Run Linux on your machine as a VM.

Examples?

Yeah it’s a problem.

The fix is to direct those communities to larger generic communities. For example, people looking to talk about their 2nd gen Mazda rx7 shouldnt start an rx7 community. They probably shouldn’t even start a Mazda community. They should use the existing car or automotive communities.

Reddit and other large message boards start out with a few common topics (news, tech, music, asklemmy) and a catchall for everything else. If topics in the catchall get too numerous, need to be moderated more, or shouldn’t be in the catchall for any number of reasons, they get pushed to their own community.

This sounds a little chaotic but it allows organic growth.

It requires a bit of support by the admins though, and acceptance of the chaos by everyone else.

I think tagging, and a catchall community setting that requires posts to be tagged, would help figure out which topics have become big enough for a split.

It always feels like it’s someone’s hobby and not a mature product.

Fixing nearly anything is digging through a text file that might follow a standard but never the same standard as the last text file.

Only historians can determine if we reached a tipping point.

It’s hard to explain. The keyboards they built just felt and worked better. They clicked just right, they had the shape right. Once they licensed out production like their Android branded phones it wasn’t as good.

There was a device called Typo that copied their keyboard exactly but attached to iPhone that was good but they must have really copied BB because they got sued into smithereens.

Find a local comp for renting a room. Half that.

Let her decide if she wants to contribute more.

Lots of Americans have guns. Not just conservatives.

Yes.

The Wire.

https://barkeepersfriend.com/

I’d start with a little area to see how it turns out.

You could try to polish it.

Because the phone system is old

It’s also backwards compatible to an extreme:

I remember in the early nineties I found in my grandmother’s antique store one of those old black candlestick phones that you would jiggle to ring the operator. It didn’t have a rotary dial.

I plugged it in and got dial tone. I jiggled the hook and an operator answered the phone and asked me something. I don’t remember if I hung up or talked with them.

When mobile phones came out they improved the system significantly but it was still very much old tech.

Getting the entire world to switch to something better would be quite the undertaking.

The history of city of heroes might interest you.

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but how about a flight simulator?

https://eeggs.com/items/29841.html

At best he gets 30 days warning.

No nation building?

I wish this was the in top 10 reasons to be upset with the US right now.

Yes and no.

You can can display an American flag and not be a facist. Facists can’t co-opt the US flag.

The flags that look similar to the American flag, but have a blue line or are black/grey are the ones that cringe me up. Those are actual false flags and are anti-patriotic. Right up there with the “rebel” flag.

Maybe get a tiny little flag and put it in your garden.

Great info, thanks! This is enough to get me started.

Maybe you could post the details here for people to see. Lemmy can always use the content.