I hate it, but as a person with a lot of technical requirements on my software and system, there are use cases that I simply cannot use linux for. I'm developing a mod for Satisfactory right now, and a conversation I saw in the community was about how nobody has ever gotten the dev environment running in linux. That and other use cases make it virtually impossible for me to switch.
And dual booting is a non-starter. I'm not going to reboot my entire system just to check my email because I don't trust windows with my login details. That's absurd. I need access to those things all the time and I'm not going to keep a second high-maintenance system on hand out of a sense of principle.
Virtualising is also a non-starter because I need every little bit of performance I can get out of my machine, and again, operating a second high maintenance system which the original system now sits atop an extra stack which itself requires maintenance... yeah, no, I have things that need to be done. If one day I can afford to have a second gaming machine set up to tinker with then maybe, but that's asking a lot.
The user unfriendliness of linux is not a selling point. If you want to make an actual difference to our technological ecosystem and break the windows monopoly then it should matter to you that most people aren't technically proficient enough to use linux without extra help, because that guarantees it's never going to succeed at that goal.
That line is way too thin to be a dick, that's the taint. We're viewing the balls from underneath. The corresponding one on the other side would be the titty-taint.
Well he was kind of always a cantankerous arse in general, so not all that surprising really. I'm always leery of anyone whose entire comic persona is a misanthrope.
The definition of "mental health" involves a determination about whether a person is capable of carrying on normal day to day functioning, which is very much up to the person in question to define.
Someone like Musk is rich enough that virtually no amount of inconvenience could stop him from carrying on as he wished.
So basically, people who have more money have less mental health problems by definition, and the notion of mental health has been used to imprison inconvenient poor people without trial since its inception.
Billionaires? Forget about it. They can surround themselves with sycophants and remove anyone they don't like from their presence. They can have people killed if they feel like it, and there's not a police body in the world who's going to touch them.
You need to forget the notion that they face any kind of accountability, from "friends" or otherwise.
Or most people who do this job can't afford to get deliveries themselves so they never encounter the problem themselves, and they're not paid enough to actually care about it. Their energy is spent thinking about getting to the next delivery, not doing each one perfectly.
Sorry, but for a just world, you need a class war. The rich & powerful need the system to oppress almost everyone on the planet so they can continue to profit. No class war would be great, but they are already fighting it, and we will never be free of it until we win.
Musk & Bezos, if you could ever get them in a room, would have no patience to hear you out. They are committed to the notion that they are special and you are a worthless peon because they have all of the money & power and you don't. They would rage at you for even suggesting a change that makes the peons less poor, because they don't think we "deserve" it. They think we need them to rule us.
They have to think this way, because it's the only way they can maintain their position and not be crushed by the guilt.
I'm a developer too, and I appreciate the offer very much, but I'm not really in a situation where I could work on something like this. It's just an idea though, anyone could run with it.
Are you the person who keeps materialising in my home and screaming "DEFECATE" then disappearing in a puff of fart-cloud?
I've had a leg injury lately and I can't make it to my upstairs bathroom that fast. You have destroyed my stair carpet. The cleaner said it was "unsalvageable" and "honestly shameful". You need to stop.
I maintain that it would be relatively simple to create an open source version of an app/protocol like this that serves people's needs for this exact use case, and if it were designed for any community to use, it could be essentially free as you say and high quality, and be a single point of service for everyone.
If this were done right it could put all these thin platforms out of business and allow delivery drivers to establish fair terms for themselves.
This would be a really good fit for federation I think.
I think I've blocked like one or two obvious trolls in my time here, and it's been relatively peaceful. I haven't felt any need to block people for the most part.
It's really hard for openly reactionary communities to get a hold here, because rather than being given free reign by fiat, they get defedded. The reactionaries are definitely here, and lemmy.world among other open instsnces are a bit of a haven for them, but even lemmy.world has to make concessions to the fact that if they become too much of a shithole then the other instances will make alternatives and render them irrelevant.
It turns out that without a big daddy institution to shelter them, reactionaries don't thrive, their communities can't metastisise, and they are super unpopular. That's the big difference.
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I hate it, but as a person with a lot of technical requirements on my software and system, there are use cases that I simply cannot use linux for. I'm developing a mod for Satisfactory right now, and a conversation I saw in the community was about how nobody has ever gotten the dev environment running in linux. That and other use cases make it virtually impossible for me to switch.
And dual booting is a non-starter. I'm not going to reboot my entire system just to check my email because I don't trust windows with my login details. That's absurd. I need access to those things all the time and I'm not going to keep a second high-maintenance system on hand out of a sense of principle.
Virtualising is also a non-starter because I need every little bit of performance I can get out of my machine, and again, operating a second high maintenance system which the original system now sits atop an extra stack which itself requires maintenance... yeah, no, I have things that need to be done. If one day I can afford to have a second gaming machine set up to tinker with then maybe, but that's asking a lot.