I am curious… what was running through the mind of your downvoter?! everything you said was spot on. linux based distributions are at great place right now and debian is the perfect distro for my needs.

when I want to 'splore I will boot an semi-exotic like aros or hurd… how is templeos doing these days?

ymmv, but debian has always been near perfect through upgrades for me: even a recent buster -> bullseye -> bookworm -> trixie went smoothly.

issues usually arise from not maintaining a clean debian stable install (e.g. you were using backports or lots of 3rd party repos). if those are cleaned up prior things still usually go well.

not saying you didn’t have issues, but in my experience with with lots and lots of debian systems, upgrades have been 99.9% cakewalk.

honestly, I have always had pretty decent experiences with non-oem lead-acid batteries. my local battery place has a decent supply and longevity is roughly the same as the oem ones (3-4 years). I have never had any issues (type or frequency) that were not also an issue with oem batteries.

almost no UPS mfcr makes their own batteries, so if you strip off the labeling from the oem ones, you may even find an exact replacement.

edit: another advantage of a local place is the core-return rebate and disposal of your old batteries.

I felt that deep in my soul. :-/

the original arch from hell.

spaghetti is delicious for a reason.

in-line all your code and avoid the linker :-)

agreed, upvoted. for our current reality, this tracks.

x👏off👏… x👏on👏… x👏off👏, x👏on👏…flowcontrol.

pure. internet. classic.

sending LoL!

…and communities you care about

from meta? not a snowball’s chance in zuckerberg hell.

You shouldn’t be getting downvoted.

agreed. a tad snarky, but it was an honest opinion. lemmy will grow and communities will fill out.

HAHA HaHa haha… * cry *

got this one right away. now, get off my lawn!

not a professional programmer, by any means - but PR’s (for me) slow development down to a point where code matches the philosophical/algorithmical goal. when code development is at the proper pace, it dramatically reduces the need for refactoring.

edit: upvoing this post, because the comments are particularly interesting - as with any “good” post :-)

federation certainly allows the bubble to close - {dot}world is an example; zero hate, people can absolutely choose to ensmollen their PoV if that makes their world safer. the nice thing is, interesting, thriving alter-views are only a federated instance away :-)

I tend towards the democratic socialist point of view as a default, but damn-me if hexbear isn’t both entertaining and informative, even if I disagree with some of their more… spicy(?) positions (sometimes vehemently).

lemmy{dot}ml is one of the most widely federated instances around, primarily because its a pretty diverse mix of lefty and lefty-ish ideas. lemmygrad{dot} hexbear{dot}net and blahaj{dot}zone and others equality as infuriating/interesting are all accessible from lemmy{dot}ml. its a pretty ideal instance, for me at least.

one thing I do try to make a point of doing is preferentially interacting on non {dot}world posts and comments. many peeps will post across community instances to encourage engagent diversity. keeping things active on non-{dot}world communities helps everyone.

this is an important observation. lemmy users are pretty damn protective of our signature drive-by commentary and federation makes it easier to enforce “small world graph” etiquette.

holistically, I have never seen any situations where federation, on net, did not make things objectively better.

yup! thats the dance floor version. :-) spread it far and wide.

just the continuation of the monied monarchy. we have the solution.

Nature created neither servant nor master;

I seek neither to rule nor to serve.

And its hands would weave the entrails of the priest,

For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings.

used to use anysoft keyboard, but development seems to have died a while ago. so I got on the heliboard train like many others. preferred anysoft because of flexibility, but heliboard is open and works well enough.