It’s pretty wild here now, that’s for sure. I think it wasn’t that bad even on reddit

vscode + clangd plugin FTW

I was forced to switch from manjaro to fedora at work a year ago (we were forced to pick between Ubuntu or Fedora) and I miss it. Things break more often on fedora, I now even lag 1 release behind so that I don’t have to deal with breaking updates. I didn’t have any problems with manjaro. Still use it at home

bbcgoodfood.com is another good one I check often

The only way to win with these people is to not play

Get one designated for European market, we have two Samsungs at home at neither of us get autoinstalls or ads

true, and cheaper as well

you’d still want a private insurance plan

If it’s true that people vote for right wings out of frustration then the tables will turn again at some point because fundamentally most of the voting population have problems with unaffordable housing, low wages, poor healthcare, etc. and these problems are unlikely to be solved by a populist government.

Not sure how lemmy implements this, but I suppose it’s not a trivial task in such decentralized environment. Imagine 10 users from instance A subscribed to instance B and then instance A went permanently down. If B holds number of subscription requests it’s now out of date. If B has to poll every instance it’s federated with it’s additional arguably unnecessary load. So yeah local subscriptions are a low hanging fruit

Yes - LLMs generate content, bots “consume” it. Site owner gets $ for ad traffic.

There’s a cool episode on that topic from Malicious Life podcast - called “Ad Fraud” or link.