I have also used Ubuntu when they sent out those free CDs. And for work when they had the Unity desktop (12.04 LTS). It was a good distro once.
I am pretty happy with the Arch (btw) I installed as a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 and then used as my main OS on the new work PC since 2017.
You could always use a distro made by sane people.
Considering “faster engine” means different tune on the exact same engine nowadays: not much has changed.
Fuck morons who pay this so the corps will continue to do this. They wouldn’t even consider it if people with more money than sense didn’t pay for it. Everything is enshittified until we live in Idiocracy.
They are still in use in Stuttgart/Esslingen since 1944. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/TrolleyBusEsslingenVanHool_P1010048.JPG/624px-TrolleyBusEsslingenVanHool_P1010048.JPG
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberleitungsbus_Esslingen_am_Neckar
I have dual boot on my work PC. I think the last time I booted into Windows was a year ago.
I can boot the physical Windows partition in Virtualbox and QEMU. I do that maybe 3 times a month for a few hours.
They made nothing good since Windows 7. And that was only good compared to Vista.
XP and 2000 were a lot faster.
Neat.
I always found new and mobile reddit to produce the worst markdown (like escaping an underscore in a URL, who does that?).
But I could never use it for more than 2 minutes before going back to old.reddit or using i.redd.it (oh shit they killed that, and they killed old.reddit.com/.compact).
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved_web_experience/jdeicso/
Bastards.
Usually stuff like this get’s taken care of quickly. There are no sophisticated filters on open-source lemmy like on the big social networks to automatically censor something. It has to be done by a mod or be reported first.
Also happened to me 30 years ago in IRC (then it might have been considered funny) and on reddit. Sometimes ugly stuff slips through. (not talking about a harmless rickroll)
I am pretty sure you were just really unlucky. Let’s hope trolls don’t succeed in destroying a great thing.
EDIT: you can check the modlog to see if the user has been banned. Pretty sure lemmy.ml and beehaw banned the offender.
I’m amazed it runs so well. It’s incredibly speedy for a wss implementation.
I had a bit of trouble signing up, but was approved super quickly and could log in.
(I might bother support later about it, when things settle down)
Even federated topics are blazing fast. Now I am thinking of setting up my own server on my Oracle Cloud Free Tier.
Markdown works just like old.reddit. But it feels like it already has RES and ton’s of plugins preinstalled. I am really quite happy.
About 500MBit/s on Telegram Desktop. They currently have 10 million paying subscribers out of ~950 million users.