Notices by Corb_The_Lesser (corb_the_lesser@mastodon.social)

@raphael @popey @thelinuxEXP Yes, if you don't like the group's rules or the way you're being treated, you have the option of leaving the group.

@raphael @popey @thelinuxEXP Adults view membership in a group as incurring an obligation to honor the rules and standards of the group and accepting the consequences if they don't.

@raphael @popey @thelinuxEXP

What's the point of having rules of behavior if they aren't enforced?

@raphael @popey @thelinuxEXP
If the majority can't enforce its rules, they're just wishes, not rules.

@Remittancegirl After last night, staying on #X means you trust that Elon Musk will not hand over your posts and personal details to whatever Trumpian agency wants them.

For example, Musk could build a list of DC/VA/MD residents who use specific anti-Trump hashtags, then identify and retaliate against any that are federal employees.

There are no battles to be won there. I'm wiping my account this morning.

@Tesseks Mint has an excellent reputation. It offers 3 desktop environments -- MATE, XFCE, Cinnamon. Cinnamon is the most modern, developed and maintained in-house. There's a focus on gradual refinement rather than adoption of shiny new things.

Mint maintains a small number of packages itself, The other packages available to a Mint user are installed directly from Ubuntu's repositories. Ubuntu periodically migrates packages from Debian's repo to its own. (In use, none of that matters.)

@eshep @thelinuxcast@fosstodon.org @thelinuxcast@tilvids.com The noise generated when Windows 11 moved the default position of the start button to the center of the panel, and put an option in settings to move it to the left corner, makes me think many/most Windows users never deal with anything in settings. They use the defaults from Day One. From their perspective, tweaking means Windows wasn't good enough out of the box.

@BeAware That's inaccurate. Your distro's package manager will resolve dependencies of packages installed from the repositories maintained by that distro and any others you may have installed.

That's how it works.

If you're grabbing something from Github or some other source code site not intended for mainstream use, that, of course, can't happen.

@joeo10 I'd already decided to never buy a laptop with a Copilot key. This Recall business just reinforces that.

Even without the privacy and trust issues, I've never wanted to record and store everything I do on a machine, with the intent of searching for it llater. What are people supposed to do with it?

(I can see what law enforcement would do with a laptop running Recall but that's a different matter.)

@feditips Not questioning the why of it, just asserting it is a hindrance to increased adoption and that I don't think any amount of explaining to people who are already here is going to help attract and keep people who are not here.

@feditips This is the kind of thing that people testing the Mastodon waters run up against, don't like, leave and never come back.

No amount of education about instances and servers and what-not will attract and retain people who think of social media as an app and, justifiably, have zero interest in infrastructure.

@verge If I'm logged into Google, Youtube blocks me if I'm running Ublock Origin.

If I'm not logged into Google Youtube doesn't block me if I'm running Ublock Origin.

That seems relevant to the issue of privacy.

@feditips I'll look. I'm typically not happy with apps compared to using a browser.

@feditips If I follow X, I want to see all X's posts, whether or not they are replies.

if developers want to give users an option to hide replies to others by people they follow, that's fine. Developers should not arbitrarily hide posts from users.

@feditips That's a weakness. If users want to see everything posted by an account they follow, they should not need to find that account's profile page and go looking.

Especially for time sensitive matters and events. If I follow someone specifically to see their posts about a news event, I want to see them in my timeline, along with posts from the other accounts I follow for the same reason.