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tabular , 2 days ago

Can’t right click to pause the video in VLC ;c

tabular , 3 days ago

Was that long ago?

tabular , 3 days ago

I thought so as they said “I remember” but I though Slashdot might be something new… 🫠

tabular , 4 days ago

YouTube doesn’t want your money.

tabular , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

They want you to pay a higher price but since you have a choice of paying nothing then the message seems clear to me. You can see comedians on there for free, they tell real jokes.

tabular , 4 days ago

Not quite. Google doesn’t want competition or content creators to be elsewhere.

tabular , 4 days ago

no u

tabular , 4 days ago

A decentralized apporch: wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

tabular , 3 days ago

What types of games are listen heavy?

tabular , 8 days ago

What fixes? Why can’t Proton have them but GE can?

tabular , 8 days ago

Hopefully any legal updates can get up-streamed. I’m not interested in proprietary codecs anyway.

tabular , 8 days ago

If there is a free codec alternative I assume they can use that when the game calls for that codec? Perhaps I don’t know enough that that’s harder than replacing DirectX calls with Vulkan.

tabular , 8 days ago

I’d like to watch but something makes me paralyzed when I anticipate the confrontation.

tabular , 9 days ago

What the, is that a new emoji?

tabular , 10 days ago

Pick one:

• security
• proprietary OS

tabular , 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

You can’t verify it’s secure if it’s proprietary, so it’s never secure? Having control over other people’s computing creates bad incentives to gain at your user’s expense, so it’s day 1 you should lose trust.

tabular , 10 days ago

That just moves requiring trust from the 1st party to 2nd or 3rd party. Unreasonable trust.

tabular , 10 days ago

Consider people counting paper votes in an election. Multiple political parties are motivated by their own self interests to watch the counting to prevent each other faking votes. That is a security feature and without it then the validity of the election has a critical unknown making it very sussy.

An OS using proprietary software is like as an electronic voting machine, we pretend it’s secure to feel better about a failing we can’t change.

tabular , 10 days ago

This is like asking if you do scientific experiments yourself or do you trust others’ results. I distrust private prejudice and trust public, verifiable evidence that’s survived peer review.

tabular , 10 days ago

If I’m a government I’m hella criminalising the sharing of proprietary software.

tabular , 10 days ago

That sucks, but the answer to bad results is still more/better tests 😇

tabular , 10 days ago

When I think of bad actors and software I think of security from 3rd parties after the intentions of the authors. Not just security but also privacy and any other anti-features users wouldn’t want. That applies to the OS, apps or drivers. Hardware indeed has concerns like software, which is just a wider conversation about security, which is just part of user/consumer rights.

tabular , 9 days ago

The difference is proprietary software has to be caught being insecure to be “guilty of being insecure” while open source software has the potential to be publically verified to a degree that it’s effectively “proven innocent”.

tabular , 10 days ago

Under duress I hope.

tabular , 9 days ago

Worst part is the government won’t learn from this and will continue to use the proprietary operating system.

tabular , 10 days ago

It’s worth paying for but not if it includes DRM, proprietary software and preferably not giving money to Don’t Be Evil company.

tabular , 10 days ago

If they were dirt cheap then being midrange is fine, like the RX 480 days. Hopefully the overinflated AI fad calms down :(

tabular , 11 days ago

All we have are words or violence.

tabular , 11 days ago

Do businesses in Turkey not make sure people can do the job (surgery, building design) and rely on this school testing?

What do you mean by tuition, isn’t that a service already paid for?

tabular , 11 days ago

What ban?

tabular , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

Is there a reason for the ban related to how the car is built or designed, or is it politics?

tabular , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Judge Tuxedo’s reasonings here: tuxedocomputers.com/…/Why-does-TUXEDO-OS-not-supp…

tabular , 14 days ago

If a party won’t fix the serious issue to let me also vote for who I want, they’re not entitled to my vote.

tabular , 14 days ago

You should be able to vote for both… 😮‍💨

tabular , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Voting for a party I don’t want is also suffering, though I doubt you’d believe that. Keeping the main parties in power via a rigged system ain’t ending this catch 22 cycle.

tabular , 13 days ago

It is my hope that greater political diversity will prevent more suffering in the long run by governments better representing the people.

