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Futureless or featureless?

I am not upset in the slightest. Maybe I should have made that clear. By all means voice away! It’s just like I said, Windows benefits heavily from us learning its quirks when we had the time and patience to do so, and with much lower standards than today. The comparison doesn’t seem all that helpful as a result.

Mounting a network share is beyond the usage scope of the DAU you describe. They need a functional default desktop environment, working standard drivers for their standard hardware, and a browser. That’s pretty much it.

And let’s not pretend there’s anything intuitive about Windows distinguishing between accessing a network share, and mounting it as a virtual drive. This is just the staying power of “whatever I’m used to from an age when I had the curiosity and patience to figure stuff out”.

Honestly the bigger factor is social cohesion and combating criminogenic factors. While far from perfect, European societies are doing much better here than a proudly hyper-individualist US.

Does no one use the Subscription page anymore? Are people even aware of its existence at this point?

YT assumes you’re always binge-watching. Which people often are apparently.

Just use your subscription tab, like we did in the olden days.

Droid-ify is also great.

WTF is that last search result though 🫣

No kidding. Why else would it be the result of an attempted update. But thanks for the continued condescension.

Can we perhaps stop pretending that it’s the most normal thing on earth to run an update and get back “hm yeah so there’s an issue, to fix it you’re gonna have to uninstall your entire GUI and half of your core operating system”, and it’s simply user error to be irritated by that in any way.

I did. It told me I needed to uninstall them. 🤐

No one said that. But if you are willing to endanger other people’s rights and lives even further because it might economically benefit your already rather privileged ass, you deserve to be called out for that, and reminded that your customers might not all be as willfully ignorant and self-absorbed.

US-style individualism “fuck you I got mine and yours and then some” is a cancer on society.

So everything about Trump has to be equally bad? She either has to be a horrible pick on principle, or you have to ignore of all the heinous shit that Republicans pull every day? That still doesn’t make sense to me. People criticize what they deem worthy of criticism. And just like one bad decision shouldn’t condemn a person, one decent pick cannot absolve Trump and the Republican party.

Yes that’s what I meant 😅

I haven’t decided on a mail setup yet. Letting go of automatic inbox sorting is gonna be a pain, I do not miss tweaking inbox filter rules. Maybe I’ll keep Gmail around if just for the garbage.

Are you… complaining that people aren’t complaining about her specifically? I don’t get it.

Can you recommend a good DNS provider? I’ve been testing namecheap but very unsure if I really want to migrate everything there.

If Republicans go so far right that they swing back around to the left I’d be fine with that lol

That’s not a thing.

The vast, vast majority of people don’t quit their job or their employer, but their boss and coworkers.

Don’t underestimate how much healthy relationships at work matter when you spend so much of your time there. Yes, in tech jobs as well. So stick with IT if you like it, but don’t stick around in a bad environment. Especially if you plan to have a family in X years, because then it gets a lot harder and riskier to jump ship and change your situation.

Yeah. That kind of attitude is missing the forest for the trees. Open source gets better the more people use it, including the vast majority of casual users who don’t know or care about the GPL. Pretending that’s a problem is just gatekeeping to feel special and stroke your own ego.

Yeah fair. I expected to chat about how Linux could displace Windows on Desktop, to which SteamOS and Proton on an x86 chip is a lot more relevant than Android.

When I tried Arch in '23, it worked well. Then I got busy and lazy and didn’t use it for 2-3 months. When I came back and did yay -sYu as I had learned, dozens of KDE and core packages were throwing errors and wouldn’t update. Unfortunate.

I met a friend of a friend at an event and somehow PCs and Linux came up. He asked if I’m a Linux user (which I like to think you can’t immediately tell). I assume to build some nerd cred. I said “yeah, I technically have Linux with me right now”. He asked what I meant, so I pulled out the Steam Deck. He was unfamiliar and I briefly explained.

When he heard it’s a commercial product (obviously), he actually pretended to faint. And then kept acting as if I had personally insulted him, not in a joking way. I had clearly failed the purity test in that moment.

It was a strange experience. Not even in hackerspaces I’d ever had a conversation like that. So these people are rare but they do exist.