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Using Ubuntu may give off hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going to post this exact comment because I, too listen to the Linux After Dark podcast.

welp ... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

lol this is such a classic Linux trope

Person A: I can’t seem to get this to work! Arg!

Person B: I have been running this for years with no issues. It just works!

is there a download manager for Linux that just works? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You’re not dumb you just haven’t needed that use case before.

Here’s an example of the last time JDownloader saved me. There was a website where people were posting archives of old skateboard videos. There were hundreds of links across dozens of pages in a forum. All links to sites like mega.

I was able to view all pages in one document and extracted all of the hundreds of links and put them in JDownloader. Over the course of the next several weeks JDownloader was able to manage those downloads without clogging my bandwidth. If a download failed it would notify me and I could retry it.

Can you imagine trying to do that in Firefox?

The Garden of Eden was based on The Galápagos Islands. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Were there people exploring the Galapagos in 1000 BCE?

Why is Lemmy obsessed with the word "enshittification"? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 71 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I think a lot of people also misuse the word and use it as a catch-all for companies doing something they don’t like.

Raising prices is not enshittification, that’s inflation.

Not paying employees well is not enshittification, that’s under-compensation.

YouTube putting more ads in their videos including when the video is paused isn’t enshittification that’s… wait no that is enshittification.

Enshittification refers to offering the same service (often free, or at least with an option to pay more) but making it worse in order to squeeze you onto a paid (or higher paid) tier of service. This sounds good to shareholders but ultimately it alienates their customers and often leads to a company dying.