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My understanding is that Roblox requires changes to the kernel to lock it down in order to prevent script kiddies from cheating. Linux makes that very difficult to impossible, so they abandoned/never supported the platform.

Can you play Roblox? I thought they blocked it on Linux.

My daily driver is a 10yo Dell business laptop. Before that I ran a similarly aged Lenovo. I run mint.

In my experience, the amount of ram and an SSD are the biggest contributors to how good the performance feels. Running mint on 4G is possible, but performance is comprised. 8G is perfectly fine most of the time. 16G (my current setup) is peachy keen. I’m astounded what I can do in blender on a 10yo machine.

That said, if you can afford one (and they operate in your country - they don’t here), then grab a framework, like others have said. If that’s not an option, then add some ram and an SSD.

My 2c.

You can read most of The Guardian without JavaScript.

Try one of the existing instances. Pixelfed.social is probably a bad choice right now, as it’s getting overloaded with new members and so importing from Instagram has been curtailed. The others at https://pixelfed.org/servers should be fine. If you later choose to host your own instance you can always move the data from your old one.

How old are you? Once you reach middle-age shit starts breaking, even if you’re fit which most of us aren’t. You’ll notice a good bed at forty much more than you will at twenty. By sixty you’ll be demanding one.

I don’t believe you are. I’m not certain it’s been implemented… yet.

The entire Fediverse is a work in progress. It’s just better than the alternatives.

As an alternative for both, try searXNG.

https://searx.space/ for instances.

https://github.com/searxng/searxng for the code, you can run your own instance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearXNG for the wikipedia article.

Personally, I find it returns much better results than anything currently available elsewhere. It reminds me of a time when search actually worked. Also, no ads and no tracking.

BTW, different instances can supply poorer results than others, so shop around to find the best one for you.

IIRC, they originally became popular because they saved characters for microblogs like Twitter. They’ve outlasted their usefulness though.

Yeah, nah. While copyrights are a problem as they’re currently employed, removing them would screw every content creator on the planet. Most of us don’t make much as it is, with only a few making a living from our work. Removing copyright would allow anyone to take what we produce without any compensation.

The corporations would love that.

Also way harder to propagate mis/disinformation to push an agenda. I personally see that as a benefit and not something I want to see changed.

Because Mastodon proved to be too hard for them to figure out. They couldn’t work out which instance to use. Then they couldn’t work out who to follow. Some people need to be spoon fed.

Yes, there’s a decent (albeit bare bones) Android client. The web interface is about to have a major update, but at the moment is pants.

I’m bridging my main Mastodon account with bluesky, but I’m fully expecting this service to disappear soon enough. I remember when Twitter, Facebook, and a bunch of other sites allowed crossposting until someone realised they were driving traffic away from their own site and shut it down. I think it was Facebook. I can’t remember. Same is likely to happen here, or they’ll charge an exorbitant fee for API access like Reddit. For now though, it kinda works.

I think your number is probably too low. As a test, use noscript to block all the google assets and see how many sites you can still use. Not many.

Commodore going bankrupt.

Old ones.

It’s not an option. It doesn’t work on all our phones.

I use it for our family chat. It’s okay. The biggest issue is sometimes messages are delayed (up to half-an-hour at times). Other than that, it’s fine. It meets our needs.

Chargeback time.