Mereo
Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.
I transferred to this instance from https://lemmy.ca/. My previous profile: https://lemmy.ca/u/Mereo
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Mereo@piefed.cato Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff againEnglish62·27 days agoI switched to Linux and now, I’m in the mildlysoothing category
Mereo@piefed.cato Television@piefed.social•Jimmy Kimmel’s Return Monologue on Way to Breaking Host’s YouTube Views RecordEnglish162·28 days agoBy subscribing to his channel, you show how popular he is and how foolish Disney’s decision was
Mereo@piefed.cato Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for President Biden over his cancer diagnosisEnglish5513·1 month agoAmerican evangelicals. Do not put all Christians in the same basket. I’m Orthodox Christian and I absolutely hate what he is saying.
Mereo@piefed.cato Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation?English1·1 month agoI got Onlyoffice working by installing the plugin Community Document Server: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/documentserver_community
Mereo@piefed.cato Technology@lemmy.world•A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?English63·1 month agoI believe the problem is that people feel entitled to a job with a six-figure salary just because they paid for an expensive college education. College has this air of excellence.
But then, reality sets in. Knowledge is nice, of course, but practical experience is key. You need to know how to act in the real world.
Mereo@piefed.cato Television@piefed.social•Jimmy Kimmel Pulled “Indefinitely” By ABC After Nexstar Drops Late Nighter From Affiliates Over Charlie Kirk CommentsEnglish111·1 month agoDear USA, fight for your rights. What’s happening now reminds me of what happened to Baseem Youssef in Egypt: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27671642
Mereo@piefed.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”English8·1 month agoPiefed/Lemmy/Fediverse: freedom from capitalist tyranny. True organic, human communities.
Reddit is cyberpunk. It’s a world governed by a corporation that acts as its government and only cares about its shareholders, not its citizens.
Mereo@piefed.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptionsEnglish1·1 month agoI don’t know why you’re being downvoted but that’s a legitimate reason. Unfortunately, Microsoft Office has a total monopoly of the office market so incompatibilities are bound to happen with alternative Office software.
Mereo@piefed.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptionsEnglish1·1 month agoOnlyoffice is not sufficient for you?
Mereo@piefed.cato Games@lemmy.world•Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And CrashingEnglish46·1 month agosigh… This generation of games will all suck because of Unreal Engine 5. I’m a patient gamer, I have plenty of unplayed games on my Steam library. I will not upgrade my video card because of this horrendous game engine.
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I’m running Manjaro since 2022 and it has been running smoothly. I guess I’m foolish…
Mereo@piefed.cato No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned?English111·2 months agoThink of Reddit as Cyberpunk or Mirror’s Edge: a world controlled by corporations instead of governments. A corporation only seeks its own interests and those of its shareholders. In that world, you’re nothing. There’s no transparency, and you don’t have any rights.
Lemmy instances on the other hand are run by the community and funded by donations. As such, the interests of the group as a whole prevail; they are not the interests of shareholders. To maintain cohesion, transparency is necessary, hence the modlog. Without transparency, cohesion and community cannot be maintained.
Reddit and Lemmy are two completely different worlds.
Why is this upvoted? It an ad for a company.
Mereo@piefed.cato Selfhosted@lemmy.world•18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are usingEnglish4·2 months agoThere could be multiple factors. For example, I have a Nextcloud instance that is fully managed by Hetzner, and I didn’t bother to find out what database it uses…
Mereo@piefed.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Creepy companies don't ask for your consent.English8·2 months agoLinux is a worldwide community project, and its source code is readily available. It’s nonprofit. Proton is now a Swiss nonprofit organization without shareholders (https://proton.me/foundation). Nextcloud is an open-source project that you can host on your own server or in the cloud, which means you have total control over your information.
These are nonprofit projects that don’t seek to monetize from you because you’re not the product.
Mereo@piefed.cato Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there a Fediverse version of Onlyfans?English162·2 months agoOnlyFans’ purpose is to make money from your actions. The Fediverse is the antithesis of that. It’s run by donations, not corporations. Therefore, it will not exist.
Mereo@piefed.cato Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Creepy companies don't ask for your consent.English26·2 months agoThe only way to escape these companies is to prioritize your privacy. When you do so, you’ll find replacements for the current capitalist platforms. For example, I switched from Windows to Linux and from Gmail to ProtonMail. I also switched from Dropbox to Nextcloud, which offers multiple services like a calendar and tasks. This means that I switched my calendar from Google to Nextcloud, for example.
With that command, I get all the stats I need, no dashboard required.