I said they’re the new IE for a reason.

The w3c standard: ok so we all agreed that this feature will be placed in the body tag

Blink: ofc, that’s what I’ve been telling you

Gecko: sure, idc

WebKit: yeah nah, put it in the html

So many little senseless gotchas like that that exist for no reason that to be iSpecial

I mean the title should be “… time to move to the other browser”.

Safari is the new IE with extra iCrap on top.

Random browsers usually use one of the 3 web engines, but without browser polish, or functionalities like a working adblock. Those that don’t are just someone’s toys.

So the only real option is Firefox, and the Mozilla foundation lost 80+% of their funding because they can’t get the Google money anymore. Maybe they’ll start actually funding FF instead of some BS humanitarian work that I can bet was primarily lining their pockets…

Try it out maybe? You’re not buying a car… There’s not much point going around and asking if you spend 20 mins trying it out and realise you don’t want to use a 5 year old DE.

Basically expect the system will change only when you update to a new version, and that you’ll need to use external PMs like flatpak or nix for all user packages if you plan on doing anything more advanced than browsing and office work.

Wait till you find out about fzf

Linus didn’t choose Linux because he thought it sounded too self-centred.

With enough sophistry anything can seem insignificant. The Linux we use today has developed within the constraints of Microsoft threatening to sue anyone and everyone. The only reason they could do that was due to suse, as the longest running commercial distro, publicly saying that Linux infringes on those patents.

Never saw this?

https://manjarno.pages.dev/

What about that time Suse supported Microsoft’s claim that Linux infringes on their patents? Ms got enough grounds to sue everyone even marginally related to Linux for over a decade, Suse got a contract to sell licences that prevent Ms from suing companies for using Linux.

It’s great for the price, but it’s got plenty of issues.

The gpu is worse than useless most of the time, the cpu is perma throttled on Linux, split battery issues and you can’t choose which one to use or when to stop discharging, the keyboard is worse than on the xx20 models, USBC can’t be replaced

Also, you missed the point of the joke. T480 most certainly does have IME, and it can’t be corebooted.

It’s for diaper rash and such

NixOS is the new Arch…

Yeah nah, arch has an actual use case for normal users - it’s just the same old Linux with the most recent packages.

Nix and guix simply don’t work as distros for regular people. They’re made for scientific and corporate applications. They add a huge amount of complexity in order to solve problems you don’t have.

Nixos is like rust: hyped into the stratosphere by people who don’t use it

I say this as an ex Arch type who moved to Fedora, now ublue-kinoite, waiting for Nix to mature enough to daily

I’m running guix in fedora as a PM. You get most of the benefits, and can still use other PM’s like npm without crying for a week first. Although imo guix works better in that scenario since you can just “guix install X” and then use X like any other binary.

their hardware feels great to use

I tried using a friend’s m1 MacBook pro, and it’s the worst laptop I’ve touched in a while. Like my oldest budget core2duo laptop has a better keyboard than a brand new $2000+ device. There’s a very good reason it’s permanently docked.

it makes me wonder how people could say that the components are so bad.

I’ve mentioned a few reasons in this thread. They basically used subpar components to offset the cost of developing their own CPU.

If in 10 years you can get an old MacBook Pro for 200$, I might jump on it even if upgradeability has been lowered.

It’s not lowered, it’s absolutely removed, unless you count replacing the entire motherboard as upgradeability.

16gb ram is too small? New motherboard.

Crappy SSD is dying? New motherboard.

It was a joke. But you can see why I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out true in the end.

I know for a fact they’re making it impossible to make small repairs like changing the screen closed sensor. It requires a proprietary calibration tool they won’t sell, and so MacBooks can’t go to sleep when closing the screen.

On top of changing it from a sub $ hall sensor to some proprietary bs that’s far more expensive.

When m1 came out, some tech guy on twitter did a review of MacBook Pro and studio storage. Apple literally used components that are so bad they had to disable data safety protocols to go above HDD speeds. The end result was that losing power is likely to corrupt your data.

Besides that apple was cutting out “unnecessary” parts of the arm specification in order to cut costs. The result is that the first 2(?) generations have hardware level exploit “m1racles” on top of others like “pacman”.

I really wouldn’t trust them to last

Inb4 apple locked down components to motherboard serial number

But seriously, I guess the only hope is to wait for the Chinese second hand market takes off.

They have the ability to arbitrarily push out Snap updates.

That’s right! Your production server is getting patched without your knowledge or consent.

What deranged donkey is using snaps for infra?

Why do you think Ubuntu is the favourite distro at Microsoft? They’ve tried extinguishing Linux through suse, but are now back on the old EEE plan with canonical helping them.

I’ve tried running guix for a while and it was pure pain.

For example, a small change that would take adding a few lines in a single file, becomes a week long brainfuck of modifying the system configuration and rewriting package definitions.

It’s incomparably more smooth to just use it as an extra pm instead of a whole distro.

I really wouldn’t touch secondhand Ms. No upgrades, no repairs, horrible components (CPU is ok, everything else is straight from the dumpster in order to cover costs).

So when something dies on your device from a company that has a long history of terrible design and QA (I’m betting on storage) you have to pay another $1000+ to replace the whole motherboard. On top of that, I’m guessing that they’re also ripping off customers when selling those replacement boards, as having usable ram and storage costs an extra $1000+ when buying new.

The murder was mostly about one group of people

Funny how people focus on the final solution and completely ignore Lebensraum…