Integrate777

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[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 19 points 2 days ago (11 children)

What if websites decide that chrome users earn much more ad revenue and start forcing users to switch with those "This website only supports Chrome" error messages? What if this practice gets popular? I'm sure there are ways to get around it, but the average users who bothered switching to Firefox at all, will just conclude that anything except chrome has a bad browsing experience.

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

No motives whatsoever? Was his brain on vacation or smth?

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

On top of being preinstalled, we also need google search-able instructions that avoid the terminal altogether. People are afraid of the terminal, it doesn't matter why, it just is.

Currently, most solutions to linux problems come in the form of terminal commands. We would have to start creating a whole new troubleshooting forum where instructions avoid the terminal and are just lists of buttons to press in a GUI. Probably helpful screenshots too.

Of course I have no idea if some things even have GUIs at all, like configuring user groups and permissions or firewall settings, someone would need to make them. Not to mention every DE or program would need a different set of instructions, GNOME or KDE, firewalld or iptables. It'll be a lot of work.

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used gnome though. IIRC, everything to do with customising GNOME is done through extensions, and all extensions have GUI settings menus.

My point being, even though it's objectively harder to customise GNOME, it still doesn't require using the terminal.

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

What exact GUI controls does linux lack that windows doesn't?

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago

It went great. I mostly had to submit files in PDF, which allowed any office software to work perfectly.

That is until covid came around and I had to do proctored online exams. The proctoring software doesn't support linux.

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 8 points 8 months ago

My favourite game Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation works again. Ciao!

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That can be applied to most hobbies in general. Not using an automated coffee machine? Time worth nothing. Cooking rather buying takeout? Building your own pc rather than buying prebuilt? Drawing rather than generating with AI? Time worth nothing, that's why.

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

Oh nice. My parent's doorbell is a wireless one and I thought it was a trick. That they hid the battery and sold it with false advertising.

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 12 points 11 months ago

What about finger guns? Like using your index finger and thumb as a gun. That's violent behaviour.

[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm clearly approaching this from the point of view of language as a means to communicate and connect with people, while you see language as something that has to bring you clear benefits. I went to the trouble of writing a whole ass paragraph about how Chinese is not a single country language and there are several countries worth of people outside the firewall using it. Of course no other language under the sun will ever compare to English in terms of practical usefulness, but it's as good as it's going to be for a second language, up there with French and Spanish maybe. You don't have to assume everyone who disagrees is offended.

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