I've tried Manjaro kde and mint kde and it's been a dumpster fire both times.
Then again gnome was also a dumpster fire on Manjaro. It honk I'm seeing the common thread there.
I want to love kde.. why won't it let me?Fuck gnome though.
My first 4 months or so with Linux sucked. I literally broke a keyboard once out of frustration. I often find myself wanting to scream "can you just fucking work for once?" More often than I'd care to admit.
I've been at it for about a year and a half and I've learned more about computing in that time than in the 30-odd years before. I'm starting to get the hang of bash, I've figured out the cause of, and fixed, problems without reading anything online (Google is fucking broken and it's not getting better so it's often not an option anymore anyway).
It can be hard. And frustrating. But it's freeing to realize just how fucking stupid Microsoft made me. And the privacy issues always bothered me (in the process of degoogling ATM) but they bother me more now than they ever did. It's fucking gross. And it's appalling that companies collect what they do.
Point being your criticisms are all valid but if windows is a Honda Civic then Linux is a rusted out Porsche in the backyard. It's going to take some effort to get it where you want it but when you do baby it'll purr.
I won free airline tickets once and was shocked and appalled when they said I COULDNT use them to go to the moon. I fought long and hard for the right to use those tickets the way I wanted but alas.
I think they do hell the consumer. And agree it's weird. But would argue against that being their goal with the caveat that what I'm about to say makes no real difference to anything.
I think they're looking to increase profits first and foremost. However, because they're not answerable to shareholders, they understand that the best way to do this is by building loyalty and ensuring "stickiness" loyalty. ¹
It's still about money. They just understand that the safest way to make it is by having a long term view and not burning people.
I'm not sure if this applies where you are but since covid it is HARD to talk to people irl. I'm chatty and will strike up conversations everywhere I go. Before covid most people engaged. Since they look at me like I'm grow>ng a second head. Dating apps have always worked well for me though. Damn well.
I want to though. Nothing holds my interest like it used to. When a fromsoft game or a deep crpg comes out that isn't made by Larian I love every minute of getting sucked in but it's all over too quick and I'd rather play checkers with the wall than pull the lever on another digital skinner box. It doesn't appeal. It never did. Fuck off.
God DAMN that's a well reasoned and written comment that demonstrates a lot of familiarity with the material.
I hope digg 2.0 never happens to reddit. Lemmy needs to stay like this forever.
Only thing id add is that for the moment any ai generated art needs quite a bit of human intervention for it to be exactly what the artists envisions. You're argument about the lack of cap on demand for what AI can generate is a great point, because that would need to be the case for people in some industries to keep jobs as ai progresses. In image generation were already starting to see the prompts needed to generate what one wants be less cryptic and more like natural language, though we ain't there yet. It's moving quickly though.
I think a lot of the uncertainty lies in not knowing for sure where a lot of this tech will land. Will it be able to write engaging, novel, and new scripts / books, or even entire movies one day? Or is it always gooing to be the eloquent, stupid dumpster firebthay is chatgpt?
If the tech never becomes seamless, competent, and all around useful, the need for human intervention increases. If it does, it decreases. Which doesn't mean there won't be jobs dealing with creating the input and directing the output, but unless regulations cut off access to these tools to all but the richest individuals and companies those jobs will be handling a commodity that is essentially post scarcity.
Most jobs today focus either on selling things people have created and are all governed in some way by scarcity - of natural resources, of the time it takes to create software or art,, supply chains, etc. If ai is good enough the human input needed is trivial or even nonexistent, and the output governed only by computing resources, efficiency of the code, etc. Both of these CAN be(aren't always - the compute cost of AI has ready raised eyebrows and running dozens of enterprise-grade GPUs isn't exactly gree) so trivial st scale that the driving force behind what's crested is a demand for curation stronger than any weve seen in the world. The noise:signal ratio is going to get so bad, and it wouldn't surprise me if one day thousands of novels better than any human being has ever written lie unread on magnetic tape .
Yeah it does depend on how you set up security but...
I never used to give a shit about being secure until I got I got a virus last year. This wasn't just any virus. I'm pretty sure there were people on the other end but it lived in my uefi, made it's way onto 3 android phones, a tablet, my laptop, and I caught one of my phone uploading custom firmware to my Samsung tv. Samsung claimed it was impossible but. It was in progress.
Some glitch allowed me to resize the window that was being used on my phone to see their remote desktop application. And holding a button meant they couldn't activate that button so I was able to get a peak under the hood so to speak..
Regardless I ended up needing a new motherboard and it took me ages to figure out how to get at the secret partitions on my pcs hard drives. I have to do a full NAND reinstall of the OS on my phones since. Surprise surprise. It lived in the eeprom (eeprom? Where the bootloader is) and factory resets don't touch that.
I've been paranoid ever since. The fucked up part was (I still used windows at the time).that it hooked into the kernel at boot so the vrisu itself was invisible, but I could see changes to the registry it would make in real time, the one drive files it would create, the permissions you'd gradually lose if you did anything that could be interpreted as fucking with it.
I'm not sure how long it was doing it's thing before I found it plenty of people I talked to didn't even believe any of this, and it was hard to prove because it was fucking invisible.
So when I hear about security functions like you describe that amount to "don't worry we'll show you it's secure trust is" unless I'm able to really get at EVERYTHIG in real time and have it backed up, locally or another online service, I just can't feel secure.
Even some of the most secure platforms have the NSA hooked into everything. Like. If it doesn't show me EVERYTHING I don't fucking trust it. Full stop.
I've tried Manjaro kde and mint kde and it's been a dumpster fire both times. Then again gnome was also a dumpster fire on Manjaro. It honk I'm seeing the common thread there.
I want to love kde.. why won't it let me?Fuck gnome though.