It didn't use to be like that after the first wave, with comms such as sewing, there were some gardening subs as well... the only one that kinda took off was the woodworking sub, that's it.
I opened a few subs myself, related to tech, but not really computer related, none of them took off, only a few posts at the beginning and that was basically it, no new posts whatsoever.
It has to have a mount point somewhere. Just double click the desktop entry, that will mount it wherever you told it to and then you can copy to that location, easy peasy π.
Well, for one, it's network attached storage. If it's not present in the network for one reason or another, guess what, your OS doesn't boot... or it errors during boot, depending on how the kernel was compiled and what switches your bootloader sends to the kernel during boot. Second, this is an easy way for malware to spread, especially if it's set to run after user logon.
Damn, you're more persitent than me hagling π.
If you're hunting down older eqipment (5, 6 years old), no, not really... everything just works with Linux and older stuff. The newer stuff is always the problem with any OS that is not Windows (though that is changing for the better in the last few years, especially for Linux).
Maybe just the basic GNU tools that come with every dostro, but other than that... yeah, that is ancient.
And the very same reason why everyone who isn't tech savvy left Lemmy after the first wave... sorry, but that's the cold hard truth.
Mounting it in fstab is a bad idea... in home even worse.
Just make some desktop entries with the shares and that should be enough.
Wow, is it really you? I really respect your work βΊοΈ.
Yeah, there were a lot π€... and 2 instances dedicated to porn.
I would argue that now, it's as user friendly as Reddit is. But, alas, now is too late π. There was a wave of instances dissappearing over night (vlemmy, fmhy, etc.), mods abusing power and... well, that crowd just felt safer with commercial media. At least their data and shared images won't drown into oblivion if an instance owner decided to just close shop π€·.