damnthefilibuster @ damnthefilibuster @lemmy.world

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OP, you say those folks only launch a chrome browser and so aren’t choosing Linux themselves. Fine. But looking at it from the system perspective, they’re inadvertently learning how to use Linux. How to make WiFi selection in that interface. How to deal with patches and upgrades and vulnerabilities and hacks. Sure, they’re basically only using the browser. But do they never download a file? Open it in the system file browser? Attach it back in the browser?

All of these user interactions are what define a person’s experience on a system. If you think of one of the main differences between iOS and Android, you’ll see how in iOS files are a second class citizen and apps are first class citizens. That means iOS defers to the app first and then considers a file as an independent entity. That’s a strategic decision that defines how generations of iOS users perceive the world around them. It’s what helped companies like Notion become the behemoths they are because everyone accepted that if you want to build a knowledge base, you can just start writing text in an app or browser and not consider files as the first point of contact for the knowledge base user.

By using Linux on a day to day basis, those users are slowly unlearning what they’ve come to understand is the default behavior of a system - most likely whatever Windows does.

Somewhere down the line they’ll crib and hate on windows enough to what something different. That might end up being Mac, but for a large swathe of people, it might end up being some Linux variant too.

You didn’t ask ChatGPT to write it for you???

Ah, that’s an interesting point! I’ve never thought much about the latency caused by Bluetooth. But maybe it’ll be noticeable on the Deck?

Thanks for the tip about the sale. I’ll wait it out. Also, yeah OLED makes sense to me from longevity thinking too. Better battery and better tech…

Hmmm. Thanks for that feedback. Playing COD a lot these past few years, I’ve gotten used to gyro aiming with custom settings to make the aim move faster. That said, it’s never as fun as CS with a mouse 😋

By the way, can we connect Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to the Deck?

Totally a normal thing for a regime to do when retaliating terrorism. Totally.

Sugar in a raw tomato. It’s really fun to eat and grosses a LOT of people out!

Dark forest was indeed mind bending to me. I’ve never thought of it like that and the novels just blew me away.

Wtf

Thanks!

I wonder what the storage requirements are.

Huh?

No video? Disgusting.

Very Firewatch… love it!

Do you know how little that narrows it down?

Bing doesn’t make anything Jascivious.

Yup.

They aren’t checking for real. They’re checking for format. They expect you to load up a drivers license from one of the 50 states (or whatever for international) such that their OCR should be able to find your name (and maybe age and address) and their object recognition should be able to find your photo and the state logo. That’s all.

Just fake a drivers license.

Nope. It gets difficult every single day. Used to be easy - just check the user agent string. Real users will have a long one that talks about what browser they’re using. Bots won’t have it or will have one that mentions the underlying scraping library they’re using.

But then bot makers wizened up. Now they just copy the latest browser agent string.

Used to be that you could use mouse cursor movement to create heat maps and figure out if it’s a real user. Then some smart Alec went and created a basic script to copy his cursor movement and broke that.

Oh, and then someone created a machine learning model to learn that behavior too and broke that even more.