Lemmy account of natanox@chaos.social
Didn’t say “ethical billionaire” anywhere, that’s a nonsensical word combination. Just wanted to point out there are differences in what should be done with an Elon Musk, Peter Thiel or Rupert Murdoch (who use their power, time and wealth to make the whole damn world a worse place for everyone for their own gain) compared to a Gabe Newell or George Soros.
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Probably to collect all that it can to sell the data. Or they fucked up the feature and it triggers a connection attempt each second or sth.
No one is forcing anyone to use it, so use it or ignore it.
That’s a little bit naive to say in todays’ IT landscape. Everyone who wishes to keep their privacy and personal safety - which quite frankly should be everyone - only has the option to run some Linux or BSD for their personal computing.
It will always need more effort on the part of the user to get going with it
That’s not true, thanks to hardware vendors as well as lots and lots of work of many people. The culture is still a problem though, as it effectively gatekeeps certain settings like Bootloader (“no normal user should ever have to change those”) or Service Management (“No normal user is supposed to touch those anyway”) behind an enormous skill level most people should not have to reach instead of a GUI people can navigate and understand. Not to mention that many seriously treat CLI commands as universal, something that repeatedly breaks systems of users who’re then rightfully pissed off.
there is no end game with Linux - no inherent need to be used and loved by everyone.
Again, if there were accessible alternatives that respect and protect the user that would be true, however there are not. The “endgame” (bad word for it) should be to finally reach accessibility-parity with Windows so everyone can actually use it.
I get what you want to say, but the circumstances we’re in don’t support your opinion on these things. Arguing like this perpetuates the more often than not rather unwelcoming (as in elitist) nature in the community.
Don’t forget accessibility. Proper GUIs are accessible, they convey function and meaning through form. People constantly forget that.
The only family of distros I knew that could do all those things was OpenSuse thanks to YaST. Unfortunately they just sunset that tool without installing the new alternative “Cockpit” by default now, sooo… yeah. A lot of the things you mentioned can be done via GUI like account management, software and such, but by far not everything. The only distro which got most of those covered I can think of would be Linux Mint, there the CLI can be treated as more of a fallback solution or for those who want to use it.
“The biggest problem of Linux is its culture” immediately confirmed.
The original reply was mostly correct. The problem is the culture. Too many Linux fans and devs either don’t understand or don’t give a shit about accessibility, and when criticized for that immediately build the impenetrable wall of “it’s free so eat what we give you or screw off”.
That’s just hot glue. My desire to snooze is stronger, use superglue next time.
wtf, that’s just a video of violence.
If my dreams indicate their actual lives I better fucking hope they are.
Cancer survivor here. Nothing would make me more happy to see a simple cure for what almost killed me, the sooner the better. Even if it was just after I finished chemo; perhaps even especially right after it to be honest. Remember that there’s always the 5-year time where the danger of the cancer coming back is constantly lingering (especially during the first 12 months). Even if you just finished chemo, that new drug means you won’t have to go through chemo again for that cancer no matter what happens from now on. Nothing, and I mean abso-fucking-lutely nothing, would’ve given me more peace of mind at that time.
My guy, dude, bro, take your smartphone and put it far away from yourself if you don’t use it to look up anything before posting the wildest nonsense and whataboutisms. The demonstrations were huge back then, and even if they weren’t it would be utterly irrelevant to what happens now. The only thing you create with this kind of comment is even more division and hate and even question the legitimate outcry right now, even helping those who want to suppress it. Do better.
I’d make Win95 the stick but with the rock being one-sided. It was a pretty good system for its time, and Windows 98 built upon that.
Creates bad AI subtitles
Ignores customer needs
Changes business to genocidal regime
“Why does everyone hate us?? Must be the damn pirates! :<”
I’ll validate your naps if you want. They are very good naps. You are good at napping.
Lol, as if Telegram was even remotely better or would not bow to the EU.
I think the only safe bets would either be software that’s rather safe due to it’s FOSS nature (with servers outside of the EU), or those who simply do not give a shit. There’s als Signal clearly stating that if the EU does this their app will become unavailable, as they’d rather stop releasing their software to people than collaborating in surveillance and breaking their own secure protocol in some way.
Not to mention chatcontrol literally breaks both basic EU law, human rights as well as most national constitutions. They’d still try though, obviously. It would indeed shatter the current high trust in EU software.
Unfortunately it is only barely better in the EU, and not just because we use the same trashy US services. On the 14th of October the EU parliament decides about chatcontrol, and it doesn’t look too good right now. They’re close to completely eradicating trust of communication.
This is some prime authoritarian bullshit. Who needs properly declared laws and rules anyway, the current administration are “the good guys”, right?? They’ll just tell you if you’re wrong.
Text and style in some areas give me AI vibes…
Yunohost.