I REALLY don't want to join #Bluesky and love it here on the fedi.

ecclesia.x

Subscribed to your YouTube channel.

I pretty much followed the same steps, except the erase in the partition step never worked until I switched to the manual install in the terminal, made changes to the partition, but the installation still failed, so I restarted, and this time the partition step worked.

What never worked was the unfree software. It never showed me the dialogue box, it just failed. It makes me wonder why bit happened, and if the installation can be trusted...

https://image.nostr.build/2f0398baed38b05a1c119043c09956bb22c978d6ec43dd2a8e96e9975d36d687.jpg

Mike :nixos:

@8744781f42a20add2f942a2b4feabca5b451ca22c17e20db7884f55d72f30a56 so weird! I have never had the unfree thing not show up. Honestly. Maybe download the KDE installer just to see. Now I'm curious.

Josh Austin

@codemonkeymike I enjoy all your tech posts.

Syn-ACK.sys

@codemonkeymike Who says that you can't be on both platforms? There are always going to be some people that will only exist on one or the other, so if you're really concerned about FOMO and wanting to find absolutely everyone you can, join both. And nobody says that you have to use them both equally, or one more than the other. Do what works for you, friend!

I joined Bluesky a couple of days ago. The ethos is different and the culture is different (and to be quite honest, it reminds me of all the non-technical reasons that I left Twitter for the fedi to begin with), but both platforms are valid and each one will have some things that the other lacks.

There is no "one platform to rule them all". There is no single "global town square". And in my view, there shouldn't be. Yes, it's a hassle to have to open and keep track of - gasp! - 2 whole apps, but since they are (I believe) mutually exclusive in goals and ethos, it's not really that onerous if you truly want to fight your FOMO.

Mike :nixos:

@SynAck true. I can be in both. It's just exhausting and I have little time and patience.

Either way, this post is giving me life!

Mike :nixos:

@josh thank you! I basically just post all the stuff my wife doesn't let me tell her. Lol

ecclesia.x

I will give it a try tomorrow. This is what this step looks like on my end, and I tried it on two different machines (same USB ISO image).

https://image.nostr.build/7f8b49a264bb3062fc14c4ca4be8b7062193f813432fb2f0d24e29d51006fb59.jpg

DCC :signal: :system76:

@codemonkeymike Welcome! There are plenty of great people here, it just takes a little time as you build and connect to your community on your terms.

ecclesia.x

Thanks for your feedback. I will be watching your other instructional videos, starting with installing software tomorrow.

Syn-ACK.sys

@codemonkeymike Believe me, I get it. As it stands right now, I can't say that I'll ever invest enough time or energy in Bluesky to get the full experience of it and give it a fair shake.

But I'm on it so if any of my friends or people that I know happen to show up there and make it their home, at least I can communicate with them in their domain.

Honestly, my main idea now is just to make it my "fine upstanding corpo wageslave" vanilla persona and maybe just post harmless stuff over there and save all my weirdness and cyberpunk leanings for over here.

But I get it, I do. I just wanted to say that it's okay to be on both, because you shouldn't be made to feel like you have to pick just one to be "right".

Mike :nixos:

@8744781f42a20add2f942a2b4feabca5b451ca22c17e20db7884f55d72f30a56 nice. It's a weird concept at first, but when it clicks it's hard to see a better way to build a system. For me at least.

But even I bounced off nix a few times before it stuck. But I've been full time for 3 years now making it the longest distro I've ever used. By far

Mike :nixos:

@SynAck I appreciate that. I do need to be reminded of these things every now and again!

Josh Austin

@codemonkeymike I don't recommend Bluesky unless they fundamentally change some design decisions.

The public blocking data and selectively allowing some forms of bullying to run amok made the platform a big "no" for me.

Mike :nixos:

@josh yeah. Exactly. And the big elephant in the room is, what is the path to monetization and sustainability?

They're in the user grab stage now. But then what? It'll be the same old shit as FB and Twitter.

I just don't wanna

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@codemonkeymike stay here, it's great!

Mike :nixos:

@jelcoward I'm not going anywhere. Esp after the response from this post!

Peter Solnica

@codemonkeymike dad jokes and Elixir, we have things in common

Mike :nixos:

@solnic followed!

Fly-paper-love-maker

@codemonkeymike it’s right for me at this stage. Solid tiling with good defaults. Full desktop with all the stuff. A bit of customizables. Fast. Clean.

Mike :nixos:

@flypaper nice. Can't wait to check it out