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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> oh I did use windows as my primary OS, it was Windows 95/98/XP on desktops, So you're definitely not in the amp of people who never claimed to use Windows, which is the group I was comparing you to. > Yes, I've
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Are you calling me condescending, or wrong, or both? Both, it seems? But those are different arguments. Don't confuse the two. Even your reply here is condescending, good god. I'm not confusing anything. You got it right the
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Fair enough. I guess I'm just incredibly skeptical of your claims. Certainly I can get you've never used Windows as your primary OS, but that's quite a different claim from never having used it, which is the specific claim
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> You seem to be objecting to the entire idea of people en masse having preferences that screw up their own enjoyment? No, I'm objecting to the idea that you think you know what people would enjoy more than they do themselves, for a
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> On OpenBSD, the list of processes is mercifully short, and I can tell you what each of them is supposed to do. I've always appreciated a very minimal system, but nowadays Alpine Linux is much better for that IMO. I'm not sure
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> It worked, but a lot of stuff was way harder than it should be. That's because the devs like it that way. They're comfortable with everything they learned 30 years ago and see no need for any of these newfangled usability imp
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I have definitely not used Windows for a hobby for 19 years I never said you did. In fact, I never said anything about you using Windows at all, yet twice now you seem to have taken what I wrote as though I did.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I said a lot. Not most. Sigh. Do you find being pedantic like this productive, honestly? Fine, though. You're making an unwarranted assumption about a lot of people. Happy? > but as an objective true or false question, it&#x2
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Not talking about using it as a daily driver, just contrasting your claim that you have never used twitter with the people who claim to have never used windows over a 20 year period of working or hobbying in IT.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
The problem with your point is your making an unwarranted assumption about most people. It's no different from insisting someone would like a variation of something they have no interest if they would only try it . Or to put it in sim
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
So Androids apps can't use the camera?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Nah. What's true for you isn't true for everyone. If I go on a date in a high end restaurant and hit it off with my date, I might want to show her something briefly or look up something, and we would both be on bored with it and h
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I'd rather think it's the same argument as open-source and public domain. In the context of the point I made, it's definitely more similar to piracy, since the point was about taking advantage of something that if not fr
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
You've only clicked them by accident? No that doesn't count as using, it's just hard to believe. It's like the people who have worked in IT for 20 years but 'never used Windows'.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Yeah, I get that completely, I'm the same way. I just think it's interesting. It's kind of the same argument as piracy, since most people wouldn't pay for what they download if it wasn't free.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
That example you gave is a good reason why artists get pissed off IMO. The LLM is clearly aping some artists specific style, and now missing out on paid work as a result. Not sure I have an opinion on that, technology marches on etc, but it
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
How so? That film is a narrative mess with some good action scenes an not much more. If you want to reference a relevant sci-fi, I'd say Asimov's The Last Question is a better fit.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
So is it Linux with an Android emulation layer or the other way around? I was planning to buy a Fairphone but the Librem looks interesting.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
So you've never clicked on Twitter links, even when they have been submitted to HN?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Not really, not if you secure your phone adequately, which these days is easier than ever. It's unlikely there will be state actors at this wedding or whatever ready to open up your phone and swap out a chip.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> It elevates the experience. For who? Not for the people who might want to use one, and for the people who get annoyed seeing someone else using one, that's their problem.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
If we want to avoid creating a generational gap in cognitive and social competence we should outlaw private education ad significantly boost state education.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Your comment would only make make sense in a dictatorship IMO. Smoking, nor mobile phones should be banned for adults.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
You've definitely used Twitter, even if just to see an announcement or something. Too much important information has been posted there over the last decade for anyone online a lot to have been able to avoid it.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Pretty far from a linux distro honestly, especially since distro tends to imply it can run most linux software.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> The amount of these apps and these processes is increasing and has now made it into governmental rules as well (e.g. new digital IDs). All the more reason to find ways to break those restrictions. Surely running a digital ID app on som
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
How's the battery life? Can you still run Androids apps?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Wrong. There was nothing hyperbolic about what I said. And being against bigots is always a moral high ground.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
MS are doing shitty stuff but they are hardly the monopoly they were in the 90s. You can ignore and avoid Microsoft completely if you want these days. The same is harder for Google - most people at least will want to watch something on YouT
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> "used in production" is not the same as being a serious wordpress alternative. You only said you thought it wasn't ready for prime time, which I think a reasonable interpretation is that you were saying you didn't t

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