That makes sense.

You had given me nightmares for a moment. :p

Windows is basically: download the installer, run it, and boom you’re good to go.

Thank you for installing my virus.

But yeah, I’d basically say that’s an antifeature that ahs been oversold.

And even then, it’s not even the only one. Macniel already pointed out five ways, and I’m rather sure there’s three or four more (I’m p sure Windows has its own equivalent in Powershell to curl http://evilinstaller.org/run | sudo bash, for one).

I think LibreOffice should just be a PWA.

LO already has enough issues wth enabling the Java stuff in the menus, the last thing we need is for it to become a laravel react svelte kitten gemini poob framework-of-the-week POS.

Problems Linux itself has to overcome? Maybe two or three.

• Hopefully I’m mistaken but apparently accessibility has been going down the last few years.
• Settings that make sense to change should be exposed more adequately. No one should ever get a visual toggle to eg.: disable SELinux on their systray, but controls to adjust color profiles and screen “temperature” management should be more reachable and clear.

Problems that are mistakenly attributed to Linux but that are actually for manufacturers, sellers and provisioners to take responsibility for and overcome? A good lot.

• Sellers have to sell machines with Linux preinstalled. Getting a machine Linux-ready from factory is easy, but it’s only the commerces who can actually place them on a, ta know, selling point.
• Sellers or manufacturers should actually advertise when their device works with Linux. If people have to guess whether their next buy even boots / plugs in, that’s a hindrance to commerce.
• Hardware manufacturers are not providing adequate Linux support (FizzyOrange mentions the eternal issue of laptop battery management; Naiboftabr mentions stuff like “audio stops working”).
• Developers have to get back to developing for Linux natively (rather than eg.: “develop for a trimmed down Windows version that runs on Steam”).
• Developers of Linux itself need to provide a better “rescue mode” for when things inevitably go wrong. Something that boots up to a “guaranteed working state” that still has workable UI but with most or all customizations disabled.

But that would imply that Python is faster than the one in this comic!

I mean I could, but I ran out of tapes to keep recording stuff in.

This can’t be C++. Not enough stacks of unneeded template names, and the function names are not mangled beyond recognition.

I am amazed at how helpless some people…

It’s what TikTok did to a generation. It’s incredible.

Back in my day, I could even program the time on the VCR!

A new user will know because they sign in and they get access to more features of the instance, such as ability to follow, star, block, etc.

A mere visitor, can simply be pointed to the /all button. It just does not need to be the default.

Porn like stuff

Which one, exactly? A woman showing a nipple? Artistic renditions of men in classic statues? A furry? A LGBTQ person existing?

That’s how it begins. We’ve already seen how it ends.

There is a fair point to make that it’s instances that should default to /local instead of /all - at least for uncredentialed guests. Since if you want to see more, you can just get to the next instance, and the next, and the next…, and that way we avoid reloading basically the same content and stuff on every instance you visit.

And it helps instances better moderate how they present themselves to potential sign-ups.

Nobody is advocating for a ban, nor can or will this be used as a first step towards one.

History has proven you wrong since as early as the Dark Ages and as recently as two weeks ago in the UK.

[…] and I don’t want it in /all.

Skill issue. That’s literally what /all is for.

Block what you don’t want, or set your starting page to subscribed and curate from there. That’s half the point of this entire place.

The other half you already did the work: notified the comms they have to set to NFW, etc.

My usual concern with force redirecting people to “where the stuff is popular” is that it promotes centralization, which is the literal opposite of why we’re here. Besides, as I’ve commented some other times, the feasibility of user participation is not transitive across instances. !soccer@sports.xyz might have a completely different rules, mood or culture than !soccer@euro.pe , or the redirect might lead to !soccer@ya.ml which is blocked in my country or otherwise made unavailable. (I am using examples here ofc but I guess this could very well hit people in and around feddit.uk, for one).

There is literally no punishment for keeping a community open so it can sometime either grow organically or die organically. Locking them however, fully prevents either option.

…It’s literally a public communication network? The point is that what you post is seen.

If you want private there’s Signal, Jabber, etc. Wholly different purposes.

If they are locked, the people who come here and see them locked will go elsewhere instead of contributing, because they literally can’t.

Some people came here to creat communities (eg.: in the wake of Reddit stuff) with the hope that it would catch on. But we can’t expect them to do all the work.

Requires Github (/Microsoft). Not good.

Fedora 42 even eliminated X11 as an option (I think they’re reversing that stance now, though),

This is one of the big problems Wayland and its proponents tended to have and still have in general:

They insist on selling vaporware. Or on doing the Ubuntu thing where they just push dev onto production for the users to become unpaid tester workforce. And then they have the gall to complain that people notice things don’t work.

Curiously enough, I don’t recall pulseaudio (another member of this “nu-linux” / Microsoft™ Linux trend) was like this. Sure, Fedora packaged it horribly, but I don’t recall it having been pushed as a default to prod when it was unusable.

Or I am lucky to not have noticed. Oh well.

Can you share the contact of your copium dealer?

Because, really, this is one of the most disparagated stuff I’ve ever read this year.

Wouldn’t a zero-knowledge hosting solution (you provide hosting, but you can’t see what’s into it past a stream of binary) help with that?