I understand the frustration, but I do believe this is a strength of Lemmy. Small; individual communities is what gives incentive to stay independent, and if you just want the broader content, that’s exactly where and why large instances like Lemmy World is also beneficial.

I think part of the issue stems from Lemmy not having a good way of tracking a topic / community defined on multiple instances, so you have to track a community on each instance. People want the most active one, so they track the one on LW since it has the most members. And since they track mostly communities on LW it also makes sense to just use LW as the primary.

If Lemmy could have some inbuilt support for tags or subscribing to a topic / multi-instance community, I think people could feel less inclined of defaulting to the largest instance.

I wouldn’t use Beehaw as the standard, they are way too strict on their moderation in many’s opinion.

Similar. I was not pranked or anything. I simply ran it in the wrong folder. Alas, it was a gentoo install so took 3-4 days to recompile.

That was so boring. I bought it on iTunes. Watched maybe an hour. Have had it available offline for several long haul flights and trips. Still can’t be bothered to finish it.

I spent the rest of the day getting a new apartment, moved out, and used the night to move into my own, free space void of her. Not sure I slept, watched my favorite movies she didn’t like etc.

I only learned that she had already been seeing someone else the day after. That flipped a switch in me and all the pain went away. I knew she was the wrong choice and glad I was out of it and free.

Somehow, that she cheated made it much, much easier than that she just didn’t love me anymore. It turned into a f*ck you good riddance moment.

Her new bf even helped me moved some larger stuff a week later, I didn’t care at all, I was so done with her. Never looked back.

Just the ability to replace items URLs in the result is such a great feature. I get rid of all Google / bing AMP stuff, reroute all Reddit answers to old.Reddit etc.

I guess I could have kept those 55 bitcoins and just sat on them instead of investing them into some scam and losing them, that would have been a bit more funny?

Or it’s “funny” how rich I’d be if I sold them on $60k evaluation? Haha…

I’ve used them for extension, as it allows you to attach a second, regular USB cable to it.

Well first year I’d finally get a RTX 4090, new car, temporary new home and quite a lot to family and friends. Year 2-4 would be saving up / buying connecting property towards my dream home, and then year 5-10 would be saving up towards a sailing yacht. After that probably some of the fancy coffee equipment that James Hoffman uses.

I’m a little curious what you replaced Photoshop with :)

There are some. I’ve used this one and some other I couldn’t find right now

https://github.com/StefanLobbenmeier/youtube-dl-gui

I’ve always found this classic the best measurement:

I agree, I thought I had it from that linked report, but there seems to be the three year average. With those numbers, Denmark moves to nr one, one point ahead of Norway which is then tied with Iceland, and Sweden moves up one point ahead of Finland.

As this is such a simple way to do it though, these minor points between the top countries does not mean anything. All these countries are safe choices.

Here are some reports on various metrics:

Sources:

1. World Happiness Report 2023
2. Human Development Index (HDI) 2023
3. Democracy Index 2023
4. Global Peace Index 2023
5. World Press Freedom Index 2023

Top 10 Countries per Report:

World Happiness Report 2023:

1. Finland
2. Denmark
3. Switzerland
4. Iceland
5. Netherlands
6. Norway
7. Sweden
8. Luxembourg
9. New Zealand
10. Austria

Human Development Index (HDI) 2023:

1. Norway
2. Switzerland
3. Ireland
4. Germany
5. Hong Kong, China (SAR)
6. Australia
7. Iceland
8. Sweden
9. Singapore
10. Netherlands

Democracy Index 2023:

1. Norway
2. New Zealand
3. Finland
4. Sweden
5. Iceland
6. Denmark
7. Ireland
8. Taiwan
9. Australia
10. Canada

Global Peace Index 2023:

1. Iceland
2. New Zealand
3. Ireland
4. Denmark
5. Austria
6. Portugal
7. Slovenia
8. Czech Republic
9. Singapore
10. Japan

World Press Freedom Index 2023:

1. Norway
2. Ireland
3. Denmark
4. Sweden
5. Finland
6. Netherlands
7. Jamaica
8. New Zealand
9. Costa Rica
10. Switzerland

Aggregate Top 10 Based on Rank:

1. Norway

   • Happiness: 6
   • HDI: 1
   • Democracy: 1
   • Peace: 17
   • Press Freedom: 1
   • Total Score: 26

2. Denmark

   • Happiness: 2
   • HDI: 11
   • Democracy: 6
   • Peace: 4
   • Press Freedom: 3
   • Total Score: 26

3. Iceland

   • Happiness: 4
   • HDI: 7
   • Democracy: 5
   • Peace: 1
   • Press Freedom: 11
   • Total Score: 28

4. Ireland

   • Happiness: 15
   • HDI: 3
   • Democracy: 7
   • Peace: 3
   • Press Freedom: 2
   • Total Score: 30

5. New Zealand

   • Happiness: 9
   • HDI: 14
   • Democracy: 2
   • Peace: 2
   • Press Freedom: 8
   • Total Score: 35

6. Finland

   • Happiness: 1
   • HDI: 13
   • Democracy: 3
   • Peace: 14
   • Press Freedom: 5
   • Total Score: 36

7. Sweden

   • Happiness: 7
   • HDI: 8
   • Democracy: 4
   • Peace: 13
   • Press Freedom: 4
   • Total Score: 36

8. Switzerland

   • Happiness: 3
   • HDI: 2
   • Democracy: 11
   • Peace: 11
   • Press Freedom: 10
   • Total Score: 37

9. Netherlands

   • Happiness: 5
   • HDI: 10
   • Democracy: 12
   • Peace: 16
   • Press Freedom: 6
   • Total Score: 49

10. Australia

• Happiness: 12
• HDI: 6
• Democracy: 9
• Peace: 19
• Press Freedom: 26
• Total Score: 72

This is just a simple aggregation based on rank, such that the lowest score wins.

Edit: There is no difference in score between Norway and Denmark, I tried to number both as 1 but can’t figure out the correct markdown. Finland and Sweden also shares the same aggregate score. And Australia refuses to get in line.

I’m not as worried by data logged by the os as such, but don’t want it sold to third party ad networks.

I use both macOS and Windows daily for combined work/personal stuff so hard to avoid. I trust Apples use of my data a little more than I trust Microsoft.

All my devices are always behind a VPN and always behind a DNS filter that blocks most vendor tracking from Apple, Microsoft etc. You have to allow a fair bit through for some functionality to work though.