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The simplest TL;DR of those statistics is: "Precaution is good when dealing with both stranger humans and bears, demonizing half of the humans because penis is not justified tho."

I can't believe that is a sentence that needs to be said, what a time to be alive

Now I'm curious. How would a NasaOS look like? Would it even be good for general use? Would they just focus on optimization? Could they finally beat Hannah Montana linux, the superior OS?

Do you think this would pass the grandma test? If so I'm 100% going to host this (mainly for my mother, hence the question)

Nothing like autistic kids to be your brother in arms.

I've seen examples of this already where schools give kids laptops running a custom linux distro for education and they just roll with it. Also, the steamdeck happened, and a lot of people loved it before even realizing it's just linux... We should definitely give more support to companies shipping machines with linux preinstalled (even if the first thing I'll do is another install lol)

Plot twist: you're running the same distro

I see no contradictions between "simple is good" and "monolitic/corporate based like windows and macos tend to be shit". If anything, reality is the opposite of what you think. We can have many different simple and ready to go distros, i mean that's like the whole point.

If you install windows, for example, you can use it for many things, and it'll be mid crap in all of that and need hours of setting up (not to mention some mandatory scripts to get the bare minimum of efficiency, privacy, and clean adware and bloatware). Then, if you need to game, just install nobara and go. Need to do office or web-based stuff? Mint all the way. Same thing but you like apple aesthetic? Try Zorin. I could go on and on for hours with different use cases and distros, but you should get the thing by now.

To be fair, there's already a general consensus in which are the "beginner friendly" distros, which includes the community support and familiarity with windows. Most people would probably recommend Mint to a new or switching user, for example.

After someone is used to a more basic linux distro, diversity and complexity are pros rather than cons. "Oh you need a distro with super specific specs for a niche use case? There's 5, you can pick or try them all". I could have linux on every machine i own, including a TV or even a thermostat, and I'd have a different setup.

Hard agree on this. Sell software and services to companies, only sell services to end users. I believe both selling your service as a dev and selling a service behind a free app are compatible with copyleft.

Earlier this week i ended up pirating some games i actually own because it was easier that way than the official one (which involved going through 3 freaking launchers for one game!), so there's the answer lol.

Trusting someone for convenience isn't ideal, but not everyone has the time and resources to audit, compile, and host a dumb frontend for yt. Most of the people here is good enough trusting literally anyone except a big tech company, including FOSS devs, the people who check the code, and public instances of their software. Even considering recent drama (solved by the community btw) I'd trust any FOSS project over google any day.

Once a software vendor demonstrates theyre untrustworthy, why would I risk using their products?

How are you using windows then? They've had innumerable security breaches, not to talk about how MS demonstrates again and again that the only thing they care about is money. Does "trustworthy" mean "american" or "only sells my data to the USA gov and other US companies" then sure, it is trustworthy as fuck.

Of course you will invalidate that with some mental gymnastics, but this same thing happens even with freaking usb (charge only, mind me) cables from aliexpress, with people saying they have fucking chips to spy on you. Again, racism.

And spare us from the sophist personal attack on people you disagree with

Try to put it however you want, but hating anything that comes from one place just because of that, then adding excuses is fucking racist.

except there's no question of there being significant Russian efforts to meddle in the US and other countries.

And here comes the grand patriotic justification for racism! If you really don't have shit to say about the actual software, just block me or something and spare me from your presence :)

I haven't found a serious critic that didn't rely on fucking racism yet. If the only real argument is "rUsSian cOmPAny bAD" but you're ok with USA companies, you're just braindead.

I don't even use windows for that same reason, but if a windows user asks me, based on past experiences with low end computers (where you can actually tell the diference), I'd always recommend kaspersky for performance and malwarebytes for precision.

Pro tip: Downvotes without arguments only prove my point.

My guy i bet you're frustrated, shit happens a lot, but you should take a break and some deep breaths before asking for help. No one wants to help a clearly angry person.

Have you tried asking gpt itself what tried to do? Tell it also what actually happened when you ran the code. If you use GPT, don't use it blindly and definitely never run generated code on your main machine if you don't know what it does.

Can you replicate the error and share screenshots? Maybe edit the post so more knowledgeable people bothers to read and help?

Except FOSS explicitly implies the user is free (as in freedom, not 0$), and the software isn't a product or service, but a tool.

That line only applies when a non-free service or software that's supposed to be meant for profit doesn't have a clear money income. Don't compare "oh how generous is google for giving me free email and drive for no shady reasons at all" to "i host my own email and cloud using foss projects".

Also, windows is basically spyware with a bit of unoptimized OS on top and you still (should) pay for it.

Oh i also agree with that, just wanted to clarify that

Extremely case where I'm going to defend windows; but Ms Defender never killed performance in a pc even if i had a low-end one.

Considering all the bloatware windows has, OP would be better off fighting like literally every other program except Defender...

"This is completle free to use, download, modify, redistribute, etc by anyone except Dave. Fuck Dave."

I don't know how legal that'd be, but i wouldn't even complain.

It would make more sense to change that to "Community managers are managed by contributors". Less effort for them and potentially better moderation.

Except WEBP, unlike (most versions of) JPEG, can be compressed without quality loss. This is probably a mix of reuploading a JPEG and a bad encoding by Lemmy's side. It should be fixed if you uploaded an already webp encoded image, so lemmy doesn't try to reformat it, but for a sequels meme it's not worth the time