I'm using mbin bc it let's me mainly do threads but also have microblog on the same account for people/organizations that use it. in the combined feed on Interstellar I pretty much never see microblog, which I think is because ive followed some communities and people but not any hashtags like you do on mblog-only platforms. how do I do that?

I recently got a boox go color 7 because I dont have space to buy physical books. the only platforms I can find that have a decent selection are ones like kindle where you dont get the book, only the ability to read it through their app. i want to use the built in reader on my device and I dont want to be able to get rugpulled by Amazon or lose access to my books when a smaller company goes under.

I'm fairly comfortable on the high seas but whenever a book is available without DRM I'd prefer to buy it so I can support the author. do you guys know any platforms with a good selection of drm-free ebooks? Manga too, but I'm pretty sure the only place you can get it in the us anymore is viz through an app. also as a side question, what format is best?

I saw a video recently talking about how generally people living in the country ignore weird noises in the woods, and it reminded me of some of the weird noises i've heard from the woods near my house.

i want to know your scariest stories about stuff like that because I can't sleep anyway so I may as well have a reason. it can be real experiences or more urban legend type stories, I just can't find enough good scary stuff because the internet sucks now.

title, and to be clear I mean for my usecase specifically. Redhat is being absorbed into IBM and i'm a little worried about how that might affect the fedora project. I'm aware that they've been owned by IBM for a while but we are seeing all the typical signs of a company about to go to shit thanks to bad management. I am looking into and preparing to switch in case the fedora project is messed up as well.

I use my pc mainly for gaming (so steam is required) and stuff in my browser and I have a gtx 1650 (can't get new stuff bc i'm broke) so although I don't need the proprietary drivers necessarily, I prefer them. I use KDE with a handful of kwin scripts (like temp virtual desktops and karousel) and some cosmetic stuff like klassy, better blur, and a custom color scheme. I need all of that to remain possible. I currently use fedora kde edition, but I have been looking into immutable distros because I don't know what I'm doing and I want to have a much lower chance of breaking stuff (or at least a way to easily unbreak it). I also want something at least reasonably up-to-date, because I like to get new features quickly. I don't need to get them as fast as something like arch, but ubuntu and debian are way to slow for me.

what do y'all think would work best for me? I've looked at a few things but I haven't been able to find anything but fedora that serves my usecase the way I want it to yet.

no picture bc I'm at home rn, but I recently started working at the Library in my small town. we've been trying to remove the outdated or poorly circulated books and replace them with more recent ones and ones that will circulate better. in the process of doing this my boss found an anti-vax book from 2008 that we got as a donation in the early 2010s (we know bc it says in the computer) and the last time it had been checked out was like 2 months ago and it has some the best circulation of any of our books. even worse, we dont just get a book and put it straight on the shelf. donations are sorted through by volunteers, offered to the library if the volunteers think they'd be good, and then have to be accepted by the director. the previous director added the book to the system personally. a librarian did this. thankfully my boss, the new director, decided it was 1) too old to keep around, 2) too damaged to keep around (fucked up spine), and 3) bullshit, so she put it in the pile of books we are deleting from the system.

the main reason I use mbin in the first place is the ability to access both threads and microblogs from one account and platform. i primarily use threads but a lot of people and organizations I want to follow are on mastodon, so the timeline view is very helpful for keeping both visible without having to remember to check microblogs. however, because I mostly follow communities, not users, ans because the communities post much more often than individual users, the microblog stuff can still easily get drowned out if I dont scroll far enough.

to fix this, I'd like to be able to weight microblogs higher than threads, so as to make them appear roughly 50/50 compared to threads. I'd also like to be able to change the weighting to do the same for threads, for the obvious reason of not everyone having the same preferences as me.

I got a legion 5 gaming laptop back in like 2020 and while the laptop itself works fine, about a year or two in the screen brightness just... stopped funtioning. I was still on windows at the time, but the issue is still here now and I'd really like to be able to use Plasma's new hdr-without-hdr thing. As far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with the hardware in my computer.

that being said, I've run windows (which it came with), ubuntu, tuxedo os, and fedora (current) on this laptop and aside from the brightness sometimes briefly coming back after a restart until I restart again (I think it happens after updates when it happens but it's so rare I can't tell), it won't come back. I'm using lvfs for firmware stuff and do get stuff from it sometimes, and I keep my system up to date. I haven't been able to find any solutions online so I figured my best bet would be to ask here. anyone know how to fix or at least diagnose it?

hypothetically, let's say you were tasked with simplifying the English language. how would you go about doing that, and why?

to start with an easy one, the first thing I would do is eliminate silent letters from all words and make it so no letters share sounds. for example, example would become exampel. then, because x would no longer be around or at least wouldn't have that sound, ekzampel. I would also consider eliminating mulit-letter sounds like ch, and replacing them with single characters (probably the ones that got removed).