Thanks! Also will try to find info on that upcoming one.

Indeed seem to be few to me too. But I wonder elsewhere, like a Japanese Piefed instance and a S. Korean Mastodon instance I found before.

Also, for those that might find that useful, akin to Google Play, DRM on the Amazon Appstore is a hit or miss with testing being the only way to confirm the presence or lack thereof.

I guess it’s safe to assume, then, that you are indeed a forum troll, going by your insistence on deviating the topic towards bickering and how you behave in the other comments. Thanks for confirming and have a good day/night, depending on where you are. =)

Given this has nothing to do with what I said, it sounds like an inversion to try to bait me into losing my cool, a strategy I often saw in trolls in other forums in years past. Still giving the benefit of doubt, while each person has his/her own form of taking and sharing information, I would still suggest considering how what you say could be taken as baiting or other strategies employed by trolls.

I’d suggest to avoid using some many adjectives in so little sentences. Some may take it as a sign that you could be a forum troll trying to cause a fuss for fun, and thus be more defensive around you. And if any here in the comments are “triggered” indeed, they still seem pretty tame in their responses.

Separating the title from the body of the post as I don’t think they’re directly related:

It would not sound surprising for me if staffers spied on competition to know how they can deal with competition, copy tactics, etc.

Regarding the meme itself, at least imo, having seen cases of what did seem like mass downvotings, the vote/downvote ratio doesn’t seem that big.

Besides, two more things. First, some platforms seem to be more prone to mob mentality than others, so if you feel like you’re targetted, maybe pay attention to where people are coming from. Second, each platform has their own cultures, so a post more negatived than the usual may simply be a termometer of a given platform’s culture.

A given AI has an interpretation of the source materials, not the raw contents to offer. If this AI’s interpretation is faulty, or if another, previously overlooked interpretation could be made, it can’t be made if the sources are gone and no back ups were made. Also, AI could be tinkered to give biased replies. And also if preserving a given knowledge is entrusted to AI, what to do if it is unplugged?

And unrelated to the AI point, but Reddit had plenty of useful stuff, probably due to being the biggest of its type of social media for a long while. But also it would then suffer from barely any competition, turning it further and further into the decaying platform it now is.

So I stick to my point, I hope it doesn’t fall too quickly - useful stuff can still be backed up. And if an user finds something yet to be backed up, I insist he/she does it, be it with Internet Archive, Archive.Today, and/or any others he/she may use.

Though I understand the feeling, I think that, if it must die, that it happens slowly, so people can have plenty of time to back up and/or mirror the useful stuff from there.

Been some years since I last used Fedora, so not able to confirm nor deny anything. Sorry for not being able to help further. =/

Dunno what sort of setup you have, but what I would do, considering my setup and by being a tad on the neurotic side, is to unscrew and detatch any drives but the one to be flashed. This, I think, is the only way to be absolutely sure nothing goes in the wrong place.

If you mean different physical drives, I would suggest detatching the drive with the already installed system when installing the second one.

Also, Linux installers may behave differently from one another, so I would suggest testing on another machine if possible, or at least backing up what you cannot afford to lose in the current machine, shrinking the Windows partition with its native partition manager instead, and picking a system whose installer can spot the correct partitions, maybe e.g. Mint with its option to be installed alongside an already installed system, or Endeavour which, from what I remember, can detect empty partitions.

Also if during install, grub is not set up to have both Linux and Windows as start options, there is a grub manager on Linux too, so that can be salvaged.

And lastly, a word of warning, and reiterating a past point, testing something as big as a dual boot in a computer with sensitive and already existing data is playing with fire.

Tried flashing an USB stick and putting the system ISOs in the stick afterwards?

On not finding anything, see if OpenSuse has anything like apt-cache. On Debian-based systems, it helps a bunch, as it looks for packages (programs) containing in the name or description the keyword you are looking for. Regarding messing the installation, making back ups periodically and keeping the more volatile stuff you do not want to lose on different physical drives could help.

There’s what sounds like a xylophone at the beginning of Sabaton’s Inmate 4859, but only with a good sound out I could hear a reverberation to it that sounded like it was being played within an empty room made of concrete/stone. Considering the theme of the music, it makes the song sound even eerier.

On Mbin instances, it joins 1:1 posts together. Maybe something to ask for the Lemmy engine devs to add?

If you’re sticking to Firefox-based browsers, Waterfox seems to be the fork closest to Firefox without being controlled by Mozilla.

If anything can be salvaged, I’d suggest backing those up, and then proceeding to make a fully fresh install. That will ensure you don’t come across issues inherited from the previous blunders, and also, I think, will give you the chance to take the same steps, but wiser than before, and so able to avoid the issues you either caused or came across. (Also something I’d recommend maybe around every 1~2 years, precisely because of being able to restart but wiser)

You’ll lose all your local data as the bootloader gets unlocked, so back them up.

Tutorials on modding phones, from my experience, are fairly obtuse despite the process itself usually being rather simple and straight forward.

If you want to go as privacy-oriented as possible, you’ll likely pick a vanilla system (that is, as close to AOSP, “Android Open Source Project”), and will often be on the lookout for software that is either DRM-free (no dependency on 3rd party software), or open source / FOSS (“Free and Open Source Software”). Also VPNs to mask your online usage may come with their own set of cobsiderations, like some sites breaking, some others considering it ban-worth, and others setting prices, languages, etc., to a given region.

I’m more biased against Google than against Microsoft, and as mentioned in another comment, the search engines are proxies of the respective companies, so it’s hard to give an objective opinion.

Now, what I would suggest, trying to be as neutral as possible, is to test both and see which fit your needs more. After that, use mainly the better one and keep the other as a fallback option.