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mods_are_assholes ,

Back before bubblejets existed, it was a fucktonne less frequent.

mods_are_assholes ,

If you have enough people to call them an IT team and they DON'T know this, then they aren't an IT team, just a bunch of people who think they know computers good.

Source: Delayed updates have been policy everywhere I have ever worked since the 90s.

mods_are_assholes ,

Literally everyone does this now and it's so fucking frustrating.

Vendor: Here's our latest update, it's mandatory, if you don't implement it within 30 days your license will invalidate.

IT Department: *Does the update* Great well now two core tools we need to do daily work aren't there anymore.

Vendor: Yeah, we removed them for your convenience, well being, user experience, and personal happiness.

IT Department: But we need them otherwise the software is useless to us.

Vendor: Oh in that case, our new product Premium Plus^^tm does those things but isn't bundled with your tier of product so please cut us a check for the $5k a month difference and you'll be good to go!

And if I punched him, I'd be the one to go to jail.

mods_are_assholes ,

I say this from the bottom of my crusty heart: Fuck linux.

mods_are_assholes ,

I have no way of responding to this that can't be interpreted as an insult so I'm just blocking you.

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    mods_are_assholes ,

    They only know what their chosen talking heads tell them, and Fox is allowed to legally lie about the news, or at least they are hardly ever called out for it.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    $50 in groceries equates to about 4 meals nowadays in my area if you are ok with not eating meat.

    ALL these government programs ignore inflation, and food costs have skyrocketed above inflation.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    They'll also spend an hour trying to explain why it is different for them, and 'welfare queen' will ABSOLUTELY show up at least twice in the conversation.

    So fucking tired of these false sound bites taking over the public discourse.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    It's just like when magahats call themselves patriots.

    Wrong in every factual way but no amount of you telling them will make them realize it.

    That OP was just another silicon digibro with a profit driven mindset.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    But that's not how corporations view it because the people making the decision aren't tec people, but beancounters.

    Some slick but ignorant C-suite gets the bright idea that AI is The Way and makes the call to lay off a bunch of people.

    I BET that is what Hasbro is thinking for DnD, and I am absolutely certain some of their recent content is AI, and that's why they canned most of the real people involved.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    If you compared LLM outputs to even just a year ago you'll realize how stupid your statement is.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    I am so fuckdamn tired of having products taken away 'to meet customers needs more effectively'.

    Companies that make shittastic public statements like this should be subject to legal punishment.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Simple: the rich make the rules

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Wait till they start using that same data to harass and target.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Never this efficiently and from such few tracks.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    How naive to think that those indecent forum manipulating supermods don't have accounts across most popular instances.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Anthrax, no I'm not joking.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    But don't put it on the little bumps and scrapes of children under one.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    To be fair 3 lemmy communities have banned me exclusively for my username.

    Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions (www.404media.co)

    An Amazon chatbot that’s supposed to surface useful information from customer reviews of specific products will also recommend a variety of racist books, lie about working conditions at Amazon, and write a cover letter for a job application with entirely made up work experience when asked, 404 Media has found.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Forward it to Trojan and suggest they sue for libel, Amazon is one of their official vendors.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    What good will blame do? We need robust ai detection solutions.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    I don't think you want a world where everyone you talk to on the internet is a bot and you can't tell.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    It literally exists today and you sit here typing bullshit like 'is that even possible?'

    Get every manner of blocked.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    So, what you're saying is you don't really understand how data security works then.

    Because it's never a 'one and done', it's ALWAYS a cat and mouse game, ALWAYS.

    Which is why antivirus companies push definition updates.

    And now we do the same with AI detectors, or they become irrelevant.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    It's funny how people can just link to a wikipedia article about a ten year old thought experiment and think its some kind of mic drop moment. The current AI paradigm is starting to hit its singularity curve and hardly anything that old is anything more than a novelty and largely not applicable to current models, ESPECIALLY when it comes to modeling,

    We aren't seeing this kind of iteritave adversity being used in actual real world attacks, and it is largely useless to train on a patched vulnerability.

    But I'm sure you already knew that, maybe your testing me?

    mods_are_assholes ,

    No, linux desktop is trash. Thanks tho.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    And they will ONLY act reasonable when forced.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    How do you know a linux user?

