h14h @ h14h @midwest.social

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Honestly I'm using, and especially posting on, Lemmy much more often now that I have sync back.

I had been using Sync for Reddit for so many years that it became muscle memory. Now I have it back and things just feel right.

It's kind of alarming how smoothly Apple made the transition to being a bank.

They're slowly transitioning into the type of megacorp you usually only see in science fiction.

I fully recognize I'm in a position of relative privilege, but I am more than happy paying an annual subscription of <$20 for an app like this.

Building an app of this quality with this level of polish is a massive time investment, and I'm more than happy to reward that time with less money per year than I spent doordashing lunch this afternoon because I was too lazy to make myself a sandwich.

This kind of gatekeeping and elitism is bad for Lemmy and for FOSS.

It makes this community a less welcoming place and leaves new folks with a bad first impression. Much better to be welcoming and let people learn/see the benefits of FOSS at their own pace.

There definitely have been, and continue to be, some great experiences in my life that would have been impossible without a car.

But they happen so infrequently that owning a car myself is completely nonsensical from a cost perspective.

Much better to spend a couple hundred bucks a year renting/borrowing a car the 2-3 times I need one, than $10k a year on payments/gas/insurance/parking just so it can take up valuable urban land to sit unused 99% of its life.

I like A a lot, reminds me of the early iPhone days of tasteful skeumorphism.

B is probably my favorite tho -- definitely the cleanest.

C looks off to me, something about the goggles.

Most of the comments here are talking about the x% of time Linux gets messed up it can be really intimidating for new users and getting the right help can be a challenge, or simply more time than it's worth.

I think this is true, but I think there's another thing that irks people:

Software Compatibility

The general public primarily interacts with their computers through established applications that commonly aren't available on Linux w/o intimidating work around (if at all).

A noob who switches to Linux isn't going to know the limitations up front, and the second they decide they want to learn Adobe Premier for work, they're kinda fucked. They'll either spend hours/days of online research trying to figure out if it's even possible, or they'll ask for help only to have someone tell them they're wrong for trying and to use some FOSS alternative because Adobe is an evil megacorp.

It's a recipe for frustration.