Kirk

+1 for this recommendation. Gnome is going to feel more familiar to a MacOS user and Silverblue is very resilient.

That alt text is just TOO real

Ohhh I totally misread your comment. Whew!

It will be attacked

If it's not then it's not living up to the Star Trek name IMO!

Dang the musical episode was a major highlight for me 🤷‍♂️

Pixel doesn't have eink screen though which is kind of the whole point

I am glad I had the advanced wisdom and intellect to recognize and correct for the error.

The LinkedIn-styled writing here is hard for me to get through, but I think the general gist is that for profit platforms are easier to onboard which I agree with. This line stands out:

And what do we get in return? A worse experience than cloud-based services.

I have to disagree somewhat, it's a different experience that is absolutely more difficult in many ways, but for those of us who value privacy, control over our data, and don't like ads, the trade-off is worth it. Also it goes without saying that the usability of selfhosted apps has exploded in the past few years and it will likely become less and less of an issue.

Fortunately "groupthink" on the fediverse isn't a structural problem since nobody controls all instances and every instance has different moderation styles.

I love the idea of an instance for a whole metro area, then each neighborhood could have it's own community.

Big if true!

Always preferred Mason/Ball to Weck because the Weck rubber rims can be finicky and little metal clips tend to go missing.