I’ve had similar experiences with Windows.

Recently the fingerprint reader on my work laptop (which is running Win11) just completely stopped working until after a reboot.
Putting my laptop to “sleep mode” didn’t work either, it would constantly wake up within seconds of me putting it to sleep. Wifi stopped functioning for no discernable reason. (I still haven’t found the reason)

If it’s good enough for mums, it’s good enough for a lot of people. Because mums are the mainstream.

That depends on your definition of “ready”, and of “most people”.

My mom, for instance, could pretty much do all her stuff on a Linux machine, and as soon as her current laptop with Win11 gets a tad too old and she starts complaining that everything is so slow, I’ll switch her over to Linux.

All she does is edit her photos, read emails and does online banking and some web-only games (like boardgamearena). She needs an image editor (she still uses Picasa, so Shotwell could be a valid alternative), an email program (she already uses Thunderbird), text processor (she already uses LibreOffice).

I’d much rather choose the book I want to listen to by clicking on the book’s cover than look for it on one of my many harddrives

Make Americans Useful.

I’d add “make the Kindle install folder read only” to step 5. Because even with the auto update feature turned off I’ve had Kindle upgrade itself when I was trying to liberate my Kindle library.

No, not necromancy, we like to call it post mortem communication

Expecto patronum, et voila, deus ex machina.

Bandcamp isn’t what it used to be, apparently there’s a better service for music now, I’m sorry I can’t recall the name.

artcore? https://www.artcore.com/

or formaviva? https://formaviva.com/

(though I still like bandcamp)

Because they’re not exactly private

Do we? I was never asked.

The community as it is right now, feels like the early days of Reddit and Slashdot. I really don’t mind that slight speed bump.

I respectfully disagree. Reddit went downhill and became significantly more difficult to manage/moderate when the masses joined.

If people aren’t willing to invest a bit of time to understand how Lemmy works (and it’s really not that difficult to understand), then I don’t think Lemmy is a good fit for them.

It was the default for a very long time. Reddit changed that because it prevented them from monetizing the site that easily. And the admins seemed to dislike what RES could do with the old Reddit look.

*dons a Viking helmet and in a deep bariton sings* No they’re nooooot 🎶

If you don’t know what you’re doing, you have no reason to edit those settings.

The normies are trying :)

Looks nice, but I’m more a fan of Photon. https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon

I’ve been able to exchange some of my points in the Lemmy Store for a rub on tattoo.

Thanks for reminding me of Friendica

Now all we “need” is a Facebook-like platform on ActivityPub and the set is complete