Usually anything where the BIOS can find and boot Grub itself but Grub can’t finish the boot chain for whatever reason, like /boot being on a separate partition and your main partition gets corrupted or something

Hah whatever dude, you’re doing more harm than good flying off the handle like that. It just gives them something to point to when they bring up their “we’re just being bullied :'(” arguments

You can say fuck on the internet.

Yes, but you’re not being judged just because you used it but how

You absolutely should call Tankie scum at every opportunity.

No, you shouldn’t, “Tankie” by itself targets their ideology and their actions (Pushing misinfo, propaganda etc) by adding “scum” into it or other slurs you shift that target from ideologies and behavior to the actual person. Not cool. For the most part, they’re just people being used as tools by the real evil people pulling the strings.

Tankies don’t use logic, trying to reason with those intolerants is just turtles all the way down.

That’s fine, remember, your arguments are public so aren’t just about convincing a tankie, but any potential observers as well

Anybody who wants to foster healthy community on Lemmy should promote open hostility towards Tankies

No. Absolutely not. They can have their community, we should be promoting defederation, boycotting and general awareness.

You know I’m pretty anti-tankie around here, and even I’m saying, chill out open hostility does nothing but anger everyone.

YDI. The other comments probably just got swept up in it, it happens, but that first that triggered mod action is def over the line

There’s no need to get angry like that, or at least type it out, fight the tankies with logic, reasoning and evidence not a bunch of expletives and slurs

Every once in a while I think about lighting up at my job so I could be like John from Jurassic Park now that I’m in IT

Unfortunately a) id probably get fired and b) I HATE the smell of cigarettes LMAO

You’d think, but from what I understand the Invidious/YT cat and mouse game is rather intense so the larger public instances often don’t work and it’s better to use smaller private or personal instances instead

So most who care have opted to just set something up to handle YT links on the fly

Idk, I don’t keep track of it I just click the links lemming give me lmao

I do think the last one I tried was peertube.wtf a couple days ago

Videos without audio? Imgur can handle mp4s and imgur links autoplay in the Lemmy apps ive used (Boost and Voyager)

Videos with audio, well really YT is the best place, pretty much anybody who cares about YT tracking/ads/views will have processes/plugins in place to handle YT links. Like there are plugins that will automatically modify a YT link to a designated invidious instance or whatever

If you really really don’t want to upload to YT, a Peertube instance is your best bet, unfortunately just don’t expect it to be particularly…fast. Every Peertube video I’ve tried to watch buffered every 10-30 seconds, but I don’t blame them, video is very intense, expensive and difficult to handle compared to every other media type

We can actually talk about things without overwhelming censorship, strange algorithms, or ads.

think the biggest instance, lemmy.world, not being operated by the Lemmy devs is also a good health indicator

Doubly so considering how the main devs manage their instance according to their highly controversial political views LMAO

Ah I get it now, you’re most likely a .ml alt account, so goodbye!

Tankie definition: "authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

You would warn newcomers about the Tankie Triad too if you had repeatedly seen all the stories of “I tried Lemmy, but it just seemed like a bunch of tankies, turns out it was just because I was on .ml when I tried it again”

There’s tons more that never came back and go on life thinking Lemmy is Voat 2.0. I know this because there’s plenty of comments on Reddit whenever Lemmy comes up about “it’s just Tankies over there”

Yes, how dare I try to protect Lemmy’s rep, I don’t want to see this place become Voat 2.0

It’s not a straight deal breaker for me, but it’s a pretty big barrier, I just can’t leave Boost lol 😔

Sounds like it’s coming along

Heh I’m finding out so much about how inadequate the blocking system on Lemmy is the past couple days. I’m not a conspiracy theorist type of person, but it’s so bad it almost feels… intentional lol

Welcome happy you’re here! We’ve got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you’re a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz. !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you’ll have to post before you can leave.

We’re not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies (Authoritarian “communists” who will overlook any wrong doings of China, Russia, NK because they think their governments are the “gold standard”), but here they’re mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. You have a Reddit.org account so iirc you only need to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you’d rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distance check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

The W3C (The body that dictates web standards) specification, that describes what browser engines should handle, like CSS features, HTML5 etc and how is equivalent to thousands of pages long and there are huge standards to implement.

HTML5 is a big thing to implement, so is CSS and the JavaScript engine and probably even more technologies I’m forgetting

And that’s just implementation, it takes even more work to get them running well enough for the average end-user

Ladybird has been working on their from scratch engine for ~5 years iirc and they’re not planning to even have the first alpha out until next year lol

YEA!

U-S-A! U-S-A!

'MURICA

Please send help

It’s all fun and games till the hot water heater runs out lolol

It’s a monumental effort really, building a browser engine from scratch and taking it to daily driver usable is probably among the most difficult programming challenges. It’s way easier to build a new Linux kernel from scratch than a browser engine lmao

Even Microshit tried and gave up because it was so hard

It wasn’t my intent to criticize Piefed either, just trying to not over sell it to new users, I’d rather not them be thinking it’s a perfect drop-in replacement, and then have a sour taste in their mouth when they run into an issue