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  • Occasionally find myself envying people with faith and wonder how my life is different than theirs.

    The thing is, there’s nothing stopping you from having faith. But do keep in mind that you want to have faith in something that is not shitty.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong this one seems nice. Promotes meditation, physical exercise, as well as peaceful civil involvement in society helping others and doing good, which will help you reach spiritual enlightenment.

    So while I personally like and prefer having a yawning void where some other people have faith, I generally recommend this religion to people who prefer having faith. If this one isn’t to your liking, perhaps research what other non-shitty options are there.

    And as a general pro tip when going with the faith option: please, no fanaticism.

    Edit: I’ve read some more on this, and this religion has some shitty postulations too. Well, keep looking out.





  • Nice.

    How is this not a solved problem?

    Tradeoffs I’d imagine. Lemmy devs need to prioritize between lots of things that absolutely need to be addressed first (like the recent vulnerabilities), and as a result relatively “minor” issues like this gets stuck on the sidelines. In addition to that, “beauty is in the eye of beholder”, so spending development time on this stuff when it might not even be acceptable to people is… well, wasteful.

    That being said, the code is open source, so anyone can help and contribute improvements/fixes.

    Am I the only person who cares about seeing the image at a larger resolution?

    Definitely not. I didn’t quite realize just how much of a difference this would make, but now that I’ve added it to CSS overrides it does make a huge difference. Thanks for pointing it out.









  • What you’re proposing is creating a Frankendebian, which Debian explicitly warns against doing. The proper way of getting security patches from unstable would be to pull the source debs and compile it yourself against the current Debian testing base.

    This lane of thinking however seems to be completely misguided when it comes to the target audience here, that is, a user who is not even experienced with Linux in general enough to know about various rolling release distros. Telling a user this inexperienced to go with either of those is in bad taste at the very least.


  • Just keep in mind that you will not be receiving speedy security updates, and in some cases you will need to wait for quite a while before packages you have will be updated (weeks, maybe longer).

    If you want a proper rolling release distro that is not Arch/Gentoo/Void/Nix/GuixSD, you could go for openSUSE, which provides a rolling release distro with a system rollback feature by default. Nice, easy to use GUIs for whatever you need. Although openSUSE also is sometimes a bit slow with the security updates for some packages, it’s nowhere near as slow as Debian testing.


  • When you rotate an image in your phone or on your computer (by right-clicking or going into the image options and selecting “Rotate Right” or w/e), the device is not editing the image to rotate it 90 degrees. It’s just adding a little metadata tag that tells devices loading the image “display this, but rotate it 90 degrees”.

    That depends on the software you’re using. Some edit metadata, some rotate the image itself.