I felt I was being pretty specific about “the most popular”. If the most popular instance is dead, we got problems.

Part of the issue (I feel a large part ) is that the learning curve is too steep to get on Lemmy

Now I’m not saying it’s hard at all; but it’s significantly higher than simply “go to a main page and create a user name and password”. Lemmy needs a sign up page that just random signs you up to an active instance (per the instances permission) and automatically subscribes you to the 50 most active instances to just get you started up.

Making a getting started page that’s as idiot proof as any .com would probably go a long ways into upping our numbers here.

Windscribe has Linux versions. I just haven’t gotten it to work yet. I haven’t given it much time into getting it figured out yet. I like windscribe and buy it yearly, so I’m not planning on switching any time soon.

Only thing I haven’t got to work yet for some reason is my windscribe VPN application. Easy move, really. Mint cinnamon.

Or, I can just not use a program like chocolatey and just go one and done on ninite. Heaven forbid they only have apps on there to choose from that are popular and people want to install. I’ve never had issues with any of the programs being behind on version, but it isn’t like each program can’t check for newer versions of itself

The real mvp comes from one of the best website hosts in the world. If you have to be on windows and especially if you’re setting up a fresh install; use www.ninite.com.

It bypasses all the prompts and warnings and opt in\out prompts of a ton of common programs you’d want to install on your PC into one single and quick install. You check mark each of the programs you want from the list (web browsers, anti virus, video players, etc) and it hands you over a single install file to take care of automatically installing them all at once. Best website their is if you’re a windows user. I’ve counted on this gem for well over a decade. I only have one PC left that I keep windows on now, and I’ll be swapping that over to Linux as well by November this year when windows 10 stops getting security updates.

About 5 million people is the sweet spot. Went through it with digg. Went through it with Reddit. The amount of content here is enough for general content absorption, but not enough for any niche interests. For instance, on reddit there was a sub with 40k members for yo-yo’s. Here, one doesn’t exist in a usable form. 5 million is enough for most niche topics, but still manageable for controlling and keeping out all of the bullshit. By 10 to 15 million all the advertisers and manipulators and bots and money interests start taking over.

That contributed to all Linux. Gamers Nexus exclusively using Bazite for their Linux game testing is giving them specifically, a big bump.

Mostly all thanks to Gamers Nexus, I’d wager.

In the dwindling amount of phones that will allow you to install GOS on them?

I contemplate getting a phone case with just my cc in it, and still using my phone like tap to pay. If it’s not an rf prtected case I think it should be able to read the card straight through.

The few options that exist (along with their negatives) can’t be installed on my phone. N20U is still pretty much locked down.

I really thought that particular card would get patched in. It was so popular and a lot of machines from that timeframe aren’t win 11 supported.

Thanks. I was planning on just going to Mint, but I may go for Bazzite instead by the sounds of it.

I’ve kinda been putting off switching to Linux until the steam OS goes to desktops more officially, since it’s pretty close to just being used as a gaming rig, but I’m running out of patience. I had Ubuntu for a while like 15 years ago.

How are the drivers for a 1060 GPU?

Your entire backlight is only 3w? I feel like my phone is over 3w.

I gave up trying to buy Tesla puts. Their valuation perpetually defies all logic. Even after this news their stock is still higher than it was a month ago.

So here’s the deal is you “really” can’t afford $30 a YEAR:

I use a VPN called windscribe. You can buy this 1 year VPN for $30. You can buy it through the Google play store.

I also have the “Google Rewards” app that pays you in Google play store credit for taking short surveys or taking pictures of receipts.

I get $50 to $100 per year in play store credits to spend on Google play.

See where I’m going with this? I pay for my yearly subscription with my “free” play store credits I get.

=Free VPN. Like right now I’ve got almost $40 in play store credits (the free credits you earn have to be spent in a year. It spends the oldest credits first) and I have like 4 months left before I have to renew my VPN subscription. Since I never enjoyed any pay to win styles of games, at this point I practically run out of things I even want to buy with my credits before they start to expire. I’ve bought probably a thousand dollars worth of apps and games over the years and haven’t ever spent a single cent of my own money on any of them. Nothing but the reward app credits. I buy the “pro” versions of apps I use to remove ads, even if the ads don’t bother me or I don’t use that particular app very much.

And here I am, just planning on going to Mint or something whenever win 10 support finally actually ends. I had Ubuntu like 15 years ago for a while, but I’m at a point where I want to do less learning about my operating system.

The costs of running an oven for an hour is probably costing you like 40 cents and most of that is pre heating. Buy a bread maker or a toaster oven to make your loaves in and it will be less than half that. For most cooking, the electricity used is a rounding error.