China is mostly focused on economic growth, which they don’t need to go to cold war over. Their political ambitions are mostly focused on the nearby regions.

For the US leaders, however, it’s a matter of global political dominance, which they are losing.

To be more precise, both China and the US pursue economic dominance, but they do so through different means. China makes high-risk, high-reward investments, and the US militarily forces the countries under their influence. So, it’s only a “war” for the US, while China is totally fine with multipolar world.

It was somewhat different with USSR, where it was indeed political on both ends.

Are there any benefits to using Bonfire over simply Mastodon/Misskey?

Open Science Network, though, is promising, but I don’t understand why the same group develops OSN and Bonfire. Am I missing something?

Had some gems recently indeed

This is regular scientific hedging.

This thing, even if it turns out to be real good, it’s years away from being a marketable product. And it’s alright! It says more about sensationalism in scientific communication.

Exactly. Yes, I know they claim it’s just the UI, and the sole purpose of closed-source code is to make it harder to steal innovative UI elements - but when it comes to something as sensitive as the browser, I’d like for these claims to be verifiable.

Vivaldi is in big part closed source, so we literally don’t know what it does behind the scenes

I haven’t in years anyway

Exactly why they can pull off anything like that. People who still stay with Chrome are mostly those who’ll eat it up anyway.

How do you define “Chinese propaganda” and why do you think CCP even cares about a place as small as Lemmy?

As a side observer, I just see some people being more loyal to China and others to the US. This does happen on a decentralized platform where you can’t shut down the other side of the discussion.

Overall, Lemmy remains America-centric and America-dominated on all fronts, so if there’s any bias, it’s here.

Loops.

However, of a dozen instances that exist, only the main one - loops.video - functions well and serves a diversity of content. It’s still in heavy development, but technically, ActivityPub is already included.

First of all, welcome! Hope you’ll like it here.

Politics surely seems to drown the regular conversations at times. But some niche communities are quite active! Places like !newcommunities@lemmy.world , as well as general search might be of great help in finding your gems.

As per federation and stuff, I think Mastodon of all places does a more or less decent job on boarding new users, and Lemmy has a lot to learn from it.

Regardless, the core idea is that there are plenty of various interconnected physical servers operated by different people. A simple and rough analogy is e-mail, which is actually also federated. You may have your mailbox somewhere like Gmail, and I can have mine in Outlook or even host my own (and you can do that with Lemmy, too). But we’ll be able to write to each other like if we use same service.

Here, everything is organized in a way as to allow not only private communication, but public discussion. Posts and comments are public and can be seen by everyone from the server the post is made on.

For example:

• You connect to a server under the lemmy.ca domain. So, some Canadian guy just rents/owns a physical server and puts Lemmy software on it.
• I connect to rekabu.ru, hosted by a guy somewhere in Russia. Same idea.
• The post is in the community on the lemmy.world server, which is a third one.
• Our servers connect to lemmy.world, where the post is made, and exchange information with it. My server sends my comments, your server sends yours, and so we can see each other despite connecting to different places.
• Should I send you a direct message instead, it will go straight from rekabu.ru to lemmy.ca, just like e-mail. And vice versa.

Nice! Some minor design alterations would be great (sentence about news by the people for the people doesn’t have to go back and forth in width; selected section should be highlighted instead of news being seemingly selected at all times), but overall, it’s a great job!

Man pages in Linux are commonly meant for people already familiar with command structures, specific terms etc.

They are often borderline useless for an inexperienced user.

Thanks!

Sad to see all this effort has to be put into making sanctions and then into evading them.

Any TL;DR on this? Nvidia secretly ships sanctioned GPUs to China?

Tea is absolutely an art no less than beer, and if you’re there for the ritual or exploration, it offers both.

I would actually recommend against Cachy, as it is not very friendly out of the box.

Decent choice, but not for a novice user. Still, can be turned into same thing as everything else.

Nah, it’s a mature take. Desktop environment means more for everyday user experience than the distro choice.

I have OpenSUSE Slowroll on one machine and EndeavourOS on the other. Both have KDE installed with exactly the same configuration. Aside from package management and other technicalities, the experience is 100% identical.

Fundamentally, they’re all the same and they all are Linux. As long as you use the same desktop environment (KDE, GNOME, you name it) across different distros, you may not notice a single difference in your experience.

That’s not to say there are no differences, but for someone just dipping their toes into the Linux world, the main piece of advice is not to stress that too much.

Ubuntu is a fine distro choice - there are controversies, and it is arguably not the best at X, Y or Z, but it’s well-rounded, stable, and user-friendly, which is all that novice user needs.

Of course, if you want, you can always explore other options and see what’s absolute best for you - this kind of thing is called distro-hopping. Start with something Ubuntu-based for familiar experience (Linux Mint is a common recommendation, if you don’t mind Cinnamon desktop), check out Debian as this is what Ubuntu is based on, and then try Fedora, OpenSUSE and stuff. After gaining experience with these, you can explore Arch and derivatives, such as CachyOS, EndeavourOS etc.

But again, if what you have works for you - you’re not missing out on anything special. What you have is true, real, actual Linux experience, and there’s no best way to approach it.

Ikarus is an absolute legend, imported by plenty of places including the Soviet Union, the home for UAZ vehicles from the original post

At this point, it’s not a race to get people to Linux, but rather a race to get people off Windows and MacOS, which is almost the same thing practically.

We really don’t want them to have it their way, as it’s detrimental to digital freedom.