Demdaru @ Demdaru @lemmy.world

Fan of breaking echo chambers by being devils advocate. Other than that, ce

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They got...angry? What, typical "don't sass me" or what? What did they saaaay?

I know it's not my place to ask but just soooo curious ;-;

Now, take it with grain of salt but as far as I, as a outsider, see it...

The biggest difference between Democrats and Republicans is the amount of balls. Republicans have the balls, and are willing to smack them to the wall to get what they want.

Democrats instead prefer to taking the easiest possible way out and not do anything. But at the end of the day, both are liking where this circus is going.

“People of color” is also pretty much the same thing, and it’s almost universally used these days. What’s the difference between person of color and colored person?

Left aiming to be holier than thou. Idea is to put "people" before their defining trait. Which is admirable, but in this specific case achieves nothing.

That cheat sheet is weirdly coherent. Human, almost. Weird.

The won't kill Windows until there is some alternative for consuments and no, Linux ain't it...mostly because there is still a big faith in common folk that Linux is some arcane tech. Which is pretty much proven in their opion when they try to use it, cause they try to use it like Windows.

And no, Lemmings don't count, most of us have some kind of dev experience, be it professional or hobbyist.

Eh, Trump's stupid enough to openly oppose peaceful protest. And Americans seem to have a reaaaally short fuse when someone physically spits them in the face.

Soon, they won't be so peaceful.

This rule is ancient. I never seen such signs in my life - read about them in history books tho

Not who you asked but I live in Poland and our self-checkouts are pretty flawless in my opinion. Simple combination of scale, bardcode scanner and touch screen and voila. Most shops that have them, have at least four of them. Supermarkets often have 6-8 and dedicated employee to oversee them, sometimes with their own touch screen and ability to bypass age checks or weight problems from their stand without moving to you.

They only scream if you scan something age-restricted or if weight doesn't match. The second problem was much bigger in beginning, nowadays it's actually rare.

Edit: Oh, and we do have that scan-the-receipt to leave. Again, early on they were...less than flawless, but today they work ok. Heck, one supermarket got it installed only a year ago and damn that scanner is snappy af. Sometimes scans code before I manage to fully position it xD

Not giving them enough attention.

Here I am. Didn't want animal because I struggle mentally a lot and I know I don't have vapacity to keep them occupied. Partner finally understood and backed off just for her mom to put us in situayion where either we takr her cat or it ends in shelter. Cat my partner spent a lot of her life with. >_<

Did not know about the API. This clears a lot, thanks.

And about closed garden being wanted - if evrything goes through the people who made the thing, then these things are guaranteed to work on the thing. No wondering, no thinking, it just works. And such closed and tight thing was something I heard from people boasting iphones as best thing.

But part of the reason Apple is dominant is their closed garden approach - that is literally part of their product. I cannot understand how that's a bad thing. For me it's akin to a flute manufacturer producing flutes and everything is okay until they get popular. Suddenly they are hated because they don't produce flutes incorporating parts from different manufacturers? Even if they produce them to allow exchanging the parts?

Same for Microsoft and their Internet Explorer case. I didn't understand back then I don't understand now why they lost lawsuit if they didn't, IIRC, block you from installing anything else.

It would be different matter for me if it was for example Windows explictly blocking you from downloading another browser than Internet Explorer. That's abuse. But just having a default made by the same company being bad?

But you are not enforced to use Windows or Android. Closed ecosystem is part of the product in this case. Nobody stops anyone else from creating, for example, Linux. So how is it anti-competetive?

Okay. One question.

Why would company A need to accomodate any other "app store" in their product, especially if one of their product's selling point is how streamlined it is? I am not even talking about apple but in general, alas even in their case - they made it clear how it works. People accepted it and bought their product. It doesn't hurt anyone, and they are not the only player either. So why attack them now? On what basis?

Or like, you know, focus for a second and read the message instead of seeing text and responding only to first sentence, if not just the title xD

More like, 10 worked, was fast, was a nornal OS. 8 sucks ass, 11 is adware, 7 was fun, vista was bloatware, xp was woking.

I used both 95 and 98 but as a kid and don't remember much.

And I'm not even 40!

Not much experience, but quickly learned .bind() in JS after it switched me to window instead of object.

You just discouraged me from linux lol. Steam using 2GB RAM in the background? Am I understanding this correctly?Because on Win 10 it uses ~350 MB, even with open window.

Look at it's like that. If you change out one part at a time, everyone considers the ship the same.

Change many components at once and what you hear? "It's practically a new ship!".

Here, Ship of Theseus solved by instinct and linguistics.

Older gens I'd say. My mother had afriend who always came in without knockin and just...vibed. Like they suddenly materialised in kitchen and talked while eating or materialised near table and drank coffee.

My partner's mother had someone like that too.

Meanwhile I am having a meltdown if someone tries the door before knocking (they are always locked anyway)