EnsignWashout

joined 2 years ago
[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

Put any person who has zero computer experience in front of a windows computer or Linux computer and I doubt they would say the windows computer just works and the Linux one doesn't.

I did this experiment on my own kids. They find Linux more usable, and find it hard to believe people tolerate Windows.

There's also some indoctrination involved.

But they have access to both, and they prefer Linux. I think that the "Windows is genuinely easier" argument doesn't hold any water anymore.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Sure, but it's not quite the compelling argument it used to be.

Today, I'm not sitting here pining for old Linux software that stopped working. And the small amount of old windows software that did finally stop working actually works now only works on Linux with Wine.

That's another of the decision points that finally switched to fully favoring Linux, for me, in the last decade.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

There is such a law, but many of us feel that Microsoft has proven malice a few times, when it comes to open standards.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

I will be back to the theaters for this. Sure, I just got my home theater setup how I like it. And yes, classic films in my collection are showing daily at whatever time I damn well please. And my snacks are both superior and cheaper.

I forgot where I was going with this.

Oh right. To the other room to watch a movie without any fucking ads.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Can I find a broken window and start sanding it with sandpaper, as an extreme example?

Yes, provided you have a way to polish it back to transparent again, after changing the shape.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Does this salary offer from Google look fair to you?"

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

I feel bad for not trying hard or smart enough

People who have accounted for their own spent time often feel the coupons are wasteful. That's before accounting for the costs of purchases made that could have been skipped, or where the discount led to buying a worse product, and needing to rebuy a better one later.

wondering if there are privacy trade-offs.

I'm not familiar with that service, but it's a safe bet that it has privacy costs. People don't set up and organize discount programs out of kind heartedness. At best they plan to sell us something we don't need. At worst they're selling everything they can learn about us to anyone with a nickel.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He caught the wave*!

*

The one that drowned his family.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 31 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Spooky. I thought that was my fridge for a minute, but this is just silly. Guns go in the crisper drawer for freshness.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 45 points 7 months ago

I'm pleased to report that all those other promised utopia frameworks turned out perfect, and aren't in any way still a huge daily pain in the ass. I expect no less from this time around. Computers are finally smart. It's great.

It's the AI that is prone to delusions, or was that just me?

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 61 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A little more time and a lot more money. But the savings will be huge. The savings will make the current era of extravagant burning piles of money look like a sound investment. You'll be glad you got in on the ground floor...

We do need a little more time, though. And money.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

I played in that party in second edition!

ResultWe did not survive.

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