no. if it was a generic ‘flowers’ group that only allowed pro tulip-talk… thats an echo chamber.

like fox news (fair and balanced politics!)… only spouts pro-conservative nonsense. dissent from that is not allowed, echoing that communication (conservatives good) internally.

its not that things didnt take a bit longer, its that i never cared between a minute or 5. ive never been a part of a conversation where a customer or coworker lamented boot times at all. it just never mattered. no one ever said ‘gee how can we make this faster’ or ‘if only there were a product that booted faster we would prefer to buy that!’

even when i worked in 911/emergency services, it wasnt a thing that was ever discussed. i guess a lot of stuff had some redundancy/HA so end users werent really affected.

i think the content and the ‘home base instance’ can be completely separate. its all about what they would choose to subscribe to.

theoretically you could be on lemmy.world and not subscribe to or access any of its local content. conversely, an ‘onramp’ instance might not have much of any local content but have access to hundreds of remote instances. (mine for example)

it can be kind of confusing for new users.

ha, i do remember the days of the boot menu being too fast to catch what the keystroke is, or hit the keys fast enough to trigger the bios… too fast!!

this is fairly true… ive not been exposed to end users not in some corp or organization environment…

in the 80s/early 90s we used a directory listing to demonstrate how fast the machine was… when the pentiums started to hit, it finally listed faster than you could read.

ha totally normal for public agencies to not speak to the public, who pay for their existence. tootally not a fascist regime attempting to control the narrative… not at all… nope… nothing to see here. papers please!

let the concentration camps begin!

therefore american indians have a birthright to 100% of the united states, right? right?

nintendo is incredibly pragmatic… is it because of battery life?

i have a clock made from nixie tubes

ahhh the wonders of religion. humanity’s self-induced blight