Especially on mobile.

Its Ubuntu 24.04. When I started it, it took quite awhile and then said “there as a problem, please log out”.

Now that I’ve got it started (where I’m posting from now), it still refuses to arrange my monitors. And I have no idea what this 5th, 13.3" monitor is supposed to be.

It looks like my issues are related to this hardware. I guess that’s understandable. I thought this hardware would be transparent to the OS, and apparently it’s not.

If I hit apply here, it will fail and put them back in a line. I’ll also get around 4 fps and no cursor on the additional monitors.

I installed a fresh copy of, I believe, Debian. Wayland, for some reason, couldn’t handle 4 monitors, with one above the other three.

Not the issue I expected on a fresh install. Oh, and the biggest issue I had with Windows was copied straight into Linux. I want my (single) taskbar on a monitor that isn’t my primary.

I’m currently back to Windows. It was already going to be a rough transition, and missing the ideas I was looking for while also adding complications just hasn’t made it worth it.

Mumble is another strong, open source, self-hosted option.

You can get a RaspPi instead, and after a year or two you’ll have saved enough electricity to have paid for itself.

I’m probably doing solar in spring, and I’m paying 20 cents per kwh. It’s about a 13 year breakeven time, but that works for my circumstances. I plan to be here for awhile, my roof faces the right way, and it’s a reasonable diversification of investment.

I’ll still have some dependence on the grid, especially in winter. Might pull from the grid in some early morning hours, but net metering credits should pay for that.

I consider the rising price of electricity and the capital gains from an index funds roughly a wash. It’s not, but I also don’t want 100% of my investments in the stock market, and it’s nice to do something responsible for the world.

So make sure to do your whole installation in one year. You only get to claim the 30% federal tax credit once. So don’t go small with a plan to go bigger later. I couldn’t do this without the federal credit.

Well, this one is real

Bush attacked a country that had nothing to do with the event

Hi, Lemmy.World Community Team here.

I’ve reviewed the last 4 days of mod actions on !politicalmemes. I see nothing egregious that would warrant action from admins.

Good luck with your posting.

you really shouldn’t be using variables with the same name but different capitalization in the same sections of code anyway.

It’s a standard convention. Notice step #3 here: https://scottlilly.com/learn-c-by-building-a-simple-rpg-index/lesson-08-1-setting-properties-with-a-class-constructor/

Edit: Step #4 is a different standard convention that also applies here.

It turns out that the easiest thing to program isn’t always the best application design.

Nope. Completely different.

Case is often used to distinguish scope. Lowercase is local while uppercase is public. “Name = name” is a pretty standard convention, especially in constructors.

There is a ubiquitous use case in programming. There is not in the file system.

Please don’t impersonate admins. You’re not affiliated with any Lemmy.World team.

It’s a guideline, not a rule. Just talk to us if you have a situation.

Just to give a concrete example, there are a couple blatantly political posts on !fediverse. Do they belong there? Absolutely not. But by the time I saw them days later, the damage was done and they were already taken care of by downvotes. Should I really mod remove a week old post with 50 downvotes? The discussion there about why it didn’t belong was fine, and didn’t need to be hidden further.

If votes are anonymous and federated, it’s very easy for me to add or subtract 900 votes from whatever I want.

You should consider anything you do on social media to be public. Even if Facebook tries to claim that it’s not.

This is one of your first comments in nine months. Generally we look for more activity than that before granting a mod request. What are you suggesting we do about it? Remove the current mod and replace them with… ?

You can help grow the community without being a mod. If they’re taking unfair action against you, come talk to us (as you have). If they’re afk, that doesn’t stop the community from growing.

Community hoarding would certainly be a point against them in any discussions, but first there has to be a discussion.

If you want to take over a dead community, or a community where the mods have been inactive for six months, please reach out to me.

• Lemmy.World Community Team

!leagueoflegends , but… someday.

I’d be stuck moderating those communities

Hi, I’m with the Community Team of Lemmy.World.

Moderating a small community really doesn’t take more than five minutes a month. Assuming you’re on a lemmy.world account, you’ll just get notifications when people report things (depending on your client). All you’ve really gotta do is set some rules (optional), and respond to reports within a reasonable timeframe.

I’m making a real effort to avoid supermods like Reddit had, but a big part of that is getting people who aren’t just hungry to use mod powers to volunteer to mod. Most of the time, when reaching out to people to mod, I’ll either get no response to my message at all. Often I’ll get “I dont have the free time at the moment for a commitment” from someone who posts 9 times a day, every day.

Meanwhile, I believe the mods we have now are pretty great, and they’ll absolutely volunteer to help more.

I understand how Reddit got to the position they’re in. If people wanna help avoid that, please step up. Unless you’re modding !news or !worldnews or something on that level, it’s very rare you actually have to do something. And for people that are active, just being subscribed to the community and browsing it as you normally would does the job.

You absolutely can go farther, but you don’t have to be a mod to grow a community.

Please, if you’re browsing Lemmy at least a few days a week anyway, take a look at the mods in couple of your favorite communities. If they haven’t posted in 6 months, reach out to me.

You mean like if they went all tankie? Or like AOL email? This has already happened several times before and it’s fine. Google could kill gmail in six months and we’d all move on.