Not to mention that their napkin math is wrong by a factor of 12

I would like to hear you say it

This is very similar to my story - end of support for win7 meant putting Mint on the HTPC.

Soon after that, it was the old laptop my spouse was about to chuck out. Cinnamon was a little sluggish, so I eventually landed on Debian + XFCE

And when I discovered I could get my desktop's audio interface working on Linux (it's firewire, and by most people's standards, ancient), it was game over for Windows.

I don't know what Freetrack is but I hope it gets implemented for you :)

Ok yeah that's super interesting, and maybe kinda sums up the whole thing: the devs make tech that reduces the opportunity for thought and engagement, and that frictionless experience results in worse outcomes for users, but better outcomes for profits.

And yet, paradoxically, there are probably plenty more folks like yourself that would prefer to use a different kind of app!

Turns out you're right, BTC price only went down 77% from the 2021 peak, my mistake /s

Thanks. Although to be honest I'm not sure what their edit was - does Lemmy not have a way to view a post's edit history?? Seems like a problem...

Bitcoin regularly loses 85% of its "value" vs USD

85%

This has happened multiple times

Bitcoin's "value" in USD terms has dropped ~20% in the last few days, so I'm not sure we can call it 'stable'

This may be true of your own experience on Lemmy, but on microblogging software such as Mastodon it is most definitely not the case.

Thanks, just subscribed, will x-post :)

thanks!

I hear you on this - Akkoma does this by default, but the issue there is, let's say someone on a tiny server posts an image, even a relatively small one - if it gets boosted by an account with 10k followers, that small server will effectively get DDOSed, assuming enough of those clients are online.