… As for new /active posts it already does this.

yeah, this is different that posts; it’s the comments and that setting on lemmy doesn’t seem to reflect what’s actually active.

i plan to change that once i feel like i’ve taught myself enough rust to lend a hand in lemmy’s development.

i browse lemmy by sorting for new comments to see what posts are currently active; it’s effectively an rss feed, but it has many limitations like it’s narrow time limit.

lemmy needs a rss-like feed for it’s new comments; i wonder if this can be leveraged somehow to do it.

i know know of opensuse and redhat/centos’s rolling release; do you know of others?

i wonder if spite is the reason why the grapheneos people do their thing. lol

… Their backup tool is so good that as my old laptop started to die I was easily able to transfer my entire setup to a totally different computer and pick up exactly where I’d left off

you must have read my mind because this is exactly why i’m on the market for a new distro. lol

i put fedora on my laptop w the intention that it’ll be temporary so that i’ll have something i can trust right now and knowing full well that fedora iterates quickly. their migration tool has never worked for me and now i have to update again. i’m looking for something that has a longer term iteration like debian has, but shorter than debian.

the labels usually don’t matter much in the technology centric communities; what matters here is this part:

For me, data privacy is just about being practical and ethical. I hate it when big corps like Google use my data for things I can’t control, like military projects. It makes me angry, when they turn a tiny mosquito into a weapon. I see that happening with AI too. I’m against that.

i’ll be genuinely surprised if any of us here feel any differently – i definitely don’t – so you’re in good company here.

very much so; it gives us something practical and immediately implementable.

what do you like about it?

i ask because i need to switch distros and i’m looking for ideas besides the usual recommendations.

in the interest of reciprocity from someone who was once “terminally online”: educate yourself on the tribalism of the lemmyverse:

lemmy was created by leftists who had a strong interest on gnu/foss technologies; but the recent reddit user purges has swelled the number of lemmy users. the new users are almost entirely liberal and the trolls among them have turned this instance into a hotbed of political tribalism enough that many leftists have chosen to re-home their memberships to hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml instances. likewise, the most ardent liberals have created piefed to avoid exposure to leftist political theory.

the people of this and most of the gnu/foss communities on this instance seem to do their best to stay politically neutral, as the lemmy developers try to do as well.

it really gives me hope for the future every time i see people make this kind of effort!

nvidia support has definately gotten better and the first part of my comment was snark; it’s ignorable… like most of what i say. lol

… but they embrace being green / sustainable so that’s usually a give away :)

so does chevron. lol

i almost bought one of these and it sounds like a dodge a bullet.

but then again, i ended up getting an hp instead and that died 3 years ago, so maybe not. lol

it’s nice to see the sovereign tech fund continuing to support this effort rather than something like google.

very true and i would have been better insulated by purchasing older hardware, but buying electronics second hand has always made me regret it.

that logic was my exact reasoning for buying linux-first laptops and it gave me an ultra smooth sailing for almost a decade meanwhile this is how i felt learning about everyone else’s hibernate/wifi/nvidia/battery-draining problems that system76 solved for me:

imagine that this is how mac people feel. lol

I still have issues with an Nvidia card computer I own …

who doesn’t? lol

i intentionally avoided nvidia this time around because of my experiences w it in the past.

i used mine to build an everything server and i kept cannibalizing parts from other “dead” systems from e-waste collection dumpsters intended for landfill to keep it running for many years until it died recently.

it’s amazing what people throw away sometimes; i once got a macbook air from one and ran fedora on it for many years as well.

dismissing my source critique as a “trope” while spending multiple comments labeling me as indoctrinated, in denial, and propagandized is not a debate; it’s a shield. (but it atleast didn’t devolve into the usual name calling and snarkiness that typifies these exchanges).

also source critique isn’t a “trope.” it’s how you separate solid evidence from noise or state sponsored propaganda. if your sources can’t hold up to basic scrutiny, the problem isn’t my attitude – it’s your evidence.

you’re clearly smart and passionate, but calling everyone who pushes back “indoctrinated” is just a faster way to stop listening; there’s no such thing as an unbiased/neutral party.