[-] dot20@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

Any second-hand business class laptop that fits your budget, i.e. HP Elitebook/Probook/Zbook, Dell Inspiron/Latitude/XPS, or Lenovo Thinkpad.

Businesses tend to get rid of them after 4 years, even if they're still in good condition. Great bang for your buck and easily repairable if something does end up breaking.

You'll have to install Linux yourself, but generally support for older hardware is OK.

IMPORTANT: make sure the BIOS isn't locked before buying.

[-] dot20@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

That and without an income source, you can't pay content creators, so you can't attract them to the platform in the first place. People dislike YouTube for running ads, but the ads are what pays for the videos.

[-] dot20@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago

Self-hosted WordPress blogs were actually already able to federate with the fediverse (if the blog admin installs the requisite plugin). The recent news is that blogs hosted on WordPress.com are now also able to federate.

WordPress.com is the name of the hosting service by the creators of WordPress, but you can also choose to host the WordPress software elsewhere (and many do).

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submitted 9 months ago by dot20@lemmy.world to c/thenetherlands@feddit.nl

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5143956

Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works.

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submitted 10 months ago by dot20@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

I seem not to be able to create a post in the community !theNetherlands@feddit.nl. When I tap the ‘Create’ button, instead of creating the post, it just keeps spinning forever and never actually creates the post. I’m using the regular Lemmy.world web UI on Safari on iPadOS 16.6.1.

How can I solve this?

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submitted 10 months ago by dot20@lemmy.world to c/nieuws@feddit.nl

Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works.

[-] dot20@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

It's called the Super key on Linux. On Windows it's called the Windows key and on Mac the Command key.

[-] dot20@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago

Are you suggesting that Linus Sebastian, age 36, is somehow a Gen Zer?

[-] dot20@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

“Ain't nobody got time for that!”
—the builders, probably

[-] dot20@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

Well, it sure sounds like X is delivering users to Mastodon.

[-] dot20@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

Nitpick: it’s performant (capable of a high level of performance), but not performative (being done as a performance).

[-] dot20@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Nobody really knows, but there are two theories floating around:

  • The Lemmy devs paid for their domain
  • Their DNS entries are still cached and it will stop working tomorrow
[-] dot20@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

GNU's Not UNIX

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

WINE Is Not an Emulator

[-] dot20@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Ah, I understand now. The expression is evaluated like this:

  • $a == 1 ? "one" : $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ? "three" : "other"
  • $a == 2 ? "two" : $a == 3 ? "three" : "other"
  • "two" ? "three" : "other"
  • "three"
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