@hansolo Well, don’t trust me then. I’m just a random person online after all! I’m not going to fight to prove something that I know happened, that would just be a pointless argument and a waste of time, I think.

@hansolo Well it is not one of the largest companies in the world, I can tell you that. You don’t really have to trust me (but why would I post it if that wasn’t true?)

Not in all cases actually, as is shown by this reply! Mastodon just defaults to including the @ of the person you are replying to, so they get a notification, but it works without!

@hansolo Well, I can’t really share more details without compromising the privacy of thousands of people who didn’t ask for anything! I don’t really know what else I can tell you? If the website does not fix it then I can disclose the vulnerability, but since there are accounts dating back to 2009 the code base must be super old and hard to fix so I’ll give them some time.

@CodenameDarlen It’s because I post on mastodon : My instance is furries.club (check my username) and that’s a Mastodon instance that works with hashtags to find posts. Instead of writing the same post multiple times, I use instead the 𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬 𝓸𝓯 𝓯𝓮𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 to write the post only once with hashtags and by tagging the Lemmy community so that it also gets posted there, and people who comment in one platform will also have their comment show up on the other platform.

@CodenameDarlen I’m glad I write well enough to be confused with AI but no, I haven’t even used any em dashes! 😉

@pkjqpg1h Yes, indeed that’s an issue with the Firefox app, there’s nothing I can do on the side of the extension with this, as it acts as if you cancelled the download.

However, a workaround is, load the website and the add-on in a non-private window and make sure “Media cache” is enabled in the add-on settungs.

Once the download is over and the popup to download flashes and disappears, start downloading again (with the same quality as before if asked).

The download should only take a few seconds as the add-on caches the video/audio data so it can do faster downloads.

@Hominine Yeah!!

@DarkPassenger Awesome! Well, if the website you are downloading from does not work, tell me and I’ll try to figure it out!

@CircaV @Europellinore Personally, I’m using Mastodon over BlueSky and I wonder why it has not got the same attention as bluesky :
- It’s decentralized and you can host your own, to help with data safety
- This also prevents it from turnuing into another twitter since if that happens, you can just host an old version or fork the code and continue updating it
- It’s compatible with activitypub, so you can post and reply on Lemmy from a Mastodon account, like this one!

But yeah, it’s pretty annoying to switch from one platform to another since your followers are not likely to do the same. Maybe that’s why?

@MasterBlaster If the company is in the EU, and they use AI to do facial recignition, that is actually illegal! See https://natlawreview.com/article/use-ai-recruitment-and-hiring-considerations-eu-and-us-companies

@33550336 Thanks! I’m still figuring some things out as I go but it’s just some habits I don’t have!

@FreddiesLantern Aside from the hiccups I mentionned, it works great! I was surprised my backlit keyboard even works, but I think that’s managed by my bios.

I’ll keep on using it, but I’m trying to document my struggles because if Linux is aiming to be a good alternative to Windows computers getting to end of life, then some set up wouldn’t be done by most people and just assume it’s broken and maybe switch back to Windows where it “Just works”.

Maybe this can help with the onboarding experience!

@EtnaAtsume Mint install or not, you should regularly back up your data in an external drive!

Yes, installing mint on the Windows partition deletes Windows and all your files so make a backup or put them on another partition!

But without deleting your data, you can always boot from an USB stick and try thingd around in this environnement!

@cupcakezealot It’s
neofetch

Try it! :blobcathug:

@Creat My laptop is weird, because it has a media key for screenshoting an area (which is basically a key that doed Windows Shift S which isn’t recognized by default on Mint), and a print screen key which works fine. And to screenshot an area, on Mint it’s ctrl+print screen

@Nyadia Figured it out and it worked! Strange that this isn’t the default.

@scott It’s a mastodon post, lemmy federates it and takes the start of the post as a title. Can’t do much about that :blobcatcoffee:

@cmnybo I figured it out, but I think it’s still not very intuitive when you’re used to it working by default!

@eatCasserole I have found a software called Diodon, and seems to work fine!
You need to set a custom shortcut in your settings but besides that it does the job