What don’t you like about popos?
I quite like it. Having used gnome, kde and even things like awesomwm or other des or window managers, pops de is quite nice
What don’t you like about popos?
I quite like it. Having used gnome, kde and even things like awesomwm or other des or window managers, pops de is quite nice
My trait is I think cars are too digital and should be analogue. Giant touch panels are distracting and have generally bad UI design. You can control an A/C with 3 dials, 4 if you have zones and don’t need to look down at all. Pinnacle of engineering.
I will never own a car that has features behind a paywall or that I can’t directly control. Computer cars are fine as long as I have root.
Mashing subscribe to anything looking interesting and seeing how it goes.
Removing ones that aren’t useful.
Nice. Thanks!
Agree those two changes would be good. Along with making the ability to add topic sorting or community grouping where you can view say, all “technology” communities in a url. Or all Linux communities across instances in a big group etc.
Right. Agree. But searching for communities, especially those outside your instance can be wonky. Finding communities and grouping like communities across instances is difficult as it currently sits. And it takes a bit of understanding how to search to find things.
Yeah. Best I can describe it is its like email for message boards.
But I can see definate needs for better community discovery, group like communities from other instances, making reccomendations for similar communities etc.
I dont see most less technical users moving at all without some more UI maturity. The whole federated services thing is just a bit too abstract a concept for most. And right now its difficult to find/join communities outside your instance.
Haha. Yeah. I’m not a pacifist, but I wish war wasn’t a thing. And I don’t judge people for a single belief in most cases.
People are complex. How they arrive at an opinion or outlook is complex. I for one feel we can agree to disagree or have different outlooks and still be cordial or even friends.
I’m friends with people that lean in many political ways. I can generally separate one’s politics from the person they are.
I wish more were able to debate without resorting to reductionism, or straight insults or extreme labels and yelling.
If you can’t talk to your enemies or those you disagree with, you drive them away and dehumanize them.
I don’t think they reacted incorrectly tbh. The thing of it was that this was one of the first times it became “mainstream” and was mentioned in MSM on the likes of CNN. So it brought an influx of users, more so than past surges. This overall the culture changed quite a lot.
Prior you could use Reddit as a news source. In fact MSM was using stuff trending there to “break” news to larger audiences. They did similar with Boston…and got it wrong.
Overall once that happened it shined a spotlight on the site. And some of the unsavory subreddits were reported on. But more importantly witch hunts became MUCH more prevalent. Anyone feeling slighted would try and engage Reddit to harass people. And more and more joined.
There were times where this happened before. It happened to a user named Saydrah in the earlier days who was a mod of some subreddit. But it was much more prevalent and frankly dangerous. Instead of sending pizzas to a house it was all night harassment and death threats.
So the admins started curating the main page. Making sure the likes of creepshots subreddits werent there. Or super emergent news wasn’t there, because the Chris Dorner thing didn’t help either. Overall it just changed the culture from one of a series of communities to something a bit more…risky.
Hell I have had people that disagreed with my stances around that time. Thankfully I practiced some basic opsec, but they certainly harassed some poor person thinking it was me. It’s made me very cagey about being online and frankly being honest with my opinions that may be less….mainstream.
It was quite a long while ago. This post was her finally coming up for air some months after all the hullabaloo.
That was before spez came back though. And it was kn0thing that demanded it. Pretty dramatic at the time.
I’ve been on Reddit over 17 years now. Shame what they are doing but it’s been pretty downhill after the Boston Bomber fiasco and them changing their front page algo to whitelist only and artificial delays to avoid the giant witch-hunts that happened then.
https://np.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3clu3i/hi_everyone_victoria_here/
There are third parties (mostly people with 3d printers) selling enclosures to turn an old laptop mail board from framework into a mini desktop.
I think most of their stuff is open source. So the main thing is the barrier to entry to design things like modules etc for the laptop.