I’ve only felt the need to change distros once, from Linux Mint to EndeavourOS, because I wanted Wayland support. I realize there were ways to get Wayland working on Mint in the past, but I’ve already made the switch and have already gotten used to my current setup. I personally don’t feel like I’m missing out by sticking to one distro, tbh. If you’re enjoying Mint, I’d suggest to stick with it, unless another distro fulfills a specific need you can’t get on Mint.

https://github.com/refact0r/sidefox ?

I haven’t, but I’ll keep this in mind for the future – thanks.

I believe I was when I tried it before, but it’s possible I may have misconfigured things

I’ll give it a shot later today, thanks

edit: Tried out mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1.Q4_K_M.ggufvia the LM Studio app. it runs smoother than I expected – I get about 7-8 tokens/sec. I’ll definitely be playing around with this some more later.

That’s good to know. I do have 8GB VRAM, so maybe I’ll look into it eventually.

I’m looking forward to the day where these tools will be more accessible, too. I’ve tried playing with some of these models in the past, but my setup can’t handle them yet.

Good question. In the past, there have been some federation issues. However, things have seemed fine for awhile now. I will admit that it’s entirely possible that there are issues that I may not be aware of. I don’t do any extensive testing as I’m just a regular user, and /kbin is a younger platform which tries to do something different from lemmy and mastodon. If the Collections feature interests you, I might suggest just making a kbin account to give it a test run. You can essentially have the same feed you do now thanks to federation, but with the added benefit of feeds more suited to your interests. Public Collections are also very useful for discovering similar communities across the fediverse.

I’d imagine this will also be very problematic for non-celebrities from all sorts of backgrounds as well. The harassment potential is very concerning.

kbin has this – the feature is called collections. https://kbin.social/magazines/collections

you can make public ones that others can follow, or private ones to make curated feeds for yourself.

Pandora’s Box is already opened, unfortunately. The Streisand Effect is only going to make this worse.

It sounds like you’ve taken the appropriate precautions. I’m sure others will have better suggestions, but perhaps you can try running a VM for a week or so as if you’ve made the switch and take note of anything you feel you may be lacking.

Pokemon FireRed–I’m playing it in Japanese to work on my reading and speaking

EndeavourOS. I like having a relatively bloat-free setup. It’s also been nice because it’s been easy to manage so far.

If you receive these notifications on mobile, you can use kdeconnect (gsconnect on GNOME) which sends pop up notifications on your desktop from your phone, as a workaround.

join us

This is awesome, OP. I’ve crossposted this to @linguistics to give you a little more visibility. Cheers.

Well, if that extends beyond paying to be the default search engine, I’d be happy to take a look at a source if you have one. Changing search engines is also only a matter of a few clicks.

Classic…ask for more info and they disappear

I prefer supporting browser alternatives as opposed to supporting Google’s monopoly of web browsing

You should really watch this, because it’s clear you have no idea what you’re talking about.

https://youtu.be/7h7anorDy9A?t=205