Had great success on Kubuntu. Set up the desktop to have two giant icons only: Firefox, and shutdown.

On Windows the constant popups for updating various components were causing much confusion Java, flash (back in the day), printer "drivers", and of course windows itself would throw popups about updates requiring clicking buttons every time they used the computer, which was very infrequently, and cause them much confusion ("what does update mean" ?")

Meanwhile on Kubuntu all updates go "shhhh" in the background, and no more confusing "To shutdown, press Start"

Thanks for the clarification.

Are there any plans for a built-in sync feature in the future?

Like others said it's mostly just practice.

What helps is to align the (short) ends and hold them flat between your index finger and thumb. Use your free hand to get them in order. Once they're in order, keep holding them still between your index finger and thumb using one hand, then use your free hand to slot on the connector

Edit: also bending them back and forth a bit will soften them up and reduce them curling in all sorts of directions. It also weakens them, so don't overdo it (mostly only works for solid cable, the type meant for permanent installations like inside walls)

Like maxmal said, FreeCAD has an Architecture (and BIM) workbench, which is heavily developed by one of the main FreeCAD Devs. Try it out and see if it works for you

Calling the architecture workbench a plugin is technically correct, but a bit misleading, as all core features are technically plugins(workbenches). The Architecture workbench is a built-in default feature

Thanks for sharing, LibrePCB looks amazing, much simpler than KiCAD.

Last time I used KiCAD (admittedly quite some years ago) it was amazingly powerful but kinda overwhelming to get started

"On a DVD"... 😅 in some decades that might as well be like saving your video to 8mm film. Gotta call some specialist antique dealer on the other side of the continent to find the right tech and right adapters to play it back on modern hardware

Sleek looks amazing

But is there a FOSS todo.txt client for mobile (Android)? Searching around I could only find the official Todo.txt for Android on GitHub which is unmaintained since 2018, and some Todo.txt for Android on the play store which is up to date but not sure if it's affiliated or not , and no mention of being FOSS

Also some FOSS projects and some content creators use it to spread announcement

And NASA posts a lot of astronomy pictures with #astromigration

Some of the "popular twitterers" are also on Mastodon, like @georgetakei@universeodon.com , @stephenfry@mastodonapp.uk (less activity), @neilhimself@mastodon.social

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Gaming on Linux and even general use on Linux has come a LONG way the last few years. The number of "it just works" scenarios go up, and cases requiring some tinkering are getting fewer and fewer. All without license keys, ads in the start menu, forced updates at inopportune moments, and general enshitification

That said, I wouldn't say gaming is "better" in Linux, but in many cases it's on par with Windows. Probably the two most notably weak points are VR support, and certain AAA games anti-cheat not allowing Linux/Proton (even though it's technically capable of running)

Joplin also has a great web-clipper through a companion addon in Firefox (and I assume also Chromium)

Joplin is great in many ways, and I do use it to some degree, but there's a few things that irks me.

• Notes and attachments being stored in a database and referenced by a cryptic UID instead of plain files with human readable names makes integration with other apps impossible. And it's bad for data portability
• On Android I've never been able to get it to background sync. I need to keep Joplin in the foreground. The second I switch to another app it stops syncing
• On sync conflicts it'll just use the newest note as master and overwrite older changes. Luckily if you realise it happened you can use the history feature to get back lost changes. Typical scenario for me is to add much more stuff to a shopping list while on desktop. 30minutes later open the app on Android while shopping to tick off an item. Realize all the recently added items from desktop are gone to the ether (stored in history on the desktop and other synced devices)

Hopefully these sync issues are some rare bug for me. I've tried all the usual "battery saving" tricks in android, but still Joplin will not background sync. Other apps like DavX5 sync fine. Are anybody else here having luck with Joplin on mobile?

A major instance (in terms of comunities) like Beehaw changing from denylist to Allowlist would be devastating for users on small and single-user instances, so I hope it never comes to that. Unless there's some process to get hundreds of tiny unknow instances in the Allowlist

I think some people see Lemmy as a way to host their own self-supported community on their own server, with users identifying strongly with the values of the instance, and with cohesion among the users of the instance.

While other people (me included) see instances more as something to just host the account, so we can participate in Commities across "the network", where "the network" is basically all the Lemmy instances except the de-federated extremists, or other walled gardens. User-cohesion is more on the Community-level and less on the Instance-level.

Do we want a small network of instances that have proven themselves trustworthy? Or do we want a large network of instances that have yet to prove themselves untrustworthy? Different people will have different answers

You do bring up a good point about needing to trust your federated instances because you're essentially mirroring their content