TheGrandNagus

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

We've been there for a long time.

Broadly speaking, outside of some specific niche workflows, Linux has been pretty easy for a long time, and Windows has a lot of unintuitive stuff that we only think is easy because we're used to it.

Linux and Windows certainly both have their failings, but it feels like Linux's generally stem from the lack of full time developers on projects, whereas failings in Windows often feel like a deliberate user-hostile choice.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (4 children)

Updates in Linux are not random third party scripts you find online, why are you spreading this lie?

You go into your app store/software centre and click update. To the user, this is all they see.

If you want to feel like a hacker, or find it quicker, you can open a terminal run sudo dnf update or whatever. That's still not a random third party script, though.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

People can put their energy wherever they damn well please. You can work on Linux phones if you want to.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is the question that should've been asked before it was built and shipped.

Now that it has been, though, any effort to keep it out of landfill and find a use for the hardware is good.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Why is this a thing for US phone networks?

Why do they care whether the ones and zeroes sent/received stay on the phone or not? Data is data. It shouldn't be any more complicated than that.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

Bloody hell, this is a damn documentary.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, web browsers cost hundreds of millions per year to maintain, they're mind-bogglingly complicated and costly.

I'd really hope the Linux Foundation would help contribute towards the budget, but LF is quite pro Chromium.

I don't think end users can even come close to funding Firefox development, unfortunately.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Also their initiative to recognise images and generate alt-text for screen-reader users.

My sister is blind and screen readers are close to useless on the web, so it was great to hear Mozilla is working on that.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Seems like an interesting way to get people to slow down (people will want to time the melody not just hear a sudden clash of notes), but it's a bit irritating to see an AI-generated article being posted here.

It's frustrating to read this. Repetitive and verbose, like a student trying to pad out their homework to meet a word count.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It isn't an OLED screen. It's an E-ink one. I don't know where you got this idea that it's an OLED from.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

TVs generally don't come with unlocked bootloaders. That shit is locked down big time.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That would certainly be ideal, although there's great difficulty in finding 50"+ monitors, and they cost a huge amount more

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