[-] drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

Property taxes, like basically every other cost to a rental property, just gets passed down to renters as well. It's not like landlords let taxes affect their profit margins.

[-] drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago

The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons are both great.

[-] drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

Everything I've seen has indicated US inflation rates dropping steadily since 2022. What inflation are you seeing?

[-] drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

https://vegastack.com/tutorials/how-to-install-lxde-on-ubuntu-22-04/ This is the guide I was using, if it helps. I'd take a look at section 1, step 2, where it shows the picture of the "Configure LightDM" menu. I think it's probably not too bad, but I'd be curious to hear how it goes.

[-] drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 month ago

I haven't used Ubuntu in a bit, but I'm decently familiar with linux overall. Looked up a guide. It indicated you could install LXDE with sudo apt install lxde and then reboot. The guide said that LXDE should be the default Desktop Environment now, because it's the most recently installed one. If for whatever reason LXDE isn't the new default, on the Login screen, in the upper left corner there should be a dialogue box to select whichever Desktop Environment you want as the new default.

[-] drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

As an American, I'm honestly excited to see how it will turn out. Hope it's not a catastrophe, but at least there'll be something to learn no matter what happens.

[-] drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago

I've had this issue before. My limited understanding is that your home server fetches copies of communities somebody on your server is subbed to. But if you're the first person, it can take it a few hours to federate (took mine a day.)

[-] drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

I understand those concerns, but I'm not sure if this really improved the security of mastodon, an inherently very insecure software, and it definitely deprived us of a useful tool. Defederation works at stopping spam, but I don't think it really helps much when it comes to preventing people from seeing things you post. It stops a single server, but bad actors can just migrate to a new one, or spin up a new hostname.

[-] drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago

I hated the backlash the bridgy dev received. His project was genuinely useful, helped to solve one of people's most common criticisms of the fediverse. And after he was browbeat into giving it up, everything still got hoovered up by bots and fed into AI models anyway.

[-] drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago

I think Debian unstable works great on laptops, and it's hard to beat for stability.

[-] drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the caption says "U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm."

[-] drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago

I do not believe either mastodon or lemmy federate your email address at all. Only the server you join has that information. You might have to worry if you have signed up to an uncrupulous instance. That instance admin could sell your email, I guess. They would have access to any email you gave them, so changing it would probably not help. I think the problem is a little overstated, honestly.

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