*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@dada @Asishdavid

I wouldn't say we are promoting Twitter accounts, as much as doing ocassional crossposts (from there to here, and from here to there if desired).

There IS content that is on twitter only atm, and is valuable. I would like to see a bot to bring me:

- Scientific American
- The Economist
- BBC News
- The Atlantic

...for example. Some of the above I have searched and not found a bot for. There is one for Economist, but I think it only posts a small fraction of their active TW stream.

I have seen a respected programmer and sys admin (Nolan, creator of Pinafor, and admin at Toot.cafe) mentioning how tired he was of seeing the "RT from..." tags in posts.

There IS a lot of junk there, which is completely fine staying there.

Won't deny there is some content we could enjoy here too. 😉

@freemo
I remember seeing a post you made, describing the two laptops you use mostly. A MBP and a Thinkpad, both running Linux, isn't it?

Do you still have the Mac OS as a dual boot? I like that it is a Unix variant, but Apple's eye candy doesn't appeal to me much.

Have used many variations of OS over the years, personally I like the Server versions of Windows, used solely as Workstations. Many of the server services disabled as not needed, I like Server 2003 particularly well.

Sad that they dropped support for it, as it was stable and efficient.

I do have an HP Workstation vintage system, dual Xeon processors, circa 2005 and now running HTPC duties, with Win XP (don't laugh, please).

It works, but the o.s. is now deprecated, and opening a browser window takes an agonizing amount of time, which it didn't in the past. 32 bit OS version, as it has only 2 GB of ram, parity enabled, not so common mem to find.

It could be a nice Winter project, to get it revamped into HTPC role but with a newer and lighter o.s.

I have accumulated a variety of vintage hardware over time, either mine or donated to me or my school from the local computer recycling program.

@binsrc

16 GB of ram must be nice if your use requires it. My laptop has 8 GB, which is the largest amount here in the house. Have a desktop with the same as well.

I have just managed to get over 7 GB in use with the laptop, due to the myriad tabs open for readign and research on the fediverse.

Waterfox running with 3 GB allocated was a sight. And it works fine too.

Fondly remember a freshly installed NT 4 Workstation, sitting idle at a desktop, no added software loaded (antivirus, etc). Took and saved a snapshot for posterity, it used 18 MB of RAM at that moment.

One of my favourite op systems.

@freemo Ah, ok - thank you. I have a few tabs open on QOTO alone, saving posts that I have been reading and thinking about.

Will reduce that. TY.

Was ist Das?

Mysterious artifacts keep showing at the bottom left corner of my mastodon window into QOTO. "429 Throttled" -- woot?

Any idea what this is or could be? How to remove it? They do seem to disappear, each staying on screen for a couple of seconds, then the bottom ones drop off, disappears.

The whole stack drops, and sometimes new ones appear, at the top.

Browser is Waterfox Current, which is Firefox Aurora channel, 68.0a2 atm.

Running in Windows 10, with Strict mode for tracking.

@mngrif *Parsing original statement and still puzzled*

🤔

Not sure I understand the nature of the situation, mn. Care to clarify, we can talk?

@ishuja WE all have them, Shuja, but they come in heavier at some people than others.

Sometimes talking about it can help. Feel free to post and one of the sensitive and empathetic people around will respond.

Cheers, friend. We are all on this together.

@freemo Haven't seen it, but all the latest productions have felt like they are milking the franchise way too heavily.

I stand aside and take my attention elsewhere.

@freemo @binsrc Very nice screenshot. I saw some posts this weekend by a userr in another forum, different versions of Linux.

One was ElementalOS, which I hadn't heard about.

I had a smile on seeing the systems specs and stats on the bottom corner. No wonder you like it, lol. 😜

My main system, where all my talking and imagery comes from, is a HP Elitebook 8560p, with an i7 processor like yours.

The smoothness of a quad core, 8 threads processor is wonderful. The machine takes my abusive 'one more tab' without complaints.

Running Windows 10, which I enjoy, have used it since before release, was part of Windows Insiders program.

I have vaious other machines around and should put a serious effort into using Linux in one of them. But being satisfied and productive in one platform reduces the urge to jump into new waters, at least for me, who would feel like a fish off the water.

Nice screenshot and glad you are happy on a desktop. I have one here closeby with a dual monitor setup, mostly off, would make a power user masto station. 😉

@freemo That is very nice, I like t ooffer a sympathetic ear as well. I know it's hard, have been thru it before.

Quite difficult for people to get treatment in many places, long delays before you can see a doctor.

Listening does help. Well done, friend.

@kosame I can relate to that. Get some nice email and want to Boost it. 😛

It is Nice to have a Forum as part of our QOTO instance group of services. Each service has its own focus, and Discourse is a nice way to keep conversations visible for longer times.

* QOTO's Discourse Forum is at https://discourse.qoto.org/

Our posts in Mastodon are still here, but buried under many more we add to our profiles daily, while here a discussion has a more visible "Home".

* We can refer to threads we post here, helping new users, and ourselves at the same time. No more "I did write something about that...", or similar. :wink:

* We have emojis, text formatting with Bold and Italic, Images, attachments and more.

* To get started or to refresh your skills, learn some new ones and make your posts prettier - How about Reading the Friendly Manual?

* RTFM has always been a recommendation in tech and science circles. :wink:

The developers team at Discourse created a New User Guide.

It's located at : https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-new-user-guide/96331

@mngrif Fantastic detail, great colouring. Wow. 👍

@freemo

@realcaseyrollins Not sure, do you post NSFW stuff at other places?

Here we are all good boys and gals. ☮️ 😺

@capsulax Hello capsulax, and welcome to Qoto.

Enjoy the network and all it has to offer. If you are new to using Mastodon, there's a good guide here: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

Any question, just ask, and someone will try and help out.

Have a good day!

@realcaseyrollins You are welcome.

Tomorrow is another day, maybe a better one. Sleep well tonight! 😉

@manav Hello Manav, and welcome to Qoto.

Enjoy the network and all it has to offer. If you are new to using Mastodon, there's a good guide here: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

Any question, just ask, and someone will try and help out.

Have a good day!

@jahnke

@jahnke Nice posts, Max, our administrator here, Dr Freeman, will enjoy seeing them and chatting with you. He loves Math as well.

It's early hours of the morning where he lives (Europe), but he will be around in a few hours.

The hashtags you used can be ways to locate people with similar interests too.

Sometimes things are surprisingly quiet here, and I go out and looking for conversation in other instances, or stay right here but monitor and participate in the Home and Federated feeds.

The Home feed is populated with posts from people you do follow, so it's empty at first, but soon starts getting busy if you find interesting people to follow.

Their posts, and the ones from others but that they boost (same as a retweet) all show up in Home feed.

Federated feed is all the posts from all the people anyone here at Qoto follows - so there are many, many posts and it scrolls very quickly.

Suggestion for finding interesting people to follow? Monitor the Local feed, our own users post there, interact with any you find a bit interesting.

Also, look for the hash tags of people suggesting people to follow -- #FF and #FollowFriday are always popular, and you will see posts from all kids of places show up.

Stick around and soon you will be amazed how much happens, how many interesting things we can learn and go on to investigate more.

@manav Hello Manav! 😄