Tibert

joined 2 years ago
[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Business proposal : destroy my money

[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It can be compared and added to the argument of an European country which proposes to scan all photos sent to detect if it contains illegal children photos.

However, to do so, is a huge privacy issue, and as the ai has a very high risk to not work as expected, a lot of false positives could be sent to be reviewed by a person.

[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For me, it shows 1 subscriber, 1.4k users per month.

It seems to be entirely dependent on the instance.

[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 1 points 2 years ago

I don't get tired fast.

A boring game will get me tired.

A great game will keep me in.

Tho sometimes it's a bit more difficult to say. The environment may keep me in, but the gameplay mush me away.

[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sadly not everywhere. On mobile it lacks behind. Even more on video content and low power cpus.

Chromium is slightly better in a way where I could clic on the video buttons without lag : On my android TV, (sideloaded) Firefox had issues with video buttons. So I tried using kiwi browser (for the extension support), and it worked well for buttons. The video wasn't a lot smoother, but it just seemed maybe just slightly better.

[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 20 points 2 years ago

I don't use it because of mobile adblock only. There are multiple private chromium browsers which have mobile adblock, and also one supporting extensions : kiwi browser.

I use Firefox because it's a competing engine to chromium, and it looks good.

I also have all the synced bookmarks from my PC Firefox, which I use for the same reason, and because I got used to it.

[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The article only talks about deployment costs. What about the rest?

For you a company should just throw away it's employees to hire inexistent Linux experts or people using Linux software or whatever?

There is the server side. There I agree that using Linux is great.

On the client side it can be more complicated. A lot of schools in various domains teach the students how to use the software on windows. Not Linux.

Furthermore, a company doesn't pop into existence the moment where it thinks it needs to switch to Linux.

The company already exists, providing work to the employees, trained on windows. So switching on Linux may change the software if it cannot be used on Linux (not everything is a saas). And that can be a time consuming process for the employees too because they don't know how to use it efficiently.

[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They can't really do that, mostly because it's not "just 1 person".

There are a lot of costs going into maintaining the os, apps, custom software, and training for the employees.

Google is giant, and has a huge amount of money. They can afford to spend the costs of training, modifying software, or developing other software for their needs if it reduces their future costs.

A smaller company don't have all those funds, they wouldn't be able to invest as much into switching to Linux and maintaining the custom software or finding new software and training.

When people switch to another software, there is also a period of low productivity, when these same people are still discovering the software, and cannot do everything as fast as before. That is also creating additional costs.

[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Sure. But google does waste money if it brings them profit. It would be rather called an investment.

However the example of Google is extremely bad, because it can only be applied to very large tech companies who already have people developing for Linux.

It's not a waste of money, it's a bad example.

[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Being grateful to a free service is a bit hard when a lot of those services use scummy marketing tactics...

There are some interesting, others well, maybe their free services are useful, but their tactics do not align and so it's difficult to want to support them just because I could. (mostly vpns have real trash marketing). I'd rather donate more to a charity.

[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There are services open source or free closed source which are in need of donations.

VPNs do Not need your gratitude. The cost of running a VPN per user is extremely low (just look at the market prices to subscribe to a vpn). Even less for a for profit company. For vpn I would use one offering the best services for the needs at lower cost.

Making a donation to an open source or free service (which doesn't try to scam you, or get your wallet) would require more effort, but bring more satisfaction because it would keep that open source useful project afloat.

Tho if you like a service and you need more from it, do pay for it. I'm not saying you shouldn't.

[–] Tibert@compuverse.uk 5 points 2 years ago

It can be a pre-planned trade. However they also could have waited for the shares to be sold then make the announcement.

Who knows. I'm not here as a judge.

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