He mentioned once that he can use a bank that doesn't use free software because he's not logging in to it to do general purpose computing. I think the same would probably apply to medical treatments.
He mentioned once that he can use a bank that doesn't use free software because he's not logging in to it to do general purpose computing. I think the same would probably apply to medical treatments.
I was mildly interested until I saw "designed for creators". Seems like a meaningless marketing term that gets added to everything these days.
It's the first time I've seen it.
How many times have you setup Fedora or any other Linux distribution and have every single thing working from the get go?
I’m talking drivers, audio, networking, libraries, DNF, repositories, plugins, runtime dependencies, …
Is proprietary software any easier than that though? Don't you have to put in much more time removing all the spyware and bloat they put in and then spend all your time perpetually fighting against forced updates and applications being installed without your permission?
Whereas with Fedora my experience is more or less install it and forget it.
The "it's easier" argument for proprietary software I think died at least 15 years ago.
Choice of applications is a different argument.
It's not the advertising that's the problem, it's the tracking and surveillance that comes with it. Until they get rid of that, uBlock Origin is a necessary security measure.
It's the best Chromium browser, but unfortunately still a Chromium browser. Pleased to see it in Flathub though.
I don't change my clocks for daylight saving time and live on permanent winter time all year, and just do the conversion in my head when dealing with the outside world.
For some reason this really confuses some people and I get all kinds of questions about it whenever the clocks change.
I think it's perfectly reasonable and think people setting their clocks to the wrong time for half the year is strange.
Beehaw is a quieter experience than most because it has narrower federation, but you do tend to get a better signal to noise ratio since you miss the spammier instances - I like it.
Beehaw also doesn't federate downvotes which I think is an improvement.
I don't think you can be sure they're not profiling you for advertising on other sites just because they're not showing ads on YouTube. The purpose of uBO is security. Plus I wouldn't give money to a shady company like Google anyway.
Blocking YouTube's advertising is necessary for privacy, and it punishes YouTube for their bad business practices.
But sponsors aren't underhanded like that and I feel like they're the type of thing we should really be promoting as an alternative to privacy invading ads, and hopefully a way for creators to move off of YouTube eventually.
Set calendar alerts for routine tasks that need to be done less frequently than once a week.
Things like washing the vacuum cleaner filters, descaling the kettle, replacing the water filter (I'm in a hard-water area), servicing various appliances, cleaning all the things that need cleaning but don't need cleaning every week. All small things. It removes a lot of cognitive effort and makes sure those things actually get done.
Is there a reason given why they can't use their current logo?
Missed out OpenTTD, that's my go-to game these days.
It cuts out a lot of spam and low-effort posting.
Infinite scrolling
It's a Garden-path sentence
I don't think that's even a conspiracy theory, I think it's obvious that's what they're doing.
Even for what they offer now; if you already have your payment details registered with "X", then it's a much easier decision to make about paying for a blue tick or editing rights or whatever else.
I do, I don't even have Tweaks installed.
I used to be an avid customiser of software, but one day I realised that I spent a lot of time tweaking things and didn't get a great workflow anyway.
The thing about GNOME is it has a great in-built workflow and I work more efficiently now I just let it make the decisions for me.
I also kind of think that if you're the type to install a lot of extensions you'd probably be happier with KDE anyway.
I guess I just unsubscribe from communities where there are a lot of low-effort memes?
But seeing it here is fine, it's started some discussion.
4.20 still feels like yesterday
Beehaw is my favourite instance, if it left I would stay with it but and also use a different instance to use Lemmy.
I would worry that Beehaw couldn't sustain itself outside of federation though, it needs to be either bigger or fill more of a niche and it doesn't do either. I would give it some time to grow more first if it were up to me.
You can just install Dolphin on GNOME, you don't have to go the whole way.
I remember being told off by a moderator in the 90s for not writing full-sentence replies. You can't even imagine that today. Of course back then, as the video touches on, if you didn't like the culture or policies of a forum you just moved to another one, there were no cries of "censorship" because you choose where you want to be.
But I think that makes a good point, in the past people could choose whether they wanted to go on a forum for serious discussion, or a different forum for more casual low-effort posting. These days all these different "posting cultures" are forced to be together and end up annoying each other.
