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White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding
  • 100% gotta have some teeth behind it, else it'll be the same story with a new date lol

  • someone convince me to switch to Linux from windows
  • Honestly, I think the biggest thing for me using Linux the last 10+ years has been I find it easier to stay updated. I can just run one command like apt update && apt upgrade -y or write a short script to include Flatpak or whatever else to get everything updated; whereas with Windows it feels like a crapshoot whether updates actually get pushed to my machine, and it also seems to just bug out on me frequently and need me to delete a corrupted download or whatever... and once that's done I gotta worry about updating drivers and apps.

    Other than that, I guess the more customization is nice so I can change my desktop when I'm bored and need something new. Plus I'm personally much more comfortable in a Linux shell than Windows command prompt. But really day-to-day my experience is similar to Windows these days, in terms of stability and being able to get stuff done.

    And I primarily use Mint, for it's worth :)

  • White House announces $40 billion in broadband funding
  • I mean, I'd be stoked for this if the major ISPs didn't just pocket the money and play dumb the last time this happened.

  • What are some of your favorite videogames from your childhood? What made them so special?
  • Edit: I'm a dumbass and forgot to mention the game I've easily played the most over the years: RuneScape 2 and currently Old School RuneScape. I love it. Lol

    The biggest game for me in my childhood was Starcraft: Brood War. It got me into super RTS games, and even though I played it on the Nintendo 64 (which sucked in retrospect lol) it was the first game I really got into.

    The next two games that come to mind were Super Smash Bros and Halo (specifically 2, but really all of the ones before 4 I played a ton of) just because these games were super easy and fun to play with friends and family.

    And there were some honorable mentions like Phantasy Star Online: Episodes I & II and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 and Star Fox 64, since these were also games that I played a ton of.

  • Majority of gamers play with subtitles turned on
  • Can't say I'm surprised. My partner both do this for movies and games, because we either can't hear the dialogue or freak out our dogs with the sound effects

  • Folding screens - are there any good options?
  • My Z Flip 4 that I got about 5 months ago has been holding rather well. The hinge took a little to get used to, but I don't really notice it during use anymore.

    Of course 5 months isn't quite the 2+ years I'd ask out of a phone, so I'll just have to wait and see :)

  • Reddit says itā€™s ā€˜not acceptableā€™ for communities to go NSFW in protest
  • I love it. "Get over us screwing you and with normal discourse, or else" will definitely go over well šŸ¤£

  • Why repeat the "master race" nonsense?
  • Tbh I wouldn't be against a name change. But keeping it the same definitely helps for discoverability during this transition period when we have a ton of people coming from Reddit.

    Maybe in the future it'd be worth another look

  • I don't understand why people still want to use reddit instead of moving to Lemmy or Kbin
  • Oh sick! I wasn't aware one existed yet! What app is it?

  • I don't understand why people still want to use reddit instead of moving to Lemmy or Kbin
  • There are many reasons, ranging from not wanting to leave already established communities, Lemmy and Kbin aren't quite as robust as Reddit is yet, and a lot of people just frankly don't care enough to switch. Plus the lack of a mobile for Kbin doesn't help.

    Just gotta be patient and win people over slowly when they willing to make the jump :) We may see some more once the third-party apps shutdown at the end of the month.