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@discuss.tchncs.deHi, I've got an old netbook from Samsung that has an old Intel Atom CPU (Intel Atom N455 1.66 GHz). I installed Arch on it and am now thinking of a suitable window manager. I tried Hyprland (kinda expecting it to not work really) whick didn't start at all. Before I had Debian with Gnome, which technically worked, but everything was extremely slow.
I've used Gnome for a long time, but I know that there are a lot of other window managers out there. I would like to have one that avoids graphical gimmickry in order to be fast. (I like some nice little graphical details, but only if it's still running buttery smooth).
If you have some tips that would be very nice!
EDIT: thank you for all the recommendations I'll try out a few!
The Matrix is an often used example, but for me it's the Alien Prequels - especially Alien: Covenant really makes the Original Alien much worse. When the original was released in 1979 it had the perfect Monster. A dangerous killing machine of unknown origin. The missing background of the alien is a big part of its scary mess. It's a blank space in its mythology that the viewer can fill with many explanations. As these explanations are not precise they don't have to be logically coherent.
Covenant (and to a lesser degree Prometeus) wanted to fill this blank space and tell us the aliens origin. But once you fill out this missing piece of information it is fixed and can only be one piece. There exists now only one singular explanation. And its a boring: The Xenomorph is basically a creature with it's origins on earth (because David, who's origin is on earth created it).
I find this hugely dissapointing. The biggest dangers of deep space are all human in origin is extremely small minded.
(Star Trek: Beyond had the same boring plot - the mysterious villain turned out to be a human after all. As if only humans are capable to pose (or create) a serious thread to humans.).
What are your examples for franchise-movies that somehow made the original worse?
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275
Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain. In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food. Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..
I'm not a fan of outright blocking certain communities and would rather have a kind of "relevancy-factor" or "weight" with which i could tune the frequency of seeing posts from certain communities. A factor of 0 would be the same as blocking a community. 1 would be normal.
I am not familiar with the exact method with which posts are displayed in "Everything" or the ordering thereof. But I'm sure it's taking the up votes into account. A relevancy factor of 0.5 would treat a post with 1000 up votes as if it had 500 and there for position it lower.
This way highly up voted posts from certain communities would be able to appear.
Using filters is very useful. Though I like them I often fear that I forget about them after a while and don't know what I'm missing.
In other applications that are more structured as fixed channels like discord, or messaging apps like Signal etc I am able to mute notifications for a limited amount of time.
For people who are hesitant about filters (like me) it would be nice, if I could set a filter for e.g. "Linus Tech Tips" with a timeout of 2 weeks. I don't care about this sub/community that much, but blocking them completely because of the recent drama seems strange for me.
Another thing that I would love would be a way to still see the filtered content. The filters would then be like automatic labels/tags that would be attached to posts. The normal view would be only "unlabeled/untagged" items. But for every filter there would be a button clickable to show only the filtered items.
Lemmy (and by extension the fediverse) is theoretically more robust against powerhungry individuals because people can move to another server. But if users loose all their data (their liked / saved posts and subscribed communities) when moving to another server they are less likely to do so, which increases the power of the people who run the servers over the users of those servers.
So if there's some time in the future I'd love to have a feature that is making it simple to "move my stuff".
https://was-tun.podigee.io/37-finanzialisierung-gesundheit-polyklinik-medibuero
Privat Equity Firmen kaufen Arztpraxen auf - unsere Gesundheitsversorgung wird so zur Ware. Darunter leiden alle: Ärzte*innen, Pfleger*innen und die Patient*innen. Polikliniken sind dazu ein Gegenentwurf: Um auch soziale Determinanten von Gesundheit einzubeziehen arbeiten Ärzte*innen, Sozialarbeiter*innen und Patienten dort zusammen. Mit Richard Bůžek von der Uni Münster und Jonas Fiedler von der Poliklinik Veddel in Hamburg besprechen Valentin und Inken von "Was tun?" zuerst, was es mit Finanzialisierung auf sich hat, wir diskutieren, ob Polikliniken eine linke Strategie gegen die Finanzialisierung sein können und Fragen am Ende, ob wir auch die Gesundheitsversorgung vergesellschaften müssen.