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voidMainVoid ,

I love Linux, but I don’t think that Linux users should promote it like it’s a free Windows, because it isn’t. You should learn Linux because you want to learn Linux, not because you hate Windows.

Frankly, I didn’t go 100% Linux right away. I dual-booted for several years first.

voidMainVoid ,

They’re all back online now because of articles like this.

voidMainVoid ,

What do you mean by “actually work in the real world”? I can go on GitHub right now and fork a project within 5 minutes. So can you. It works.

voidMainVoid ,

All the Firefox forks are pretty much dead as well.

Firedragon and LibreWolf seem to be pretty healthy. I’ve been using LW daily for over a year and FD daily for 1-2 years before that.

voidMainVoid ,

You’re misinformed. It’s okay to admit when you’re wrong.

voidMainVoid ,

Try reading slower. Look up words you don’t understand with a dictionary.

voidMainVoid ,

Fun fact: until very recently most of the computer hardware was made in communist China. I know, scary.

China hasn’t been communist in a long time.

voidMainVoid ,

Meanwhile the vast majority of users couldn’t care less, and just want to play games, browse the web, and chat with friends, all of which is completely functional in Wayland and has been for a while.

The last couple of times I tried Wayland, it broke my desktop so badly that I couldn’t even use it.

Granted, that was “a while” ago, so my experience might be better now, but it’s made me very wary of it.

voidMainVoid ,

I’m going to post this thread anytime I get some random screaming about how Linux is soooo much easier than Windows.

What a ridiculous straw man. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anybody promote Linux but claiming that it’s easier than Windows.

This bullshit is the number 1 detractor of adoption.

That’s a trend I’ve noticed from Linux critics: they had some bad experience due to a use case that they didn’t feel was properly catered to, and because they had a bad experience, that’s the reason why more people aren’t choosing Linux.

I’ve never used mouse gestures. I’m willing to bet most users don’t. People aren’t picking up Linux and going “Aaarrrgghhh! This sucks, because I can’t program my mouse gestures!” This sounds like a power user feature. Catering to power users so that they don’t badmouth you online is not a good UX design strategy.

voidMainVoid ,

It isn’t a consensus, though. If it were, nobody would be debating it.

voidMainVoid ,

Consensus doesn’t require everyone in the world to agree it just requires the majority to agree

An overwhelming majority, yes. Do you a have a survey or study that demonstrates this?

clearly the majority do otherwise the comment that it’s confusing would not have been made.

This makes no sense. Anybody can make any comment. Just because I say a thing doesn’t mean that the majority agrees with me.

voidMainVoid ,

Same, but I’m also a vegan, and the organic and/or non-GMO product is often the only one without animal ingredients.

voidMainVoid ,

Unfortunately, the answer is “It depends”. Although plant-based foods are usually suitable for vegans, it isn’t a regulated term, so you can’t be sure. Also, I think the term “vegan” has negative connotations that “plant-based” doesn’t, so marketers prefer to use that term instead.

voidMainVoid ,

I wonder why atheists do this when there’s so much real Christian stuff to laugh at.

voidMainVoid ,

What do you have against blahaj?

voidMainVoid ,

The answer is no. No, we are not.

voidMainVoid ,

The Latin word is “abecedarium”. I don’t know why English adopted the Greek word.

voidMainVoid ,

English has “abecedarian”, which can mean “alphabetical”, “rudimentary”, “elementary”, “novice” or “beginner”.

voidMainVoid ,

True, but it does have a lot of Latinate words.

voidMainVoid ,

Carl Sagan talks about this in the first episode of Cosmos. Eratosthenes proved the Earth was round centuries ago. It’s really cool. I recommend checking this clip out.

voidMainVoid ,

I am a banana!

voidMainVoid ,

Yyaaaarrrrr

voidMainVoid ,

What did Mr Deeds do to you?!

