Automatic emails have revealed so many LGPD violations with my accounts too (LGPD is the Brazilian version of GDPR).

single celled organisms cooperating

No, not really. There are pretty fundamental differences between colonies of single celled organisms cooperating versus the cells of a multicellular organism.

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Here in Brazil the hardware and software are technically two different products, in such a way that you can’t deny a hardware warranty repair due to software modifications. That’s the good part.

The bad part is that manufacturers do that anyway because they know you won’t pay the legal fees to challenge this in court. This strategy mostly pays off. If you’re particularly annoying, or somebody from our customer protection watchdog happens to take interest in your claim, the company will fold and repair the modified device for you eventually.

Nintendo 64.

Nintendo GameBoy Advance SP.

New Nintendo 3DS (the small, non-XL).

PSP Go.

Steam Deck.

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YouTube didn’t “kill the competition”. They never had to.

All YouTube competitors very quickly faced the issues relating to ingesting, storing and moderating video. The scalability is a nightmare.

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Two things, one they’ll openly admit, one they’ll pretend is not a factor but it’s the main reason.

The first are snaps. Snaps are a way of package distribution created by Canonical with the goal of solving a few problems on Linux: snaps allow a piece of software to be installed bundling the exact dependencies it wants, run inside a sandboxed container, and be updated with ease regardless of the rest of the system. If you’re familiar with Flatpaks, you might think they sound similar - that’s because they are, the difference being snaps came first and are hosted by Canonical, while Flatpaks came later and are hosted by the community.

Snaps, like all similar packages on Linux, suffered with slower app launch speeds, issues with drivers or other system components not interacting correctly with the sandbox, and so on. Those issues have been mostly fixed, and snaps are loved by people who use Canonical’s solutions to workstations and servers.

“Snap bad too slow, canonical le evil” stayed though. It’s worth noting that while enabled by default, snaps can be disabled. So that’s reason number one.

Reason number two is simple: Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro for desktop usage, and the most often recommended for beginners.

This means Ubuntu goes against the “we aren’t normies” mentality that dominates a portion of the Linux community. It’s hard to feel like a super genius for using Linux when your neighbor who can barely understand a keyboard can simply install Ubuntu in an afternoon and everything works great. Ubuntu being the home for newcomers also means said newcomers will often appear in Linux forums asking for help, and lots of tutorials are written for Ubuntu - which angers users from other distros.

So that’s it. That’s why Lemmy hates Ubuntu. Every other argument like “oh no Ubuntu is too closely tied to Canonical’s objectives” or “Oh no, Ubuntu is too opinionated and will change tradition in other to appease newcomers” could be applied to a million other distros, but you won’t see people complaining about them.

That’s obvious. But the test was made on Ubuntu, so they can only report about their results on Ubuntu. They did not claim they can’t be similar in other distros.

Lemmy’s “Ubuntu bad” sentiment gets a bit ridiculous sometimes.

I wonder if the open source driver will ever be able to replicate quite advanced features such as frame generation.

DLSS is easy enough - make the driver have a generic hook compatible with the Windows DLL, which Proton already can use.

But frame generation? It actually requires the driver to intercept quite a lot of calls from the game engine.

important to ecosystems

Because they’re invasive species to most places in the world. They’re important for their original ecosystem.

The way he described how it works is objectively and verifiably wrong - it simply does not work like that. Whether he likes Lemmy or not is a separate matter, that doesn’t change how it works.

If a Lemmy user searches “woodworking” and the biggest woodworking community isn’t on your instance, you have to leave Lemmy

It seems like you have a misunderstanding about how Lemmy works. This is incorrect.

You’ll be able to see all “woodworking” communities that exist in your instance or that are federated with your instance. This difference isn’t subtle, because as long as somebody from your instance has interacted with the external one, they’ll immediately start syncing.

For instance, I can search for “gaming” on my Lemmy.world account and the biggest communities aren’t even hosted here. Yet, I can follow them and interact normally, and I needed zero external sites or tools to find them.

The only possible friction is hosting your own l Lemmy instance, or joining one that is likely to be defederated from others. But most users will not create an account on a shady instance, they’ll likely join the biggest “normal looking” public ones, and so far, federation hasn’t been an issue (apart from debates regarding very politically noisy instances).

Oh, and by the way, downvoting my comment means absolutely nothing - you’ve accomplished nothing, because that button doesn’t mean “I disagree”.

Well, when I join a Discord group for books, I don’t automatically join all book Discord channels ever created.

I don’t see what the difference is, unless you’re willing to explain.

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That may not automatically imply 100% contribution

Thus the angry fans on the forum.

The most information I could find about it is a forum thread where angry FreeBSD fans react to an article talking about how the Nintendo Switch used FreeBSD components, which led to people mentioning the PlayStation 3 which led to a user talking about how Sony contributed upstream.

Which means I found literally nothing.

When I dual boot Linux and Windows, I like to have two separate drives and not ever mix up the bootloaders. I then use my motherboards boot selector to choose which one, and I leave the main OS as the first priority one.

Works perfectly, avoids Windows overwriting Linux and avoids GRUB breaking for the 11th time this month because it’s a terrible piece of software. The only downside is it takes 10 seconds longer, because whenever I want to change I need to wait for my motherboard to recognize the boot selection key.