Funnily enough I've also noticed that my comments on Lemmy.ml have only been getting 1 point in the last week. Probably because they're not interesting enough but since you mentioned it...
I think without breaking tools like yt-dlp they can't, and I don't really think YouTube wants to go there or else they would have already. Most users aren't tech-savvy, so if they can persuade the majority of people to turn off their "adblockers" that's enough of a win for them. Hopefully, anyway.
Because anything truly outside of our senses (or ability to measure) is non-falsifiable, so if it can't impact us it's essentially meaningless. If it can impact us then it can be measured and become science.
They've always been pretty transparent about that kind of thing though haven't they?
I don't think they're denying the filter bubble exists, just giving a different theory on why things have turned bad.
Completely agree. Now my hot take for this thread:
If governments some time in the 90s had decided from the start to ban computer hardware from being sold with pre-installed software then we wouldn't have this problem. If everyone had to install their own operating system from scratch, which like you say isn't hard if it's taught, it would have killed the mystery around computing and people would feel ownership over their computers and computing.
This is a great release, GNOME 45 is looking really nice.
Recommended reading: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-39/
Can't even vote without a Google account.
I don't understand why people are so cynical about this, it seems like a harmless demonstration of the current state of the technology.
I would say that's more of a feature than a bug.
I think I would have more of a problem with the centralisation implied by this proposal than I would with paying for apps; a centralised "store" gives too much power to one organisation - but if you could choose to download one I don't think that's too much of a problem. But then we already have Steam for that.
One that might be controversial: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I still have a lot of respect for this distro and I really wanted to like it but it's just not for me. It's the fact that major updates could occur any day of the week, which could be time-consuming to install or they could change the features of the OS. It always presented a dilemma of whether to hold back updates which might include holding back critical updates.
So rolling distros aren't for me, everyone expects to run in to some occasional issues with Arch, but TW puts a lot of emphasis on testing and reliability, so I thought it might be for me. But the reality is I much prefer the release cycle and philosophy of Fedora, I think that strikes the best balance.
Can you uninstall Chrome?
This is what I'm banking on - I suspect it'll be like all the other times the UK government tried to break the internet, nothing will actually happen.
I am, as it happens, but I don't feel under any obligation to.
Firstly, how they get paid is a private matter between them and YouTube, they signed their contracts, not me.
Secondly, YouTube could run privacy-respecting non-targeted ads. I'm not punishing YouTube for having ads, I'm punishing them for being spyware.
Take it with a pinch of salt like all regional stereotypes, but Norfolk, England tends to have this one in the UK (Norwich, which others have mentioned, is in Norfolk).
The point is that YouTubers pay for that with their own reputation, if I followed a YouTuber that promoted exploitative companies I would stop following that YouTuber - why would you want to watch their content anyway?
You're not the first person I've heard who said that so there must be something there. That's not my experience however, I find that Reddit makes me angry these days, getting annoyed at all the low-effort, inconsiderate posting. Having a debate on Reddit is impossible I find because saying something that goes slightly against the hive-mind you'll you'll be passive-aggressively downvoted, which has a chilling effect on what people say. I like that Beehaw doesn't have downvotes, especially on local communities. On Beehaw/Lemmy someone might argue with you but that's at least better I think than the knee-jerk downvote-to-oblivion you get on Reddit.
It's true that a lot of people are more similar here than on Reddit. I'd argue that's not necessarily a bad thing. The one-size-fits-all social network for everybody approach I think doesn't work, it's more natural to choose a group you fit in to and feel comfortable with (which is how things were on old style forums and message boards). What ever happens to Lemmy/Beehaw in the future, the main thing I hope for is to have plenty of choice of smaller forums which is what's been lacking in the last decade or so.
Interesting video, makes a lot of sense. Just a couple of things to add:
In the old days of forums it's worth remembering that people on the internet had more in common with each other than they do today - i.e. generally they were people who were in to computers.
What really gets me down these days is the extremely low-effort of posting everywhere you go. I think that partly comes from the impersonal nature of online communication. Nobody knows who anyone is any more.
I agree it would be better to go back to independent message boards but it's a shame there's no "call to action" - it would be nice but how do we get people to do it? This is a popular YouTube channel, it would be great if it started some kind of ball rolling.