• Is it like anything else I might be familiar with to help me understand better? (Note: almost 70 so may need old references.)

Reddit was mentioned, but that explains the format of this site, that people post stuff and people can upvote stuff they like to make it more visible to others.

But I haven’t (so far) seen anyone mention something similar to answer the question as to why there are so many different sites here. People from lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, lemmy.nz, and others are all participating here, all on their own sites but all somehow connected.

The old (and still well used) equivalent here is email. Email is a federated service, it’s not hosted by one company, anyone can operate an email server and in fact it’s very common. Emails look perhaps like dave@gmail.com or dave@company.com or dave@something.com. the part after the @ tells your email provider how to reach the server of the person you are emailing. You’ll notice user names can look similar to an email address, but have an @ at the beginning to identify them as separate from email addresses.

But yes, as others have mentioned, lemmy.world is the largest lemmy website, run by some people called the Fedihosting Foundation. Anyone can sign up there, and anyone can create a community there. It seems very unlikely there is an official relationship between Lemmy.world and Perchance.

Woah woah woah, 5 years? I can’t pretend to be a good worker for that long

Oh sorry, was talking about guzzler. Pretty sure that pen and paper will refer to a Dungeons and Dragons style tabletop RPG.

He wants to be the guy getting paid to put stuff in the microwave.

You could use lemmy.world. They allow creating communities and if you follow the instructions your account will be auto-approved instantly.

Another is https://sh.itjust.works/ which is another general audience instance that allows creating communities.

For reference you can get the default lemmy experience at https://l.lemdro.id/

However, Lemmy allows admins to disable the ability to create communities. It looks like they have used this option.

You could always create a community somewhere that does allow it by signing up for a new account there, then appoint your original account as moderator. You should be able to continue from there as if it was on your own instance.

And just for the record, you don’t have to memorise this. The lemmy website has a spoiler button, and most apps will have it too. Voyager has it in the … menu when replying.

Looked it up, it’s that hat she’s wearing with the drinks in it.

Brand recognition is important. I have heard for many ads they don’t care if you pay attention so long as you hear/see it briefly, because you will be more likely to pick their product later when it’s the name you recognise even (especially) if you don’t remember why you know it.

Oh boy.

So myself (and others) use Nextcloud to back photos up to my self-hosted Nextcloud instance.

This creates it’s own incremental backups on a backup drive on the same server as the actual installation. I also sync the files to another drive just using the Nextcloud sync client, and these can then be read cleanly by Immich, Photoprism, whatever else I’m running that day.

I sync the photos into a paid Ente plan that I got cheap paying for 2 years to get a 5 year plan in what they said was their last ever black friday sale. End to end encrypted but hosted by them.

I then have a borg backup of all files across all the Nextcloud accounts as well as all my other self hosted stuff. This is stored on a backup disk but is also synced to Backblaze B2 storage for offsite.

I then also burned all files to Mdisc 100GB disks including a duplicate copy stored offsite.

The photos and videos I have collected over my life are very important to me, as you might be able to tell.

Well according to the OP, it’s a list they offer for free and it’s integrated with many browsers including Firefox…

Where I work they use the microsoft phishing simulation, for which they publish a list of domains they send from.

I don’t think it’s anything you can’t change. By default, Ubuntu has some side bar dock thing. Vanilla Gnome has nothing except the minimal top bar. You open the application overview (press super) to access everything, the dock, all your windows, other desktops, search, etc. I have this as a hot (move mouse to top left) but use super a lot as well.

Other than that, it’s just fonts and icons and things. Some difference in default applications. But that side bar dock thing is the most obvious difference. Apparently Ubuntu has a bunch of Gnome extensions installed by default too.

Edit: There’s a comparison here: https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/gnome-on-ubuntu.html.en

Ah I’m not that big of a fan of Ubuntu’s gnome, I prefer the vanilla one, though based on your preferences I don’t think it would change your preferences.

Just to clarify, are you using the Ubuntu Gnome desktop or the normal, vanilla Gnome?

I don’t like how GNOME has a permanent top bar

I don’t like how KDE (by default) has a permanent bottom bar twice as tall 😅

KDE Plasma has this emoji selector that’s kinda like Windows, you hit Super+. (Windows key and period) to open it, you can search for emojis and it copies them to your clipboard. Not as convenient as Windows, but I don’t think GNOME has anything similar to this so it’s a winner.

Gnomes search includes emojis, so just hit super and type ‘cat’ then it’s there in the search results 🐈

In KDE you can hit Super+v (Windows key and v) and it’ll open your clipboard history like in Windows. I don’t think GNOME has something like this.

Gnome has extensions, I highly recommend having a look through the options!

If I’m on my local network hosting my locally hosted services, I do.

Yes, just a bit of a stretch to make a dumb joke about valve and their aversion to 3.

It’s a nice theory but it’s valve, and Steam Deck 2 is technically the third version…

That’s not an unusual emergency plan, just unfortunate the only available emergency landing area was full of rush hour traffic.

In my experience, runways often end at the sea. Better that than having planes crash into houses or offices.