schnurrito

schnurrito , 1 day ago to linuxmemes in Switched to linux before it became mainstream

ahhh i remember being a bored teenager spending his life customizing his desktop too...

Nowadays I just want a working system where I can get things done, haven't touched my desktop environment settings in a while and certainly don't use things like cubes or wobbly windows anymore.

schnurrito , 2 days ago to Technology in New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools

I am so impossibly glad I'm no longer a minor and have no plans to ever have any children. Incredible how adults wanting to control young people's lives is a phenomenon that is just not dying out.

As for bills to limit "addictive algorithms" blah blah blah: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence kthxbai

schnurrito , 2 days ago to Technology in New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools

as someone whose only escape from real-life horribleness when he was a preteen and early teen was the Internet: how about you stop wanting to control other people's lives and mind your own business and trust others (yes, even young people) to know what's good for them and what's not

schnurrito , 11 days ago to Technology in Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach

Why is a "conservative cell carrier" even a thing…that has to exist… or exists… nah you know I don't actually wanna know…

schnurrito , 12 days ago to Technology in People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?

Yup.

In the 2000s (very young at the time) I sometimes thought about how awesome it would be if we had devices where we could go on the Internet from everywhere.

I do not want the world back where people could only look things up on the Internet from home or work or where there is a desktop computer.

schnurrito , 14 days ago to Technology in Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"

Yes. But we have all gotten pretty used to things on the Internet not costing money. If they start costing money, many people will either not want to or be able to use them.

schnurrito , 15 days ago to linuxmemes in Gotta stab a new drive into computer

https://xkcd.com/1989/

schnurrito , 15 days ago to Technology in Online Content Is Disappearing

Freely licensed works will be preserved a lot better because there will be more copies of them.

Likewise the fediverse is a step in that direction: this message will be federated to hundreds of servers so is more likely to survive longer than if I posted it to reddit.

schnurrito , 15 days ago to Technology in Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route

When public transportation was first introduced in most places, it was run by private companies for profit. This changed mostly because it wasn't profitable to compete with cars when those became popular.

Of course there still are private companies running public transport: long distance buses and trains in many places, and commercial aviation is really also a form of public transportation.

So there is nothing novel about buses being run by private companies for profit.

schnurrito , 18 days ago to Technology in Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down

It still gives better results than DDG for many queries.

schnurrito , 24 days ago to Technology in Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

Messages that people post on Stack Exchange sites are literally licensed CC-BY-SA, the whole point of which is to enable them to be shared and used by anyone for any purpose. One of the purposes of such a license is to make sure knowledge is preserved by allowing everyone to make and share copies.

schnurrito , 27 days ago to Technology in Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows

12! is a really high number tho

schnurrito , 29 days ago to Technology in Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites

The Internet is so big nowadays that you pretty much need to have some kind of algorithm. A list of all websites in "the right category" would have way too many items in it most of which would be useless. We live in an attention economy: lots of people want as many people as possible to pay attention to them, but everyone's attention is obviously limited.

No I don't know how to fix this.

schnurrito , 30 days ago to linuxmemes in Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our unshittified experience

Linux on an Intel-based MacBook Air was my daily driver for years. It worked perfectly fine; battery life was lower than on macOS though.

schnurrito , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in I don't know who Wayland is

Since the 80’s, Linux has been using a display server called the X Window System

This is, of course, not true, given that Linux did not yet exist in the 1980s.

Unix-like systems that predate Linux did already use it in the 1980s.