Thanks for your reasonable reply and question! As for what I love about UI, it’s simple;

I don’t have to remember what to enter, just the pathway to get there.

With command line, you have to remember commands, arguments, syntax, and gods forbid you enter something wrong. It won’t work.

But with a (decently designed) UI, you merely have to remember the path you took to get to wherever you want to go, what buttons to press, what mouse movements to execute.

As someone with a limited attention span and energy to do things, this is a lifesaver.

As for Visual Studio, that’s a development preference. Code is too different for me to be comfortable in it, and relies on command line too much.

I’ll switch to Linux when Visual Studio Community (NOT Code) works on it and I never have to touch the command line ever again.

That sounds all kinds of highly illegal and I cannot wait for the delicious lawsuit

About fuckin time, Joe!

For anyone who is unaware, Firefox developer edition on mobile, otherwise known as Firefox nightly, never lost the ability to arbitrarily install extensions. You just need to make your own collection on the Firefox website, and link it in the settings on your phone.

With a loss of people like that, The Escapist is dead too.

The pro gamer move would be to pick up the Zero Punctuation rights at auction.

I recommend Chromium Ungoogled if you can’t let go of the Chromium ecosystem for some reason. It’s an open source fork of Chromium and puts pretty much all the power in the users’ hands, so much so that to get certain features to even work you have to configure it. It is also fully compatible with the Chrome app store, if you want it to be.

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/releases

No, they’re MetaPhrastes

I’ve been having trouble understanding how the docker-compose thing works, and the whole… impermanence of docker containers. Got any tutorials you’d recommend? Note I’m on Windows.

What really hurts so much about this is that Reddit is effectively a modern Alexandrian Library, and it’s burning. There’s so much content there that’s vitally important and it could all go up in smoke. Anybody know any full archival projects?

I’d be able to bury Bezos in nickels, on his back preferably

Ah, yep, left the debug on. An understandable oversight, if I had a nickel for how many times I’ve forgotten that…

Please note it’s not a default community VIEW I propose. Just an initial set of subscriptions. Everything else should still be visible.

Quit trying to fit Lemmy into a Reddit box

Good idea!

This is acceptable. My point is to have a streamlined new user experience. How we get there precisely isn’t quite that important to me.

Presented is not the same as actually used by users. You are not the average user, nor am I.

Unfortunately as is the reality of UX, opt in functions are rarely used.

Agreed

A toggle in the signup process, checked by default, which says “subscribe me to default communities” wouldn’t be too bad a compromise.

This suggestion is intended to streamline things for the average user. People who do not care about ideology, ethos, what’s problematic or not, and just want to sign up and see stuff and immediately get involved in basic discussion.