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Cake day: February 9th, 2025

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  • Without knowing the details of what you’re talking about, I’d say on first principles the owner(s) of an instance has the final say on what posts they allow on their platform because it’s their platform, they don’t owe you anything. The benefit of the fediverse is that anyone can have their own platform so if you don’t like one platform you can post elsewhere. Just as it was with forums before the tyranny of centralised social media. So I’d be inherently more sympathetic to a mod removing a post than someone insulting a mod but it may vary depending on details, such as if the mod was doing a bad job for their platform.



  • My personal standard is I try to upvote people I reply to, since whether I agree or not the fact that I’m replying means that they’re engaging at least (I often forget to though). It’s lazy to downvote just because you disagree.

    Downvoting is an honourable duty of its own though. Especially if something is irrelevant or low effort I wish more people would downvote, it’s helping your fellow users.











  • Because in 20+ years of off and on using linux, I’ve never once gotten apt to install anything. I have however fucked up my whole system by doing sudo apt update/sudo apt upgrade.

    Sorry but that’s really not typical, you must have been doing something out of the ordinary or been very unlucky.

    I didn’t say I want to know why it needs them. I’m upset it tells me that it tells me it needs them, and then says “they won’t be installed”, but won’t tell me WHY they won’t be installed. If the program needs those dependancies, just install them. Instead it juat says “we know you need the dependancies, but we’re not going to do that”.

    It’s the package manager that handles dependencies, not the program you’re trying to install. Random programs shouldn’t be able to just install things on your computer. Did you try installing the dependencies?


  • Personally I really enjoy walking, think nothing of walking 3 miles / 5km or so to get somewhere and back, further sometimes, it’s not a waste of time to me, it’s the time where I do my best thinking. For this a good backpack is a good idea for shopping. I am fortunate to live somewhere where everything I need is within that radius and there are decent buses and trains for further trips so I’ve never had to drive, in some places a car is essential though, unfortunately, there’s nothing I can say to help there, other than to move but that’s not always possible either.