    Dont' worry, they'll tell you.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Protip: Microsoft uses social media manipulation to shape public opinion. Some of those people claiming that were on a payroll.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    All of them, the fundamental fracturing of the ecosystem by ridiculously multiplying vanity distros are part of the reason that resolving complex problems is near impossible for someone not already steeped in the community.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    The reason you don't ever hear linux users say how much their OS sucks is because all of you are just fucking cultists.

    I don't like windows, I don't like microsoft, but I'll tell you this the headaches I've gotten from supporting 10 Ubuntu desktops was five times greater than the 200 other windows users on-site.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Judging by the vote ratio, looks like not that many lemmy users are linux users as you think.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Not going to lie I've had some of those issues be the reason I gave up on any one of my 9 attempts to go full linux as a daily driver.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    what the fuck are you even talking about? Webview? I'm talking about forum manipulators here you chatbot reject.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    That's because they shifted from 'making a great game' to 'making a lot of money' after they saw what the auction market was like in D2.

    The love of money is the root of many evils and capitalism will destroy everything you love for profit.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Time to go down to the Grampy Store and get you your official belt onion.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Again, I think you’re mistaken here

    Ok, I'm so fuckdamn tired of this, so amazingly fuckdamn tired.

    The majority of linux devs are not working on reverse engineering device drivers here

    Fucking strawman

    allying behind a single distro won’t fix this unless the distro is made by a huge company willing to pay people to reverse engineers various drivers

    False dichotomy.

    it takes too many manpower we don’t actually have.

    'S WHY POOLING ALL AVAILABLE MANPOWER UNDER A SINGLE DISTRO IS A WIN

    off course people are celebrating now.

    Considering how long it has been around, and how many tens if not hundreds of thousands of people working on it, 5% is fucking terrible.

    I mean, sure, celebrate, but it isn't even close to being the achievement to warrant it.

    You bring nothing to this discussion but informal fallacies and spurious arguments, just like every other linuxbro I've had the displeasure to deal with.

    Get blocked and get lost.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Windows has gotten a lot better at fixing itself, but even back in the day when it didn't, I was confident I could find the solution to any problem in a forum somewhere.

    With my attempts at linux, maybe 1 in 5 problems had an answer somewhere, and then it was still another 1 in 5 chance that the solution wold work with my distro.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Rather the community expels assholes saying that everything should change because they like it different.

    No they don't, they let them set up their own distro as an identity adornment.

    I’ve switched knowing literally nothing and people have mostly been friendly.

    That's nice, I've tried to switch at least nine times now as a seasoned IT admin that has built and administered to a minimum of 50+ linux servers and every time I look for solutions in the community I only get snide 'go read a manual before I deign to help you' comments.

    The way you think of Arch users is the way I think of nearly all linux users.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    No but I do fuckdamn expect a certain commonality between how repositories are handled which DOES NOT EXIST in the current ecosystem.

    I think I’ve estimated your level of expertise correctly in another comment.

    You always underestimated my expertise in each and every one of your comments.

    JSYK if you live anywhere in the eastern half of the U.S. it is likely that your packets are going at least partway over a cable I laid with my own hands. You can estimate my expertise any way you want but my employer's satisfaction with my work outweighs some internet rando's opinion of a few hundred words.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    This is the exact arrogance I speak of.

    If installing linux was just a 'skill issue', then why the fuck are you happy about only 4% desktop adoption rates?

    And why the fuck is every forum post like this filled with replies like mine about how frustrating it is to get setup?

    I was 16 and I wasn’t computer-savvy. It was 12 years ago

    Shit son, I have still functioning keyboards older than you.

    Give me a specific example. And of the tone of your question too - a community is not a drop-in replacement for paid support

    Ok, so I was trying to get a TWAIN emulator working to talk to my all-in-one printer, printing worked fine (after 3 days of tinkering with CUPS because my specific model didn't have an existing profile and fuck if I know about how to write one myself) but I needed the scanner and I asked in the forum for the particular emulator, I asked in several generic Ubuntu forums (the distro I was trying at the time).

    The first reply was a just a link to the product's manual, which I had already read.