It’s very comfortable to blame others if your political opponents get into power. If you don’t have another suggestion I can at least leave you with the small comfort that this bad person won’t vote for the main party you dislike the most out of spite.

tabular , 13 days ago

Lucky for you I’m not French. I just oppose tactical voting in favor of voting in someone who may have a chance of removing the need for tactical voting.

I don’t know how long it will take and I don’t know which paths actually leads to the least amount of suffered in the short term. I just know it needs to change.

tabular , 12 days ago

There are voting systems that completely prevent the need for tactical voting (e.g. instant-runoff voting, aka alternative vote) but if the system still trends towards having two main parties then not much has really changed.

A bigger issue is that a single candidate/party is not very good at representing an area in comparison to having more (3, 5, ideally more). If people vote 80% A and 20% B and A gets the single candidate then 20% are misrepresented. With 5 candidates then that could be split 4 to A and 1 to B, a perfect representation.

tabular , 15 days ago

Perhaps they were not suggesting deep end transphobia (hate) but just low end aversion? You should have the right to not date a trans person, or a different color person, but we could ask would it be better if none of us cared about that?

If we look for the source of people’s choices one may find the answer to also be biology, with the rest of enviroment. The conventional wisdom to blame people for their choices is not supported by evidence. Even the most evil people in history didn’t choose to have a psychopathic personality, or choose their bad parents, or their hateful beliefs.

tabular , 15 days ago

I’m bi and would date trans people so it’s difficult to relate. I wouldn’t write “only interested in (for example) white people” on a profile because it may imply racism, even though there may be no hate and the intention would be to just save both people’s time.

I use the word aversion to make a distinction between other people who hate. Someone who feels sick seeing a same-sex kiss is having an aversion to homosexuality but that doesn’t mean they hate, or want to kill and could be an ally in all ways. So yes, I would say not wanting to date trans people falls into a category of aversion by my definition, but that’s my brain trying to sort things. I don’t mean anything bad by it.

tabular , 17 days ago

Same choice as normal: whine about and then tolerate a change you don’t want in proprietary software rather than spend time learning to use a software-freedom-respecting alternative.

“But my workflow”.

tabular , 17 days ago

No hard feelings towards people who couldn’t, or didn’t, see this sort of thing coming.

tabular , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

No one has an unlimited tolerance to being mistreated. They will care at some point because it can, and will, get worse. It’s just of question of if people discover what is happening or if they carry on oblivious.

tabular , 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

Is it possible to do work in a shed without using a drill?

It is good of you to do this work and post your findings, so no offense intended, but this command line meme is better off not being spread. The terminal is a tool and should be used when it’s needed. Time spent worrying about this is time that could be spent making it easier to understand.

I was introduced to the terminal by a friend so I don’t know of a good starting tutorial for newbies. I wasn’t interested until I saw you could use the output of one command as the input of another command using a “pipe”, the | character on the keyboard.

tabular , 18 days ago

I didn’t use early generation smart phones and was completely bewildered when I discovered apps often used swiping left/right to interact. No app I had used before ever indicated that was an option. I suggested we should add indicators to our app to teach people but that was rejected because “everyone knows that”. It’s easy when you know how.

As a nerd who subscribes to the Linux section of Lemmy; well done for everyone trying to learn something new. The learning never stops :')

tabular , 18 days ago

I once saw an adult struggle to navigate the cursor to a button. It’s a trivial task to most people but that’s only true when you know how.

The terminal is not innately intimidating, it’s just new - it’s not something that they were taught in school. That’s where the hurdle actually is.

tabular , 19 days ago

Something tells me that could easily change.

tabular , 19 days ago

Sadly I think they have to aim to do both, to make the most money as a publically traded company.

Last I heard Apple was protecting it’s users from Facebook collecting their data… by being the ones who collect it instead. Maybe that not quite right as I don’t listen to news on Apple (outside of their opposition to right to repair).