TheGrandNagus @ TheGrandNagus @lemmy.world

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We've been there for a long time.

Broadly speaking, outside of some specific niche workflows, Linux has been pretty easy for a long time, and Windows has a lot of unintuitive stuff that we only think is easy because we're used to it.

Linux and Windows certainly both have their failings, but it feels like Linux's generally stem from the lack of full time developers on projects, whereas failings in Windows often feel like a deliberate user-hostile choice.

Updates in Linux are not random third party scripts you find online, why are you spreading this lie?

You go into your app store/software centre and click update. To the user, this is all they see.

If you want to feel like a hacker, or find it quicker, you can open a terminal run sudo dnf update or whatever. That's still not a random third party script, though.

People can put their energy wherever they damn well please. You can work on Linux phones if you want to.

This is the question that should've been asked before it was built and shipped.

Now that it has been, though, any effort to keep it out of landfill and find a use for the hardware is good.

Why is this a thing for US phone networks?

Why do they care whether the ones and zeroes sent/received stay on the phone or not? Data is data. It shouldn't be any more complicated than that.

Bloody hell, this is a damn documentary.

Yeah, web browsers cost hundreds of millions per year to maintain, they're mind-bogglingly complicated and costly.

I'd really hope the Linux Foundation would help contribute towards the budget, but LF is quite pro Chromium.

I don't think end users can even come close to funding Firefox development, unfortunately.

Also their initiative to recognise images and generate alt-text for screen-reader users.

My sister is blind and screen readers are close to useless on the web, so it was great to hear Mozilla is working on that.

Seems like an interesting way to get people to slow down (people will want to time the melody not just hear a sudden clash of notes), but it's a bit irritating to see an AI-generated article being posted here.

It's frustrating to read this. Repetitive and verbose, like a student trying to pad out their homework to meet a word count.

It isn't an OLED screen. It's an E-ink one. I don't know where you got this idea that it's an OLED from.

TVs generally don't come with unlocked bootloaders. That shit is locked down big time.

That would certainly be ideal, although there's great difficulty in finding 50"+ monitors, and they cost a huge amount more

Sad people buy more to try to make themselves happy. Retail therapy.

People who serve ads have a vested interest in knowing when you're unhappy and what makes you unhappy, so they can capitalise on it.

Jaguar Land Rover may be owned by Tata, an Indian financial holding company, but they're still based in the UK, designed in the UK, built in the UK.

That was broadly the same for Mini too until the most recent generation, where the EV version is actually a Chinese car.

It's nothing like that at all.

A keyboard is not a piano. Nobody can reasonably expect it to be a piano.

You're talking about a very different situation to the one I am talking about. I never advocated for companies buying up exclusivity deals, particularly not when the development was done by publicly-owned institutions. I'm not sure where you got that from, because it sure as shit wasn't from anything I wrote.

I agree it's the world we should live in. But it's not exactly realistic. And I'd rather discuss ways we can make our lives materially better as opposed to self-flagellation over a perfect solution while mocking anybody who proposes an imperfect but better-than-status-quo solution.

There is so many people letting perfect be the enemy of good on Lemmy.

Charge parents with neglect if they should have been expected to notice and respond to problems. That should be a jailable offense.

Great, send everyone to jail. Overcrowd prisons and put children into care. All because a parent let their child on social media...

I'm more saying the age limit is clumsy here

It isn't. We have age limits for all kinds of things. How should this be any different?

Social media is completely different though, since parents are in direct control of the devices their kids have access to at home, and what's available on their home network. Parents have the power to handle this themselves, so they should be expected to do so.

Parents can also control whether children buy alcohol, yet we still have restrictions on children.

I didn't insult you, I remarked that you didn't appear to have understood my comment, and by the looks of it you still don't.

Apologies if you're upset by my comment. That was not my intent. I was just pointing out the absurdity of your judgemental comment.

I'm not the one taking issue with something I don't own. That's my entire point. You are discouraging someone from wanting something just because you personally don't value it.

The piano is the headphone jack.

You don't need a headphone jack, and feel the need to disparage others who do. "I don't use a headphone jack, so you shouldn't want a phone with one."

Similarly, I don't need a piano. However, I don't go around telling people they shouldn't want/play one, because I recognise that the things I want in my life are different to the things other people want in theirs.

You're not making sense.

Your position was that someone else is wrong to desire audio jacks, because you personally don't need one after spaffing money on some Bluetooth earphones.

My point – which I thought was very obvious, but apparently you missed it – was that just because you don't see the value of something doesn't mean others don't or that it shouldn't exist.

I don't have a piano, and I don't know why you think I do.

My entire metaphor is that I don't play or have a piano, but I recognise that it's stupid for me to discourage others from having them solely because I personally don't have or want one.