They’re all being nationalised one by one after failure across the board of privitisation; not sure why Avanti needs its own article, this doesn’t feel like news to me (though I suppose “government actually does what it said it’s going to do” might pass for news).

Sort of in keeping with the people saying “the first one I installed”, for me that was some 20 years ago with early Fedora and Ubuntu, I forget which order I tried them but it took multiple attempts over different hardware, any Linux was definitely more “difficult” back then, worse when combined with being a noob. I think some people don’t know how easy they have it.

As for modern distros, it depends what you’re trying to do; for example you might say something like Gentoo, but Gentoo has good documentation and is arguably “easy” for what it’s specifically trying to be.

I’ve tried all the “main” ones over the years and the only one that’s consistently defeated me is Slackware - somehow I could never work that one out.

Anything you like about it in particular?

Which 4 countries?

It’s not called “sideloading”, by the way, it’s called installing software on your own computer.

It’s not a souvenir if you haven’t been there, it comes from the French for “memory”, by definition you can’t stay at home and buy a souvenir.

The solstices and equinoxes seem like a good natural choice. Various cultures past and present have celebrated them but since they’re natural events experienced by everyone they can be culturally neutral. They happen even independently of whatever calendar system you use and are important milestones of the year.

But you don’t have to delete the old account, it’s still there. It’s just like having a new email address, only easier in many ways.

I think it’s best not to get too attached to your profile, I’ve moved several times and if anything it’s nice to throw off the weight occasionally. It’s not like there’s any karma to lose, it’s not like your past posts and comments go anywhere. You can export/import all your settings, including subscriptions, blocks etc. I can’t think of anything else you’d need.

I’m rarely in the position where I put my shoes on at the same time as my socks. Socks go on when I get dressed, shoes go on when I go out, unless maybe I’m camping in a small tent getting dressed rarely coincides with when I go out. I assume this is the case for most people.

This chart is for desktops, I imagine most bots aren’t running on desktops, right? So if it’s counting bots the methodology is wrong.

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Oh right that makes more sense, here’s me looking it up on Wikipedia and thinking it has to do with American cowboy films or something.

Genuine question: what’s “American shot” and how are we paying for it?

Thanks but I wasn’t really looking for advice, it was directed more at lemmy.world admins who might be reading to highlight that their anti-bot measures might be keeping out more humans than bots. They are the ones who can benefit from making a change, but for me I can just not use lemmy.world and have my browser set up how I like it.

Whether what you like is top 20 pop music or obscure weird stuff, if you like it surely you’d want to preserve it?

Yeah that’s almost as bad but represents a relatively small period in the history of physical media, that’s why I point to streaming mainly. Though at least you could look after your physical media without having it turned off when some streaming service decides to. I grew up in the era of cassette tapes and wouldn’t have dreamed of buying music without making a cassette backup and that wasn’t even abnormal.

I still can’t imagine listening to my favourite song knowing that some company can take that away from me on their whim. I couldn’t even enjoy that song under those terms. Maybe some people just don’t value music the way I do.

Over the course of my life, DRM-restricted streaming services. I once thought people would be naturally against that. You’re going to want to have your own copy of media you love to keep forever, right? Apparently I was wrong.

Ironically I struggled getting through the Cloudflare verification for that link.

Narcissism maybe? It’s infuriating and really dissuades me from contributing in-depth answers here, which is such a shame. If I’m responding to someone I’m not just responding to help the person, I want to help anyone who might be searching for an answer in the future. It seems like a real design flaw that the OP can unilaterally decide to (effectively) remove an entire topic on their whim when others have contributed more to it than they did.