Tbh, using Linux Mint feels really familiar and most software you can just install from the software center. In many ways it’s easier than setting up Windows. Sure, there are some specifics but for just every day use, there is not much of it.

I put off trying Linux for months, only to find it’s not really much change at all. I even at one point had to buy new Windows license because I was not in a place where I had capacity to fiddle with new stuff and it was such an unnecessary and huge mistake. Finally bitnthe bullet a couple of months after and I didn’t boot to Windows for months now - and the transition was super smooth. I changed my primary boot drive from Win to Mint very shortly after the transition.

Depends on the place I guess. I’m pretty sure some are updated

And once you are finished you can probably start over to stay up to date

I had no idea they have hiking trails! You opened a whole new world for me!

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Thank you for your service o7

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No FOMO. I miss some topics/communities that are either not present or not active there. The general/bigger communities are here but the more specific are not, and I liked those the most. I sometimes look there, but don’t linger.

Even though I won’t act like I understood it all perfectly, this is great stuff! Never occured to me this is how ACs work.

But AC also has some sort of coolant,no? Or is that just to makenit cool more and it would be possible even without it?

Pretty sure I saw it somewhere else as well. Don’t remember where, but I think there was option to cancel subscription and cancell reccuring payment. Pretty sure this is so they can silently take awau the more fair option later.

Federation is a pretty unique concept when learning about it and can be confusing at first. Then after you understand it, you need to choose an instance from god knows how maby and you don’t even know how to find what is out there. The first 2-3 days of my migration to lemmy was research. And while it is not hard with just a bit of tech literacy, it’s not as easy as finding one site and register - which can be easily done by most people with little tech literacy.

People have just completely lost any semblance of tech literacy.

I think you heavily overestimate the technical literacy of most people. I’d say majority started with 0 and stayed that way, because they only ever use stuff that causes little friction so that even they can use it. It’s not that people lost it, it’s that the way tech evolved it allowed people with none to go in.

I agree with the general notion that it is a nice filter for the feddiverse and might keep some of the most stupid at bay - at least for a while.