frazorth @ frazorth @feddit.uk

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I can, but you seem to be confused as to what a Steam Deck is.

You do know it is one click to the desktop, right?

It just starts the machine in big picture mode but is doesn't require you to crash steam to access the rest of the OS. It's just starting with a controller friendly interface because the primary purpose is gaming but they don't hide Linux from you.

You can use general purpose one to only run one app 99% of the time, but it's a general purpose personal computer you're using.

So they are running Linux? Because you don't need to hack/root/magic keypress to access other applications.

That sounds like the majority of users. I'm trying to think of how many times I needed to "use Linux".

I interact with Firefox, IntelliJ, and a few other applications and IntelliJ hides all of the CLI so I don't have to know git, and I don't have to know where my files are.

My mother wouldn't know how to install a driver in Windows, or even how to navigate to a file in Explorer. Does that mean she isn't a Windows user?

I think you are being overly pessimistic about what counts as a user.

I've used MacOS for about 20 years, and it's a shit show. But...

Where are your files?

They are in my user folder, same as every other OS. I can see them all in Finder. Root is hidden, but that's options "tick box to display disks".

What is happening at full screen

So what you would consider maximise is "move to new dedicated virtual desktop", but you can also cmd+click maximise, drag to the top to traditional maximise or left/right for half screen.

I will say macs are great when you get used it, especially if you use keyboard shortcuts.

I'd say the opposite. How do I move this window to the next desktop using shortcut keys? You have to display desktops and then drag or to the desktop you want. No real shortcut for a basic feature.

Emoji picker also seems to be broken, so when adding something on a chat I have to navigate with keyboard because clicking on the emoji I want works about 50% of the time, they rest of the time it just closes the window.

They don't run Windows they run Explorer.

Linux is a kernel. They run Linux.

Or do you mean "they don't run KDE/Gnome/LXDE"?

You've convinced me. That does sound like a UK Government ideal.

Next you'll be trying to tell me the Saudis might not have UK ideals at heart!

Hopefully this should be blocked to prevent a hostile foreign state from owning and controlling core infrastructure, on the grounds of national security. 🤞

What's that? A flying pig?

He was calling the cave diver a paedo, which was a weird insult at the time. But it much have just been the projecting.

Completely agree, I was trying to avoid the "well actually" response.

I've had a number of items get held by FedEx (or whoever) because of import duties over the years and I've had to pay the delivery company to get it released.

This is a well worn path, and kudos to this one to warn you that new tarrifs are in place, the customer would be subject to them, and giving them an option to decline it.

Import duties are not always part of the agreement.

They didn't change the rules, there is now a charge by the government on it getting delivered, not by the company.

That and it was the Brexit pre-cursor.

Would you like this dying child to get a ventilator, or an alternative voting system?

Turns out, you'll have neither.

And Gnome is probably not for you.

They make a desktop which is opinionated, and in some ways pushes things forwards. For example it is nice to not have to always deal with the awful Start button metaphor.

On the others it can be a constraint. Only wanting to support the modern icon tray lead to years of having to use an extension for all the software that didn't.

And that's fine. That's why we have KDE and XFCE.

I personally much prefer the Gnome flow which gets out my way, and find KDE to feel much more archaic. I don't want docks and bars, I don't want the desktop to be more than a place to hold my applications.

The only solution is mainline support.

If it's not mainline then there isn't effective support.

What do you mean "centered"? The top bar is top, and the clock is centered.

Not entirely unknown, but I would like it to be Rahul Kohli. Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if he is too old now.

I'm not saying I agree with this, but just to explain what is happening.

Companies pay tax on profits. The idea being that if I make metal widget that I sell for £1 then just flat taxing me at (for example) 20% would mean I owe 20p tax.

Now if I bought the metal from my widget from a Sunderland refinery, and they charged me 50p for the metal to make the widget then my £1 widget is actually only worth 50p, and that 20p tax starts looking fairly high. If I paid someone 30p to sell it for me then that 20p tax puts the widget down to worthless and I'll not bother making it, depriving the taxman his 20p.

The plan therefore is to tax profits. After paying the refinery, my 50p profit is taxed at the 20% making it less likely that I'll get in a position where I don't make it, unless it really is unprofitable.

The issue with this is that if I owned the refinery as well then there's nothing to stop me selling the metal at £1 so effective profits are £0, or negative with employee costs. Tax obligations £0. Now move the refinery to a tax haven, or sell at cost it to my "warehouse supplier" based in the Caymans who then sell it to the widget factory for the maximum amount means I've exported all my profits. The product doesn't ever have to go near the Caymans.

This is what I understand Starbucks does, with their Swiss division selling the beans at outrageous prices to make the coffee shops a loss.

What's the solution? I assume taxing takings but that could destroy small businesses who have been doing this correctly or business that runs on fine margins.

Millenials complained about it a lot, to the point where millennial is short hand for "lazy" for a lot of older generations.

Gen X made films mocking company culture and shitty work environments.

The youth today aren't the first to complain, they aren't the first to be called lazy, and they won't be the last. Fuck the older folks who call any of them lazy.

Gen Z are lazy and don't want to work.

Millennials are lazy and don't want to work.

Gen X are lazy and don't want to work.

Boomers are lazy and don't want to work.

Only one of these groups were hippies and were work shy, as a generation. 🤷

Ha, you think that the backups even arrive to replace/repair? They'll break down in transit!