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The only way that they should ever stop being able to federate would be if the Lemmy or Piefed devs decided to make the software intentionally closed off instead, which seems very unlikely.

There are often some mild issues any time two different federated instances running on different software interact, just by virtue of the fact they have different features. For example, Piefed has an events post category that I don’t think Lemmy does, but the devs account for this and it just shows up as a normal post for Lemmy users.

My computer wasn’t compatible with Windows 11, and it’s not that old, dammit. The thought of throwing it out because of some arbitrary push for Windows 11 from Microsoft made me angry, so I finally installed Mint since it’s the one I kept hearing is easiest for people who don’t know anything about Linux. I’ve been using it almost 3 months now and I don’t find it difficult to deal with at all, and the games I play work on it. The biggest hurdle has been compatibility with some school stuff, but I’ve been able to use LibreOffice and Google Docs when all else fails.

Computers aren’t my hobby, running into errors when I just want to get shit done pisses me off. I’ve been dealing with a minimal amount of that on Mint, I imagine mostly because I’m not tinkering with a ton under the hood (mostly aesthetic changes so that it looks how I like). If you have basic troubleshooting skills for Windows then a lot of that transfers to Linux, even though the actual solutions will be different.

If something better than Mint came along I’d probably switch to it, but I don’t know what that would look like, since Mint is doing exactly what I want: running my programs and not popping up with a ton of useless AI crap or ads.

Definitely sad, but also now part of the archaeological record as a snapshot for how American civilization treats Indigenous cultures and art.

Cocoa could be another visual interpretation as well, and based on some very cursory searching it looks like both have a history in Spanish colonial Puerto Rico. Now that you’ve brought up that visual aspect, the bowls remind me a bit of volcanic stone metates that are used to grind up cocoa beans (although I’m familiar with that through Costa Rica, not PR).

The movement in this is so cool, both in the human figure and the representation of the cliff face. It reminds me a lot of Bird in Space.

Edit: oh, I just zoomed in and saw the petroglyphs at the bottom! What a neat detail to have added.

It definitely adds a layer of mystique! Part of me also wants to see water running down into the bowls from the mouth, I bet it would be really cool outside in the rain.

Is there any additional information about the piece, or a title? The toothy appearance of the wood carving and the stacked stone ‘bowls’ are interesting, but I’m not sure how to interpret it.

They must have to do so much sweeping.

Not my story, but it’s so good I have to share it: my classmate told me about how she was on a bus and some guy was arguing with the bus driver about fare or something, and the bus driver just gets up, takes off his bus driver vest thing, and fucking walks off the job! She said everyone on the bus was like WTF. Then when she left the bus and went to another bus stop to try to get home the driver was also just waiting at that stop, because obviously he drove the bus there and had no other way to get anywhere 😂

If you go here you can sort by size, uptime, etc, I’m not sure if anyone has made a curated list anywhere. There’s only a few instances with 100+ users, but since you’re seeing all the same fediverse content anyway it doesn’t matter much. My policy was to just pick an instance I trusted (already trusted Blahaj, so that was easy).

I would say it’s probably a good idea to pick an instance with at least 30-40 people, because the more people who have subscribed to remote communities, the more content will automatically federate to the instance (therefor making it easier for you to find new content).

If you like Blahaj then there is also a Piefed Blahaj instance now! I like Piefed over lemmy, I don’t know if they’ve added it to lemmy since I left but I really like being able to mute replies. It has other features lemmy lacks too, like being able to block an entire instance or make feeds (multireddit like function).

Keep your words out of my mouth

If you meant something else by:

ain’t no way she wrote a book.

I’m open to hearing it. But I’m not sure how you believed that statement gave the impression you thought she was literate.

It’s depressing to me that one of the top upvoted comments here is ‘there’s no way a deaf blind person could have been literate.’

You’re absolutely correct that her legacy has been used as inspiration porn, but that doesn’t reflect on her intellectual abilities at all, just what stories society and the powerful want us to hear. Even during her own life Keller experienced exactly that once she became a socialist, and suddenly all the newspapers and people who went on at length about how capable she was suddenly believed her unable to reason because she was blind and deaf. Keller herself even spoke out against using her story as a way to tell people that anyone can do anything, and specifically that the poor didn’t have the opportunities she had.

OpenStax has free, college level books available online, without registration (although if you register it will save sections you highlight for later review). In their business section, one called Principles of Finance seems to match what you’re wanting to learn. It’s structured more around learning business related finances than personal ones, but the underlying principles are much the same for both.

Reader Rabbit was something I enjoyed around that age. Zoombinis was fun too!

Piefed has scheduled posts. I haven’t used it because I have no reason to, but the functionality is there.

How many times have you stabbed yourself? Or is that a mistake you only make once?

Agreed, and I think Gordon Ramsay is an excellent choice for this meme, because he engages in the exact kind of behavior that people are celebrating with this meme: flinging verbal abuse at people who are ‘doing it wrong’ and overall out-group bullying.

Wanting to scream at people for using or complaining about Windows is peak “touch grass.”

If someone hasn’t asked “what can I use instead of Windows?” then “use Linux” is unsolicited advice. If you absolutely can’t stop yourself from suggesting Linux every time someone wants to complain about using Windows—something they might not even have a choice in, if their job requires it—at least suggest something useful for their Windows problem. Some jackass rolling by when you have a flat tire and saying “you should have taken the bus” isn’t offering helpful information, they’re being an asshole.

Yeah, this kind of stuff makes me not want to admit to using Linux in public. Let’s not mistake hating Windows for a personality.