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Cake day: January 25th, 2024

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  • It’s a very mixed bag. In 2026 I’d prefer everyone decided on a single uncensored Mastodon server and just yolo’d over there but somehow the masses are moved once again towards a centralized solution. And a rather rudimentary one too.

    But at least they decided on something besides Twitter or Bluesky. Now it all depends on whether the new influx of users can organically keep going and growing, or whether there is not enough content and everyone will slowly move back to Twitter.

    There is backing from TechForPalestine and other pro-Palestine collectives so I don’t suspect that it’s a Zionist op. Just some unfortunate tech choices. But in the end it’s the users that make a platform not the tech. And one thing I do like is that there is a big download button next to media
























  • “pro” tip: Whenever Ubuntu gives you a black screen it’s likely the GPU driver or desktop-environment which were borked.

    A way to reach a terminal, is to switch to another session using ctrl+alt+F2.

    From there you can run terminal commands to downgrade the GPU driver or reinstall the desktop environment.

    It’s tragic that this is still such a common issue.