I use Mint on my daily driver laptop, and I’m not defending windows, but the fact that things are way less intuitive in Linux makes it less user friendly and not a good solution for non-techies. I mean, I have to use one of 3 different ways of installing something depending in what the dev kind of feels for, that’s insanely terrible UX.

Sleep mode that doesn’t work consistently, WiFi driver issues, printer driver issues, touchpad driver issues, several different wonky ways to install programs instead of just double-clicking an .exe and pressing “next-next-OK”, random shutdown of programs for no reason or error codes…the list goes on. And on topnof that, all the stuff that people are used to using that just doesn’t run on Linux at all.

Server OS is in no way comparable to desktop OS…saying Linux is king of servers means nothing to users, because Linux is not even close to having any significant market share on desktop. Linux desktop still have tons of quirks and weirdness that needs to be fixed before it has a chance of mass adoption, not to mention the vast compatibility issues with especially corporate software.

I’d have to look at it when I get home, I have no clue off the top of my head.

Yeah I’ve tried the route of manually inputting a static IP, it will connect to the printer but it still fails to send jobs to the printer. I’ve resigned to just accepting that it’s incapable of WiFi printing with the HW I have, so I send documents to other devices for printing.

the only thing most people need today is a computer that can run a web browser and connect to a printer.

I cannot the life of me get my Linux laptop to use my fucking Canon WiFi printer. It detects the printer, says it’s connected, but it simply will not send a print job to it. Windows, iOS and android all use it just fine…but this fucking Linux machine just won’t, I’ve spent hours fiddling with drivers and nothing works, it’s infuriating!

You’re just describing employment in pretty much any industry, not just gaming. Employees trade the insecurity of potential revenue down the line for a guaranteed fixed payout in advance.

I make software for pharmaceutical machines, my labour alone has literally enabled billions of revenue over the past decade, I’m not seeing any of that either.

This is clearly cowboy-Borat…

Does bambu labs core customer demographic really give a shit about the openness of their printers though? It seems pretty obvious they’re not targeting the 3D printer enthusiast but rather makers that just want a tool that works without any fuss.

If that was the case I wouldn’t have 4GB of idle ram just sitting in my PC. There is no unloading to swap when 50% of available ram is unused.

I have 8GB in my laptop running mint, its used for browsing, office work, 3D print slicing, and occasionally I torrent a file from it…it is absolutely no issue whatsoever and it never even breaks 4GB use unless it’s actively slicing a 3D model. 16GB minimum I can agree with for gaming, but for desktop use as mentioned above you can easily get by with less.

According to the manual, the only thing you get with the kit (other than access to the digital files) is a couple of cardboard tubes, some stickers, and a parachute — the launch pad, igniter, and even motors are all sold separately.

yeah WTF, this seems like a greedy bullshit cash grab at $40

money specifically to exchange for a tank, and the money could not otherwise have been spent.

So don’t buy a fucking tank and don’t spend the money…jeez that should be a fucking no-brainer.

If they were born in 78-79, they’d have spent a good 3 years of childhood in the 90’s. Being 11 years old in 1990, it would be the mid-90’s before they hit their adolescent years. This would make them 90’s kids by the definition that they were kids in the 90’s that also remember the 90’s

That makes people born in the 80’s and late 70’s 90’s kids…it makes no sense.

people are being poorly trained by the change management

Yes this happens a lot, and IT-habits are notoriously difficult to change in a work-setting.

I was one of the users, these are my observations with my colleagues reactions, and sometimes also myself.

What are you talking about, 90’s kids are born in the 90’s, that’s what the name means.

Only about half of them have turned 30 so far…

I’m not saying AI specifically is useful, just that people in general tend to resist change in their work methods regardless of what they are.

I also work with a lot of proprietary knowledge, chemical and infrastructure in my case, and AI still can be useful when used properly. We use a local model and have provided it with all our internal docs and specs, and limited answers to knowledge from these, so we can search thousands of documents much faster, and it links to the sources for it’s answers.

Doesn’t do my job for me, but it sure as shit makes it easier to have a proper internal search engine that can access information inside documents and not just the titles.