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12 days agoYou do everything you’re told? They say work overtime and you say how much?
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2·12 days agoAh, yep. Indeed. Thanks for pointing that out.
2212·16 days agoPeople will never learn, will they? You give them AP and they go for the Jack Dorsey clone. Amazing
Nothing to do with being Chinese. Amazon is going to brick some of their devices that play music in cars IIRC. There are western companies that made pace makers who closed source their communication protocols, went bust, and now the pace makers are in patients who have no way to service them.
Opensourcing after deprecation should be written into law.
Privacy dies in thunderous applause. Good job on voting in the conservatives and ludites everybody (or not voting at all)! A+ participation in democracy.
21·1 month agoRe-installing an OS is easy
Hmmm, this is where our opinions diverge. It’s easy when things go right. UEFI and MBR changed that. And I’ve had a few linux installations fail for obscure reasons (mostly hardware support).
Installers also say “backup your data” but if you’re coming from windows, what do you do when your stuff is on onedrive? What if you know nothing about partitioning and the installer just wipes the entire disk clean even though you expected your D:/ with your backup to be kept?
Oh, an should you keep that windows recovery partition? What’s on there? How do you access the data to check?There are a bunch of things to consider when installing to prevent data-loss and IMO they aren’t as straightforward as they seem.
Doing a regular system update or upgrading from one LTS release to another are comparable to oil-check and changing a tire. Installing an OS, IMO, not so much.
There’s just a lot of stuff going on and everybody can make an argument for knowing something:
- Maths is the most important tool to mankind
- It is imperative to understand your own brain because it makes a lot of decisions
- If you drive a car, you better know how it works
- Politics is crucial to our society and being an informed citizen is paramount
And so on. It’s all true, but you only have so many hours in a day, and everybody has a different life. You could live in the most affluent society and be dealing with stuff that has nothing to do with computers.
Also, who decides what’s “basic knowledge”? I know a lot about software, what I know about hardware is minimal. What’s minimal to me though might be advanced to another and vice versa.
We should be trying to be more empathetic. Recommending an advanced Linux OS to a newbie isn’t empathetic. Expecting a user to know how to install an OS isn’t empathetic.
I thought they were blocked everywhere. What’s going on? Bunch of bots or something?
5·1 month agoExcuse me for my ignorance, but what is the importance? Which questions does this answer, what does it confirm, and what does it mean for the future? As a layman, I’m in the dark on this.
No the issue is that we had a second eternal September when the iPhone dropped, and since then the computer literacy of the average boomer was allowed to become what we expect out of everyone.
That is true, iPhones have made people less literate, but it is because many many devs are just like other experts: proud of their ability to do stuff the minority can. We have very few tech-folk who are willing to make things usable for non-techies.
There is a huge “git gud” and RTFM crowd out there, and I for one am glad they get to stay in their niches or get called out for that elitism. Linux forums were (probably still are) the epitome of elitism with people saying insane stuff like “its people’s own fault for using windows” and in the same breath “I don’t want more linux users because it will destroy the experience”. Just a bunch of hipsters gatekeeping stuff with non-existent or shitty documentation, doing their darndest not to let people in for fear of losing the ability to proudly claim “I use linux”.
Look at the Arch crowd. They still haven’t grown out of their ridiculous propensity to scream “i use arch btw” or recommend it to newbies. Arch users smell ineptitude and will promptly call it out to ridicule it or start frothing at the mouth before letting loose their 4 favorite letters: RTFM.
It’s taking a minority of devs who care about UX and large corpos to bring linux to the masses. Without them, we’d still be hard-stuck in with technical troglodytes that have a terminal illness and can’t stop mentioning a recompile every 5 minutes.
However, in a study we published in 2023, we found that, while European countries have banned the use of colistin in farming, paradoxically they still actively export livestock feeds that contain colistin to low- and middle-income countries such as Nigeria for agriculture use.
When people complain about people fleeing their countries in the global south, they often forget or omit that the global north plays a large part in the state of the countries being fled from. A majority seems to believe that they can continue living their lives, built upon the extraction of wealth from others, with no repercussions and constantly amazed when they are proven wrong.
People do not vote for improvements in other countries. In a globally connected world, people stay myopic in time and space, only caring enough to take action related to things that happen to them, those close to them, or those that are like them.
So, something the majority of people can never attain. Awesome.
Or are you going to hand me a plot of land that isn’t as big as a thimble? If so, sign me up. I want it.
17·1 month agoPirateSoftware was a blizzard dev, is a current dev, and is just basically lobbying against change. I don’t believe he’s being genuine in his arguments and is misrepresenting the cause or hasn’t understood it. It was possible to make games that didn’t stop working once a server shut down and it still is.
Being given a server binary isn’t a licensing issue unless you make it one. And because publishers and studios sign shitty contracts, doesn’t make it right, nor the only way to do business. If he wants to do business that way, do that shit in the US, but if something meaningful happens in the EU, then don’t sell your games there. Simple as…
We can file that under: expanding worldviews.
“Selecting a server is too complicated”. Won’t ever understand that.
Probably not. People will hang onto stuff because “everybody’s there” and “but lemmy doesn’t have enough content” 🤷♂
Lemmy should have the option to defederate from instances depending on automated criteria. Sign ups without admin checks are a great attribute to use for defederation, because it leads to such abuse. I’ve finally blocked most communities and instances that have news about US politics and have a clean feed, but for newcomers, that shit is everywhere.
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