douglasg14b @ douglasg14b @lemmy.world

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... Contacting someone makes you an: "unhinged fucking freak who does not respect personal boundaries"?

More people need to go touch grass, this is insane.

It's really disingenuous to mud sling people with a different view by implying they themselves don't exist/are astroturfing/are bots.

I'm a real human who decided to use their service for kicks and actually like some of the benefits and control over the results compared to other search engines.

Especially when I'm doing research, which is usually half of all my time searching anyways.

Enough that I decided to pay for the service. I'm happy with it and want to share that happiness with others. Are you saying that because I liked a service that I can't seem to get anywhere else I'm now the bad guy? Because I like something and want to share it with others, that's bad?

Is the alternative that you might prefer to be corporate astroturfing instead of organic discussion and growth? Like, really, seriously, what's the alternative here if people talking about and sharing something they like is not acceptable?

That's.... Not how internet infrastructure works.

And cables are not in straight lines between you and the destination.

The US has an ideal, chosen, location for long-term mass storage.

Unfortunately State politics and news fear mongering are preventing it from being developed and utilized.

Just more footgunning.

I'm in my house right now with a perfectly working thermostat that's 70 years old.

And given the mechanism of action it will continue working in another 70 years.

16 years for hardware used inside of homes is a ridiculously, absurdly, short lifetime. Even for a vehicle that would be pushing the edge of "too short".

That said 16-year-old software is not that old. If it's built using sane language choices it should actually be functioning and modern today.

Imagine not realizing that people have to work for a living... Or that adult mental health is at an all time low. Or that social media manipulation affects people who are parents as well as their kids.

Similarly just kicking the problem down the road like you're doing doesn't actually solve it. It just inhibits solutions and contributes to the problem.

So in this instance people that think like your comment states actually are indirectly part of the problem. Which is ironic.

What a great way to dismiss an entire problems based that affects our society. It's easier to just hand wave it away as someone else's problem than to actually consider it...

When a problem becomes systematic it's now a societal and cultural problem and not an individual responsibility problem. Individual responsibility isn't working so it's now down to the society this is occurring in to solve the systematic problem in a systematic way.

That's how almost everything works

Kagi!!!

I started using it entirely last month and I'm never going back.

It's not even "banning tik-tok". It's "separate your interests, or we block your product".

Which isn't exactly something that we haven't seen before in the U.S. and it for sure isn't anything new in China where plenty of services, games....etc are blocked with "Chinese only" versions of those services.

Not trying to start an argument here but I do want to point out that your argument foundations on blaming other competitors instead of looking at what can make the platform you're passionate about more palatable.

There are many, MANY, reasons people will choose Mac and windows on their own accord.

Your argument hand waves that away to make a boogieman out of mac and windows, and erodes the true viability of Linux as a platform by not looking at how it can improve, and instead focusing on how the competition "is bad".

Taking the ego stance that Linux "would be great if it wasn't being held back by the bad guys" doesn't actually help Linux desktop adoption...

It turns into a Linux problem when it holds back Linux desktop adoption by creating a difficult or even toxic environment for new, low-technical or non-technical users.

I mean you essentially just highlighted a primary user experience problem with Linux....

Information & advice is fragmented, spread around, highly opinionated, poorly digestible, out of date, and often dangerous.

And then the other part of it is that a large part the Linux community will shit on you for not knowing what you don't know because of some weird cultural elitism...

When you finally ask for help once you realize you don't know what you're doing, you're usually met with derisive comments and criticism instead of help.

Do you want Linux to be customizable so that users can control it however they want. Or do you want it to be safe so that users don't mess it up? You can't have it both ways, and when you tell users to "go figure it out" and then :suprise_pikachu: that they found the wrong information because they have literally no idea what's good or bad, instead of helping, they get shit on.

It's the biggest thing holding Linux desktop back.

Laws for thee not for me!

The only correlate it because of the misuse of it just like in the title....

Making it extremely hard to actually find professional content because Reddit tends to cater to the lowest common denominator and most professional subs tend to corrupt over time.

I fail to see the claim that the article is false and misleading?

It sounds like what it states is what it is. Replace the phrase "currently has" with "didn't" and your issue evaporates.

Which seems like unfair criticism given that the present or past tensing of an article's statements are dependent on when it was written and is a rather fluid and interpretable thing. It's a reasonable expectation that readers can understand and adjust their perspective of past vs present tense without failing to understand what the article is conveying...

Especially to such a degree where the confusion from the past tense versus present tense of a statement is great enough to be considered "false and misleading"...

Straight to the personal attacks, I'm sure this can only end well.

This is not how you promote a project..

Yeah I had literally no idea what you were talking about until you mentioned the actual name in the comments.

NPM almost universally refers to node package manager in any developer or development adjacent conversation in my experience. Given that both the site, the command, the logo, and the binaries are "npm" makes that more appropriate.

Nginix proxy manager is far to niche to be referred to universally by acronym when it's only ever used as an acronym when the context for it's usage has already been defined (ie. In it's documentation).

This becomes much more clear when you Google the acronym.

It is, but also it's worrisome since it means support is harder, which means risk of abandonment is higher and community contributions lower. Which means "buying in" is riskier for the time investment.

Not really criticizing, 10/10 points on making something and then putting it out there, nothing wrong with that. Just being a user who's seen too many projects become stale or abandoned, and have noticed that the trend has some correlation to the technology choices those projects made.

Mac OS is Apple to oranges against windows when it comes to OS support?

Conveniently skipped that part and focused on Debian....