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dinckelman ,

First of all, I'd really love to know who told you anything, let alone good, about IE.

If anything, Firefox is in the best spot it's ever been. Any time I've encountered an issue with it, it was because Google are actively crippling the web experience for the rest of the internet

dinckelman ,

Can't say I've had experience with that, but I believe you

dinckelman ,

The issue is that Spotify is a private corporation. Making something OSS is not in their interest, only using something OSS is.

The only reason why they are even considering refunding purchases, is because they created a shitstorm large enough to become a large blip on FTC's radar. Not to mention potential class-action suits. They settled on the fastest and least painful method, albeit after a ton of threats

dinckelman ,

Coming up with good product naming and marketing costs money, and Spotify are clearly too busy pocketing all of it

dinckelman ,

Of course, but that implies that the people behind Spotify aren't shortsighted capitalists, only keeping immediate monetary gain in their perspective

dinckelman ,

Shit like this is exactly why competition is of utmost importance. The internet was never meant to be single-handedly controlled by a corporation with private interests, and more importantly, private pockets

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

dinckelman ,

So when exactly is all of this going to stop? First we had town-scale crypto farms, that were juicing enough energy to leave other people with no electricity. Then we switched to NFTs, and the inefficient ever-growing blockchain, and now we're back to square one with PISS, and it telling people to put glue on pizza, and suicide off the golden gate bridge

dinckelman ,

Such as?

dinckelman ,

I hope i can become this delusional one day. Life would be so much easier

dinckelman ,

Lobbying, and publicly traded companies, were both a colossal fucking mistake. We elect these people to be the voice for us, but they only act in their own interest, while a ton of money is flowing directly into their "donations" pocket

dinckelman ,

I was once checking out Garuda, because the name popped up a handful of times. Outside of the absolutely repulsive front page, the moment i saw unmarked and unexplained “fun scripts” in the installer, i unplugged the installer

dinckelman ,

It’s not even really about how advanced you are. Using something more trustworthy, and something you can depend on, is always better. For arch(-based) distributions, i would always recommend Endeavour. Plain Arch will just do it too, if you can follow instructions as listed

dinckelman ,

I wasn’t a fan of it, personally. I’ve only tried it once, because the regular install takes me less than 10 minutes start to full completion, but didn’t really like some of the opinionated choices for the setup here and there. Still appreciate that it’s there though

dinckelman ,

If anything, it should be optional for personal use, and mandatory for enterprise. Not that they would come to this conclusion either way, granted that half of the workforce is busy putting ads into the start menu, and the other half are probably not doing any work whatsoever

dinckelman ,

Even outside of this obviously either clueless or AI-fabricated post, I'm still not convinced that it'll be OSS, in the way that we expect it to be. The phrasing used in announcement leads me to believing that they'll use some license, that allows them draconian control over the source. It'll be "open" as in being able to see it, but not really fork, or meaningfully contribute.

dinckelman ,

Back in like 2006, I’ve made an account for myself. A bot added me, asked how big my dick is, and then I’ve never used it again

dinckelman ,

They clearly don’t want you to know that, granted that they’ve conveniently renamed their company, and announced they don’t want anything to do with crypto, right before the Rabbit announcement went live

dinckelman ,

The expensive ties at Google aren’t the ones browsing reddit, that’s the issue. Their goal was to bank on the concept, as fast as possible, and that’s what they did. The consequences are for the poor people to figure out

dinckelman ,

Being able to properly evaluate the market is a whole job, and they failed at it. No company deserves to unconditionally exist, let alone forever

dinckelman ,

This is the same as Ben Shapiro telling people to sell their houses once Florida goes under water from a climate crisis. To who? Neptune?

dinckelman ,

Here. Classic example of yapping too fast and expecting people to not realize how much nonsense it is

dinckelman ,

You’re really going to tell us that you’ve never done something you parents told you not to?

