ilinamorato @ ilinamorato @lemmy.world

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Because he thinks Elon is the smartest smart boy ever. The whole reason Lemmy got its big boost a couple years ago is that Elon banned third party apps and Spez thought that sounded like a good idea.

Well, it's not direct opposition to Spez yet. Just sort of...second-order uprising.

formerly* is the word you're thinking of.

This is great news. But I have absolutely no faith that Spez won't revert such a change, given his well-publicized love for M*sk.

Yeah, I mean every administration rebuilds the entire website after inauguration. I think it's telling, though, that they didn't have the full website ready to go.

Overall, in my experience, any improvement will require the same amount of time; whether from bad to acceptable or acceptable to good.

I'm not saying it's a matter of desire. It's a matter of time. A full-time developer has to feed their family, so they have to put most of their time into the stuff that makes them money. That means that their passion project is just naturally going to get less time as a function of the number of hours left in the day and the amount of energy for coding that the developer in question has.

Further, ux design is a less "atomic" process; small amounts of time working on ux is going to have less impact than small amounts of time in coding. A programmer could conceivably fix a bug or make a minor improvement or feature request in ten minutes, and a Wikipedia editor could spend ten minutes improving the grammar and punctuation of an entire article; but the ux process requires mockups, iteration, asset creation, and coding for every change—and even if that can be done in ten minutes, the rest of the ui will look completely different, meaning that the overall ux will be worse than before, despite that one thing looking better.

What can we do to change it? Companies that rely on FOSS should donate to projects so that the people who work on them can afford to do so at least part-time, or empower their own employees to contribute to FOSS on company time. Those are really the only two options, barring some sort of UBI or public grant for open source software.

That just means it's in active development and will come to the beta browser soon, and then to the stable version.

Well, that's intentional though. The stuff that's buried is the stuff that doesn't make them money.

Bad ux in open source is because nobody has any money.

Honestly, just building an RCS app with easy grouping, quick captions, streak tracking, and delete requests would be the way to go with this. Then you have an immediate network effect of every iPhone and Android user in the world, and you don't have to get your friends to switch if they don't want to.

"ugh I know exactly why this is happening" is such a frustrating feeling. Especially when it's stuff that should've been found in testing, or that you know probably was found in testing, but they deprioritized the fix.

Honestly this is the big thing I've found handy about using Mint. If there's something wrong and I can't find it a Mint answer, nine times out of ten I can fix it by searching for the Ubuntu solution. There's so much Ubuntu troubleshooting going on.

He also decided he could pardon himself last time, so there's that.

Goals, for sure. The guy just does whatever he wants at this point. I think he's doing photography now?

I prefer "sackbut."

Whoa. Yep, I'd call that...like, the dictionary definition of reading the room. Yikes.

This is such a dangerous stereotype. Yes honkwiching used to use trombones, but now most musicians use specially-designed, food-safe disposable honkers. Trombone players aren't savages.

Hello fellow former sackbut.

If they really wanted me to whitelist them in my adblocker, they'd make the ads less onerous.

It's not as uncommon as sitcoms make it seem. My wife--brilliant, hilarious, way smarter and better at things than I am--would probably think it was hilarious, too. It wouldn't work for our situation (we got together too early in life for it to be believable), but I wouldn't expect any backlash.

I would expect payback in-kind, though.