overview for hellofriend

I prefer individual questions. More searchable that way. Should have mandatory formatting to ensure the question is summarized in the title. Weekly discussion threads make it more difficult to find answers to your questions if someone has had the same question in the past.

You saved the children! in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Damn, we shoulda went with the mines so Arrowhead could sponsor an AT mine deployment somewhere in the world

What was your latest improvement to your Linux setup? in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Happen to know anything about how windowed games work with a tiling manager? I often stream a buddy's Elden Ring gameplay while playing myself, but having only one screen means I have to have the Discord popout in the top corner and the gameplay in windowed.

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Would it be possible to install Linux on this HP Chromebook Plus? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is the laptop in question. It has an x86 processor so basically any distro should work on it. However, it is still a Chromebook which likely means Google fuckery in the BIOS. But it's great value for the money (can get it $300 off at Costco) and if I can plop Linux on to it then I'd love it.

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What would happen to your body if you only ate 750g of 2% cottage cheese every day for a month? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Picture for nutritional info.

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Why is lemmy so popular in the Netherlands? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Been poking around All recently and I've noticed that there is more lemmy activity in Dutch than any other non-English language. German following that, and then Portuguese (I think, maybe Spanish). I see more Nederlander posts than even the UK instances. So what's up with this? Cheers from Canada 😙

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Could a lottery/lotteries be used to fund a newspaper in Canada? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reading up on One Big Union. The Wikipedia article mentions that at the end of its days it was generating income via a lottery in its bulletin. This gave me an idea.

In the interest of diversifying news media, strengthening journalistic practices and integrity, creating non-partisan news coverage, and giving Canadian works a national outlet for publishing, I would like to start an online newspaper. However, I would like to limit ads since I find them distasteful at best and compromising at worst. This leaves subscription income and one-off purchases as the main revenue sources.

The issue with this is that people don't purchase news media anymore. They either look at an ad-supported website or they wait for someone else to buy a paywalled article and copypaste it somewhere. So the issue with a non-ad-supported model is that there's no incentive to buy. Hence, a lottery a la a 50/50 draw or some such. This would give people incentive to buy, increasing the circulation of the newspaper. So I'm hoping someone might be able to provide some insight into the matter.