As it should be

Wouldn’t Microsoft be the main perpetrator of this in office software? Google Docs, LibreOffice, etc have to read their .docx files correctly so they keep changing how it works?

I’ll take one share.

Wonderful! You have successfully purchased one share of OpenAI! Investing in companies is a great way to support products you like and gain a revenue stream!

Actually I bought one million shares.

You’re absolutely right! I made a mistake in the database query. I have updated the database to indicate 1000000 instead if 1.

IIRC there’s a not insignificant number of researchers who upload their own stuff on places like SciHub, which could literally get them sued if it gets traced to them because they don’t have rights to their own damn science that they themselves did. Anyone closer to the science publication scene can verify or debunk this?

Also I love how all the objectively toxic parts of East Asian culture are suddenly romanticized if it’s Japan or South Korea we’re talking about. Stuff like conservative family dynamics, overbearing work culture, predatory consumer fads, fat shaming and openly commenting on how people look, etc.

Eh, Canada kind of sucks as well. Source: Canadian.

Interesting, TIL.

So basically an optical drive on steroids?

You know what I really want for long term offline backup storage? To go back to the bare discs with external readers paradigm of optical media (not sure if it’s possible with this though). Don’t have to pay for dedicated mechanical components in every drive that inevetably have a limited lifespan even if they’re just sitting in storage, and once they fail the recorded media itself is useless until you pay out the nose to get them transplanted into a new drive.

Good for write once read many applications with the 200 MB/s read speed though. Things like research data or torrents that gets recorded once and not changed again. Then again that’s the upper limit and the lower limit of 50 MB/s is pretty shit even for that.

Though 10 MB/s is literally 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi speeds so it might still be too slow to be practical for such a large drive.

Because lemmy.ml federates with the broader Lemmyverse. So if instances like .world is blocked, that same content is visible on .ml so it’s blocked too.

Defederate from us and we might have a chance.

I didn’t even google much about GNOME or KDE. But I did have an exploration period where I opened every dropdown I saw to see what options are there and perused through the settings to see all the things I can change, mapping out how the software works.

A little curiosity goes a long way for getting to know a GUI software IMO. A computer is a complex tool that needs to be mapped out at least a little bit before you need to seriously use it.

I don’t deny that many Linux apps have bad UX and can benefit from improvement. But I don’t like the pretentious way these blogs talk about it, and act like the developers are somehow obligated to fix it for them like it’s a paid product and they’re the customer. If they identify a problem in open source, why not contribute to the solution instead of just demanding a solution from people working for free out of passion like they owe you?

Honestly, the entitlement of the “Linux has bad UX” crowd really pisses me off. Yeah Linux is definitely as unusable as a hammer without a handle, guy. Hit the nail on the head with your handleless hammer right there. Give yourself a pat on the back for your metaphor skills 👍

Mac and Windows have billion dollar UX teams. Linux apps have almost entirely volunteer developers with at most some employees in a tiny company or nonprofit with shoestring budgets.

Mac and Windows have invasive UX “research” by recording user interactions behind their back. Most Linux apps don’t even have the ability to record interaction data by design and intention.

Mac and Windows make money directly from people using their platforms so obviously they’re going to do everything they can to keep you on the platform. Linux apps are donation funded with the occasional enterprise/professional support contract.

Windows and Mac users don’t give a shit about how well the underlying code works because they’re not supposed to see it, and it’s very clear the companies know that and have prioritised accordingly. Linux developers are disproportionately in it for the love of programming and prefer to spend their time actually programming as opposed to doing wireframes or UI markup. Linux UIs tend to get made once and then not touched for years until something absolutely needs to change.

If you compare Linux’s (read: mostly random people developing in their free time’s) UX to the literal biggest tech companies in the world, then you will never run out of things to bemoan Linux for. This is like complaining that your gearhead buddy’s project car has metal toggle switches in random places instead of a nice flowing panel like a brand new car straight off the dealership.

TL;DR: Pull request, long term funding toward establishing a UX team, or STFU. Stop making demands to volunteers and nonprofits and start actually contributing to UX improvements if you care so much. A major ethos of open source is “you don’t like it? You fix it.”

I picked up both GNOME and KDE as a long time Windows user like that. On both mouse and trackpad.

I can’t even figure out how to drag and drop on my friend’s Macbook. Or a lot of other basic things.

If anything Macs are the odd one out with their control scheme, though I’m certainly not ruling out skill issue. But if you claim skill issue on my inability to use a Mac then I’m claiming skill issue on your inability to use Linux.

A vegan, an atheist, and a veteran walk into a bar. Veteran immediately one-ups the other two by both bragging about how many people he killed and demanding a discount.

It’s also total bullshit how they can just film in a public street and include anyone that happens to pass by in their movie without paying them, in fact they won’t even warn you if you’re about to walk into a shoot and definitely won’t respond to requests to remove your face if you end up in the final movie. But as soon as a famous person’s face gets shown they demand royalties and can even force people to destroy footage of them.

Yeah he could’ve killed more slave owners

It’s bullshit how you can’t just ambush the king and win the game. In fact you can’t capture the king at all? What kind of stupid battle is this?

If you’re seeing this, you’re full of shit :)

The world is not black and white but all three are very far on the white side. “Centrist” is one of the biggest misnomers of all time. Truly left wing parties don’t exist in the West so our “centre” is nowhere near the centre.