d3Xt3r @ d3Xt3r @lemmy.world

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But what if you messaged them via SMS, would they refuse to reply back?

rest of the world

Except New Zealand! Although FB Messenger is more dominant here, plenty of us still use plain old SMS, and I'm really grateful for it.

You can create a poll here: https://strawpoll.com/

Does anyone else look at "TSMC" and subconsciously think of "Transmeta Crusoe"? I need to keep reminding my brain that's not what TSMC stands for lol.

Nobody will learn the command line without reading the docs

I did.

Some people prefer a more hands-on approach - like me.

Not that I'm averse to reading or anything, but I learn best by actually getting my hands dirty - especially if it involves computers. When I first learnt DOS, it was because I wanted to play games like Prince of Persia, Dangerous Dave and Alley Cat, so I watched my older cousin type various commands and observed the effects. When he wasn't around, I'd sneakily boot up his PC and figured out that instead of typing CD PRINCE, I could type CD CAT, followed by CAT.EXE to play Alley Cat. A bit of trial and error over the years and I mastered the basics of DOS. It wasn't until 5 or 6 years later and that I got my hands on "DOS for Dummies", and filled in the gaps in my knowledge. Three decades later, I still haven't managed to beat Dangerous Dave, but hey, at least I mastered DOS.

With Linux, again, I learnt it by practice, mostly thanks to a free Red Hat 5.0 CD bundled with a computer magazine. Red Hat got me curious, but it was SuSE that blew me away with how polished and professional it was, compared to the clunky Win9x. Long story short, after decades of distro hopping, I finally settled down on Arch, but by that time I'd already figured out how most of the nuts and bolts fit, but the Arch wiki certainly helped fill in the gaps.

Like how necessity is the mother of invention, there needs to be a motivation factor for people to learn something new. In saying that, I wouldn't know how you'd motivate say a Gen Z person to pick up appreciate the CLI, unless they were already technically inclined, have a curious nature and a passion for learning new things.

The Play Store peaked back when it was still called Android Market (which I still reckon is a better name). DAE remember

There's an official Wolfram plugin for ChatGPT now, so all math can be handed over to it for solving.

Got any examples? I don't recall any actually quality and worthwhile channels that still use those dumb thumbnails.

But does it have activity detection and screen sharing?

Is there a possibility of any workaround, like making a full-screen image or setting the background color to black? I've tried multiple browsers (Samsung Internet, Chrome, Kiwi Browser) and all of them show a white splash screen even when dark mode is enabled both in the browser and system.

Edit: Nevermind, Firefox doesn't have this issue. Will use it with Firefox I guess.

I tried adding it via Chrome and still get the white splash screen. I'm on a Galaxy Fold 4.

Edit: Don't havr this issue with Firefox, so will use it via Firefox I guess.

On Android?

Android, Galaxy Fold 4. Dark mode is always on for me too, and I don't have this issue with any other app.

Does this mean Sync will have orange for upvotes and blue for downvotes, unlike Lemmy's defaults?

Apple 2e vs modern computers: https://danluu.com/input-lag/

There are still phones like that, check out the Astro Slide 5G for instance.

It's called a monitor, that's basically the difference between TVs and monitors these days, since the death of terrestrial and cable TV. So just get a regular monitor like this https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Monitor-3840x2160-Response-S55U-SA/dp/B0B4MJBSD9/ or this https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Computer-Monitors-559M1RYV-Replacement/dp/B096CG575L/

This future is bleak, but not because of AI, but because of climate change, inflation, the increasing problem of pollution, plastics/nanoplastics etc.

But all this fear mongering about AI is just clickbait, statements taken out of context, and people talking about things which they've no idea about.

Don't get me wrong, there are some real issues like legislation not keeping up with technology, deepfakes, intellectual property issues, job losses etc, but these issues are not insurmountable. At the very least, "AI" isn't going to take over humanity and kills us, humanity will kill humanity well before AI can.

Have you checked the github page? It lists solutions for (some of?) your issues: https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code#usage

But I agree with you, flatpak needs a lot of work. In saying that though, I'd never touch Snap - that just brings in a whole host of other issues. I'd rather just use the official tarball or install the official .deb/.rpm into a container.