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  • Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?

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  • System themes, probably most of them work. But most of them don't bother watching the user themes or icons folder.

    I don't think Flatseal is that useful for the majority of users, no. But it is a good tool to have in mind when the need arises.

  • Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?

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  • It is mostly trial and error. I use it mostly to set envvars.

    As an example, I add the ~/.themes folder and the GTK_THEME to allow some apps to get the themes I downloaded.

  • Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?

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  • About the image: The joke's on you, I install my flatpaks via the terminal.

    I've started using flatpaks more after starting using Bazzite and I liked them more than I expected. As a dev, I still need my work tools to be native, but most of my other needs are well covered by flatpaks.

    Tip: Flatseal is a great config manager for flatpaks' permissions.

  • Are animals right or left 'handed'?

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  • I remember seeing somewhere that you can know the handedness of an elephant by looking at its tusks. The smaller tusk is the one that is used the most.

  • Conventions contain lots of Blahajs and UwU's

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  • I love the fact that "Ninja Cat" was used as a mascot for Windows 10 Insiders back in the day. Makes the meme even better to me.

  • How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs?

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  • The same way they'll react if someone is right about the Earth being flat.

  • As a new, one year, software developer who retrained late. How do you know when you're ready to apply for a new role with more money?

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  • I also started on a very small company. Worked there as Junior developer for about 3 years. I was on the same spot as you are right now. One day, I received a call from a friend who started working on a bigger company in a different state (I live in Brazil), saying they were hiring. I figured I could at least try their technical tests to see where should I improve.

    So I applied for the junior position. They thought my test solution was good, so I got to the interview phase. To my surprise, the interview was not for the junior position, but for the medior one (don't know the correct term, but higher than junior but lower than senior), and receive the job proposal on the next week.

    I agree with @[email protected]'s comment: "you need exposure to other environments, other ideas, other technologies and frameworks in order to grow". And it goes both ways. Without testing yourself, you'll never know how much you did grow and where you are.

    So, my advice to you is: do not wait until you feel "ready" to do the move. It may "click" too late. If you want to move on, just do it. At least you will test yourself, and know how to correct your course, if you need to aim higher ou lower than originally intended.

  • cause no one asks you for tech support if you still running windows XP

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  • Do you usually purchase digital or physical books? Why?

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  • Yes. I like to read.

  • Why is Lemmy, with a tiny fraction of Mastodon's MAU, more fun than Mastodon?

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  • There's a problem with that on smaller instances.

    You can only see hashtags from people your instance already knows (someone follows them). On bigger, well-connected, instances this is not as problematic.

    But, no matter the size of the instance, it just shows how even the "hashtag experience" depends on the "following experience".

  • Why is Lemmy, with a tiny fraction of Mastodon's MAU, more fun than Mastodon?

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  • I believe it's how the data is structured.

    Lemmy is focused on themes and topics, with the "user" not being the focus (you can't even follow a user on Lemmy).

    That's reversed on Mastodon, with focus on the users you follow, and the topics (hashtags, groups, etc) being optional.

    For some people, Lemmy is better, for others, Mastodon or other microblog platform. The fact that both can exist in the same network is magical to me.

  • Is it OK for a company to expect using their paid product for a job interview?

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  • I do see some cases where "experience using our product is a plus", but the way it was told you as a "negative feedback" I feel is wrong.

    They probably don't want to spend time training a new employee on their product, which to me is a huge red flag. You dodged a bullet there.

    My country (Brazil) doesn't have any regulations about it. Don't know about the EU.

  • What and who to follow on Mastodon?

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  • Yeah, I don't like mastodon art moderation either, and I wouldn't recommend signing up there. But that doesn't change the fact that there are a lot of artists there willing to spread their work.

    I was a mod when they picked a fight with a "sister" instance from mine. I saw the MO of the adm. But also found that most of the users there were not even aware of what was happening.

    Anyway, OP. Follow whoever you want, just be aware that if you cannot follow someone from mastodon art is because they chose to block your server. Is not personal.

  • What and who to follow on Mastodon?

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  • If you like games, try looking at the users of GameDev Place

    If you like visual art, Mastodon.Art can be a good place to start.

    If you are from Europe, there are a few official accounts at https://social.network.europa.eu/directory

    If you like memes, I strongly recommend @[email protected] and @[email protected]

    If you need to get news, Flipboard is in the process of federating its content, you can see a few users that are already able to be followed in this post: https://flipboard.social/@Flipboard/111926711889817950

    Hope this helps.

  • What is your favorite alcoholic cocktail?

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  • How does pixelfed compare to instagram atm ?

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  • It is for everyone. I'm not a photography nerd and have an account that I post sporadically.

    If you want to browse any instance, you can go to that instance home page and click "explore". Example: https://pixelfed.social/web/explore

    Hope you accomplish your mission to bring your friends to FediVerse. It is a little sad that the communication with Lemmy is not good at the moment.

  • What happens when two people with hyphenated last names get married? Do they hyphenate all four names and in what order?

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  • I'm Brazilian and here in Brazil there's no well defined culture on what to do with family names. Legally, you can come out with a complete new family name at the moment of marriage, with the only rule that both people should have it.

    In my case, my parents already had some long names. Dad 1 2 3 and Mom 4 5. Both me, my sister and my mom end up with 4 5 2 3, I believe because pressure from my grandparents.

    By the way, having four family names, like I do, is not very common in Brazil. It is more common to have two, both the last names from the parents, e.g. Dad 1 2 and Mom 3 4 would result in Baby 4 2, with one of the parents optionally taking those names too (traditionally the woman).

  • blind folks of the fediverse, how is it going?

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  • Not blind, but I have two followers on Mastodon who are, and I asked about their experience.

    They said the "Mastodon etiquete" of describing images makes it better to use than any of the "mainstream" social media they use.

    Since I found they are following me I doubled down on describing images. It is specially pleasant trying to describe a meme the funniest way possible.

  • Chat Apps

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  • Wait, do you guys have friends?

  • Multilingual folks: what are some odd idioms in your language(s)?

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  • Brazilian Portuguese does have lots of anus related sayings.