Yes and no. As my physics professor used to say, all models are wrong, our goal is to make the least wrong model. It’s literally impossible to simulate every event. For example, what if there was an anthill under the area where the rock is dropped? Maybe that will affect the resulting sound? Maybe, but it’s not going to make a difference to the observer.

We know enough physics to simulate a huge number of simultaneous events, but at some point a model becomes far too complicated (e.g. taking a week to run on a powerful computer), when a more simplified model will do the trick just fine. I personally compare it to FLAC and MP3–FLAC is of course best quality, but will eat up a ton of storage space, and MP3 (with compression) is good enough

Savages … and legends

My prescription eyeglasses have a blue light filter built in, and I still use night shift at night–whether it makes any difference to sleep is up for debate, but overall it’s just more comfortable to use I think!

If Beehaw defederates, I will no longer think or care about Beehaw, since at the end of the day, the power of federation is by far the coolest thing in the fediverse; I am not interested in joining another Reddit clone! No hard feelings though, do what you think is right!

Have you ever considered Father Ted?

According to the press release it’s about 3 times faster–only time will tell but I’m optimistic!

I believe typing !gaming@beehaw.org will redirect to the community without leaving your home instance!

I’ve been running my own Nextcloud instance since 2020, which, combined with ProtonMail, has replaced basically everything I was using Google/Microsoft for

I very regularly complain about the eGPU issue on Linux, since I want to swap so badly–every program I use (with the exception of Drawboard PDF, which operates on a universal standard) is cross platform, and I have successfully installed a wide variety of linux distros on my laptop and got everything working well (even pen input on Xournal!!).

However, I use an Nvidia eGPU to drive three additional monitors I use for work, and on Linux I am unable to hotplug my eGPU, instead requiring a login/logout (or at least me closing all my open programs, which defeats the purpose of hotplug). I’ve tried Wayland/Xorg, and distros varying from Fedora to Pop OS (so far, my best experience was on Kubuntu/Wayland, but the computer still regularly crashed when disconnecting). I wish I were a better programmer, since then I could figure the issue out myself!

As soon as the Linux kernel has better support for hotplugging, I will never need to boot Windows again!

Edit: I am not unfamiliar with Linux, and I’ve been running Linux servers for well over a decade–I just have little experience in the realm of graphics drivers

Agreed entirely–privacy is and will always remain an essential human right.

“If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to fear!” 😉

It should definitely be possible–I’d start with setting up a Telegram Matrix Bridge, then install Element for Nextcloud and connect the two together via a Matrix server.

If you’ve got Nextcloud on Docker it should not be too hard to add the above to an extant server!

RSS readers are fantastic–I use the Nextcloud RSS reader for everything (news, youtube, reddit, etc.)

I think that federation will help Lemmy a ton–there will be a lot of small, cheap servers rather than a single extremely expensive one!

I had 7 years of saved posts in my old Reddit account, deleted it today. We’ll see if Lemmy grows, but always open to trying new things!