    The next two replies were in the vein of 'How stupid of you to try and use TWAIN under linux, use a native device driver (again of which none existed for my device, which was clearly detailed in my original post)

    The fourth reply can best be summed up as 'lol windows problems'.

    And then the post was locked as a repeat topic and linked me back to some chucklefuck's 5 year old post about setting up a scanner with native linux drivers.

    That is just one example of multiple dozens of issues I've tried at least to get directions towards a solution.

    And not even the most frustrating one.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    And what type of person are you who judges by their spending habits? For all you know I could be a 5 gallon lifetime blood donor that volunteers to feed the homeless. But since I don't like your chosen consumer identity product, I'm a bad person.

    Get every manner of fucked.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Well maybe that's what happens when you try and get support from a community for two decades and get nothing but arrogance and elitism.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Because it’s an uphill battle against monopolies.

    Blah blah blah the same argument.

    If you had a better product than Windows, for free, everyone would use it. You don't, and you blame everyone except yourselves.

    Yellow card for ageism, ha-ha.

    Oh man am I having my first 'these fucking kids' moments? I think I am.

    Oh, so a piece of hardware the vendor of which didn’t care about Linux support. How is this an OS problem?

    Because if I can't use my tools with one OS, but I can with another, then the problem is with the OS that I cannot. Scanners are common peripherals my dude. Do you think windows would have sold if it didn't support scanners?

    be pissed at Linux and its community if it’s a device driver problem.

    I'm pissed at the linux community because their answers were antagonistic, elitist, and useless. You asked for one example, I gave you one example yet the community has responded in the same way each time.

    In your example the problem is with the vendor of the device.

    Keep thinking that way and waiting for all vendors to start distributing their own linux drivers, see how far you get.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    but I don’t see what does this have to do with “the current ecosystem”, because different distributions handle repositories differently.

    I'm sure you don't, which is why your shitty ass OS is sitting at 4% desktop adoption rates.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    Yes, the same correct argument.

    No it isn't, I refuted it in my next sentence.

    I’ve already guessed you think that, only you don’t give any arguments supporting your opinion

    I don't need to, simple market forces make that clear. If you have a free product that is easily available that outcompetes paid products, the market will shift to the free product. If it does not then it isn't outcompeting the competition.

    Why would you pay for McDonald's if Smashburger was free?

    You’ve yourself said there’s no official driver, so the entirety of the described problem is with the hardware vendor.

    How naive. Linux is the unsupported underdog here, and will not get more adoption by whining that vendors aren't making drivers for it. The only answer is to roll your own. I explicitly stated that this lack of hardware support is one of the things holding back linux from greater adoption, do you disagree with this? If you agree, then you know drivers must be written. If the manufacturer has no interest in doing it, then who will?

    Windows doesn’t even support browsers

    Are you fucking high? I really don't even know how to respond to this. I'm starting to think you are just copy pasting ChatGPT output.

    but it’s vendor’s fault.

    Whining isn't going to raise your ridiculous OS's adoption rating, bro.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    You have denied it, not refuted it.

    Wow, you may want to take a class in rhetoric.

    You don’t know shit about market forces either, and I’m ancap, LOL.

    Wrong on the first part, and doesn't matter on the second. Market forces exist regardless of your economic religion.

    If a ride to get Smashburger costs more in time and money than McDonalds.

    OOOH YOU ARE SO FUCKING CLOSE! Not that you will ever admit it.

    Now apply that to the time and energy that goes into standing up a linux desktop vs windows.

    You if you need it. Nobody’s going to do what you need for you.

    Then I won't be using linux now will I? AND HERE YOU SEE WHERE ELITISM GETS YOUR RIDICULOUS EXCUSE FOR AN OS.

    Imagine if you got a phone, but before you could use the soft keyboard you had to write your own driver for it. HOW WELL DO YOU THINK THAT PHONE WOULD SELL?!
    How do you think people would treat it even if they got it for free?

    You can respond with thanking me on your knees

    Elitist shitbag proving my point at the speed of light.

    Literally nothing you have written is meaningful or useful, I hereby banish you from my internet forever.

    mods_are_assholes ,

    They literally had preprinted signs to hand out. Fucking epitome of laziness.

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