Same. If I have to screen share in a video call, I suddenly forget how to spell every other word and people get to watch me fix 7 typos per sentence.

Still applies.

*video game flow state*

“Oh, what game are you playing?”

*immediately dies*

Well that’s a very passive-aggressive way of saying, “No, no one has created a KDE widget out of this, yet.”

I saw the link (despite it being spoilered for some reason), but this is the kind of “omg it’s so obvious” attitude that puts newcomers off the Linux community.

It’s actually fewer steps. Society is just late-stage community.

Our brains evolved for living in groups of ~30-100 people. These communities are small enough to all know and support each other through life’s inevitable struggles. A healthy society is made up of thousands of these smaller, tight-knit communities, not just millions of individuals.

Our brains are not happy alone—not for extended periods. Reducing all our social interaction to anonymous chats (like this one) and passing hundreds of nameless faces does not fulfill your social needs and will leave you feeling lonely.

It is work, and you will encounter people that suck and/or won’t reciprocate, but if you keep at it, good people will reveal themselves. I promise it’s worth it.

Is this a KDE panel widget?

I get this sentiment, but the best way to combat this feeling is to build community.

Get to know the people around you. It starts small by just ditching the headphones in public and saying hello (and maybe some small talk) every time you encounter someone. Then start offering and accepting help, plan events, and keep track of their life milestones. People will be so pleasantly surprised when you remember things about their lives.

And you will probably be surprised at how many interesting people you pass by every day while keeping your head down. Over time, some of them will begin to reciprocate. Remember, they are probably also starved for community.

Capitalism wants us isolated, sad, and reliant on their products/services. The antidote is strong community.

There’s only one continent if you ignore water.

Or “the job market” tbh

My ISP is stuck in the Stone Age and doesn’t support IPv6, so I’ll look into that.

Yeah I’m thinking the request frequency was the issue rather than bandwidth.

Thanks! I haven’t tried that dashboard yet, I might give it a spin.

Nice stack! What’s the crab logo? I don’t recognize it.

Do you notice a massive increase in request latency (like 10x-50x) when using a CloudFlare tunnel vs connecting directly to your IP? I’ve experimented with it a few times, but it really negatively impacts QoS for me, especially with federated services (like Matrix) where there are lots of small requests.

Since your title suggests you’re asking for an explanation:

Browsing the spaces on Matrix.org is a good start. There are a ton of communities linked there. What are your interests?

This image is so compressed I can’t read all the text.

My 4-year-old loves this book. The plot is a bit dark, for such a cute book. 🤷🏼‍♀️

In fairness, they also wait politely for his villain monologue.

Ah, right, I forgot about radioactive decay. Also from said supernova.

Literally all energy on Earth came from the sun.(except possibly some geothermal, as that energy came from the momentum of our planet forming, which involved fragments from an old supernova)