Same… I tried Kagi small web which kinda promised to fix it but so far every page is a hyper-focused version of everything I hate. It somehow made it even worse.

I think it can’t really solve the problem because the people that want that tight nit free and open. Internet are already retreating from engaging with whatever this is.

People have repeatedly called things “Web 3.0” but I think we’ve legitimately made it finally and I hate it.

Honestly I can only think of one. Weirdly a “developer platform”

Well I guess a couple more because keyboard firmware sites do that usb browser thing that terrifies me is a thing and only chrome supports.

Sure, but just because you can only have a blocklist of only leftist sites doesn’t mean that makes any sense at all

You don’t have to be a pedant. You can have all of a set inside another set. The title can clearly be read to mean that and the post seems pretty clear to me.

I think with that argument its better to point out Fedora has taken pains to isolate itself from Redhat/IBM. Because while IBM has historically had great engineering, they are not know for great licensing. In fact the basically destroyed and entire enterprise ecosystem recently with the licensing changes to RHEL.

Getting dumped on but I genuinely just want to know. 🤷

Right, they provide the funding for the developers keeping one of the most accessible distros going so whats the problem?

I’m curious why you’d say that. Ubuntu has made some weird decisions.

I dislike their DE. Snaps where a flop buy the vision was ambitious and cool if it had worked. And Id prefer a gnu system utils. But those are just reasons I don’t use it.

So if you like a Ubuntu derivative, they’re a fine vanilla distros. And they’ve always had deep ties with the FLOSS community and they are one of the primary reason we have a Linux desktop. So not sure I get the hate.

Why would a grocery… wait… people are having agents order groceries and its causing problems aren’t they?

I have a memory of people black boxing it and seeing power usage and network traffic that supported the claims but that was a snapshot in time and as others note its all proprietary.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

Did you try to modify the sleep settings and put your computer to sleep again Elijah?

Do I detect a faint hint of sarcasm? Surely not because not even Nostradamus could have predicted such a shocking twist.

Runners? If MS is providing free dinners I might have to rethink my thoughts on github.

A decade ago I would e stoked. But with Google’s home platform wasting away, their integrations dead, and their blind push on “AI” at the cost of their entire platform working, it just makes me sad.

Also I have the previous model and the updates have just made it worse over time. It tried to set my thermostat to 265f last weekend. It looses timers sometimes which is not great in the kitchen. I barely use it anymore.

Also with chip prices sky rocketing, staying at $100 has some big red flags for capabilities…

I don’t have all the facts but based on the article I don’t see the problem everyone seems upset about.

They received the report, decided it was valid but didn’t match a bounty. Then asked him to follow standard responsible disclosure processes giving him credit in the final release. All very standard.

Should there have been a bounty? AMD has the budget, probably yes. But nothing in the communications seems any different from what I’ve seen and have received similar from companies in the past.

I believe the current meta of SEO is seeing how far you can get prompt injecting your site into AI summaries via llms.txt. So… that’s cool too.

I assume it’s like a lot of things happening in the US. Does America care? Americans care. The country…

I walked him through how things worked once

And there’s why it worked.

Ok, let’s dig in to it.

Let’s say he was installing windows 20 years ago. First, you have to find it. you’ve got 20 versions of XP Home, Enterprise, Media Edition. You can’t really get most of them online legit so you’ll have to steal it or head to the store. Hopefully you end up with some version of XPSP2. You might not and SP1 was not great. Then hopefully your network drivers work or you’ve got the disc hanging around because none of your drivers are going to work. Otherwise you’re going to need another computer to find the drivers from the manufacturer if they even exist. Maybe one of the sketchy driver sites has it… And hopefully your video card works because that’s not a given, you might have to side load the drivers into the installer or figure out how to boot into safe mode and copy the drivers off a floppy. Then you’ve got to figure out all the random places to find slyour software and where your copy of office is.

Contrasted with “yes mint will work. Yeah Belinda etcher. Yeah the hidden one is your hard drive the only option is the USB drive. Yes those formatting options are fine. Yes that’s the right time zone, our city isn’t directly selectable. Ok you’re done. Yeah everything is just working. Yeah no drivers. Open the software center. Yeah that’s it. No really it’s working. Yeah just type in steam there and install it. No really that’s it it’s really working.”

My son installed Linux last week and I’ve been close to a help desk for close to 20 years so I feel comfortable commenting on the experience vs windows.

I walked him through how things worked once, and gave him some suggestions for software. Like heroic launcher for non stream games. Then he installed it himself. Everything just worked when he logged in.

So install, choosing a distro is overwhelming but otherwise easier than windows 20 years ago.

Post install, he saw lutris was cool for one of his games. It didn’t work (shocker). I reminded him to use heroic, walked him through, epics login sucks, but after fighting through that it just worked and he saw a bunch of other games he could just play.

The one problem he’s had is X crashes when he jumps back and forth between discord and games 50 times a second. So I showed him how to switch to wayland and it’s rock solid but his mouse software doesn’t change acceleration anymore and one of his games (roblocks) treats shift as a button press instead of a modifier like it should. This is also a problem for Wayland.

X is a disaster. Wayland is an awesome display server but its input is a shit show for legacy software and software built around MS Windows quirks and this is a problem.

But let’s be honest, if he’d started in Wayland, his mouse would have a broken non essential feature and a weird game would have a bug. Is that really worse than windows at any point? Probably not.

Since then, he’s not had any other problems that I know about.

So are there problems. 100% Is it worse than windows? That’s pretty debatable IMHO.

I think the biggest problem linux actually has is that it’s not Windows. People have spent their entire education and careers and personal lives using Windows. They have a lifetime of tacit knowledge on how to fix and avoid its weird quirks. They’ve had help desks, friends, family, and mentors guiding them. Leaving that behind and trying something they’ve been told is hard their whole life is hard. But maybe not because UX is broken, but because it’s just a hard thing to do.

So we need to be patient, listen, deescalate their frustration, and welcome them to a cool new way of using their devices.

I don’t know the exact reason but yeah. “Marketing” departments don’t get to just make fundamental product decisions in any company I’ve ever interacted with.