Greetings fellow Mint enthusiast! Is that Cinnamon? (this is my first post on Lemmy. Hi everyone!)

Cinnamon gang!

I still have my old SNES, but it doesn’t work and I can’t figure out why. The boards look pristine. I’m hoping to fix it some day; I’ve had it since i was 4 (that might be why it doesn’t work).

It is my (fresh, hasty and possibly incorrect) understanding that the Lemmy devs themselves could also use some donations. I don’t have a lot to give but I would like to support both this instance and the development of the platform as a whole.

Yes, and yes. I have a little money and I’m a little corrupt.

Aye–in at least some cases. (I am responding to the matter “Only those with an account on this instance should vote on the Agora.” I am seeing a bug where if I scroll down then back up, I see the title and body of a different post, so if this goes to the wrong place, mods please move it to the correct place)

I can foresee some issues that might be open to vote by everyone on Lemmy, and those that should be open only to members of this instance. A vote to allow or ban certain types of content (say, porn or gore) should be restricted to the membership of the instance, with owner/admin having authority for absolute bans on grounds of “hosting that content is illegal where this instance is hosted” or similar grounds. Perhaps a vote to remove a moderator might be open to all users on the grounds that members of other instances may be active contributors and have a genuine stake.

So I vote Aye to restrict instance policy votes to members of this instance at least some of the time. I would also vote that anyone from anywhere can share discussion and opinion on any topic even if they may not cast a vote.

Python is an EXTREMELY useful and common language, and it’s capable of all manner of things. For example, FreeCAD’s GUI is written in Python. The rendering engine, OpenCASCADE, I think is written in C. Especially in the Linux ecosystem, you often see a Python console as a user-facing scripting system. You can write macros in LibreOffice in Python, for instance. I use a package called Autokey on my computer that lets me automate basically any task on my Linux desktop, similar to how AutoHotKey works in Windows, but Autokey uses Python. I have also used MicroPython a lot on ESP32, ARM M0 and RP2040 based devboards, which can run the MicroPython interpreter. I find it easier to deal with than C++.

Likewise.

I’m not really interested in preserving the more pedantic and pointless norms from Reddit. I’m kinda looking forward to seeing what culture emerges here. I don’t tend to use Emoji much because they don’t occur to me. The text messaging services I grew up with didn’t support them for the longest time, so we had emoticons, or would just use role play tags like * shrugs*. The only real trend that actually bothers me with Emoji is when people type out words, then use the corresponding emoji after it. “Hey guys 👬 I just got back from the store 🏪 and took a picture 📷 of my cat 🐈.” Thanks Tiffany, but I knew what most of those words meant.

It seldom occurs to me to use them if they’re not provided by the UI of the platform.