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People still have 2G?

We haven’t had 2G for nearly 8 years. 3G was killed late last year.

It’s such a pain, so many devices don’t support 4G, let alone VoLTE.

Surely 2G isn’t that hard to keep running? It has far better range than 4G, meaning fewer towers are needed. Just keep one or two bands around to make voice calls easier.

The rooster came before the egg?

Humans are social creatures. As much as I’m a massive friggin’ introvert, if I stayed at home I wouldn’t get anything done. I need to go to the office and see other people, in a work environment, in order to work myself.

And at five o’clock, I need to get in my car and come home.

I’ve been running one with a dozen or more users on bare metal at home for the last two years. A little bit of spam but otherwise fine. No deliverability issues or anything.

Oh won’t you please take me localhost??

The good thing about ChatGPT is that it gives you a starting point for languages you’re not familiar / rusty with.

AI can literally read minds. I don’t think it’s that great of a step to say it should be able to decompile a few games.

I’d still run the command anyway if I were you. Clearly you speak English, so you can afford to remove some bloat /s

Damn that’s incredible. I’d almost switch DEs for it!

We have the middle-mouse-button clipboard for this.

This is completely untrue in my experience. My X230T has two battlestations: One with an old, square Samsung VGA monitor, and another two hours away with a modern, DisplayPort, high resolution Dell. I regularly hot-swap monitors by unceremoniously pulling it off or slamming it on to either docking station while it’s running, and even transform it into tablet mode and flip the internal display output 180° without upsetting the external display.

All of this on Fedora 38 Cinnamon, firmly running X11. No “jank” in sight.

I’m actually quite pleased with what I’ve ended up with now. One of the features of the Postfix / Dovecot server I’m running now is that I have recipient delimiters - for example, if my email is hiding@aussie.zone, I can sign up for Mastodon with hiding+mastodon@aussie.zone, and everything they send me will be automatically filed into the Mastodon folder in my account. Additionally, I know exactly who is selling my data this way. It’s a great system and avoids the unfortunate predicament you currently find yourself in!

Unless I’m mistaken, it’s also impossible for many - myself included. My ISP doesn’t provide me with a public facing IPv6 address.

They did kill it for me. I was grandfathered into the G Suite software because I signed up back when it was free. Last year they turned around and said “we know we told you that, as an early adopter, you could have this forever; but now we’re kicking you out unless you start paying.”

And then they killed IMAP access (without oauth) moments later. Fortunately I was fast enough to set up my own mail server and copy my family’s emails, photos, documents, etc. out of Google. I haven’t trusted them since.

+1 for Xournalpp. I use it every day for tablet PC notes.

Also, a moderator is a volunteer - not a politician on six figures a year, or a mega business owner on seven. A volunteer is perfectly in their rights to pause volunteering when they feel their work is not appreciated.

As a full time colemak user, QWERTY really does my head in these days. I regress to a one-finger typist every time!

And Visio and OneNote aren’t free. Draw.io and Xournalpp would be potential alternatives.

Curiously, I can’t see lemmy.ml content in my Jerboa feed, but it’s working in the browser.

Kdenlive is my go-to these days, but it’s interface can take a moment to get used to. Plenty of tutorials and such on YouTube, however.

If you’re on a Mac, iMovie is as good as it gets for casual production. Look no further.

Finally, if you’re on Windows and don’t like the look of kdenlive, I don’t see any reason not to use Windows Media Maker from Windows Live Essentials 2012. There’s a lot of crapware around these days pretending to be a modern version of Media Maker, but the old one still does what it needs to, and to my knowledge there’s no official replacement to date.