I’m sure there has been no shortage of enshitification before 2023, but for some reason now I’m seeing a lot of it. Some historian should document all of this.
It’s the interest rate hikes. Tech companies relied on limitless free money from VCs before, without the pressure to turn a profit. That tap’s been turned off now, so here we are.
That’s it. No more 0% interest loans. Social media companies focused on users over profit. They can’t do that anymore. And it’s likely something similar with RedHat.
@j4k3 These days I always recommend @tuxedocomputers for linux centric laptops. They have a wide and customizable range and are all built with fully linux compatible hardware. The service/support they provide is also top-notch.
No doubt. I looked into them, star labs, and system76, none of them offer a 12GB or larger option for the same $1500-$2500 price point found in other laptops. I really need a 16GBV-24GBV option. For the actual processor the only thing I do that is demanding is CAD which is single threaded. I don’t need a top model monster. I don’t even need a battery, low power, or some stupid high refresh rate screen. I need something like a HP Dev One in a basic 17.3" setup with a 24GB video card for less than $2500.
@j4k3 A heafty video card on a laptop is a really tall order. Hopefully they become a little easier to find soon, I would really like to be able to do more blender CAD on the road.
Usually linux-centric laptops cost more for inferior hardware. You’re usually better off just buying a Windows computer and installing Linux on it if you want the best performance for the price.
I am sure that most people here adopt the principles of FOSS. I wouldn’t miss at all the various “mainstream” subs with poor content but some of the best subs could be encouraged to migrate to the fediverse. I have really high hopes for this project.
I spent a lot of time on the niche tech/maker/cooking subs. Seems a lot of the fediverse did as well, because the ones I’ve found here are almost as active!
I have the same feeling too. The communities here keep growing. The first weeks here felt a bit… lonely. But now it feels like the fediverse is starting to thive!
Never wrote RPM specs because I generally dislike RPM-based distributions (Fedora was a really bad experience when I tried it), but from a quick Google search they’re very similar.
I kinda like the format at a glance, seems pretty comparable in terms of what you put in there. Definitely less painful than debhelper.
I guess one of the advantages of PKGBUILD is that they’re essentially bash scripts that gets sourced by the tools, so they’re incredibly simple and don’t require parsing a custom format. You can:
That comes with disadvantages in that reading the PKGBUILD is inherently unsafe, and it was the cause of many concerns back in the days with tools like yaourt, which pretty much just blindly sourced it to get the variables out, which means immediate code execution just loading it from the AUR.
I haven’t really given those a try, ArchLinux happens to have ended my distro-hopping 10ish years ago.
Started with Ubuntu 7.04, bailed when they released the first Unity, went through a few Ubuntu spins, then Debian, then Fedora 15 (that one had lots of issues, the installer repeatedly crashed on me and all, it corrupted my partition table forcing me to testdisk to recover, they didn’t have Chromium or any proprietary codecs and apps). I ended up back on Ubuntu for a bit and then took the Arch dive, and been happy ever since and never felt the desire to learn another distro if it doesn’t have significant advantages.
My next distro will probably be something like NixOS, the concept is quite appealing but my VM experiments so far haven’t convinced me to get rid of Arch just yet. Might start using it on my servers for that sweet immutability and centralized config.
Haha I’m right there with you. The timeline isn’t as vast but Arch ended my distrohoppong and NixOS is the only thing really catching my eye these days.
I jumped around various Ubuntu spins, settled on Linux Mint for a while, tried out ElementaryOS for a brief moment, went back to Ubuntu spins then eventually went with Arch in 2019 and haven’t looked back.
The immutability and configuration of Nix seems so appealing but at this point I’m really comfortable with Arch and it does everything I need in a pretty sane way so idk if I’d switch anytime soon.
The immutability and configuration of Nix seems so appealing but at this point I’m really comfortable with Arch and it does everything I need in a pretty sane way so idk if I’d switch anytime soon.
Back in 2018, I had the experience of using NixOS. At that time, I noticed that the Nix language had a striking resemblance to Haskell, which stirred up feelings of anxiety within me.
I did not know you could just source a PKGBUILD. I’m certain I’ll remember this instead of the correct makepkg flag to run this ot the other stage only.
I mean it’s not going to make you a package if you just do that, the real tools do other things in-between but it shows the general simplicity Arch went with there.
That comes with disadvantages in that reading the PKGBUILD is inherently unsafe, and it was the cause of many concerns back in the days with tools like yaourt, which pretty much just blindly sourced it to get the variables out, which means immediate code execution just loading it from the AUR.
However, the AUR helpers in question, which are not official tools, were to blame. Some developers of these tools could not or did not want to solve the problem. According to wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers, almost no AUR helper sources the files automatically nowadays.
I think while yaourt was called out for it, there are still issues with doing it this way; it’s the reason the AUR requires a .SRCINFO file nowadays wiki.archlinux.org/title/.SRCINFO
Reddit isn’t just trying to balance the budget - they are specifically scrambling to make things work (or at least, look like they will work) for an IPO, which is a beast in and of itself.
In the long term, all these tech layoffs in a short time frame depress the wages of the entire industry. The industry has seen an explosion of value and until recently quite a bit of that value has been captured by workers and individual innovators, instead of capital investors.
It benefits capital to have high competition for these jobs, and a high cost of entry to independent market action ie disruptive products only being viable with access to large data sets and processing to deal with that volume of data. The workers underbid each other while the owner of the platforms dictate access to them.
Possibly. I’m not entirely sure how to interpret that part.
One plausible scenario is that they brought in a consultant, who said their data would be worth $XXXX on the open market. A common element of MBA thinking is that any potential profits are something you are entitled to, regardless of the consequences. It’s also pretty clear they don’t have a mature management team, or a viable path to realize those profits. But they had to stop someone else from getting it, so there was a rushed decision. I don’t quite know how it coincided with killing 3rd party apps, though, unless it was just more really incompetent management.
It makes me think that the third party thing was the original intent and the data scraping was the cover. Also u/spez kinda said as much with his Elon love fest.
Yeah for a lot of companies they don’t seem to separate blood-from-a-stone unrealized profits from losses, even when aggressively persuing the former may well result in loss.
I could definitely see FB, Reddit, etc going “company X is making money from AI using our data, we need to stop that and do so instead” while completely overlooking the costs inherent in building the AI system or user-impact.
Kinda like when all the ISP’s decided Netflix owed them money because users were accessing it through their networks (and completely disregarding that the users already paid for that access), because corps are greedy fucks that way.
I’m still getting used to Lemmy. Does anybody know why I see no posts when viewing the lemmy.ml instance but I see posts when viewing it via lemmy.world?
I experienced the same thing! (Except my home instance is FMHY, not LW)
It is the same experience as trying to view NSFW subs on another instance that I’m not logged into. I already know there’s a filter that won’t show NSFW if you aren’t logged in, which explains those. I even checked, and didn’t see this as having anything marked NSFW.
I had a script in termux that used exiftool to rename and organize photos and then rsync them to my backup. That was on an older phone. I need to do that again!
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