I’d have switched years ago if I could get the economy of scale that a restaurant does

Downvoting for “they’re, there, their” gore, mark it NSFL next time sheesh

^/s

I mean, in a lot of ways the social media takeover is the antithesis to freedom of information. It’s all siloed off echo chambers where it used to be free flowing, publicly available, indexable and searchable.

I still believe in the freedom of information goal more than ever, but fighting for it in the post information era is increasingly difficult (and important)

Yeah it’s pretty bleak, although there have been some moves towards right to repair in recent years.

Respecting companies is always a bit fraught though. Even the ones you like are only doing it to profit off of your niche. It’s thanks to us that they even have a profitable niche to serve

AA is where it’s at now. There’s still insanely good games coming out, there just not by companies like EA and Activision anymore.

In some ways I think the good development studios are the same size they’ve always been, it’s just that a new class of mainstream games has risen to profit on the masses. If you ignore those, it’s not so bad. At least not until one of the AAA publishers gets their hands on them to ruin the IP and layoff the original devs

You have to go back like 30 years to get to a pro-repair Apple

That’s amazing but I was immediately wondering why the big bunny was robbing the smaller ones

Moral members of society have an inherent obligation to be activists, for as long as marginalized groups exist.

That doesn’t mean you have to be ‘out’, but if you’re standing by and watching your fellow humans be marginalized when you could be offering help, that is wholly immoral, and frankly you don’t deserve the safety that you are enjoying when you won’t seek it for your fellow people.

Windows be like

cd …

ls

grumble grumble

dir

That’s literally what tabs are on mobile browsers

Yes, you’re a pedant intentionally missing the point to argue a different definition than the one I’m using

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage

It really looks like you’re being intentionally obtuse here.

I’m in hundreds of discord servers, most of which have 10,000 to 300,000 thousand users each.

I do still use IRC, and I rarely find a server with more than 1000 users, most of which are bots, or users who only send bot commands. A typical ‘active’ channel has less than 10 active chatters over a week. IRC is dead.

I’m happy you are able to find niche use cases for it, but that’s obviously not what I’m talking about.

The fact of the matter is this: if I want to engage with any of the hundreds of broad communities I frequent, I am not able to do that on IRC anymore. They are just not there.

A lot of people have already pointed out that the person saying it is an important detail. If your mom says you’re good at python, I’m going to get a very different idea about your skill level compared to your boss saying it.

Unless you are selling yourself in an interview context, I think it’s very poor form to qualify your own skill level. Let the skill speak for itself, it’s enough to say that you ‘do python’. Saying you’re good at something often comes off as braggadocios more than it is informative. If you must give context, it’s better to talk about how much experience you have, or other objective metrics

Qualifiers are too context dependant and no matter where your skill level is at, you wont ever have enough context to know how good you actually are, because you can’t know what you don’t know.

Neither is the steam deck user base, or would-be Linux converts. What’s your point?

I haven’t run into any limitations of the file system and I hardly even know what pacman is. And I haven’t felt ‘controlled’ by Valve, certainly not to the extent of a console or even Windows/Mac. I can sudo whatever I want. I’m sure you have a use case, but I’m still just not seeing it.

Are their proton versions just proton GE? To what extent does it actually run better?

More than you think, apparently. I go into desktop mode nearly every time I use it, whether to install mods, non-steam games, emulators, streaming services, web browser, decky loader, etc. knowing it was open like a PC vs a closed off console was 90% of the reason I got one.

Besides that, is using bash really the metric for Linux user? I did that in Windows. It’s fine if people are using the GUI. This is just weirdly gatekeepy

The crossover of PC power users and steam deck owners is going to be relatively high compared to a traditional console, which is exactly the demographic that would be persuaded to Linux via the deck. I speak from experience

People type their credit cards into online stores all the time.

Sure, under the assumption that it’s not being stored without permission, or securely with permission. People are and should be very cautious about what sites you directly submit your card info to, and for less popular sites people are more and more opting to use a third party payment processor like apple, amazon, PayPal, etc.

In the US, most restaurants still take your card out of eyesight to be processed, although processing devices at the table is becoming more popular.

One of the most common ways cards get skimmed in person. You should absolutely be wary of this especially if it takes an unusually long time. I’ve been at group dinners where this was commented on. Seems pretty common sense.

I don’t think most people even think about it most of the time in the US because the credit card companies take care of disputes. Europe is definitely way ahead of us on secure payments!

I disagree. This is a common point of concern in my experience with customer facing roles, and anecdotally in my social life. When I worked for a major cell provider, for example, we sent a digital form to the customer so that we didn’t have to collect card info over the phone at all. In the event that we did as a fallback, customers were very wary of this across the board.

I’ve only seen those in movies, and I haven’t even had an embossed card in years. but most people (rightfully so) would refuse having their card info written anywhere these days. Things have really changed