Lost_My_Mind

If you're happy and you know it, don't show it.

If you're happy and you know it, don't show it.

If you're happy and you know it

Please don't ever show it

If you're happy and others know it, the republicans will sick their nazi henchmen to shoot you in the fucking face!!!

Yeah, I realize that last line doesn't match the rhyming scheme, but sometimes you just gotta get out exposition, ya know?

I tried signing up for a pixelfed account. I picked pixelfed.global. the last step of registering is they send you an email. You click the confirm, and your account becomes active.

Except I never got the email. I thought "Maybe I typed the wrong email?"

But no. My email and username was free to register the first time, but now it says that email and username aren't available.

So I'm registered, but can't log in because that username doesn't exist. I can't register that name, because it's now taken.

So I'm in limbo of registration process....but now I can't even figure out how to email the admins.

What do I do now?

But only for 1 day. Don't announce it ahead of time.

Instead, people just show up, and see banners saying "Back in stock, Szechuan Sauce!!!"

But you only see that banner if you go inside. No promotion. No social media. No mention of any kind besides a single banner at the ordering counter.

Then tweet about it the NEXT day. After it's gone.

So about a year ago, I remember seeing a guy testing out his blog comments section. What he had done was made a lemmy community, and every blog post he made, was a thread on the lemmy community. But here's the interesting part.....all comments on Lemmy in a thread were the same comments on his blog.

So if you have user@lemmy.world, and you go to his community, you see a thread, you comment.....your comment is now in the comments section of his blog.

Now today, I see these websites, from corporate websites that have reviews sections. Or news sites with comments sections.

And unless you're on a mega corporation like amazon, or youtube, these comments and reviews are mostly dead.

So I was thinking. What if there were a way to do this with multiple fediverse services?

What if you have an article, and the comments are 1 lemmy user, 1 mastodon user, 1 misskey user, 1 friendica user, ect ect ect? Basically start making ANY fediverse service a viable way to leave a comment, which can be replied to by any other fediverse user, regardless of service?

Now imagine all these websites that sell things that have 1-2 reviews. They almost always seem to be propriatary comments section that you need to register for that one website. And it doesn't work anywhere else. Which is usually why there's only 1-2 reviews.

But if they were using their lemmy account, that they already have, they could leave a review TODAY, and in a month leave a comment on another website using the same account.

And this would start to standardize the fediverse accounts as being universal across the internet, besides mega corps.

This in turn will grow the fediverse, because eventually people will say "hey, you know your fediverse account that you use to leave comments? Well thats a mastodon account. You already have it, and you CAN go on mastodon, and use it like you used to twitter back before it was a nazi platform. Mastodon isn't fascist."

From a technical limitations standpoint, is that even possible?

So, I don't know if this is the place for this, but I have a Retroid Flip 2.

Love it.

Here's my issue. I downloaded the windows version of Stardew Valley, and want to run it on Winlator. It takes a bit of a long time to boot up....but it does boot. However, it does NOT seem to recognize my controller thats built into the system.

Mouse seems to work just fine. I assume keyboard does as well. But that doesn't help me. I need the controller to work.

Any advice?

Funnily enough when I was typing out the title, Lemmy tried to suggest similiar titles.

By the time I had typed half of it, Lemmy changed it's attitude to "Nah, we got nothin' like that! You're on your own! This is uncharted territory!"

So, I have those powerblock weights. They go up to 50lbs.

I'm thinking of getting a bar attatchment that turns the dumbells into barbells.

They have 2 different styles.

A straight bar, and a curl bar.

I can only get 1 of them for now. Eventually I'll get the other. But which one should I get? What's the difference?

Ok, so I was just thinking....what if we all got together and sang songs like christmas carolers do? BUT! Here's the catch! We don't sing christmas songs. We write and sing our own songs! Original songs. But we sing it on street corners.

And see, these songs could be a little deranged, because there's no law against that! I don't think anyways....we'll check on that.

But like one of the songs could be something like.....

It's a beautiful morning........to go punch a deer.

We'll get really violent......as we instill fear!

We'll all act like assholes.......because we drank lots of beer.

And then mother nature will turn against us.......because we couldn't think of another word to complete the 4 round rhyming scheme this song was using.

and then you could have a generic chorus.

"Whoa! Yeah! The pressures of life are becoming absurd! Whoa! Yeah! Life is scary!"

You know. Mentally unstable, but also depressingly relatable. And it's weird because you can't decide if the song is mentally deranged, or if it's the most relatable thing because society is mentally deranged. And then you realize that society is just the people around you. So there's that.

But then another of you might write a different song. Something like:

Hugs and sunshine! Yeah yeah yeah!

Cuddles and loving! Yeah yeah yeah!

Smooches and lolli-pops! Yeah yeah yeah!

Happy times together! Yeah yeah yeah!

But in a death metal style. Look out.....Megadeth!

I thought this was going to be a community for linux newbies, who come here and find little tips for how to better use linux. Like little tips and tricks to better use linux that are so addictive it's like crack.

Alas, no. This is a sub on how to download pirated linux games.

Which I'm still all here for, by the way. I just wish the community I envisioned ALSO existed. It would be like the first time I ever found out about the registry editor on windows XP.

I need THAT moment, but for linux. The moment where I figure out how to take control, and understand what I'm doing.

Because right now, I'm just distro hopping, but hating most of these options. Right now I'm looking at LMDE which is Mint without ubuntu. Also looking at Fedora. Also looking at Bazzite. And I've been using Zorin for a year now.

Outside of those, I hate every option I try. MX Linux was kind of good......but also really really annoying. HATED PopOS.

I'm just looking for tips that will help me understand "OOOOHHHH!!!! THAT'S how that works."

Like right now, I have no idea how updates work. I know there's repositories. I have no idea where these repositories are. I have no idea how my computer knows where these repositories are. I have no idea how to add or change my repositories. I have no idea what's in them.

That's just the tip of the iceberg of what I don't know. Terminal is just.......can we make a distro without the terminal please? Make it so you can download your own if you want to, but the culture around this distro would be terminal-less. That's the distro I want.

I want to have issues, that have solutions online that don't start with:

"Step 1, open terminal..."

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Debian uses systemd as its default init system

Devuan was created specifically to avoid systemd, offering alternatives like SysV init, OpenRC, and runit

I do not know what an init system is. I don't know what systemd is. I do not know what Devuan is. I do not know what SysV init is. I do not know what OpenRC is. I do not know what runit is.

I vaguely understand what debian is. Although I would be the wrong person it explain it. I know it's the type of linux that ubuntu is. And I know it seems like every disto I look at says it's based on ubuntu, and therefore is debian since ubuntu is based on debian.

What I don't understand is if everyone hates ubuntu, but ubuntu is based on debian, but nobody hates debian, why is everything based on ubuntu and not debian?

How do I know if I want the debian version of a distro, or the devuan version? What are they even talking about?

Just to watch confused looks on customers faces.

"Our soup of the day is Chunky chicken noodle. Be careful. It's very hot, and also very wet. You won't be able to use a fork and knife on this soup. You'll need a spoon for sure! Did you bring your favorite spoon? No? I'll get you a spoon. It is a very basic spoon. Just made of metal. No gps navigation on this one though I'm afraid. You will have to navigate to your mouth manually."

And just watch as their faces try to hold a poker face of normality. They don't want to be rude, but also, this waiter is insane.