Zink
This place is at a magical point in its growth where it has enough people to fully replace that other site for me (but higher quality), but it’s also still new and exciting and worth contributing to help it succeed.
This fediverse thing feels like a community, rather than <ALGORITHM CONTROLLED FIRE HOSE OF INTERNET> like you get elsewhere.
Both are fine for spending time relaxing and scrolling. Only one feels like there’s something worthwhile about it.
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I respect the project a great deal, but I just don’t see myself putting any effort into making Reddit accessible for myself.
Even if there were zero reasons to avoid Reddit on principle, Lemmy is just a better “product” for what I want out of it.
If I’m googling something at work and need to view a page there, fine. I’ll just use a cached page or visit directly with ad blocking as if it were any other webpage. That might benefit the company in some small way, but that doesn’t make it worth prepping my devices to better make use of Reddit.
Install Linux Mint in a virtualbox VM. It gets up and running so quickly, and works extremely well.
I have been focusing more on learning Linux at work, between some Fedora VMs we use for various things, and the Mint VM I spun up myself. It’s great because jumping between windows and Linux is a simple matter of moving the mouse cursor to a different monitor. I usually just leave Linux Mint running full screen on one of my monitors.
I’m not experienced with lots of distros, but Mint is damned impressive.