Kind of same, I remember making a login like dropping my bags in an empty apartment like “well this is home now” and my neighbors are trekkies and Linux, as a fan of windows and star wars. Wondering if I could hack it here. Just said fuck it we ball and started posting to try and decorate the place, hoping to be part of the Lemmy that made a difference and gets us noticed among the turmoil.

Seems like we didnt quite make it compared to BlueSky as a reddit/Twitter supplanted, but thats ok, I think in retrospect I’ve made a fair number of people happy to see my posts, and hope I have at least helped a couple of (mostly) meme communities get either noticed or traction. (Sorry jojokes, I just ran out guys, I didnt want to dig into low effort to keep posting, people deserve some standard of quality)

RiF still lives on my phone, hoping one day I can use it again.

I feel noticed and my personal need for validation has been abated, thank you JBalls

I didn’t know we were watching Watership Down in class today?

Can I get this kind of book but for Mint?

I heard animals in there, Ventura. I heard them again in there this morning, scratching around.

Bro has my year old account in 3 weeks. I had no idea who you were on reddit (since you say you’re banned there) but looking at your posts I assume this post is because you’re getting “are you a bot” comments that you complain about elsewhere. (I’m gonna exclude news posts because cross posting news articles is pretty fair game)

And tbh yeah dude. “I have a slow job” my brother in Christ you have 50 posts in 12 hours. You’re posting every 15 minutes, plus comments for half a day right there. This is Lemmy. We have so much less content per hour than reddit that, at time of writing, you show up in everyone’s Top 6H, 12H and Day. A dozen of those are “today I learned” - it’s a little disingenuous. You’re just compulsively posting to post at that point and that’s a reddit-ism. Let it die friend. We left reddit in the Rexodus because posters like that are exhausting. We have come here to get the slower feed of homegrown original content so you’re getting heat.

The flip side is if you’re gonna be this active, own it. You’re gonna get bot comments (assuming you’re not). And yes you’re gonna get those comments if you’re consistently in the Top 6 Hour. We’re not Reddit - There aren’t a thousand subs and a thousand power posters competing for visibility and competing for front page. You’re in the select minority here of power posters. Like Flying Squid and Picard Maneuver have done - you gotta roll with it. Be personable and customer-service levels of friendly. “Haha yeah I do post a lot! Good to see you here too!”

Maybe I’m wrong in my observation but you’re following rules, your biggest weakness is in comment interactions when someone comments about your extreme posting. You react very negatively to being called out, but we’re so slow on Front Page content you’re gonna get these call outs. Gonna have to sit and figure out which half of that you are, personally, and make peace with the other half.

“I don’t wanna go inside, there’s fire in there!”

So, what service have they been doing for me (genuine)? It has been some time (since now I have a backup of important stuff to not need recovery), but I took a laptop in for cooked hard drive and got a thumb drive back with what looked like they were able to copy everything from the top level folder. Opening the thumb drive brought me to what most people see at the top level - a bunch of folders named My Documents, My Pictures, My Computer, etc Obviously stuff was missing from the crash, but they got a bunch of stuff from a fried laptop.

Idk Best buy and an IT place here offer disk recovery for about $100. Everything they can save from it, copied to a thumb, disk, or external hard drive. I didn’t realize this was such a service. If you have them, try a best buy I guess. I’ve taken laptops and HDDs to the IT place just cuz they’re local business but I know I’ve taken dead desktops to BBuy to get a disk salvaged

I know about the hot debate if avatar is anime or not, but this felt like it would be better appreciated here than my normal Shitposts or Memes places.

Thanks, you too

Grew up on windows 7. It was all I needed and was perfect. I don’t need anything else. I didn’t even want 10 but 10 is…ok I guess. I def don’t want 11 though.

As a fresh-ish lemmite. It depends on what YOU are looking for out of it. A good example is “do I want to drive engagement for the sole reason of growing communities” in which case you just post to those communities. Leave softball comments on conversations. Easy stuff to prompt a followup comment “how does that work” “why does it work like that” even if you don’t care, because it prompts a followup-comment. Posts that are easy like “today I learned X thing” even though you didn’t, but if it’s super popular and a lot of people knew about it, it drives big comment chains. This type of person is in every single comment section at least once. You see their names as OPs constantly. High post engagement rate (more engaging vs just clicking on the post then off the post) promotes things to the front page. Or at least higher than the bottom.

If you’re looking for “honest” engagement then it’s going to be more like “how often is my comment a worthwhile contribution?” In these instances it’s follow-ups asking why X does a thing. Or answering someone else’s question. You see this person rarely, and their comments are paragraphs. They could be right or wrong but they often appear to know what they’re talking about. These people hang out in political subs (and other high controversy places) and drive conversation. Either they pick a side and defend it or are informing others how a system works.

Lastly is 2 opposite types. The ever-commenter who has 2k comments and no posts. They engage with EVERYONE as one of the above 2 types, even if it means they get downvoted or upvoted. This person will have a comment chain 35 comments long if people keep hitting Reply. Their counterpart is the ever-poster. They’ve got 2k posts and when you scroll they just the same post to 8 subs. Article about kid died in israel? They posted it in an Israel and Palestine sub, worldnews, news, a local news sub, politics, world politics, us politics, international politics, and noncredible defense. They post the same news article to every sub they can find. They rinse and repeat for each news article. This type of person rarely comments. These 2 people are the same but opposite sides of the spectrum.

He’s an innocent little bean. Is friend shaped, he’d never eat the whole tent

I’m in the 0.1% for a guy with 200 monthly listeners. I’m just glad to be part of the crowd.

I listen to PolarisRadio every day on my way to.work. 273 plays for Sea of Stars. I like most of his works. Gorillaz is also in that Playlist but I don’t get that far every day driving.Sabaton and Voltaire are straight choices I hit play on. I’ll listen to their new albums day one.

It can be whatever operating system you want it to be

Appreciate you taking the time to break it down and explain it like this. I might convert an extra ssd into Mint and start there. Another user mentioned Proton, if I don’t like Linux, do I just use Disk Management in Windows to “delete” the Linux partition and then re-allocate it and install proton?

It seems like I can get borderlands games and tanks up and running on Mint, I’m ok with LibreOffice over Office 2010, but how does one begin to move any of this to a new OS? do I need to like take an entire day re-installing everything? Can I open it, as other have said, on an external hard drive, move stuff to the new OS, and then let it have most of the rest of the PC? (keeping maybe 500gb for windows in case I can’t find something working) how does dual boot work then? Can I just have it boot Mint all the time and then “switch user” over to windows?

How is mint day to day? This is my big concern. Something going wrong and not having the time to go digging across a dozen pages to figure it out. (I’m savvy enough to know how to work Google and get answers, but I’d rather things just work you know?) Do Nvidia drivers work the same as windows as far as manually searching for them? Who do I turn to if I have a question noone has asked before? Is there like a catalog of commands and how do I learn how to use them?

I like the idea of switching to Linux to break the strangle of windows on my hardware but I don’t know if all my games on Steam, Wargamings launcher and Automatic1111 will work properly if I made that switch. I installed Mint for a friend because I’m semi-literate and feel like messing with that…cmd window “terminal” to do…literally anything installation wise would get irritating.

I want a Linux that is as easy to use out of the box as windows. Will Mint be that way or will I have to spend 5 hours figuring out special words for commands any time I want to install something?