I’m having a bit of a moan, I wouldn’t want anyone to make a decision like that purely on my account, you should make your own decision. Maybe feddit.uk will turn out fine, I hope it does, I’m just explaining why I don’t use it. lemmy.zip seems to be a responsibly run instance with similar federation policies to feddit.uk

He came back just to make other people admins and then disappeared again, which also raises questions over the ownership of the instance. It’s best security practice to have users with minimal necessary powers so if someone’s not admining they shouldn’t have admin powers since that increases the attack surface. Also the way the contingency plans were aborted the second he lifted a finger with no explanation or apology sort of rubbed me up the wrong way.

He still holds admin powers, which people might easily dismiss but I’ve had experience in past times with rogue former admins causing serious problems - you never leave inactive users with admin powers no matter how trustworthy they seem.

Daniel Johnston - Cold Hard World

What I listen to when I’m depressed and want to be, not the best song to lift you out of it.

I would be there but I was only put off by the fact that they’ve got an inactive admin which is usually a security flaw.

I never said we don’t use money. We don’t use dollars in our country, American or otherwise, we buy things with our own currency. Dollars are not a generic term for a unit of currency in English, they are a name for several specific currencies.

Seems to have an irrational hang up around Red Hat based on all the hearsay going around.

We don’t use dollars in my country, no.

I don’t know, I’m not American.

If it’s significantly better than what I could’ve bought in the 90s I’d go with it, but if it’s not I’d still consider it scammy since a lot of time has passed since then. Thankfully I don’t really need a printer now.

I use a content-blocker to block ad-networks that track me. It was never about blocking ads, but taking a necessary security measure against being tracked. They could still put ads in videos, like on TV, that aren’t part of ad-networks and don’t invade privacy - but they don’t do that, they want to invade users’ privacy instead.

Never bought a good printer since 2003. In 2003 I remember you could get a good printer for a reasonable price with reasonably priced cartridges. Ever since then printer technology doesn’t seem to have improved but they all seem to have become much worse quality and incredibly scammy.

It’s debatable at best.

If it’s just the fallback that’s failing for the occasional video, under settings > general settings > Fallback to Non-Preferred Backend on Failure: - Check that the invidious instance there actually works.

If it’s happening regularly I would say there’s something else because that’s not normal, it used to be less reliable than it is now but it’s been very good for the last year or so. Only very occasionally I have to fall back to using yt-dlp these days (unless of course I’m keeping the video).