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Many payment providers would want websites to implement CAPTCHA for blocking spam and fraud attempts.

I’m sorry, but you’re just going to have to walk to a store and pay in cash if you don’t want to have any data tracking done at all. Online you’ll often have to pick one or the other: data tracking, or flimsy security/data protection. The phone solution is appropriate in my humble opinion, but you’re welcome to hold your own views on your principles. If you’re hard set against a company tracking ANYBODY via 3rd parties to that level, then I bet you will be very hard-pressed to ever find a computer through an online marketplace from ANY company that will fit that bill perfectly and suits your other needs.

Yeah, to sum up my experience as a Linux and Ubuntu user for 10 years in 2 short sentences:

With Windows I’m fighting against my computer and Microsoft’s bullshittery.

With Linux I’m fighting against my own incompetence.

qBitTorrent has an inbuilt search feature that is kind of hidden. It supports plugins to search your favourite sites.

Here’s a complete article on how to enable it and get the plugins.

Yt-dlp, NewPipe, Invidious…

I was trying to figure out how you got those numbers, then I went to https://the-federation.info/platform/73, sorting by number of accounts vs. active accounts. I was astonished how some sites had 30k accounts and 3 active users. Kind of sad seeing the active user ratio going from over 1 in 6 (very active) to 1 in 30 (around where it was before) in the span of 5 days.

LibreOffice Writer and Calc have generally been decently compatible through the years I’ve used it.

Maybe things have changed from 4 years ago but the PPTx format produced by Impress always ended up like a toppled Jenga tower when opened in PowerPoint.

Reddit becoming voat is not on my bingo card but stranger things have happened this year…

Glad to see there wasn’t a hostile takeover of the sub. +1 for the Lemmy link.

The one thing I’m hopeful about is as you say, these issues will sort themselves out in the long term. Lemmy.ml gets to be the popular one out of virtue of being first, but other instances have the ability to grow a lot over time as well.

Lemmy isn’t perfect, it has many issues but I think it’s got the right structure and ingredients to allow for thoughtful, active communities.

This is a teachable moment for Lemmy users, and Lemmy itself as a whole.

I’m not here to judge anyone’s opinions but to clearly state the facts. And the fact is: at least one of the admins of the largest lemmy server considers anti-CCP/Russia sentiment/argument to be harmful and worthy of a ban. That is their decision.

Thus, anyone who disagrees with that, would best move to another server if they wish to discuss those opinions. A worldnews sublemmy on another server such as lemmy.one can be the place where anti-CCP and anti-Russia attitudes are not considered harmful, possibly encouraged at lemmy.one admins and mods’ discretion.

This probably will not affect apolitical areas like lemmy.ml/c/pokemon for the most part. However as annoying as this situation is for some, this is why federation is a great thing. Otherwise all of Lemmy would be under rule of admins with these opinions.

quite aptly put! In these cases I believe it is often better to disengage with individuals who make this type of argument.

Jerboa hehe.

The one niche software I have used was Meshroom. A free alternative to software that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, to take input images, use similarities between images to place them in a 3d space, and output a 3D model.

WebODM, OpenMVG and COLMAP are also open source with similar functions, but Meshroom is an easy-to-use one-stop shop for beginners to enthusiasts.