Whatever it was, it was dirt cheap.

voidMainVoid ,

Are you a farmer? Because you have an awful lot of straw!

voidMainVoid ,

They’re much more powerful than a corporation, though. Can you imagine any ordinary corporation surviving a child molestation scandal like that?

voidMainVoid ,

Her issue was all the child rape.

Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

voidMainVoid ,

The solution is donate them. Don’t send them to a landfill. Give poor students a free laptop with Linux installed, etc. There are probably thousands of uses for an old computer that are better than sending it to a landfill.

voidMainVoid ,

This is the UK.

voidMainVoid ,

Police were more likely to be killed by violence than most other positions (which are almost always accident/negligence related), although somewhat ironically their most likely cause of death in 2021 was covid

Just…WOW. In case anyone was wondering about how fucked the US police are.

voidMainVoid ,

I’m kind of happy as long as big tech is not running it

Wait for it. It’s coming. That’s why Meta is doing this. We’re in the “embrace” phase of “embrace, extend, extinguish”.

I don’t see how to avoid it, unless the courts step in. The only reason why we’re using the World Wide Web instead of the Microsoft Wide Web is because the US sued Microsoft and won.

voidMainVoid ,

The meaning of a word doesn’t change just because you use it incorrectly.

voidMainVoid ,

So if I potato, you can ottoman?

voidMainVoid ,

They don’t.

voidMainVoid ,

I couldn’t have even guessed that they were trying to draw a swastika with that one.

voidMainVoid ,

“The flood of crap” isn’t what people should be worried about. They should be worried about Meta embracing, extending, and extinguishing the Fediverse. There’s a good article about this here. People are worried about the wrong things and don’t realize what’s at stake.

voidMainVoid ,

Could somebody explain what “fedipact” means?

voidMainVoid ,

Both are open protocols for communication over the Internet. Both have been adopted by a large corporate interest.

Now, how are they different?

voidMainVoid ,

If meta was to pull the plug on federation it wouldn’t kill ActivityPub, there would still be millions of us here.

It’s not about pulling the plug. It’s about introducing proprietary features that break communication, forcing people off of an independent server and onto Threads.

If most of your IRL friends are on Threads and your experience with them has gotten janky due to Meta fucking with the protocol, it’s going to be very difficult to not switch over to Threads.

Oh, and good luck trying to get your friends to switch over to some indie server they’ve never heard of. If you can do that, then you should run for president.

voidMainVoid ,

There was an app for MacOS…7? I think. It was called ASCIIPaint, and it allowed you to draw these pictures using a mouse.

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    voidMainVoid , (edited )

    Why are they defederating? Is that what you’re asking?

    ETA: There’s a good article behind the reasoning here, using XMPP as an object lesson. Corporations can co-opt open standards through a Microsoft-ish “embrace, extend, extinguish” strategy.

    voidMainVoid ,

    They won’t. They already said that they won’t unless there’s “trouble”. Whatever that means.

    voidMainVoid ,

    More competition is better, but Facebook is still the 800-pound gorilla. It took a landmark court case to stop Microsoft from taking over the Web. We might need something similar for social networking.

    voidMainVoid ,

    Bludsky sounds more awesome, tbh

    voidMainVoid ,

    That genuinely sucks and helps misinformation spread.

    I don’t see how. What I think is that it makes a less toxic environment.

    voidMainVoid ,

    Nonono… It’s “never forget what happened to the Jews”.

    voidMainVoid ,

    Well, that really puts things in perspective.

    At Microsoft, this strategy was called “embrace, extend, extinguish”, but it’s important to realize that it isn’t a practice that’s exclusive to Microsoft.

    voidMainVoid ,

    The article says that this isn’t happening for all users, which indicates that they’re still experimenting with it and haven’t fully rolled it out yet.

    voidMainVoid OP ,

    a lot of the shit he said 13 years ago turned out to be right.

    Like what?

    Listen to the Knowledge Fight podcast which critiques Alex Jones. He’s wrong a lot.

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