Completely anecdotal, but I generally find more success with servers outside of North America. Definitely helps with reddit and imgur.

Hah, I can absolutely see myself doing this if we didnt keep our “baking” spices and related ingredients in a different cupboard.

I rate Voyager as being in a different class altogether, since it is free and open source. I will always choose FOSS over proprietary software, particularly for network-aware apps, whenever a viable solution exists.

I haven’t tried Boost for Lemmy yet, but I didn’t care for it on Reddit (my wife loved it though and used a lot of its moderator features). I used Relay for several years myself, and then Infinity for Reddit until I left the platform.

Still waiting for my refund for what I suspect was a switcharoo return of a PC. Ordered a renewed Optiplex 7040 with an i7-6700 for a family member, but received someone’s old and dusty 3020 with an i3-4150 instead, and the refurb sticker for the right product had been slapped on it.

Figured it was a one-off scam, reordered another one right away, and thankfully the second was legit…but they’ve had the returned PC for 2 weeks now and still no refund. And course no way to follow up about it within the return status itself, so I’ll be wasting even more time trying to chase it down. Something has to change.

Nope, we love our local library for nearly all of our media needs!

While I agree that user-generated reddit topics are best left to a dedicated community, I also think that published articles discussing the platform are appropriate for any Technology community; no different than Twitter, Threads, or other social media platform news coverage.

It’s been a long time in the making, but I’ve finally degoogled and largely removed all proprietary software from my personal life. I know this topic is pretty well covered here and elsewhere so just to add to the list of others, here’s where I’m at these days:

• OS: Fedora (Silverblue) Linux (w/ AMD Radeon GPU)
• Email: Thunderbird w/ hosted email over IMAP
• Calendar/Contacts: Radicale instance w/ DAVx⁵ on Android
• Storage: Syncthing
• Web: Firefox
• Search: Startpage and DuckDuckGo mostly, but still use Google and Bing on occasion
• IM: Signal
• Desktop productivity: LibreOffice when I need it (Collabora Office on Android)
• Notes: Vim, VS Code (Markor on Android); most of my “docs” are just plain text files written in markdown
• Passwords: KeepassXC/DX
• Code editor: Vim, VS Code
• GrapheneOS on mobile, with almost entirely FOSS apps
• Kindle e-book reader with management via Calibre
• Media managed by Kodi with a raspberry pi
• Proxmox hypervisor for Windows/Linux VMs and containers

Gaming under Linux has improved unbelievably these past few years, now that Steam is contributing with their Steam Deck platform. I used to have to dual-boot Windows to keep up with the latest titles, but I wiped it about a year ago and things have been great.

I still rely on Microsoft Excel and Adobe Photoshop for some tasks, but less so now than ever before. Unfortunately, my work will always be a Windows-only environment.