I like to ask a variety of questions, sometimes silly, serious, and/or strange. Never asking in an attempt to pester or “just asking questions” stuff.

I’m generally curious and/or trying to get a sense of people’s views.

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  • Would you happen to mean readers with filtering tools? If so I’m interested as well.

    I know Thunderbird technically has them, but I’ve had trouble making them work as effectively as I’d like. RSSOwl had some that were easier to work with, but stopped being updated. There’s now a fork of it called RSSOwlnix, but I haven’t taken the time to see whether it still works as well or not. May be worth looking into though…









  • […] go make a difference in local politics or wherever you can actually influence anything.

    I agree, however I think most anyone that may only be grumbling may find themselves doing so as they’re stuck on the question of, how do I get involved? Where do I get started with any of it?

    The answers will vary by locality and how they’re organized, but some direction (that is, examples) is better than none.


  • Security PSA: Don’t enter passwords or other secrets for important accounts directly into a third party UI.

    By chance, would you (or some other passerby) happen to know how this is handled with the Lemmy apps/interfaces? I’ve been mixed on using them since I’m unclear how they’re handling this info.




  • The thing is, I don’t think a guide is really needed to install Linux. Most of it is pretty straight-forward. (The only tricky bit that comes to mind is making the USB that you’ve put your distro on bootable. That probably isn’t obvious; and it might not be obvious how to get your computer to boot from a USB anyway if you’ve never done it before.)

    It’s been awhile since I installed a Linux distro…Have some of them improved guidance related to allocating disk space on install? I remember that was one of the parts that I wasn’t entirely confident I’d handled properly the last few times I did so. Something something swap, something /, and the like.