I just took a peek and you’re right. But there is an option to “pause” a group, I didn’t explore enough to see if it could be permanent. The rule that you can only delete a group when it has no members is absurd, wtf

You should be able to “archive” a group as admin, which essentially shuts it down. I haven’t tried but I’ve seen it happen in other groups. And yeah, it’s really disturbing what people will accept from FB for the sake of inertia and comfort. I’ve told a couple friends about Meta using the localhost loophole for tracking and recommended they delete the apps and just use the web version if they need to, and they all still have the apps. Who even needs privacy, right? Sigh

It seems only image containing content federates to Pixelfed, so text only posts are not visible

That’s interesting (a little chaotic with the different sized images but still). I’ve been using Interstellar for Piefed and it apparently doesn’t support that, so I had no idea

I had a bad feeling about that with Pixelfed when I saw them repeatedly ignoring questions about when to expect groups, ha! I know you can follow / reply to Lemmy groups with Mastodon, but can you post to them from there? Or from Pixelfed?

I’d rather keep it part of a bigger social network where people can interact with it as needed while doing other social stuff. Plus I know most people won’t leave FB for it, and getting new different people involved would be nice. Just a bonus if people move to the Fediverse to see it and realize there’s more to explore.

Maybe I haven’t given it a super fair chance, but I was not impressed with Friendica. I only tried it on the webapp, but the interface was just depressing and not super intuitive. I keep hearing it’s a good substitute for FB but it needs some work before I would feel comfortable recommending that to people

I don’t even game or use any Windowed only programs. I watch shows, use web apps for work, and that’s about it. If I can run Firefox and Stremio that’s about 95% of my needs met, ha!

I dug out my old MacBook to see if I can test out some distros on it. If I find one I like and use for a bit I’d be all in on trashing Windows

Interesting, what distro did you end up using?

I’ll check it out, thx!

This. I had to do my attempted Linux install while my kid was napping in like my 30 mins of free time I get a day if I’m lucky

Once you fixed that issue did Linux work well dual booting? I’m sure I can get past it but I’m mostly worried that this foreshadows ongoing problems

I had a bad feeling that dual booting wouldn’t be the seamless thing I hoped for. I have an old Mac laptop I might try installing on to see how I like it and decide if I’m just gonna wipe Windows entirely.

It’s incredible how shit Windows is and everyone just accepts it. It shows me ads on my lock screen FFS (and I know how to disable that cuz I’ve done it three times now and they keep coming back like a horror movie monster you didn’t behead).

I’d be overwhelmed and convinced someone hates me again within two months but man does that sound nice

Thing is people really don’t know what brains look like or the force that would be required to crack the skull. I don’t think a deer is capable of it.

BUT it very well could have cracked an antler and busted open a good wound and left a bloody mess that you might assume were brains.

But also this sounds like total BS.

Nope, gross. I was already considering cancelling my subscription, so this makes my decision easier.

And somehow they’re gonna go home thinking they’re heros.

I know someone who is trying to get their young kid evaluated and potentially diagnosed and now they’re having second thoughts. I don’t know how they’re putting this registry together but I wouldn’t want my kid on it

We were told it was not optional coming home from an international flight last month. However, our toddler was with us and nervous and they said we could opt out for him. I said great, thanks. Picked him up while we were talking and I wasn’t really thinking about where I was holding him. The agent looked over, smiled and said hi to get their attention, and I saw him take the image, seconds after we verbally opted out. Sigh.

Oh! I just realized we have a Yolink hub connected to Ethernet, and it’s online. So yes, Ethernet is working and WiFi came back online after a router reset. Now I just need to figure out how to make sure this doesn’t happen again…