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by dangus 6mo ago
I love how this thread is talking about bad policy without even discussing any aspect of the policy that is bad. Perhaps we should pull our heads out of the Fox News punch bowl to take a breath. Y’all act like democratic socialist policy ca
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by dangus 6mo ago
What’s there to be skeptical about? It’s well known and data-confirmed that wealth has been transferred out of the middle and lower classes in the last half century or so. The people who are making below the median make things work by livin
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by dangus 6mo ago
If a text editor is not smaller than an office suite that handles Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, Word, PowerPoint, and Access databases, I made the right choice never using it.
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by dangus 6mo ago
IDK, it kind of sounds like from the article's own prose that Project Reunion / WinUI 3 is an overall good thing and that Microsoft actually does have a pretty good vision for the past 5 years at least. From a user's perspe
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by dangus 6mo ago
I don't know if I would call this the new age of AI propaganda as much as I would call this "unserious, unprofessional, unqualified, authoritarian leaders would rather deceive their support base than offer serious policy solutions
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by dangus 6mo ago
OP wasn't ripped off, OP just forgot to define their contract. Like, entirely. Nobody forced OP to work 11-14 hour days. Contracting 101 stipulates that you define your hours ahead of time. You come in, you provide your expertise, and
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by dangus 6mo ago
I should also disclaim that I only need these office suites for occasional home use. If one of them disappears tomorrow it’s no big loss to me personally, not that I wouldn’t be sad about a loss of consumer choice. If I need something for a
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by dangus 6mo ago
Before I start with my real comment I'll point out that the AI slop images really detract from this article and the author should stop. To be fair to America here, it's pretty well served overall and is doing a lot better than the
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by dangus 6mo ago
I don’t think they’re considering it a commercial endeavor, they’re just acknowledging that complex open source projects often require paid work to effectively maintain and develop them. The GNU project works because it’s a bunch of small p
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by dangus 6mo ago
OnlyOffice and its upcoming Euro Office derivative, which I already like better than LibreOffice.
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by dangus 6mo ago
I also use Everything. But I'm not sure how Windows Search not being the best has much to do with the system's overall RAM usage. Explorer works fine for me but File Pilot does look cool. I'll give it a try. (Good luck replac
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by dangus 6mo ago
Does it behave like this all the time or just at specific moments? I find on my Windows system it's only doing things when specific actions are happening. Right now the antimalware executable process is using 196.4 MB of memory and 0%
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by dangus 7mo ago
I just logged in to my MacBook Air M2 (24GB RAM) with no programs open and it’s reserving 8.3GB of RAM and using 500MB of swap. My Framework laptop running CachyOS with KDE Plasma with nothing open except System Monitor reserves 4GB with 50
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by dangus 7mo ago
Apple under-speccing their machines like they’ve been doing since the dawn of time is not some kind of indicator of any trends. You can buy $350 PC laptops that come with 12GB of RAM (example: https://www.staples.com/asus-vi
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by dangus 7mo ago
For desktop use, I find that being on the latest stable kernels is best because you get things like recent AMD graphics drivers and support for recent hardware and laptops. I’m in an arch-based distro and my kernel updates all the time. I’v
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by dangus 7mo ago
Besides the correct answer that Canonical sucks, I would argue that “efficiency” is not a selling point to get someone to use a desktop operating system. Mainstream users and business organizations don’t really understand that concept and w
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by dangus 7mo ago
I imagine the choice of desktop environment has most to do with RAM requirements in Linux. Unrelated to this, despite Ubuntu’s popularity, I think it’s one of the worst distro choices out there, especially for including old kernels for esse
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by dangus 7mo ago
I did it. It’s great, I surprisingly like Linux more than both macOS and Windows. That wasn’t the case the last time I tried it. Still, I don’t think this issue in particular is a big deal in the grand scheme of things. If you’re using Wind
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by dangus 7mo ago
Music the app and Music the subscription service are the two worst, tied with TV the app, TV the hardware device, and TV+ the subscription service. At least TV+ is named differently. Most Apple customers probably don’t even realize you can
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by dangus 7mo ago
I’m pretty sure all endless scroll social media has been scientifically proven to be harmful. Reddit also runs a 1:1 copy of TikTok. I don’t really care to defend the morality of extremely wealthy VC firms like YC. They know the enshittific
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by dangus 7mo ago
This is like saying “that guy would have died eventually if I didn’t murder him.” The corporate shield for accountability is so annoying in this way. Nobody’s ever responsible for things that they did as human beings.
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by dangus 7mo ago
I listen to the game audio, which is why I don’t hear it. I still never said it’s silent. I merely implied that it’s quiet enough to satisfy the design parameters, where it is so quiet it’s forgettable. My ears might hear it but my brain do
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by dangus 7mo ago
Serves me right for asking AI. Of course, CPI doesn’t capture whether people have roommates or have made other adjustments to keep their housing costs within income limits.
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by dangus 7mo ago
And let’s not forget that single income households converted to dual income households, from 47% to 66% of married couples. https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/america-has-becom... (Not my favorite thi
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by dangus 7mo ago
Consumer price index is probably the most common one and it doesn’t include housing.
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by dangus 7mo ago
I only work with local files and I’m really not doing anything mission critical. Employer has the Microsoft office license. I just need a free thing to open the occasional thing.
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by dangus 7mo ago
That doesn’t bother me. I’m just looking for a free office program that runs offline and works well. It looks like the Euro Office suite will improve upon it when it launches and remove the remaining downsides to it.
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by dangus 7mo ago
I have a feeling that the Open Document Foundation is going to end up being the loser here. Collabora is the entity that can fund development with a commercial offering. It sounds like they employ the core contributors to the project as wel
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by dangus 7mo ago
I’m not sure why that’s a question, it’s just a downloaded file. You can even watch it download separately when you enable Apple Intelligence (it’s not tied to OS updates from what I can tell). Of course I imagine Apple is not going to be t
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by dangus 7mo ago
When I read articles like this my reaction is always “put up or shut up.” If you have a better idea, make it happen. The author merely described the parameters of a solution and didn’t even attempt to solve it. In essence, we aren’t even le

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