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Honestly, I think it's great: if it annoys people enough, they will move out from Chrome and install Firefox (or one of its forks) with good extensions for blocking ads on YouTube. It seems to be the only solution to break the monopoly of Google on browsers. So go Google, I believe in you!

You have to give them a reason to get interested in the OS and the programs they're using. I gave Linux a try because I was concerned about privacy and I wanted to use more ethical and user respecting OS and software than what I used at that time. Linux and the FOSS world was an obvious choice for me. Custom ROM on Android was sort of the bridge which allowed me to transition. If it wasn't for that, I would still be on Windows and I wouldn't learn that much on how an operating system works and what differentiate them, aside from the look. The fact they're kids or that they play games have nothing to do with it: a lot of adults don't know either what type of OS they're using, despite it being in their best interest. The problem is that we don't give or show them the reason they should be interested, or at least be curious about it and most of time, before people get a degree, we end up killing their curiosity.

As they play Minecraft, you can advise them to switch to Prism Launcher instead of the minecraft launcher, especially if they mod the game, it's much better for that. It could be a good start.

I'll happily switch to Linux on the day when every new release works with no extra problems, tinkering, waiting or searching caused by my choice of OS.

Let me give you an honest answer that no Linux users is willing to give you (certainly because they fear to scare people off of Linux): you will never see the day where Linux will be equal if not better than Windows for gaming (which it can be sometimes, but it's not always the case) if not a certain amount of people get out of their comfort zone and are willing to try something new. In fact, nobody can improve anything in their life if they're not willing to get out of their comfort zone.

You're already using a PC to play video games, I did this choice too, so trust me, you definitely have the energy to change for a better OS, something ever you recognize as having qualities outside of games. Otherwise, you would've played exclusively on console where you actually have a plug and play experience... unfortunately at the cost of your freedom to use the machine you bought however you want, besides all the other considerable disadvantages.

For me, Linux made as much progress as it can do, meaning now, for Linux to be viable for gaming, either companies start to move their asses and make Linux native games (which they can easily do, if they're willing to use the right tools for their game like Vulkan) but I hardly see that coming any time soon, or new users have to come to Linux so that companies would finally care. Personally, I made my choice by making the first step.

Math is a tool of the mind to describe our world, imaginary numbers is only a extension of that tool to allow us to go beyond what mathematical logic prevents us to do, while still getting in the end a real number. Math, despite being powerful, is a flawed tool, so getting around its flaws by creating things like imaginary numbers isn't absurd and doesn't make the result any less real at the end.

On the other hand, I don't think calling everything we don't understand "magic" or the new trending words "supernatural" and "a miracle" and give god or anything else (like karma) credit for it would be more clever. Back then, we didn't understood the concept of thunder and interpreted it as god's wrath. Now, we understand it's a transmission of electricity from the negatively charged clouds to the neutral ground through ionized particles in the air. I don't think that scientists now, despite referring to the same phenomena, are talking about the same thing as we did a long time ago.

So no, no scientist will discover the afterlife "but we'll just call them "Post-Human Conciousness Wells" or something, and insist it totally isn't the same thing as that ancient superstition." as it won't be.

F-Droid isn't the only one: I also like Neo Store, which has more than just the F-Droid repository and I think has a better interface. However, I think not all repo are 100% safe because F-Droid verify all the apps they have while Neo-Store doesn't because it simply list known repos, which you can activate however you like in the settings.

Well good for you if that's the case, but be careful, you're better safe than sorry. Lack of good sleep is a big problem in today's society and one of the sign can be falling asleep very fast, so considering it can have serious consequences on one's life, it's always good to keep an eye on that. Anyway, take care

Who talked about identity? Left-handed people is just a group, right-handed is also a group and ambidextrous is another one. This post is only noticing the difference in day-to-day life with right-handed people, that's it.

Man I really love Lemmy for that kind of shit. I'll change the link right away

5 minutes is pretty damn low: are you sleep depraved? If so, you must be exhausted at the end of the day or constantly tired throughout the day. The average and normal time (when just being tired and not exhausted at the end of the day) is about 20 minutes. You might want to checked on that and get a better sleep quality as you seem to say you have 6 hours of sleep per day, which isn't ideal but good enough.

Do you use Windows by any chance? And cherry on top, an AMD GPU? That wouldn't surprise me because that's the worst combo possible. Unfortunately, I can do nothing more than empathize with your issue, it's indeed a pretty big deal considering it shouldn't be an issue in the first place, whether you game on your PC or not. I use personally Linux and I've never had any problem for drivers, whether it's Nvidia or AMD, since I use it, which could explain our difference of experience.

Religion and science are orthogonal. Science seeks to answer the question of "how?", while religion seeks to answer "why?"

Religion doesn't try to answer anything: it's just blind faith. You're not gonna try to tell me religious people are "looking for" anything. The definition of religion is "belief in a deity". It doesn't try to explain or find out anything.

