Gee, what a surprise.

Yeah, I’m on The Site Formerly Known As Twitter for artists, not gossip. Fortunately, the artist who drew my avatar (and who is a dear friend, Arsbin) is also on Mastodon, but she’s about the only one. TwitterX exploded in popularity in Japan when Elon took over for some reason, so my other dear friend, Nami, probably won’t leave anytime soon.

Just further proving my point that the political binary is the problem with this country.

I am pro-union, pro-LGBT+ rights, pro-human rights, pro-choice, believe in knowing your rights when dealing with the police, pro-marijuana, and not religious.

But the fucking moment I mention that I don’t like Biden or the way they handled the pandemic, suddenly all you assholes shut down and argue as if I’m a fucking Trump supporter. Fuck off with that bullshit. Vote Blue No Matter Who is a fucking cult just like Trumpism is.

ETA: I’m fucking glad Trump is being indicted because I’m fed up with him and his cult. I’m hoping they throw the fucking book at him.

Gotta love the binary view of politics in this country.

Have you not noticed that’s exactly what politics became in the US? Everybody would rather be in an echo chamber with other fans of their team than listen to anything the other side has to say.

By default, your instance will only know about communities on that instance and communities that users of that instance have intentionally subscribed to. Unfortunately, this causes problems for users of smaller instances unless the instance admins are running a federation helper bot, which basically scans remote instances for communities and adds them to the instance.

I found this out the hard way when I first tried Lemmy, since I picked a tiny instance due to the larger ones being overloaded in June. I had a hell of a time trying to subscribe to the communities for the new Lemmy apps I was trying out. I kept getting Community Not Found errors until I refreshed the page multiple times until it eventually found the community.

You’re delusional if you think any politicians actually care about anyone but themselves.

But the point is, I’m not comfortable with politicians deciding what’s “essential” and what isn’t, then ignoring the rules they set by partying in Florida.

They at least understood that you can’t keep people locked down forever and let the government decide what’s “essential” and what’s not. Even Democrats understood this, so that’s why they vacationed in Florida and Texas.

No, but what made me upset is that every single one of these hypocrites got re-elected. The Democrats need to do better. Just because they’re Team Blue doesn’t mean they’re good people or even have anyone’s best interests in minds.

Democrat politicians constantly passed all these covid restrictions and then partied in Republican-led areas like Florida and Texas, or just violated their own rules.

That did not give me the impression that they cared.

I used to be more liberal until covid happened. “Rules for thee but not for me!”

Lemmy has been a good enough replacement for Reddit that I haven’t gone back to Reddit, especially since Voyager is a near-perfect replacement for Apollo, and the other apps I’ve tried are great in their own way, and enough people came here that I get my fill of shitposts and technical content.

Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for The Site Formerly Known As Twitter. Mastodon just doesn’t cut it for me. I stay away from the political crap and don’t really care about celebrities, but the art community is still on X, especially Japanese artists. Mastodon seems to be mainly people who want to complain about Elon, people who complain about conservatives, and people who want to live like it’s early 2020 for the rest of their lives.

It’s getting a little better with mastodon.art growing, and the third party apps are helping me get into it a little more, but it just isn’t there yet. Following hashtags helps a ton, so at least I get cats there.

What VM software would you recommend? The issue I always run into is GPU acceleration whenever I use the usual virt-manager or VirtualBox.

Some of us do enjoy hot weather. I hardly ever use my air conditioner.

This is a problem on a ton of different sites, not just Lemmy. And the ones that are not like this tend to be echo chambers for alt-right racist and anti-LGBT bullshit. It’s impossible to have a civilized discussion these days.

But she doesn’t have visible fingers

Yeah, but I have nothing against Debian. At the time, my family was on dialup, so being able to order the entire apt repo on 7 CDs was very handy. Back then, the default kernel didn’t include sound drivers… fun times!

I recently returned to Debian (unstable) on my Linux laptop and it’s been nice.

When I started using Linux in 2004, /cdrom was the mount point for CD/DVD drives on Debian.

Hexbear, Exploding Heads, and Lemmygrad are cesspools.