I’ve been using Linux since the days of Slackware on floppies, and I still like Mint. It seems to just work – I’m not at all averse to “more hardcore” distributions, but would rather get on with my work. That being said, the Surface kernel is a nice piece of software and worth considering for an optimal experience on Surface.

Definitely doable! I’ve run several Linux distributions on Surface devices. I had good experiences out of the box with Ubuntu and Mint, and not-great experiences with Debian Bookworm (even with the Nvidia driver, it could never seem to work out that the external monitor on my machine was a primary. I did not try the Surface-specific kernel, however. Good luck!

Heh, no, Silicon Valley. Rather surprisingly, internet service was awful here for many years.

In other words, offering tiers of service which are symmetric or close the gap? For what it’s worth, I seem to be a poor technologist, since 5 gigabits/sec is vastly more than I need, but my ISP keeps encouraging me to upgrade to 7 gigabits. It’s nice to know that I could run a skyscraper or a medium sized subdivision if I wanted to, however!

The lack of down/up symmetry (at at 10:1 ratio, no less) is rather gobsmacking in 2025. Even here in SV, where internet service has historically lagged behind the rest of the world, I now have 5 gigabits of symmetric fiber service for a reasonable price.

Or Cabot Cove, which had them almost every week from 1984 to 1996.

What type of error do you receive on mobile?

Oh, lovely. I had no idea this existed, but I’ll try it out. Many thanks!

Thanks for fixing my Lemmy notation!

I am so tired of infantilizing headlines and the proverbial “YouTube thumbnail face”.

It’s hard to see what’s going on here, but you might try using an irrigation tool called a riser or nipple extractor – it’s designed for removing broken plastic risers outdoors, but might work if you can insert it far enough (it’s difficult to tell from your photo if the material in the center is a liquid or a solid). Have a look at https://www.homedepot.com/p/Orbit-1-2-in-and-3-4-in-Plastic-Nipple-Extractor-26076/100203404

https://feddit.nl/c/trendingcommunities Is also a good source of active community information.

A few ways I’ve found communities that interest me:

• Community promotion communities such as https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo provide pointers to topics of interest.

• A good Lemmy client goes a long way toward facilitating content discovery; I’m a Voyager user, and it supports sorting Home (subscribed) and All (unsubscribed) post feeds in various ways including New, Active, Scaled, Controversial, etc.

• When I was new to Lemmy, I used Voyager’s subreddit migration tool to match communities with my interests (see https://vger.app/settings/reddit-migrate ) – I believe Artic and a number of other clients have similar functionality.

• Just browsing the All feed has helped me find communities (and compile a list of things to block!)

Thanks for clarifying!

Tailscale is also ridiculously easy to use for this purpose. The serve and Funnel features make secure self hosting really easy from your tailnet (one can easily provision certificates for nodes using Let’s Encrypt from the CLI: https://tailscale.com/blog/reintroducing-serve-funnel

Your point is well taken. However, there are communities where some of the bot posted content is just interesting enough to read, and I’m not sure that the owners of the rss@ or b0t@ accounts care much about their upvote / downvote ratios, but I suppose it could help some of Voyager’s sorting filters.

Is that an Android client specific option? I don’t see that item in Voyager 2.28 on iOS, but perhaps I haven’t had enough coffee.

As others have said, one’s view of Lemmy is highly dependent upon the instances and communities that one frequents. As someone who isn’t a habitué of politics, news, sport or meme communities, I’ve found my fellow lemmings to be pleasant, but I also believe that that is due to trying to be helpful and polite myself and being willing to apologize when warranted.

Same here! My mind struggled to align the image of kebab production with the concept of artificial spiritual guidance…

I hadn’t noticed that until now. Thanks!