There’s a structural problem - it may be beneficial for companies as some coherent entities to provide such a service, but for individuals inside them, like various kinds of sales, management and so on, it’s not.
In every case where such an elusive thing as potential popularity of something conflicts with a less elusive thing like control they have in streaming services, the latter wins. Because what makes its makers rewarded on their job wins.
I remember when laptop keyboards had numpads and unabused F keys.
I use mainly keyboard-controlled WM configurations, so a Super key or a Meta key is useful for me, to separate it from Alt and Ctrl.
Which reminds us of the fact that PC keyboards didn’t have those or a Windows key obviously, but Sun keyboards, from googling, did have a Super key.
So it’s not them.
(And it’s not bad in my opinion)
I think they just can’t read the room. They may be against this via some thought process of this kind: “people in the Interwebs hate us, so if we make it more expensive, fewer people hate us”. They really may not be getting the fact that everybody is on the Web now.
EDIT: But, as others have said, this means shitting on their own voter base. They could have literally improved their popularity very tangibly by supporting a few moves of this kind, most important for rural poorer voters.
Yes, it is. As a user you compromise only that user as a consequence of some sandbox escape. Then there may or may not be some successful privilege elevation.
It’s been a trend for quite a while for non-linux people to dump the PC entirely in favor of using just phone.
Can’t do that if you play games.
Also that’s half of the reason Windows hasn’t lost the war on home desktop PCs yet. Another half is office applications.
Actually, these are thirds.
Another reason making me say so is that no major user-friendly distribution wants to be just that, they all have a particular madness with no good reason for it.
So I don’t know what to recommend, there should be something off the top of my head, but that’d be “just install Debian, it’s fine”.
So, any single reason of these going away would accelerate Linux adoption notably. Any two would make it a trend visible to housewives. And all three would resemble the flight of ICQ users to Skype.
For me the joke is that there were any Star Trek fans who’d consider anything but torrenting (though I’ll admit ed2k is still not finally dead, and Fopnu is a usable filesharing tool, albeit proprietary).
From the Israeli point of view yes you do.
Hospitals being a forbidden target is important, civilians dying is not, because they don’t care about civilians.
It’s sad to see how something intended to become a Jewish nation after 2k years and so on became a dumbed down pidgin version of 1950s’ late European colonialism.
It worked pretty well for what it was created to do
Which is the unknown variable in this conversation.
Say, for my ends social media never worked well.
It pains me to communicate with many (by my measure) friends and acquaintances, knowing that those are basically DMs on a site ran by somebody and hundreds (or maybe thousands) of employees can just read those DMs. Writing personal things there, because people refuse to be worried about being likely eavesdropped on.
In general the worst prison is the one you’ve built for yourself and locked yourself in. And to learn to sing one has to start singing.
Yeah, and kinda renders this thread and article pointless. X serves a redundant feature.
Yeah, I’m ashamed for all the text I’ve typed in now.
If so, then everything is done perfectly (why would they even bother with Twitter though).
The universe of stupidity is so endless that I don’t know in which direction to fight really.
On most public\political subjects people I talk to think I’m delusional, they talk how “free markets don’t work”, “regulation prevents murderous chaos”, “regulation prevents monopolies and wild capitalism” and so on.
But when it’s this kind of thing, it suddenly becomes all right for them to offload a public service to a private company. And they suddenly become optimists. Same fscking people. I once had that from a communist.
I think it’s primate psychology. Libertarian ideas are seen as delusional because these people fear chaos and the feeling of letting go. And for the same reason big corporations are seen as all right because they are familiar, there’s the feeling of order and control. Primates flock to strength.
For the same reason some people defend copyright, I think. They want hierarchy, somebody owning every recognizable picture. A master in the house.
It was a good way to offload responsibility for something actually working.
With social media the unreliability card has been played (by us, asocial nerds, killjoys and neckbeards) and beaten (by them, normal sane social successful people) 10+ years ago, so even when it’s a serious role being discussed, that card can’t be played again.
Yeah, there was an imbalance in his social interactions
Well, I don’t want to cut them up really, just leave them be with bots answering bots.
The problem is that people use them still. There is demand for features absent outside of their platforms.
I mean not other people being there - that’s a point of pressure, but wouldn’t be sufficient alone.
These features are (I’m describing the abstract thing):
Search. People want relevant search or another way to quickly find a service, a place, a memo, a person etc without thinking.
Applications. Various services allow you to easily find and install some casual game, for example.
Forums and messaging.
Common identification for all these.
An RSS-like feed.
Common interface for sharing posts, pictures and so on so that the source would be referenced in a uniform way.
Likes and dislikes.
One can easily see these are partially things which were present and working in the good ole 2007 with XMPP (half of 3), openID (4), RSS (5), numerous web forums (another half of 3), Flash (yes, Flash, and also Java applets) (2). And back then (I was a kid, but) I can remember those being treated as future mainstream.
So the remaining parts which these companies filled and abused to monopolize the system are: 1, 6 and 7.
Search, common object space and rating.
Of course, now the other parts are not really present too.
What I’m coming at, to make it short - GNUNet could make a world of difference if it were really functional and not permanent alpha unclear how to run.
No, but it would be interesting to see something like this happen.
1995 Altavista all over again
It has been solved then by web rings, web indexes and web directories ran by humans for other humans.
The issue is that such a cure is not acceptable for Google, FB etc.
Funny, I’ve been almost as social as Mowgli for most of my life till about now (27), but feel as if I understood what you’re saying.
What could you possibly say that got removed by mods?
Mixed up comments probably.
Anyway, to you my question is - why do you think such a migration would work? You are older than when you entered your current profession. And it’s a competitive system, another people would have more experience than you.
I remember that it does too much, but without specifics. It’s been 4+ years since I touched Ubuntu.
I vaguely remember that “Amazon lens” for Unity, I don’t think they ever were that much FOSS-only.
It’s fine. That’d still be goal fulfilled.
How so?
I recently had a problem with LO, while editing a document with lots of math formulae - from time to time while adding a formula about half of others (in the whole document) would just become empty.
Not sure something like that would happen under Apple suite’s analog of Word, whatever it’s called.
With that I agree, somewhere in 2012 I somehow realized that it’s already much better than the alternatives, and yes, for a housewife’s desktop just as well, if one’s honest and thinks of their own needs.
And if one’s comparing it to advertising of the competing commercial products, then it’s hopeless.