IDK, but it took me a good 30s touching the posts in your screenshot trying to figure out wth was happening.

I agree; I mentioned headless server because that would be a more "pure" and general Linux administration - learning how to administer a SUSE Linux using the graphical yast tool won't translate as well to general Linux admin as if you learn and understand how to fo it in the command line and config files.

And absolutely; one can use Firefox, LibreOffice and any other tool on Linux, but I don't consider that as "learning" or "knowing" Linux. My wife uses exclusively Linux for 20+ years (because when she left her job where they still had Windows 95, that's what the desktop at home ran; kubuntu). She does text editing, internet banking, shopping, browsing, printing, everything there (even updates sw through the gui package manager), but she doesn't "know Linux".

You can setup a Linux system for a computer illiterate, and they may happily learn how to use it for their social media and streaming consuming, and whatever endusers do in their computers, without ever knowing that's "Linux".

Strictly speaking, that already happens. How many Android users know they are running on a Linux kernel?

That's why when OP said "learn Linux", I prioritized the admin on command line; as you don't need to really "learn Linux" to interact with it through automated/graphical admin tools (no shame on doing it, they're sometimes quicker and more practical than command line).

What I mean is that learning how to use cPanel or Yast is useful, but you're learning how to administer as system through a tool, which in theory could even be adapted to administer a non-Linux system.

Maybe a safer option would be to simply be able to add specific users' posts and/or commented posts to your landing page (which could even be implemented in the front end), never collecting or keeping any statistics of how many "followers" people have.

I think it'd be a risky route to take, as it creates the possibility of the general populace electing "lemmy influencers" and ruining it all.

There are two very distinct categories of content aggregation/social media: The ones where you primarily "follow" people/content creators (facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, whatsapp) and the ones where you primarily "follow" subjects (reddit, lemmy, slashdot, etc).

The ones that focus on people are much more prone to create opinion bubbles, polarizing groups, and the obnoxious "influencers".

Of course in some cases algorithms (as in youtube) may take in account the subject of your subscribed content creators, and feed you other creators covering similar subjects, but when the focus is on people, chances are they'll feed you similar opinions, not only similar subjects.

It's easy to see the difference if you compare subscribing to a "r/news" channel in reddit/lemmy with subscribing to a "foxnews" channel in youtube/facebook. One of those will get you a wider range of point of views (despite possible mod biases).

So I really hope subscribing or following people never becomes relevant in lemmy, let alone having algorithms tailoring what is shown to me. I want to know other people's opinions; not an echo of my opinions.

I know, I'm Brazilian! It's the largest public health system in the world, and Brazil is not (yet haha) a superpower, so all things considered (and despite all the corruption), they do a pretty good job. In some regions it's even decent, once you survived the lines.

A little context: In Brazil, public free health care is universal. You may be homeless, a legal or illegal immigrant, a tourist, undocumented, never having paid insurance or taxes, but you have the right to use the health care system. As it should be, everywhere.

It was working for me with some glitches (for example always opening with sorting all/hot instead of what I had set up, subscribed/new).

Then yesterday it auto updated, and the glitches are gone.

I've never used them.

If I like an app or site, but the ads are annoying me, I do one of these:

• If there's an option to pay the creator/aggregator to eliminate the ads, and the cost/benefit is worth it, I'll pay.

• If there is no option to pay, but the app/content is worth the ads annoyance, I'll keep using the app/site and watch/skip/ignore the ads.

• If there is no option to pay, or there is, but the price is higher than what I perceive as the app/content value, I'll stop using the app/site.

For example, I paid for Baconreader Premium, but I watch YouTube ads, and I removed several sites from my google home page feed because they had more ads than content.

I'm also stop using Reddit, as I don't think it's worth enduring their obnoxious native app.

And no, I don't use pirated software, nor watch or listen to pirated movies or music. If something is priced above what I consider it's worth, I just don't use it.

Yes, Baconreader Premium could be consider as a "reddit ad blocker", but it operated within Reddit's approval. Now Reddit changed their rules, and it's their rules.

So many. Unfortunately most of you will miss the lyrics, which are real poetry. Here are a few:

A rosa (1917 song by Pixinguinha, rendition by Marisa Monte in 1991)

https://youtu.be/t15qR2bigB4

Bahia com H (1981, João Gilberto, sang by himself, Caetano, and Gil)

https://youtu.be/phs2GTDNFJc

Luiza (1987, Tom Jobim)

https://youtu.be/EmjiSI3Fyic

You answered "trying" as something that "is ALWAYS worth it" - which was OP's question.

If you now say you need to "weigh the pros and cons" - which I agree - then trying it's not ALWAYS worth it, no?

Then as someone else commented, each person has their own risk tolerance, so once each person weigh the pros and cons, trying will be worth it for some and not for others.

So answering "trying" to "what's something that's always worth it" is rather paradoxical, as what you probably meant then was "trying it, but only when it's worth it".

Yes, back in 2009, after a kernel update to 2.6.26 there was an intermittent and hard to reproduce problem with Intel's e1000e ethernet linux kernel module. It only happened when some specific switches/hubs were connected to the interface; the interface would initialize in an unusable state (about 50% of the computer boots).

The e1000e module was used by a lot of Intel onboard ethernet interfaces, including the one used by Dell Vostro computers.

I found other people reporting it in the kernel's bugzilla, and added my case.

The Intel developer couldn't reproduce it (he didn't have one of the switches that triggered the problem), so he asked me to use bisect to help narrowing down to the commit that started the problem.

Because it was an intermittent issue, I wrote a script to reboot the PC multiple times on each bisect try, to eliminate false positives.

(I didn't remember all these details, but googled my name and bisect, and found the bugzilla thread; it's an interesting bisect use case: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11998#c8 - no I don't mind this associates my lemmy user name with my real name).

The bisect did locate the culprit commit, and after many other tests, it ended up being an issue with the MDI/MDIX (crossover or straight connection detection). The correction was pushed into the kernel.

Bisect definitely helped to find an important and otherwise difficult to find problem there.