Ads and data mining

Usually there'll be freeleech files or freeleech days etc. This alows you to download without affecting your ratio.

Download a heap of freeleech content ans seed it 24/7. I was on a porn tracker and downloaded a few 20gb site-rips on freeleech. If 5 people download the full site off me, that's 100gb of ratio.

Try download some big files that you'll be one of the few seeds of after a while. If you only download content with 2000 seeders then you'll never get a good ratio, but if you can download some full TV series on freeleech then people will occaisionally want to watch the show and you can seed it to them

Australia- Safe to drink. The water is chlorinated and fluoridated (for dental health).

I'm not 100% sure if the water is fluoridated across the whole country or just in my state

The great thing about using free open-source software is the immunity from corporate shenanigans.

You can vote and make personal lifestyle/dietary sacrifices. It's not mutually exclusive

I distro hop a lot. After using Majaro (gnome) for a long time I switched to Pop_OS for a long time. I switched back to Manjaro (Gnome) again, but after a week of use I've just downloaded Ubuntu.

I'm getting basic display issues that I've never got in another distro (including tails!) and it's generally annoying me. I'd rather use a distro that doesn't require troubleshooting on Day 1

I'm having mixed success among these https://github.com/...

Australia: Very unusual. I'll see someone doing it maybe once a month and always think "fucking weirdos". It's more common to see Aboriginal flags, but still uncommon

It's more common to see bogans using it as part or their beach or BBQ attire (eg, maybe an Australian flag stubby cooler)

NSFW Reddit is the worst these days. Nothing but onlyfans ads

It's a term that broadly refers to people with more experience in a technology and more ability to extract use from it.

RedReader isn't actually. Reddit granted them an exemption, partially because it's FOSS

I've developed a constant need for content

Are any office suites as good as MS Office for referencing and citations? One of the things that keeps my wife stuck on windows/macOS is the need for a good Office suite for university

Been trying to find an open source speaker designing program and so far they all suck

The algorithm sucks too. When I sort by "hot" I get days old threads. "Ht" needs to prioritise both popularity and recency

Thanks, that sorted it

Disappointing, but oh well? The upcoming Olympics gets a lot of slack, but I reckon it'll put us on the "big boy list" of Australian cities. Lang Park has horrible acoustics anyway

Over on Mastodon I'm at mastodon.world purely because it's the most generic sounding instance and I don't particularly want to have my whole identity to be defined by where I live or the operating system that I use or whatever

Here's how it's going to go down: people will return to whatever the best centralised services are.

People don't use social media to be awkwardly spread over different redundant servers that everyone else is on. People will return to Reddit, or a simple centralised alternative. People will flock to Bluesky.

I'm a long, long internet user and FOSS user, and I find Mastodon to be an incredible pain in the arse. It's unintuative and confusing. Without an all powerful agoriithm, "good" posts are smothered by uninteresting thought bubbles from everyone on the server

edit: and what's with the dark-themes on lemmy and mastodon? It's uninviting. "Power users" often switch on dark themes on their operating systems and websites, but bright and happy themes are needed to welcome "the masses"