Drasglaf

Yes, in my opinion astroturfing and vote manipulation go and in hand. For me it’s not just an admin perspective, I Think users having this kind of info can be beneficial. Admins’ (or mods’) interests aren’t always aligned with users’ interests, as reddit has taught me.

Obviously I don’t have all the answers, but from my point of view it would help against things like astroturfing or vote manipulation.

The problem I see with that is, bad actors only need to make accounts in instances that opted out to keep doing their thing. But yes, I think they’ll choose this option in the end.

That’s a fair point, but I still think it’s a very specific case. I believe it would benefit way more than harm the fediverse in general.

Like others have said, maybe do it opt-in, so each instance can choose whether they want to have it or not.

If your privacy is at risk in a place like Lemmy, you might be giving up too much private information IMHO.

Way cooler than astroturfing.

I say make them public. It was like that on Kbin and it never brought trouble.

He would even come back with errors that I’ve seen for the first time

My father does this as well. And it’s always the computer because it’s old and it plays tricks on him. He’s never done anything wrong!

My phone received an update a few days ago and it went from Miui to HyperOS. Now my phone asks me to accept privacy policies even to change my default wallpaper. Fuck you Xiaomi

My 3rd gen i3 laptop has: dead battery, broken screen(about 1/3 of the screen is dead), loose USB ports that work when they feel like it and a decrepit HDD that was slow even when it was new. I have it for emergencies, but I don’t think it’s worth rebuilding it.

Might this be the one for my father? He drowns in Windows, I don’t want to think what Linux can do to his brain. I kept a Windows SSD to help him troubleshoot any problem he stumbled upon, but it died last week and all my attempts to install it on another SSD were met with the setup asking me for drivers, no matter what I tried to provide, I never got past that screen. So I don’t know what to do, I guess I’ll just wait and see, but I’m already eyeing some options.

There’s always been the risk of confusion

A name change does make sense for both

Then make SUSE become ClosedSUSE. It couldn’t be easier.

iVoox

Last time I tried VLC, it didn’t have the ability to play music without a gap between tracks and that was a deal breaker for me.

That’s some strong will, I could never take more than 2 minutes of torture.

Metal Machine Music. They’ll love it.

My ex. 10 years down the drain, and the worst part is I knew it was almost impossible to make it work. But I had to try anyway.

I had no idea, thanks.

KDE Wayland is an epilepsy inducing flickerfest with my Nvidia GPU, so it’s off limits until they fix it. Games usually run fine on X11, but one exception I noticed is Noita, it runs like crap on X11, and runs great on Wayland for some reason.