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savvywolf, 3 months ago

Requiring a login is enough of a misread of the market to kill interest in the product, but looking through their marketing materials, some other stuff jumped out at me.

Like on Mac, Warp for Linux is built fully in Rust and all graphics rendering is done directly on the GPU.

I’m sure it has fallbacks, but I wonder how it will handle environments where the gpu is broken and cpu rendering is being used…

And like on Mac, Warp for Linux supports zsh, bash and fish out of the box. It’s compatible with your existing shell setup.

I mean, yeah? I expect a terminal emulator to be able to support anything that has a stdin, stdout and stderr. The fact that it only lists three shells is concerning to me… Is it trying to do anything fancy with those shells? Will it respect .zshrc and powerline?

The input works more like a normal text editor (including mouse support) and has in-built completions, syntax highlighting, and support for multiple-cursors.

If you actually want those features, that’s your shell’s job. Not your terminal emulator. And presumably if you need these fancy features you’ll just use a normal text editor to make a shell script.

Warp’s integrated AI…

Don’t care. Let me turn it off or I’m not using your product.

[The terminal is] an unusually text-heavy and obscure interface.

You’re marketing a terminal emulator to Linux users who are going out of their way to change their terminal experience. They likely aren’t going to agree with you dismissing the command line as “obscure”.

It’s a space where you can save your most important parameterized commands as reusable workflows you can search, share, and run on-demand.

This is just ~/bin and git with vendor lockin. Excellent value-add.

YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH, 3 months ago

What I never understand about these people is that… don’t they understand that the only thing that makes states powerful is that they use violence? You can have all the powerful incantations you have, but they have cops, armies, judges, and jails. That is what makes them sovereign.

Just ask Native Americans how much real actual treaties are worth to the US government.

solarvector, 4 months ago

What fight? Google is making money, and nearly everyone is playing Google’s game following their tune. Google is definitely not losing.

givesomefucks, 4 months ago

A lot of people dont remember pre-google these days.

Normal search engines worked, but Google was better results.

Now that every website is gaming SEO and the top half of search results is ads that pay to be first…

Google isn’t that much better. I went to DuckDuckGo recently. The only thing Google does better is local results. But that’s because Google always knows where I am and where I’ve been.

There’s no longer a reason to use Google as a search engine, except habit.

Pretty much same with chrome

CrazyEddie041, 4 months ago

Because it turns out that conforming to what your parents and your community believe is way more influential to the average person than objective truth.

smileyhead, 4 months ago

I think that Linux is the worst for middle-tier tech people.

For elderies, kids or someone that just visit social media, listen to music on Spotify and edit photos from vacations this it is perfect. They might learn where the app store is, how to open up menu and that’s all.

For tech saavy, programmers, engineers I… don’t really get how you can use Windows at all until you are forced by your environment. Going from Windows to Linux to do work is just like going from ChromeOS to MacOS.

But the worst would be the midtier, a friend who does a joke in “ohshit.exe” style, but don’t know what is an executable. That has multiple free games from Epic Store he never plays but must be installed and work. That have bought Photoshop and “original” MS Office licence years ago for outdated version but keep it, because “original”. And that has some amateur audio eqippment that even if Linux have build-in drivers for, would complain the .exe installer from that “download for free” website does not work.

SlopppyEngineer, 4 months ago

The Nazi bar is open for business

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2ea02480-ec5e-4cad-8c6b-ee069f66225f.jpeg

MayonnaiseArch, 5 months ago

That’s always my trigger, fucking ‘sideloading’. Jesus christ it’s installing shit. Installing. There was never a need for such a pissy horrible concept in the firstplace, a bootlicking special if there ever was one

luthis, 5 months ago

In general, the rules are:

It’s not ok to discriminate based on what people are (genetics, disabilities, race, gender, etc)

But it’s fine and necessary to discriminate based on what people do. We do it all the time. ‘No Smoking’ signs being perhaps the most common.

Culture is a thing that people do. They can choose not to do it. Cultures don’t deserve respect purely because they are a culture.

So if a culture is generally promoting something bad (racial/gender discrimination, for a very common example), why not discriminate? Oh keeping slaves/having vast wealth inequality/persecuting people for their sexuality/or calling for nuclear war is a thing in your culture? Then that’s totally fine and dandy because we respect all cultures, yaaay.

But in your case, it’s the leaders of the country declaring nuclear war, which may/ (or more likely) may not be in line with the culture. So… yeah no. Not ok to discriminate in that case, when it’s not a product of the culture, but of the leadership.

lvxferre, 9 months ago

The problem with platforms advertising that they’re free speech platforms is that you’ll get a lot of people who gives no flying fucks about freedom of speech, they care about that specific discourse that got them banned from other platforms, and only a few people who actually care about free speech as a principle.

And that backtracks all the way into

1. The false dichotomy that freedom of speech is binary (either you have it or you don’t). It’s quantitative - you have more or less of it, never full or empty.
2. That nasty, robotic tendency of plenty social media users to stick to the words themselves, instead of the underlying concepts. Cue to “ackshyually”. In this case “free speech” makes them think about some random law of some random country, what it allows and what it doesn’t, instead of thinking on the principle itself.
3. The incorrect belief that only people above you in a hierarchy can lower your freedom of speech, when we do it all the time. (For example: specially stupid users reduce the freedom of speech of the others, as they discourage their participation.)

Once you work around those three, you realise that, in a lot of situations, forbidding a discourse actually increases the freedom of speech of some other group; so sometimes you need to do it to maximise the overall freedom of speech of all parties involved.