It's dependent on ignorance of basic philosophy, and attempts to derive any kind of morality based solely on science results

Since when atheism prevents philosophy? Haven't you heard of atheist philosophers? They exist, they're not fairies, you know. About morality, it's still a subject and a lot of philosophers have different opinion, with the subjective or objective moral, relativistic moral, etc... And whatever you mean by "derive any kind of morality based solely on science results", it's still better than arbitrarily define a moral based on a book written by some people a long time ago to then enforce it for centuries, with violence if needed, and then when the bad atheists come to clean all the mess by making moral laws to have everybody end up agreeing on after few decades, claim it was just a misinterpretation of the texts or whatever, which is the dumbest excuse I've ever heard of.

Atheism isn't a religion either: atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of an unproven (and certainly unprovable) entity. So a lack of belief certainly didn't kill anybody.

And atheism was never the reason or the foundation of the sentence "the end justify the means", it existed long before atheism was even a concept.

Stating mathematics is a tool doesn't answer if mathematics are real or not. But I would say, from my humble experience, that mathematics is both unreal and perfectly tangible. Mathematics is totally a real thing as it obeys strict rule in logic that are true in our real world, axioms, on which everything else is based so that it can't be used to state things as being true out of the blue, without any justification before using those axioms, which you can translate into our real world. But math also has its limits and has been used to demonstrate that it itself is incomplete, undecidable and inconsistant (mathematically, of course, it's not our common definition here). Meaning, as mathematics are imperfect, it can't describe our world perfectly and therefore isn't real.

There is an excellent video from Veritasium on the subject of the limits of math: https://piped.video/HeQX2HjkcNo

The people you're talking about only account for a pretty small minority of players. Those kind of players are the ones who usually don't spend a lot of time on video games, own very little games (or only from the same series) and mostly play with other players, in the same place, so they rightfully consider it doesn't worth their time. Most players own several games, solo and multiplayer, and spend enough time on them to not be bothered by having to spend some extra time to set up a gaming PC to then benefit from it. So it doesn't explain why those players are still on consoles and don't want to bother switching to a PC.

But even aside from that, I hate hearing people complain about how consoles scam people and always try to find ways to milk their customers, yet still buy and play on those same consoles. Like, if you don't like what they're doing and don't like having to use such restricted environments which very much allow such greed and control, don't reinforce those companies in their ideas by continuing to buy from them. And I don't want to hear that that there are no alternatives: we're not in the 1990 anymore where consoles were the only way and weren't very diverse.

People Do complain. Have you not read a single comment under this post? Claiming they don't is just your way to be able to dismiss the argument without addressing the issue. My point is you have no reason to complain when you have alternatives but you don't want to choose them because... because why exactly? I've never heard a single convincing argument to not have a PC when that same person already complains about the very nature of console, that is being a closed system which can force whatever it wants on you. If you have no problem with consoles, I also have no problem with you using one. But don't complain over it doing exactly what it was made for.

And you certainly don't need an internet connection to play a solo game on PC or to install the OS. You need one to download the game, at most.

Ok but I don't see any reason for you to consider it "easier" to play on a console when you already have a perfectly functional PC next to you, able to handle the game: there is no extra step or steps that require more time or energy once the PC is set up, compare to the console. So I really don't know what you're talking about when you mention the "ease of use" of console over an already set up and ready-to-go PC. Maybe the settings have to be configured but you already have the default settings and either way, the PC simply gives you more options, so you just interpret the choice given to you as something time consuming, which it's not, if you don't want to bother choosing.

And it's great. Though, as a religious person, thinking this way is no more than shooting yourself in the foot, which is quite sad because religion has only two choice: either cultivating the ignorance but going against science, which is wrong, or cultivating knowledge but overtime, disappearing as a religion. Either way, nowadays it's doomed.

Edge and Chrome are both closed source and owned by companies, so your comparison is just not valid. Using AOSP is certainly not supporting Google's monopoly: AOSP is totally open source, was bought by Google a long time ago and they don't own it due to its license (aside from the name maybe). Meaning you can still flash Android on a system without paying or using Google's services or products.

It's like saying you contribute to Google's monopoly because you use Linux and Google (also) used it in its Chromebooks.

Yes but generally, it's to find solution, not just to have someone listen and do nothing else. It's just a bonus I would say if the person listens as well.

Openboard and Florisboard are pretty good alternatives. I don't like them though (nor do I prefer Gboard or Swiftkey) as I prefer a type of keyboard very practical to write due to it's rounded keys, which is Typewise.

Sure, you're obviously more likely to have problems like driver issue on a PC than on a console, but in my experience, those kind of issues (or any kind of issue for that matter) are so extremely rare, it's totally negligible in front of what bring a PC to you and it certainly won't make me want to switch to consoles for a waste of 20 minutes of my time over a year because of some program or piece of code that didn't run as expected.

Do men do that? I have the feeling it's exclusively women who do this, but the reasoning behind it could be as valid for women as for men. We're all human after all.

Chromium doesn't need Chrome to exist either: it's a separate project and if Google doesn't want to support it anymore, someone can easily fork it to continue having Chromium-based browsers. That's the property of open source: anybody can inspect and fork it.

There is no proof to be a bias against non-male in the programming world. As far as I know, any country regardless of their gender equality effort up to a certain point have basically the same women to men ratio, which means it isn't the action of some oppression or shaming. Worse, countries that are less egalitarian are a more equal ratio of women and men, like India, as opposed to a lot of western countries. It'll never change unless you manage to brainwash a good amount of women into thinking they like programming, despite them not liking it.