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931.
by swiley 5y ago
The MS Windows platform is more dead than the idea of personal computing.
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by swiley 5y ago
I've given up. If you have a computer with a spinning rust disk this crap alone will saturate the I/O and become completely unusable. (then you have OEM bloatware which has also become harder to remove and bloated software in gen
933.
by swiley 5y ago
This is probably just going to be used so corporations can deploy software onto your device without worrying about you tampering with it (stuff like DRM.)
934.
by swiley 5y ago
Curated social media is extremely effective for mass manipulation (that's why funding it with ads is so lucrative.) None of this should be surprising.
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by swiley 5y ago
One of the biggest arguments I hear for using Windows instead of Linux is that people are used to the UI. I've been using the same FVWM config and shells inside Xterms since I started using Linux 18 years ago, meanwhile Windows has gon
936.
by swiley 5y ago
No. It normalizes OS vendor maintained AppStores which is a huge deal for Apple. The only way to avoid them now is to install Linux.
937.
by swiley 5y ago
Shocking Curated social media that is funded by manipulating people (ads) is manipulating people.
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by swiley 5y ago
Yes, to people who don't fly though an ultralight and Cessna both look like "small planes."
939.
by swiley 5y ago
Plastic is an almost meaningless word (at least with metal you can point to part of the periodic table ... until you have to deal with stuff like silicon.) The only shared property among plastic by definition is that it can be worked using
940.
by swiley 5y ago
>the only legal way to fly a drone was with an actual aircraft pilot’s license. That must have been a rather large drone (or maybe what you mean is "fly a drone near an airport or city") since you don't even need a pilot&#
941.
by swiley 5y ago
And before you say "just buy a different device" my understanding is that Indian customs have blocked the PinePhone.
942.
by swiley 5y ago
I haven't used Facebook in 10 years but my friends have shown me it. What's there to distribute? The chat functionality? The main feed is just a heavily curated stream of garbage that's vaguely influenced by your friend'
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by swiley 5y ago
>The new guidelines also mandate companies such as Signal and WhatsApp to share the details of the first originator of a message. Well that seems pretty idiotic. It should be interesting to see how all this works out.
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by swiley 5y ago
The problem I have is that the AppStore doesn't solve the problem of people being tricked into misconfiguring their computer. Until Apple employs experts to stand physically between the machine and the user this is always going to be p
945.
by swiley 5y ago
Eventually people will get fed up with youtube. Peertube is already beginning to become popular and many youtubers are posting there and odesy. Google has become like most large American companies with a self destructive management layer, e
946.
by swiley 5y ago
IMO: it's always been pretty dumb to use youtube for important things, doubly so important things that avoid the discoverability aspect.
947.
by swiley 5y ago
This was already starting when I was in university a couple years ago, more accurately people are hearing about it now.
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by swiley 5y ago
My dad worked in DC three days every week (so that's two nights he wasn't home) and still managed to teach me and my siblings math (we were home schooled) and find time for fun with us. I don't want to sound harsh but being a
949.
by swiley 5y ago
It really depends on where you're going. On the east coast going between DC and Richmond to visit my parents is <$100 and cheaper than driving or flying. Also airports really suck now and I'm happy to avoid them.
950.
by swiley 5y ago
Most of the web seems like the devs are stuck in the early 2000s just with faster computers. I think part of it is stack overflow where 15 years ago the only way to do a lot of stuff was a couple functions full of jquery so that's what
951.
by swiley 5y ago
"Catholic" in church means something like "Common" in Desktop Environments.
952.
by swiley 5y ago
>Dependency management utterly sucks in Linux. What the hell? That's one of the biggest things desktop Linux got really right! Sure older binaries don't work but you shouldn't be flinging binaries around anyway.
953.
by swiley 5y ago
>Linux on Desktop lost. All it had to do to "win" was be available to those who wanted it, which was the case. Mobile Linux is no different and in that sense it's definitely winning now.
954.
by swiley 5y ago
People say my OS looks old because it's always cwm/fvwm full of xterms with vim or emacs but I'm comfortable on 10 year old budget computers because I reflexively avoid anything shiny looking.
955.
by swiley 5y ago
IME windows takes more work to administrate than many Linux distros at this point.
956.
by swiley 5y ago
The solution to this is to make the war these companies are waging on personal computing illegal, but it might be too late for that.
957.
by swiley 5y ago
I feel like if I committed locally more often and merged before pushing I would use it way more often.
958.
by swiley 5y ago
>self interest (companies do not want to attack their own users). Anyone who has bought an Android phone in the past 5 years knows that's not true.
959.
by swiley 5y ago
Linux is used as the primary OS for many developers, it has a market share comparable to OSX and Windows there. PopOS has made desktop Linux intuitive even for people who don't care what's running on their machine. With Apple and
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by swiley 5y ago
Everything about their platform is miserable. I'm so glad mobile Linux is starting to become usable and we finally have a real alternative.

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