On the one hand, enabling non-technical users to use technical things is an incredibly fantastic expansion of their possibilities and what they can do.
On the other hand, personally I wish computers in particular (including smartphones) were harder to use.
There are two reasons for that:
Requiring a minimum effort to learn how to use the internet is a great idiot filter. Being online (or, going back further, on FidoNet or a BBS) used to mean that the person in question has demonstrated at least rudimentary reading and comprehension skills. But what’s more important is that it also makes the experience of being online - or using a device in general - ‘worth’ more to that person - much as a thing that cost something is often treated better that the exact same thing for free.
I blame easy-to-use smartphones for a lot of ignorance in other places. The expectation that every idiot can press a few buttons and instantly get what they want is in many ways a dangerous mindset. Case in point - in the two years that our oldest kid (I truly love her, but sometimes …) has had her driving licence, she’s slashed four front tyres on kerbstones, drove around with the brake warning light on for at least two weeks, nearly ripped away the front bumper twice, and drove through a major city with a flat tyre. I shit you not. And according to her it’s all the car’s fault, because a) it hasn’t got 360° cameras for parking, and b) it’s supposed to tell her everything that’s wrong and where to have it fixed. In short, she has no idea how a car works, and she doesn’t care, because her expectation is that it should all magically fix itself just as on her phone.
Finally, as any software developer will be able to confirm, “make it idiot-proof and the universe will invent a better idiot.”
Bitwarden with a free account here, and it does everything I need it to do (and more than I’d expect for free). Between the app on my phone and browser addons/extensions on PC, I honestly don’t know what else I’d personally need from it (or any other password manager). Plus, it’s open source.
As a linux noob, I can’t give some in depth explanation, but I can empathize over troubles troubleshooting 😭
I mean, to first acknowledge the base difficulties of just getting used to a new operating system that doesn’t want to hold your hand, all the troubleshooting advice being splintered across multiple distros and updates, and most software just not being designed to be compatible with Linux, it’s impressive there are distros that manage to be beginner-friendly-ish in the first place.
For instance, when I was setting up Ubuntu, the following didn’t work out of the box:
The general need to reinstall every program you use
The microphone
Switching between Windows and Ubuntu led to a weird time difference on Window’s part (it still does)
My fingerprint sensor stopped working (I don’t even think this is fixable)
My brightness hotkeys stopped working (they still don’t)
touchpad scrolling was really fast (I honestly just got used to this rather than fixing it)
Increased the icon size of a lot of things
Set up night light settings
But more than that, I’d say one of the hardest things about Linux is that it is so customizable it inspires me to find a solution to issues I would’ve just ignored on Windows. For example:
I moved the time bar from the top of the screen to the bottom
Set up my own searx instance (though I hardly use it, if anyone knows how to run a set of code on computer startup please lmk)
Installed wine, Lutris, and software to support Linux gaming
Set my wallpaper to rotate between a bunch of landscape photos
But ig that’s just my 2 cents. Really I wrote this to feel proud of myself for all the troubleshooting I’ve done 😭
Edit: I frfr love all yall who responded to this with genuine advice, what a great community
Switching between Windows and Ubuntu led to a weird time difference on Window’s part (it still does)
Google how to set your windows clock to UTC. You can maybe do the reverse and set linux to localtime, but I find it much cleaner that the system clock is in UTC as it’s an objective and stable standard, unlike localtime which can change with daylight savings or if your move.
Here’s how to fix the time issue. Problem is by default Windows saves the time to the hardware clock in local time, but Linux saves it as UTC. You can make Windows also save it as UTC by changing a registry setting:
For 64-bit Windows, open regedit then browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation. Create a new DWORD entry called RealTimeIsUniversal, then set its value to 1. Reboot the system. The clock should now be in UTC time.
There are many ways to run code at startup. cronjobs and systemd are common ways to handle this. I have also had things start automatically with my desktop environment which comes later in the boot process.
i played the original and 2, and i love what they did with 3. JA always had a clumsiness to it, but the new one is very nicely streamlined and i usually get the results that i want from my mercenaries. How did you run out of money on tutorial island?? Too many Mercs? Just pick Mouse, a doc, a mechanic and Fidel and liberate everything except the fortress. I try to play as a good guy, but having Fidel in my team makes it hard, that funny psycho. In the end of the Island you should have enough AKs, Rifles and SMGs for the whole Team, scrap what you dont need, i started the main land with a nice plus and long running contracts
I ran out of money by spending too long doing everything on the island before securing a mine on the mainland. I was only $500 or so in the hole, but you can’t charter a boat without cash.
On my second start, I ran to the closest mine possible to make sure I wouldn’t get stranded again.
I've been using (and paying for) Bitwarden for a few years now. There are slicker solutions but it does the job for me and I don't really see any need to change.
8 years ago I posted on facebook that whoever is interested in keeping in touch should text me and I deleted my account a week later. 4 people texted - all 4 were my high school friend. I’m very good friends with them still. We have a tiny discord server for communication. Since then I had maybe 4 more people who I thought “huh, I wonder what are they up to now” over the years, but my curiosity wasn’t big enough to start facebook again. For the rest I didn’t really care.
I’ve been using Bitwarden for years now, and I really enjoy the seamless experience across platforms. I use Windows at work, Mac/Linux/Windows at home, I also have an iPhone, iPad, Android tablets, and a Chromebook. Bitwarden works great everywhere. I originally chose it because it’s open source so I could host it myself if I wanted to.
I actually pay for Premium ($10/year) because I wanted to use FIDO hardware keys, but you also get 1GB for encrypted file attachments, which is handy.
BitWarden does everything I want, so I have a hard time considering paying far more for 1Password which does the same thing.
as @Candelestine mentioned, “happens to brown sugar too” – most of the allium family are a lot higher in sugar than we give them credit for (it’s just masked by pungent sulfur compounds) and all it takes is a little humidity for the sugar components to start clumping
I read something the other day that they’re working on a new sorting algorithm that would limit it to the top few posts from each community within a given time frame. Specifically to address this issue.
No idea on timeframe or further details, or if I even summarized it correctly lol.
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