SomeLemmyUser @ Jean_le_Flambeur @discuss.tchncs.de

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Feel ya. But for valid critic you are wrong here the Dow vote count suggests.

I have seen few comparisons as deranged as this one

This is stupid. While i am all up advocating for foss, trying to argue peoples usecases into non existence is not helping anyone.

My grandparents ran into problems with Linux because they wanted to connect their TV (second monitor) and use team viewer with it (to control it from their phone.

Some of my super non it friends use lots of monitors because who the hell knows why they need this for office stuff.

Its really bothering me that a part of "Linux die hards" always blames missing features or complicated processes on the user.

"Oh yeah, you want a working system? HERES WHY YOU SHOULDT WANT THAT AND WHY IT IS ACTUALLY A FEATURE THAT ITS NOT WORKING. Noob"

I think we need to accept that Linux is not for anyone.

Sure I can install the aur version of team speak from console, but my grandparents can't. They can't even read English documentation.

For people living it Linux is fine, and better than other systems, you can change your desktop envirment, fit it to your needs, not be constantly spied on, change everything you want (if you understand it enough to compile from source) nice.

But if you want anything more than "one monitor, mail, office (with bad grammar and spell check)" but are not comfortable with reading through pages and pages of documentation or spending an amount of time tinkering with your PC others spend with their kids, Linux just won't work!

And we need to be honest to people with that or we set wrong expectations.

I am not dumb and not a total noob, but I broke my system recently because I wanted to change my username and didn't read through all the little details why Linux can't do this like any other os. On any payed os this is one klick, on Linux your documents break (because of groups), your desktop items break, your taskbar breaks (and I still haven't got the taskbar panel working today, because no matter what the home folder in plasma settings is, panel always interprets ~/ as the old homefolder path, which doesn't exist anymore and for the love of god I can't find where panel stores this info), loots of symlinks break and im thinking about just installing from scratch because it is easier than to fix everything.

Linux just isn't a payed os and you can't expect everything from it you can from windows or osx. There are (lot of) usecases win and osx easily accomplish, and Linux doesn't if your not a nerd or have lots of time.

Just saying those usecases are "not needed". While people clearly need them is only helping Microsoft and apple.

Europe has been the worst, us is currently the worst. That's exactly my point.

With Imperialism and colonialism on this scale, everything is interwoven with the ideology.

What to love about the country? The cultural tradition with its slavery and natives abuse?

The present state with mass homelessness, that CIA who breaks every human right I'm the book? The propaganda, war and regime changes?

You can't decouple something in the country from the rest.

Maybe you like Meaningless feel good pop songs, but they exist and are popular because of the above. Maybe you like some food, but you can't divide that from the fact that Americans die from obesity while in the rest of the world people starve.

Imperialism has swallowed everything and integrated it into the system, that's how it works.

Loving a national state can't be pure, because national Staates cant be pure

I dont even know the word

After Google: no i dont like stalin

What numbers? There are only colorful circles

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Haha lul clueless americans thinks loving your imperialistic homeland is normal.

Germany is a fckin shithole, but at least I don't pretend it is not.

Types

rm -r -f Presses strg+v (instead of strg + shift + v)

Hits enter

Maschine proceeds to delete the home folder as the garbage that comes when pressing normal strg+v gets interpreted so...

This butthurt post was brought to you by an american (propapbly)

Maybe now i will get a life

The painter didnt und erstand the purpose of a bong. It needs to BUBBLE THROUGH THE WATER to get cold and (in this case not really) clean.

If you tunnel through the water with a hose, you have made an toilet-water-tank-pipe with extra steps - neglecting the whole point of having a toilet

The snowpiercer series.

That is exactly what i mean. Alternatively you can just offer to pay the Party of the Politician. They will know what you are paying them for. As long as you dont write down what they are getting payed for you'r good.

Those who forget the xmpp are doomed to repeat it (s mistakes)

Captain disilusion

If you are lucky you get one video a year, but it will be good

Jung & naiv And Aufwachen Podcast

Are the best ones.- but they are german

This looks quite interesting tbh. I will habe a look, thanks for suggesting

Hahahahaha Tell that my neighbourhood where at prime time the internet becomes unusable because of latency and bandwidth.

Internet is OK in rich kid parts of the city where there are one-family homes. In poorer parts where there are lots of little apartments on poor old copper cables with vectoring you'd rather drive to the library than to try downloading the book (at least at times where people are at home). You are faster that way

Thats why i talked about vdsl (vectoring) which is very common in germany as our Cooper cables are Quite shitty.

Fact is: every evening the internet goes bad (latency up, bandwidth down). at work times or at night it works fine. This is not only true for me but for all neighbours.

I don't know every technical detail of why this happens, the technician from the Telekom said it is because of interferences in overused and bad in shape cables due to vectoring not having enough failsaves/checksums/something like that.

That on the topic.

On a personal level: This is a discussion about alternatives to word. I would like to transition to linux, because i value the moral/ethical aspects of Foss software. I state here reasons which keep me from transitioning (as always its a tradeoff between security and convenience). One of this arguments is "the internet where I live is not good enough for online office, so it can't be proclaimed as an solution for every situation" You telling me "the amount of users is not relevant for you" implying "your internet is not bad, you are hallucinating this" is not really helpful or appropriate.

P.s. I am a student with limited money so I have an 1gb 4g contract for 3,99. In my part of the city you only get 3g though. Also university is a metal building where mobile works unreliable AF, most days campus WiFi works fine, but enough days it doestn. I can't afford not being able to write texts in those situations.

Sure if you get 5g and have money to pay for lots of data volume on your phone its not that bad, but this is not viable for everyone.