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BananaTrifleViolin, to nostupidquestions in Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?

Yeah, "stupid" is not defined around average intelligence. This whole panel is an example of a straw man fallacy to undermine someone saying "people are stupid".

BananaTrifleViolin, to asklemmy in What is the worst case of keeping up with the Joneses that you have seen?

I've started seeing US pick up trucks here in the UK in a city and they really are rediculous. Really large (comically so) and the truck bit is open to the elements although I have never ever seen anyone using the truck bit for anything whatsoever. Rediculous waste of space and I'm surprised they're ever legal here.

BananaTrifleViolin, to asklemmy in What is the worst case of keeping up with the Joneses that you have seen?

In fairness to Apple that is good design. Computers including phones should be intuitive and easy to use, but also accessible to more experienced users.

The keeping up with Jones stuff with apple though is really bad. Like kids going off the university getting premium Mac books when they could save money and get a generic windows lap top. Or the seemingly ubiquitous purchase of earpods - an expensive way to purchase earphones when there are so many cheaper alternatives, not least the dirt cheap 3.5mm wired earphones that phone manufacturers are trying to obliterate.

BananaTrifleViolin, to Windows11 in Microsoft killed 16 different Windows 11 features in 2023, let's take a look at what's being deprecated

This all makes sense from Microsofts point of view, but maybe less so from consumers point of view. But thats what you get with a commercial OS.

BananaTrifleViolin, to Windows11 in Microsoft killed 16 different Windows 11 features in 2023, let's take a look at what's being deprecated

Maybe your work computer has propriety security software on it to lock this stuff down?

BananaTrifleViolin, to technology in What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader

This is an interesting concept but doesn't seem like it has long term legs.

It depends on what you mean by open source and also even eBook reader (I'm assuming eInk), but if people want open source e-readers I would say flashing existing reader hardware with open source operating systems would be the way to go. However I'm not sure if there is much motivation to do that.

There are Android based eink ereaders available with more freedom than Kindle devices (Boox is an example) and you can side load free or open source reader software onto Kobo (maybe not Android Kindles though?), and you can load free books onto e-readers via software like Calibre. So you can read books in privacy outside the vendors ecosystem - it kinda reduces the imputus to build an open source ereader (hardware or OS).

I'd love to see a truly open source Eink device - particularly software wise. But I doubt the demand is enough. And this Open Source hardware solution seems a bit too cut back to fit the bill.

BananaTrifleViolin, (edited ) to world in Hostages were holding white cloth on stick when Israeli forces shot them, army says

And the commanding officer only tried to stop them when they heard the last victim asking for help and realised it was in hebrew.

Seems the IDF shoots first and asks questions later. This is what's happened to unarmed jewish hostages, who were shirtless, holding a white shirt on a stick which is the universal sign of surrender. What about the million people living in gaza coming up against this? Holy fuck.

BananaTrifleViolin, to tech in Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete | TechRadar

Yes. Hugely important topic in itself. M-Disc is the current best we have, with claims they will last 1000 years if properly stored (limited by the plastic degredation). But ceramics should be more stable, and the speed claims look good. This is not the only tech solution vying to be a long term contender but looks like a potential good one.

BananaTrifleViolin, to linux_gaming in Recommended linux variant for gaming.

That valve uses Arch is irrelevant in all honesty. Proton is not a Valve product, Valve is merely one of its users and contributors, and it is not wedded to one distro..Similarly Valves own Steam packages are not distro specifi, and there are other gaming platforms to consider which also benefit from Proton (for example you can get Gog windows games working in Linux too quite easily), as well as all the Retro gaming options.

Pick a distro you personally like. I use Mint as I like the cinnamon desktop interface and the distro is pretty much good to go from fresh install. I use Mint both as a dual install with Windows on my PC and also within VMs in Windows. I still spend a lot of time using Windows because of specific games compatibility and work related apps.

EndeavourOS seems a good choice if you do want to go the Arch route but it's only something I've played with in a VM.

If you want something gaming specific then Draugar seems like a good choice - it apparently uses Ubuntu LTS but with the mainline Kernel updates optimised for gaming. But I have no personal experience with the distro.

I also see a lot of people seem to like Pop!_OS, but again no personal experience.

I've had no issues with Mint on my setup.

BananaTrifleViolin, to linux in What makes you not want to use Linux anymore and maybe move back to Windows, MacOS, or TempleOS?

Is Anbox no longer a thing? It runs Android apps in a container.

Or is it more the issue with the apps not running "natively"?

BananaTrifleViolin, to asklemmy in Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize?

Well first off have Taco Bell stopped providing napkins? One person couldn't find napkins in one store and suddenly it's greed driven corporate policy according to OP?

It seems unlikely that a food chain would completely abolish napkins. It is possible they're no longer freely available because people were taking them "for their car" whatever that even means!?

BananaTrifleViolin, to television in What character leaving a show made it less interesting or entertaining?

I prefer cheers post-long than pre. Kirstie Alley was great and the show became more ensemble.

BananaTrifleViolin, to politics in More than 43,000 people went to the polls for a Louisiana election. A candidate won by 1 vote

The headline is also dumb. Any election can be won by 1 vote. Doesn't matter that 43000 people voted.

BananaTrifleViolin, to technology in Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal | TechCrunch

Not strictly correct. Spotify pays out from its net revenues (revenues when billing costs and tax are removed) and it pays to the various industry rights holders who then distribute the money. There are lots of complex deals in place and big rights holders are likely to have better deals than ad hoc users, plus it's different in different countries.

The 70% figure is a PR thing Spotify pushes about as part of its constant battles with rights holders on exactly how much it will pay them. It's trying to claim most of the money goes to artists but it's opaque how much goes where.

BananaTrifleViolin, to opensource in Libre Arts - GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule

Yeah the GUI is horrible with Gimp but it is very powerful software. I'm used to it's idiosyncrasities but it really needs a GUI refresh. It's powerful software held back from it's full potential.

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