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NATO expansionism on the lunar surface required a special landing operation to contain
If you buy a brand new computer, virtually all of them come with Windows or Mac pre installed. For the overwhelming majority of users, they are satisfied with either of these options, and can do everything that they want to do with a computer on these operating systems. The overwhelming majority of users aren't willing to go through the effort of mounting a Linux distro onto a USB, navigating through the BIOS to launch the OS' installer, partitioning their drive to avoid deleting all of their data accidentally, reinstalling and setting up all of their programs again, and learning how to use an entirely new operating system just because "Linux is free, FOSS, and gives you more freedom". The only times Linux has seen widespread adoption is when it comes bundled with specific hardware already, such as with the Steam Deck or Chromebooks
Ada is the instance mama and our resident tech sorceress, she is the GOAT
They can block specific communities like lemmy.world did with the major piracy community. If they have a problem with a specific community but not the rest of the instance, they didn't need to go so far as to defederate from the entire lemmy.blahaj.zone instance, though given current tensions between the two instances I doubt they'll be missed. Either way, it is a massive strength of the fediverse that when admins make these decisions, users can easily leave and move to another instance with very little hassle
I switched from Infinity, the client I've been using for years since Reddit and love dearly, to Sync, just so I could block the entire instance. The only people I've blocked on Lemmy are Hexbear users because all they do is spam anti American, anti capitalist takes everywhere they can and spam comment sections with essays denying the wrongdoings of any nation that is nominally communist. They're more preachy and aggressive than street preachers, and my experience on Lemmy has been significantly more relaxed with them blocked
You can filter them out with ublock origin on desktop and Sync for mobile. It's the easiest way to get rid of Hexbear for you outside of migrating to a new instance, and it's a lot easier than trying to get your instance admins to defederate
Noise cancelling headphones don't work against babies. They are designed for cancelling ambient sound by playing frequencies to cancel out the noise, but can't predict sudden noises like children crying very well. Earplugs or earbuds do a better job at drowning those out by plugging your ears from outside noises
Given that they defederated from Lemmy.world (at least Hexbear did, idk about lemmygrad), probably not