<p>As usual it looks like A/B testing though, so not everyone will see it. I wouldn&#39;t be surprised if they didn&#39;t go through with it, Meta&#39;s whole thing is keeping you suckered to an algorithm.</p>

<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Threads</span></a> / Meta continue feeling the heat from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bluesky</span></a>.</p><p>They&#39;re testing letting you pin any feed as your home, and making feeds more visible on mobile.</p><p>Bluesky and Mastodon will continue to be my home though. Fool me once with a bajillionaire-owned platform...</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I want to prove that with benchmarks and graphs! The trick is finding an &quot;untouched&quot; Ubuntu ISO from 2018. </p><p>Right now if you download 18.04, you&#39;re getting kernel 5.4 and LLVM 10.0 (from 2019) and MESA 20.0.8 (from 2020.)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://layer8.space/@killyourfm" class="u-url mention">@<span>killyourfm</span></a></span> bro since Proton launched to now, it&#39;s a night and day difference lol</p>

<p>I&#39;m prepping a pretty extensive Linux gaming experiment to track the real-world improvements in the graphics driver stack and Proton since it launched... and I&#39;m REALLY hoping the results will be worth publishing for 2 reasons: </p><p>1) Because it&#39;s going to be quite a time sink. <br />2) Because I bought a damn 2017-era PC to do it 😂</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I needed that one, too!</p><p>Now I need to teach the stupid Google Assistant or Google News app to ignore such sites.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@steve" class="u-url mention">@<span>steve</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@ionchy" class="u-url mention">@<span>ionchy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@bhaktishh" class="u-url mention">@<span>bhaktishh</span></a></span> <br />The history of capybara&#39;s becoming meat is fun. &quot;Help, Pope, we&#39;re stuck in Amazonia, what do we, uh, eat?&quot;</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> woah thank you great idea :blobcat:</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@ionchy" class="u-url mention">@<span>ionchy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@bhaktishh" class="u-url mention">@<span>bhaktishh</span></a></span> for lent, yes</p>