KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ @ Kushia @lemmy.ml

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Hey you discovered why it never took off in the first place once Google and co got their mitts into it.

Are you aware that some of those terms are crypto too?

Chrome is run by an ad company with a vested interest in your data and has been outspoken about banning adblockers in the past.

Firefox is a completely open source project run by a non-profit organisation who accepts donations to cover costs.

Other Chromium-based browsers can generally be fine but the overuse of chromium reinforces web standards that are hard to reproduce. A web browser is a fairly complex beast these days even for the best programmers. Just see XMPP for an example of where things could lead to.

While it's true that Firefox receives some of those donations from Google for being the default search engine, they have no influence over decisions made by the Firefox team whatsoever. That's the short version of it.

If and when Lemmy proves it has staying power then search engines will adapt. It's only been a month or so since it blew up.

But no, we can't plan out and try out a new or better system, because we might hurt poor old capitalism's feelings. Won't somebody think of the billionaires?

It does work for code.. just not like this.

I love Slackware but it really is a relic of days gone past (not in a bad way but a nostalgic way).

Back when Slackware launched you didn't just download an .iso file and gigabytes of updates/new software from repositories like you do now. The internet was far too slow and data caps too restrictive to download anything serious. This was a time where even RPM-based distributions didn't have a package manager with proper dependency management. RPM hell was a thing and even Apt was ahead of its time when it came out. You also didn't have the internet to find information as you know it now, you used HOWTO guides if you were lucky or you actually read the man pages and liked it.

Instead of repositories you downloaded from, you ordered a stack of floppies or CDs via snail mail and you just installed and used whatever software was on them. You would only download additional software if you absolutely needed it, usually on the universities network or from others at your LUG. You might have even gotten CDs on the cover of a magazine, that's how I got a copy of Red Hat and tried that distro for the first time back in the day. If you were really lucky your ISP would have a quota-free FTP server you could slowly get stuff from but that only became a thing here post-2000.

A nice, curated stack of CDs like Slackware was the absolute bomb in these times and something you got if you were absolutely serious about running Linux on your PC. Having a set was practically a status symbol around other like-minded nerds and being lent them to make a copy was like being gifted their firstborn child. Ubuntu for one became popular partly because of their program to send CDs out to anybody anywhere in the world free of charge, usually with some free merch included to boot, that's how much we all relied on physical CDs themselves.

Today however, I wouldn't actively choose to run Slackware anymore. Like the internet itself and mailing physical media, distros have moved on to bigger, better things and unfortunately beyond nostalgia Slackware hasn't kept up. These days distros like Arch Linux provide a similar nostalgia hit with more modern tools and functionality at your disposal.

1. All of the basics should just work well out of the box with minimal tweaking. Yes even NVIDIA stuff.
2. The software center needs a massive overhaul. It feels like an afterthought by people who would rather use a command line.

People used to do this to witches and others they decide they don't like. Can really see how burning innocent people at a stake could take off in society sadly.

Make an account on the porn specific ones and you'll find it.

Worth noting that Tucker doesn't even believe most of the hate he puts out and only does it for entertainment purposes.

Unfortunately, most of his viewers think it's real.

GIMP is pretty good, but I think the expectation that it should fully replace Photoshop for professionals is wrong anyway. Use whatever you feel is the best tool in the toolbox for the job.

for 99% of use cases

Brave thing to say online about Gimp 😄

I like a bunch of OSS projects but Firefox is way up there above the rest.

You could use eBay but that's usually the option of last resort.

Your local city probably has referb shops that sell them or if you're keen you can pick them up directly from auction for peanuts.

Reddit is a fairly unique exception to the usual moderator experience. I too used to be an admin on a couple of large forums and IRC servers and I'd say most of those people were decent. Reddit however is plaged with a large number of power mods in many of the medium to larger subs who's sole purpose in life is to be an online lord of opinion and toxicity over others.

That's not to say there's not decent people too but I imagine your experience is squewed a bit if you ran smaller ones.

Every time I've had a use for these either a business PC (or ex-business referb for home) has always been a better, cheaper answer.

Unless space is the absolute unchangeable primary concern than the size difference doesn't matter.

The free market is great!

No, not like that!

I got a ban once for calling someone a good cunt in a supposedly Australian run sub because someone else got offended by it for some reason.

It is an actual term of endearment in Australia.