VeganCheesecake @ VeganCheesecake @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I'm sure it's a common enough occurrence in a community with lots of computer nerds.

I do recognise that there are a lot of usecases in which Linux isn't currently the sensible choice for most users, but I also feel the ready/not ready thing is quite as clear cut. While I'm obviously rather biased, I do genuinely think that there is a subset of casual users that would do better with Linux than with Windows.

I could talk about how Windows has been a lot more problematic for me than Linux, but that has been mainly down to driver issues with a specific network adapter, and we both know that isn't the reason I prefer Linux anyway.

I've put Fedora on my mum's pc after it became clear that Win10 will EoL soon, and that Win11 would refuse to run on it. Have had significantly fewer support requests since then.

Her work is mostly done via Citrix, which has an official Fedora Client. Everything else happens in the Browser, or sometimes in OnlyOffice, which so far has worked as a drop-in replacement for MS Office.

As always, it really depends on the use case.

I never got the motivation this "otherwise benevolent superintelligence" would have to behave like this. There seems to be absolutely no benefit whatsoever that could be derived retroactively punishing people for not working on it (hard enough). Whether or not it does is immaterial to the motivation of those who were convinced it might.

Also, focusing on one possible future scenario and completely ordering your life around it seems, like, dumb.

I don't think the average user thinks much about the platform they're on, and about who controls it. I think they go to wherever most of their family/friends are.

Also, those platforms are firmly in the mainstream, the alternatives aren't really - you'd have to actively go search for them. People just aren't likely to do that, I don't think.

Yeah, sure. Just don't look at the last election results.

In theory, maybe. In practice, I've had a lot of errors in that vein that very much wouldn't go away, and where made much harder to diagnose by their obtuseness.

Honestly, I even dislike the mindset. Just make a big header with the generic error message and a little one below that gives some details. Having users interested in how your software works is not a bad thing.

Yeah, but the film is a glaringly obvious satire of the society it depicts, the book isn't.

I'm pretty sure that's a Suffren class, and there's both diesel and nuclear powered versions. Dunno how I'd tell from the outside, and don't think the caption is necessarily all that trustworthy.

While what you said isn't untrue, .ml does Bill itself as a general purpose instance. Also, not all the replies are from accounts on .ml.

In a more general sense, I always felt that only reading sources that alligned with one's political alignment narrowed one's perspective.

Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, taz, dpa, Reuters, ap, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Deutschlandfunk. Some others, if they come up. Mostly via RSS.

I think the person might not have been qualified to make diagnoses at that point? With any MRT I've ever had taken, the people who actually took it told me they weren't allowed to comment on it in any way, and I had to wait for the doctor to take a look.

Finally someone who actually uses a Vostro. Always found that name unreasonably funny.

I set up my current desktop while reading Gaiman's The Sandman, so it's called Morpheus. Because I felt I needed to keep with the theme, my laptop is hades, my phone persephone, my server apollo, my router helios, the media centre PC is orpheus, the pi that boots and updates it outside of usage hours is eurydice, and the pi that runs home assistant is zeus (because it's responsible for light(n)ing.

Oh, and the work profile on my phone is sisyphos.

Thank you so much.

I much prefer Multi-Monitor on vesa arms. Works better with the way I work, less hassle in games that don't like unusual aspect ratios.

Yes Your Grace looks interesting, I'd be happy to try that one.

I mean, didn't he do that Carlson interview a few days ago? I wouldn't put it past Trump to pardon him, as long as he keeps on message and drums up some attention.

In German, they're Glühwürmchen ("glow worms").

That's bullshit, I'm good friends with several ex-partners. Might not work for some people, but definitely not a general rule.

Any video surveillance not controlled by you and you only seems like a bad idea. iRobots products have had privacy problems for years, regardless of whether they're owned by Amazon or not (which they aren't, merger got cancelled). Alexa does cost them money, but I wouldn't use any non-FOSS non-self-hosted smart home system for privacy and security reasons.