are talking about the lemmy developers specifically.

But there is no reason to get a US registered domain as a non US citizen who is also not hosted in the USA.

.com and .net are under US jurisdiction they are not stateless. I could also see why the original lemmy developers would not want to use such a domain.

It’s in his apartment. Unmanaged switches and/or WiFi.

Well our experiences differ then. I never had any issues on vanilla Ubuntu systems. After all if there was I 'd have to be on the phone to fix it while also reminding the fam that any non specified click us a left click.

To be fair I rarely had issues with Windows myself, at least post xp. But windows do fail, especially on updates and in quite bizarre ways. I ve had to solve quite a few over the years.

Nope. Install a distro like Ubuntu and it will not break with auto updates. Nvidia drivers included.

Much less maintenance than when they used windows.

You also overestimate the non tech enthusiast ability to use or fix issues with windows. They usually download the first program that promises to fix their issue, or increase their RAM.

It’s actually ideal for people who are actually not tech enthusiasts at all and do not need specific software for their job (Photoshop, audio stuff, actually NOT Ms office)

Everybody I 've seen making this argument is actually a tech enthusiast themselves and just as out of touch with the average user as a Linux “guru” and massively overestimates the non tech enthusiast user.

They are far more likely to fuck up their Windows PC (even with UAC because they don’t understand what it is) than successfullyinstall a new program on their own.

I 've borged my Nvidia drivers a few times, never via the distro auto updating. Custom kernels, trying to get newer cuda versions or something. Still better to fix than AMD drivers on windows and the whole DDU dance.

Bluetooth headphones actually work out of the box in Ubuntu but whatever.

Well, there are some arguments pro buying cheaper phones.

1. You have the option to upgrade, you are not obliged. Even if you finance the more expensive phone you are still committed for more. You have more options.

2. Batteries do naturally degrade over time. No matter how expensive or good your phone is.

3. Accidents happen some will not be covered by warranty but I also do not see more expensive phones having more than 2 years warranty which is the minimum.

4. If you do chose to upgrade you have more phones, that means a backup or a free phone for a member of your family.

I think they are present in some school computer labs in a server and full/thin client combination.

This post is on a beehaw community. Started by a lemmy.world user. As I understand it is on our local copy of the community that got pulled before the de-federation and only our users should be able to post on it.

Already that would be bad in my opinion since the copy is unmoderated and isolated. However it appears that some users replying are actually from other instances (not beehaw of course). This can only create confusion and further ‘issues’ with beehaw.

Lemmy itself. What the instances (lemmy.ml , lemmy.world etc) run. It’s not something users can update to.

What link did you use to post the image? I think using the direct link (the one including the extension and no tags) will not add anything but the image.

You can get it by right clicking on the image on imgur and copying image address or opening the image in a new tab and copying from the address bar.

It should and any users should refrain from making alts on other instances and participating in beehaw’s communities because you will be empowering them to repeat this again.

Instead you should join communities on other instances. There is an argument to join communities here on lemmy.world and on just.works that got de-federated as a counterbalance to any pressure from beehaw on other instances to de-federate them as well.

Well reddit most certainly would have a backup to restore from. Reddit does have control over their site, they will be able to do what they want.

What we can do is cause them image issues. Make them remove mods that have been making reddit work. Mods deleting users’ data will make mods look bad and reddit reasonable to demote them and restore the sub.

Would it be possible to implement Settings -> Show Read as an option in your actual feed next to subscribed/local/all and sort type dropdown for easier access? Basically making the Settings option the default but quickly changeable when browsing.

It was beehaw that did it. Not .world . Beehaw was the second largest instance before the reddit exodus. Second only to the devs’ instance lemmy.ml which beehaw users missed no chance in telling you it’s run by tankies!

1. They will probably be defederated when they start getting VC money. They may try to hide it but if the money is supposed to help them dominate it will be difficult to do.

2. Let’s say they have the money. How are they going to use it to dominate?

Just having better hardware? That would only be attractive if the rest of lemmy cannot handle the traffic. In that case lemmy would be doomed anyways. Paying people to post stuff and drive activity? People will talk and the whole business case is you don’t pay for content, users provide it for free. Same arguments apply for hired moderators. Forking the software? Major changes and features without any willingness to contribute back to the project will get them defederated, especially when VC backing becomes know.

3. Even if they succeed, lemmy won’t go away. Sure some instances will close but the main instance existed before the reddit issue. I don’t see those users hoping to a corporate instance this keeping non VC lemmy alive. When VC lemmy starts becoming shitty it’s users will be much more likely to dump it for lemmy. They all have migrated away from a much more mainstream and bigger platform anyways. VC lemmy to normal lemmy would not be an issue.

How exactly does the instance with ads become large enough to set terms and defederate other instances out of existence?

People don’t really prefer ads. They can just use federated instances to access any content without seeing ads. The communities themselves can join another ad free instance.