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Cool holiday home for an av geek.

We are now back up and running on Lemmy 0.19.5. See what’s changed: 0.19.4, 0.19.5.

Heat pumps…

I also use Navidrome + Symfonium. It’s a great combo.

From what I’ve seen, there’s no real performance difference with a gaming distro. What they tend to offer is an out of box experience that is more tailored towards gaming than a regular distro (think ‘game mode’, Steam, Proton, and maybe Lutris pre-installed, Nvidia drivers if you need them).

Is this how we crack fusion?

It’s a signage display.

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I’m running Pop! OS on a Surface Pro 5 and it works pretty much flawlessly with the Linux Surface kernel installed. That said, 99% of the time I’m using it with the keyboard attached so I haven’t done much testing of it in ‘tablet mode’, nor with a stylus.

Lego lawsuit incoming…

Move to an instance that won’t.

Not BBC but tangentially related, I enjoy the rolling stream of old crime and mystery radio plays that Audio Noir does. Worth checking out.

I think your data may be old? Current estimates have Taiwan’s population at 23.4m and 27m for Australia’s. The disparity in density still stands though!

Mediterranean chickpea salad, like this one. I usually have it as a side but it’s really filling on its own. I like to sub one can of chickpeas for beans sometimes.

We’re back up and running - now on v0.19.2 of Lemmy. This major version bump introduces new features like user-level instance blocking and a new scaled sort algorithm.

The image service back-end upgrade is partially complete. I anticipate another short period of downtime in the next week or two to complete the required changes.

As with any major changes to the back-end, I recommend clearing your site data and logging back in.

I can also see that some changes to the Lemmy UI code may have degraded the Leminal Space theme. I hope to have these issues cleaned up over the next couple of days.

That’s a big reason why I’m giving it a go! Currently importing page 1200 of 1800.

As someone who has used Last.fm for 19 years but lately looking for better music discovery options, I’ll give this a go.

Having thought more about this issue over the past couple of weeks, and having read some of the arguments of others (Erin Kissane’s persuasive blog post in particular), I have reconsidered my position on this and cannot in good conscience allow this instance to federate with Threads or any other Meta entity. Defederation is effective immediately.

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EDIT: The below information is no longer current. See the updated comment.

The current Defederation Policy is outlined here, and Threads doesn’t meet the criteria for defederation at this time. However, I want to be clear that I am no way a fan of Meta, their business model or their practices. I am sympathetic to many of the arguments for pre-emptive defederation and believe it will require further consideration going forward. I am open to putting defederation to a vote in the future.

My feeling is that we take a watch-and-act approach and see how things pan out after federation. There are a few reasons for this:

1. I believe that most people use Lemmy as a curated platform for consuming content, i.e. using the Subscribed feed rather than All feed, so the potential for a popular platform like Threads to dominate users’ feeds may not be as big a problem as some think. This is further ameliorated by point 2.
2. The latest version of Lemmy, 0.19, has just been released (coming soon to LS) and allows users to block entire instances from their feed. This isn’t a silver bullet as it still allows comments from blocked instances, but it’s a significant step in the right direction.
3. Lemmy is public so there’s not a lot of additional data Meta will gain access to once federated. Yes, they will see things like who votes on what and how, but they could already access this data by others means if they wanted it (like simply creating a Lemmy instance).
4. We can defederate at any time in the future.