dinckelman ,

A delusional billionaire toying with people’s lives. More at 11

dinckelman ,

This continues to really piss me off. I have a domain with a .xyz top level, and i’ve encountered more than a handful of services, that either repeatedly tell me I’ve meant to enter something else, or straight up block me as a spammer

dinckelman ,

Like them too. Felt odd when I got one the first time, but now I just don't mind it. The cap doesn't get in the way, and it's easy to put back on

dinckelman ,

I hear people complaining about this all the time, but I have yet to encounter this issue. I just flip it away, and it's... not bothering me at all

dinckelman ,

Photon on desktop (although it's excellent on mobile too), however I use Boost on Android, and Voyager on iOS. Native apps always feel a little more cohesive

dinckelman ,

Cancel your sub and don’t renew it. This shit will only continue getting worse if people continue paying for it

dinckelman ,

The forum structure is a complete shitshow, so if your device isn't the prime target for mods, it's very uncomfortable to use

dinckelman ,

That’s incredibly scummy. If it were huge corporations, it would be a rounding error no one would care about, but this is OSS community members we’re talking about

dinckelman ,

The issue isn’t even with what it runs on, albeit selling it as specialized hardware is really bizarre, when it’s just a glorified embedded platform with a scroll wheel

dinckelman ,

It doesn’t matter where you are. The company is based in the US, so they’re required to follow local law

dinckelman ,

EA games have done it already, since early 2000s. Practically any EA BIG game has in-game ads for real brands, all over the overworld billboards

dinckelman ,

I really can't wait for the day, when news about this clown just end. Everything he touches turns into garbage

dinckelman ,

Two shit stains from the same asshole. Corporate America produces irredeemable trash

dinckelman ,

Working for these companies lost any charm, when it stopped being about innovation, and working on cool things, and started being about min-maxing profits, at the cost abusing workers until they are suicidal

dinckelman ,

That's what happens, when the two grading choices in your language class are either 0%, or 100%

dinckelman ,

Depends on how you put it. Realistically, to a degree. The issue is that with any new business type, they are forced to prove their worth at first, so it's always ran by passionate people. Later on, it all slowly transitions into the clusterfuck we have today

dinckelman ,

Just another proof that it doesn't matter who you are, and what you do. Corporate America will fuck you over in every way it possibly can

dinckelman ,

I have zero sympathy for any of the 3878 chumps who wasted their money on this vehicle. They knew exactly what they were getting

dinckelman ,

That’s a whole other can of worms, that isn’t even worth discussing. People like that need urgent psychiatric evaluations

dinckelman ,

They'll continue selling these, purely because of two reasons:

  • On an Air, 8gb is the bare minimum that is realistically viable, for people who don't do anything than browse the web, who they can later upsell, when they get a new machine.
  • They can immediately upsell you for every extra memory tier you would need. This makes them a colossal amount of money.

Practically all of us know that the difference between these memory modules is pocket change, when mass produced like this, but for those extra couple cents, they get an extra 100$ from you

dinckelman ,

That's just the reality we're in now. All components will eventually ship as a single bundle, and there's nothing you'd be able to do. Obviously there are speed and latency benefits to this, but it comes at a cost of a colossal amount of e-waste with hardcoded serial numbers. This only works in their favor, because the groups of people you've described will just return to the shop, and buy a more expensive model

dinckelman ,

The baseline of this entire discussion is that not all companies deserve to survive. You make a good product - you grow. You don't make a good product - you adjust for the losses. There are no participation trophies there. Worst case scenario, someone will pick up on the same idea, and turn it into something actually good later on

dinckelman ,

While I agree, the amount of people who'd do this is negligibly small, compared to their total userbase. Obviously a bunch of people use ad blockers, but only a tiny amount of them have modified apps, followed by an even tinier amount of those people with fully custom frontends. For YT it might work out as a net positive, because the annoying blocks and reminders will just pressure people into paying for Premium.

At the end of the day, I could just stop watching youtube entirely, if this trend continues. I have nothing to gain there

dinckelman ,

As much as i agree, the vast majority of people will just continue using what they had before, and still complain about how nothing works

dinckelman ,

Same here. I installed Fedora on my old dev laptop, that my mom uses now, and she's been really happy with it. Says everything just makes sense, coming from windows

dinckelman ,

Who is this product for, outside of lunatics who are already convinced AI will replace everything in their life?

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