onlinepersona

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onlinepersona,

Just FYI, There’s a button called “print screen” or “PrntScr” or something similar on most keyboards. If you hit that, it’ll take a screenshot that you can edit and upload :)

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onlinepersona,

It’s nearly an hour long and Nick said they only covered a portion of all questions.

onlinepersona,

Slint

onlinepersona,

That’s for the courts to decide. It’s difficult to escape modern life though. Also, banning ads completely is a near impossible task IMO. It would be like banning messaging. Nailing down the definition of an ad would always lead to people finding ways around that.

“An ad is a message aiming to sell a product or service” --> define selling, define product, define service. Once those are defined then there’ll be a way around that too. “I’m not aiming to sell a product or service, I’m just informing the public that it exists”. Where would you go from there? You can’t make the act of informing a person of a product’s existence a crime: “Hey bro, I bought this new product and -” “OMG, you’re such a criminal for telling me about a product”.

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onlinepersona,

In the end, I don’t think it matters. People care about accessing what’s used most and if they have to watch ads to do so, they will. If “no ads” starts to have a competitive advantage because people are sick and tired of them, then maybe ads will start to die. We’re a long way from that though.

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onlinepersona,

they = rust or the linux kernel?

The linux kernel doesn’t have enough contributors because it’s really difficult + the entire organisational side of it works on antique tech (IRC and mailinglists). The majority of the project itself is also in C which has a horrible developer experience: linting, documentation, debugging, code completion, and the lack of a proper IDE. The entire development cycle is convoluted. How do you seriously want to attract people to the project if everything looks like it’s still in a development cycle of the 90s?

If I were to discover a one-line bug in the kernel by reading it, actually testing the one-line fix would take me, as a newbie probably a solid week. Getting it into the kernel itself would probably take even longer.

The kernel is also known for Linus’ outbursts and being filled with neckbeard elitists. The project in my eyes has an image problem.

As for rust, if that’s what you meant, I’d be interested in knowing the source for not having enough contributors.

onlinepersona,

I’m not saying it as a source of pride. It’s incredibly annoying to me that I need to edit a file in order to manage my system instead of having a GUI like KDE’s to manage all the settings. On NixOS, there’s just no way around that at the moment.
Unfortunately, I don’t know another somewhat sane declarative distro. Do you? (No, not GUIX. That’s just NixOS with a ton more brackets and less packages).

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onlinepersona,

Because GUIs on linux don’t do everything that the CLI can. I use my computer for more than just browsing and editing documents, so the GUIs that do just that, don’t cut it.

Also, I’m on NixOS. There’s simply no way around the terminal - sadly.

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onlinepersona,

It’s as if they’re asking to be pirated.

onlinepersona,

Thanks, that’s the best explanation I’ve gotten so far 👍

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onlinepersona,

I’m actually curious what BSD provides in comparison to Linux. What does it add, do better, or worse?

The only thing I know is that they introduced some stuff way before linux did, but that’s simply due to the age. BSD jails for example have been around for a long time. Buy beyond that, it was never apparent to me why linux took off and BSD didn’t.

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onlinepersona, (edited )

Lol 0.06% usage in November 2023

https://i.imgur.com/HgRPw7P.png

store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

There are more linux users than windows7 users.

onlinepersona,

Missed that indeed. Weird sorting 😅

onlinepersona,

This is fine.

onlinepersona,

I honestly thought this was going to be about AI 😅

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onlinepersona,

I plan to continue using linux 👍

onlinepersona,

I use pigeons and let the wind tell me where to send them.

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onlinepersona,

I really need a link to a blurb about the CC thing, but not today. Basically think AI.

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onlinepersona,

TIL, thanks 😄

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onlinepersona,

I tried it out one single time and it failed to install or update or something. Had to then find all the places it had inserted itself into in my system. Later I found out it’s based on some LISP variant. Even later I found out you can’t install firefox with it because of gnu or something?
That all combined dissuaded me from touching it again.

nix has terrible documentation, but it’s kinda worked for me, so I’m sticking with it.

onlinepersona,

bflix dot tee oh

fmovies dot tea oooh

join the open seas my friend

onlinepersona,

What is this? Does anybody actually use it?

onlinepersona,

My experience with the linux boot has never been flicker-free. It’s bugged me for years, but I don’t have the technical knowledge to fix it. There’s a black screen between BIOS and plymouth, then a black screen between plymouth and the login screen, then another black screen between the login screen and the splash screen, and finally a black screen between the splash screen and when the desktop shows up.

Mac and windows do a much better job at having a seamless experience from boot to desktop.

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onlinepersona,

Comes from chooser-beta.creativecommons.org

Which browser isn’t it working on?

onlinepersona,

That’s macs. Fuck em. With linux I can always put in a USB stick with a live linux and fix shit.

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