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  • I can’t speak to the early days of the internet, but for the early days of the web at least, the fediverse is the closest thing we have to the “spirit” of the old web. Everyone running their own things, no central portals, web search was diverse (but not that great). Communities existed not so much on social media platforms, but in the form of webrings, mailing lists and usenet (none of which were centralised).

    Web pages were less javascript and css, and more straight html. So pages tended to be static. Images loaded line by line, and often the whole web page would jump around as images loaded if the html didn’t pre-emptively set the image size, because the browser had no idea what size the image was going to be until it finished loading it.

    But importantly, a significant amount of content was generated by people, not companies. Communities and pages were driven more likely to be created by people with an interest in that specific thing than a company trying to make money, because SEO wasn’t a thing.

    But AOL, yahoo, google, they all got the idea that there was money to be made by making the search page the gateway through which everything else was found and accessed. And that was a sign of what was to come. Centralisation, predatory trapping of users via the network effect, enshittification… All of it… ALL of it, driven by companies chasing the advertising dollar, rather than passionate nerds making content for other passionate nerds.

    It’s why I say the fediverse is spiritually the closest you will find to that time period. Communities are driven by passionate nerds, shaped by people interested in whatever it is that they’re interested in, and building communities without relying on a centralised platform to provide the infrastructure.







  • Yep, assuming that you’re looking at the “root” config there, then 50 is the total number of snapshots it will keep when it comes through and does the snapshot cleanup.

    For root on cachyos, you generally don’t need any of the other numbers enabled, because it creates new snapshots via a pacman hook, rather than using timed creation. And this hook will create two new snapshots whenever pacman installs or updates one or more packages. One “before” the updates/installs and one “after”

    Though it is also worth noting, that you should make sure you have the “snapper cleanup enabled” checkbox on that page enabled, as otherwise, it won’t actually run periodic cleanups of old snapshots





  • In Australia, it’s not the same issue it is in the US. Trans rights are protected here, and so, trans folk are legally allowed to use the locker room that is right for them, and on top of that, locker rooms in Australia generally don’t involve people getting naked around each other either to change or to shower. Locker room showers are generally in individual stalls, each with its own small changing area as part of the stall (something like this). That is where the majority of people change. There is a public area with lockers, but people in that space after a shower are mostly either already dressed, or in their underwear.

    From my own personal experience, when I was a roller derby player before COVID, it was a non issue. Of course, roller derby is perhaps the most trans inclusive sport on the planet, so I’m not sure it’s a good example. Public swimming pools haven’t been an issue because of the shower design I mentioned above. And as a runner, I don’t really use public change rooms

    tl;dr - It’s only an issue because transphobes choose to make it an issue