For those who are too lazy to check what people here in the comments are saying, here’s what happpens when you open the page in reader mode:

Curious to see whether they combine HBO and Netflix. In the article netflix answers in an ambiguous way.

I bet they are trying to calculate whether this will bring in less money if they combine them, because they can’t just jack up the price of netflix subscription to double immediately after the merging of the two platforms. Many have both Netflix and HBO subscription so it might actually reduce the revenue.

That’s a nice tip, have to try that out. Thanks!

Vinegar based cleaner for everything and you are good. Recommend a separate, dedicated mirror cleaner for mirrors though. Clean weekly to reduce the need to scrub with more powerful stuff.

Just passing along: this post was apparently a joke, see: https://feddit.org/post/18963366

That’s useful, thanks for the recommendation! I’ll have to check this out. Especially nice for those who can’t afford new PC’s atm.

Thanks for the links. I recall reading that installing windows 11 with bypasses might break after some future update? I just didn’t want to offer a solution that might cause issues as well.

For some linux was a good option, but for some I said you can either get a new computer or pay for the LTSC. Thankfully I was able to find some affordable win11 compatible laptops for their usecases.

I have been called by friends, family friends, and their friends to help with this and so many have hardware that is not supported, and some are not able to afford a new PC right now. That’s my limited and personal experience about this.

I have reservations about installing Linux Mint/other for these people because I don’t have time to help right now and you do need sometimes help if you are slightly tech aware but not enough to be able to troubleshoot yourself or search for right info. For folks who barely touch any settings and just use it for docs + web it’s easy, but for others not always.

Microsoft is such an ass for doing this.

That is so relieving to hear, awesome!

From the article:

As Voge from the Internet Society explains, Germany is key because there’s a new government in charge. The previous government was indeed very pro-encryption – seeking to make encryption a legal right at home, while strongly opposing mandatory scanning in the block. Yet, the new administration “is giving very mixed messages and no one can definitively say what’s going to happen on Friday,” Voge added.

I really like the idea of encryption as a legal right.

On top of all of this, these fucks don’t seem to be worried about their own encryption outside of office / position.

Fucking idiots. Has anyone told them that them using any of their free-time devices would be suspectible to any exploit that this introduces too (and it will)? Oh, got a new iPad for home? Guess what, you are important enough that a zero-day exploit was worth it to be used on you. Would they get off their career-high for one moment and think…

Moved inside Europe to another country because my partner had lived 3 years in my home country and complained about everything, so we decided it’s my turn to complain about everything. One more year to go to settle the score.

On a serious note we both love things about each others country and we are both open to live in either. Living and breathing your partner’s culture and environment they grew up in is such a great way to understand them on a deeper level. I finally understand her complaints and she understands mine!

This is true but I just want to add that instance admins can purge the uploads/posts entirely with a button that’s right next to “delete”. I recommend keeping a local copy of media you want to keep.

Mostly the purge option is used for fucked up/illegal stuff, but can’t speak for every admin. Might be someone’s go-to button for deleting posts.

I… Uh… Might have been raised in a culture that is quite different from yours, but I’d say very abnormal.

Same.

Here’s a bit of context about these turkish ice cream sellers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx_NjpeBqQw

The problem with mark-read on vote is that people downvote new posts simply because they don’t personally find it interesting.

There aren’t as many users on here so two downvotes might hide the new post entirely from quite a lot of users. There’s no karma system or super complex algorithm but downvoting does affect the visibilty of posts

I say if you plan to stick around and have patience to cultivate your community: do it.

If you don’t, then please don’t create them. You could join and post in existing communities that are close to those topics instead.

You are of course free to do as you will, but the reason I say don’t go for it if you don’t have the patience is because dead and unmoderated communities cause more issues than they solve.

Additionally: if you are new it’s possible some of the communities you are looking for already exist. Searching in https://lemmyverse.net/ might give you better results in case you are on a small instance.

Edit: I feel like I should elaborate: a community that is left unmoderated might end up with horrible content and the instance admin will be clueless until someone bumps into said content and reports it.

You could create your commmunities but lock them if you decide to ditch lemmy.

Awesome! Glad to hear! :)

Seems like lemmy.wtf posts are up again, can you login today?