Simple ≠ intuitive

For better or for worse, the widespread methods are not at all similar to the methods sometimes used in Linux. It’s just a fact that most people are accustomed to different ways

The same MFs on here that rush to tell someone that Linux is easy and intuitive are the same ones that can’t keep a small talk conversation for more than 5 mins, a social activity that humans have been doing for thousands of years.

My words might be a little broad, harsh, and even hurtful, but just a reminder that not all of us are good at learning the same things.

We didn’t all come out of the womb knowing how to socialize or use Linux, but if we look back far enough, we can all relate to the struggles it takes to learn something new, and how much it sucks when someone treats you like you’re stupid just because things sometimes don’t click

I worked at Panera and they gave me a whopping $0.08 raise after working there for a year lol. I politely declined and put my two weeks in.

A couple days later at work I cut my finger because the knife I was using wasn’t sharp enough and I had to use too much force to cut and I ended up cutting the tip of my index finger off. It was just dangling by a piece of skin.

I had to drive myself to the hospital because the manager didn’t trust the employees enough to leave them alone, then whenever I got there I signed in but the Panera manager didn’t want to give me the insurance information and they told me I went to a hospital outside of their network even though I went to the one they sent me to.

The next day they called me into work even though the doctor said I couldn’t work for the following week. I told them to fuck off and never went back.

Panera declined to pay anything but I wasn’t aware of this until I was sent to collections and I had to pay something like $2k for some stitches. That was after negotiating it down from $8k.

This was in 2018. I probably did a couple things wrong but I was a teenager and I didn’t know better.

Because the USA took that title already.

I know a lot of people from central/south america that are mad about that and they make a comment whenever you say “american.” They prefer the term “estadounidense” which is just someone who is from the USA.

I don’t blame them because it is pretty self centered especially whenever there are two whole ass continents that term could apply to, but I don’t think get the anger around it lol.

What company can you see doing it right?

In my opinion, I think their goal was to control the platform. If you think about it, the amount of information that they can gather from users is wholly controlled by Google and Apple through their OS’.

Apple and Google have continuously decreased the amount of information Meta can gather through their apps, and I think with VR they made a huge bet that would be the next platform so they jumped on the ship to make sure that this time they would be controlling the platform and not another company.

I don’t think they want to make money through software, I think they want to make money through data collection. The amount of data they can gather from you just through the setup, is incredible. They can literally know your height and have cameras on at all times.

I think VR can be successful, but I don’t think Meta will do it. I don’t think they’re be the ones getting the ball rolling at least. If anything their marketing and the bad name they gave to VR set things back. I think they’re too early and have a pretty bad brand image for people to trust them. I don’t think the hardware or the software support is there for things to fully take off either

Also, wouldn’t their goal be to sell VR headsets? How would people buy their software without a headset? I think their goal was to sell headsets. Pretty sure they sold their budget headsets at a loss just to introduce people to the platform.

Thank you

I know this thread is already a little old, but here is the list of my favorite apps from F-Droid/Izzy. I use a lot of these almost daily and just thought I would share these in case someone might find a new app they find useful

• Eternity (Infinity for Lemmy)
• Buckwheat (Budgeting)
• Aegis (Authentication)
• Lawnchair (Pixel-like launcher)
• Quillnotes (Markdown notes app)
• Forkyz (Crosswords)
• Geometric Weather
• Imagepipe (Removes exif data and reduces pics)
• AntennaPod (Podcast app)
• Olauncher (Beautiful and minimal text based launcher)

Droid-ify just a client for f-droid, no?

I started using them in my adult life so maybe I can give some insight

it feels a little uncomfortable the first time. Not because it’s necessarily uncomfortable, but more because it’s a foreign feeling.

You get used to it after the 2nd or 3rd time though. Once you use a bidet it’s hard to go back to TP

I think you’re giving them way too much credit lol

I mean I get what you’re saying, but a title is always capitalized, no?

Just tested it and I have that as well.

I imagine most people use dark mode so maybe that’s why it hasn’t been mentioned before lol

Not only that, but it slows down discussion and more niche/focused topics are often missed

I use Imagepipe quite often. Reduces size and removes exif data from images

The games that I play the most are Forkyz for crosswords and Antimine for minesweeper

I kinda like the idea of no moderation at all

Quiet quitting the mod position lol