I’ll start it off:
- Windows is a perfectly fine OS, as long as you use Enterprise or Server (Home and Pro are crap)
- Self driving cars are the future since the US won’t fully embrace mass transit
Well since US elections wrapped up yesterday, I’ll go with lemmy.world having the memory of a bacterium and thinking everything is gonna magically get better because dems have control of congress.
My experience has been different. Lemmy thinks nothing will get done because they think Dems are still corrupt. But the difference is these progressives got elected even by not taking PAC money. The progressive Dems are also much more aggressive than their neoliberal colleagues. So, I think more things will get done than under the establishment Democrats. I think Americans are still just getting used to progressive Democrats because they haven’t had one in decades since the New Deal.
No you don’t understand, everything is fine now. The right folks are in power, we can go back to brunch.
- PeerTube is an alternative to YouTube.
Yeah, it’s just not. The disgusting monitizing on YouTube is what makes content creators post there.
There is very good content on PeerTube, but I can’t fucking find it, and when I do, it’s not exclusive, so I might as well watch it on YouTube where the creator gets paid and where it’s easier to happen upon with a regular search and not having to build a feed from various more or less federated sources. As much as I want to, it’s simply too difficult to use.
I really really want an alternative to YouTube, but I think this one needs a complete rethinking of what the service is supposed to do and how it can be done. Not from a developer point of view, but building from the user experience.
Sadly any competition to YT has a double high barrier to entry:
First, they need to be able to pay content creators more than they would get on YT. That’s pretty damn hard.
Second, they need the infrastructure to support it. CDNs, petabytes of storage, it’s not just something small to host.
Each one by themselves could bankrupt a company and you need both at a minimum to be competitive.
Yeah. Video is actually a shitty format. It costs something to make, host and serve.
More often than not it would be easier to write a forum post in a few kilobytes describing the worthwhile content.
use Enterprise or Server
Still has the Xbox play firewall rules baked in from home/pro, is only QA tested by the crappy insider hub who only use home/pro, and eats just as many resources as home/pro.
Server meanwhile is still propped up by the futuristic technology of AD straight out of 2003.
Enterprise doesn’t even add anything compared to pro aside from like a couple of apps/tools default installed that you can also get on windows education. It’s literally just a business licence so that MSFT can charge more for businesses that have a much larger budget.
You didn’t read the question, did you?
I did, I just wanted to respond to your example seperatley anyway lol
“Everything is political” is technically true but usually pedantry for people who want to guilt trip people for not wanting to think about Donald Trump 24/7. You know what people mean when they say “apolitical,” stop playing dumb.
I agree that not everything is related to Donald Trump and America’s system of government.
I wish some subjects could be apolitical: there’s no reason for trans healthcare to be politicized while other healthcare is seen as a basic need. But as we know, even “healthcare is a basic need” is a topic of political discussion in some countries (cough). The choice to make it “apolitical” is itself a political act. So yes, everything is political. From the food you eat to the music you listen to.
Yeah enterprise windows is significantly less awful than personal windows, though i still hate it with a passion.
My own take is that many lemmings hold companies, their products and the people behind them to way too high of a moral standard. I see a lot of “oh this company sent a dev kit to this one guy once but it turns out that that guy tweeted some bad stuff at some point, I’m never buying from that company again”. (Yes, I am also talking about Proton, but pre-AI-tailspin Proton, what’s happening now is too much I think)
Monopolies are bad except when it’s steam.
can you tell what makes steam a monopoly?
Their overwhelmingly large market share.
The only thing they used to get there is the advanced technique of providing a good service, though is still call them a monopoly. They hold a lot of market power and could probably screw over the desktop gaming industry in some pretty significant ways in the short term if they wanted to.
if you could, what would you do about it? split up steam into 2 steams? take peoples game libraries and separate it in 2 halves like a divorce?
Hmm, that’s an interesting question. I don’t think splitting up steam makes sense, since they still provide a good service for everyone.
Maybe change the steam license (and everyone else’s) such that users are closer to actually owning copies of the games. Give the consumers some guarantees that go beyond good track record. As it stands, I think Steam would be able to charge you money per download of a game or require a subscription fee for you to be able to access your library or some shit like that, and most consumers would be effectively forced to pay up.
I don’t know though, perhaps it would be smarter to leave them alone and punish them only if they abuse their monopoly power, because leaving them alone has thus far resulted in a pretty healthy and thriving market.
I just want go point out in the EU there is a distinction between a natural monopoly and an artificial one. A natural one like Steam isn’t related the same way
This argument always brings out the armchair lawyer in folks, but they miss the point entirely. It’s not about what’s legal (especially when the notion of “legal” has been shaped by years and years of lobbying by big corporates), it’s about what’s good for consumers. And an 85% market share is a huge risk to consumers. It’s as plain as day.
Anyone referring to Lemmy as a hive mind is an immediate red flag. It’s just a coping mechanism people use to feel better about their unpopular opinions. “It’s not that many individuals independently evaluated my take and disagreed with it, it’s the hive mind!” Might as well start calling those who disagree with you NPC’s.
I think you’re being too sensitive. Obviously there are some opinions that are overrepresented here, and that’s a real undenyable thing you’ll have in any community, and that’s what OP is asking about. Hivemind makes for a more catchy title than “opinions held by either a majority or at least a very vocal subset of the community”.
It’s a catchier title specifically because it taps into the narrative that you’re one of the few bucking the system, awake from the matrix, unlike all the cattle that surround you.
Like, I don’t always think it’s a big deal per se, I love slang and poetry, but I do side eye people who use that verbage a bit. It lacks respect for the people around you.
The younger people, by the way, call this “hivemind thing you might disagree with” a “hot take.” Sizzling, even. That’s catchy enough, I’d say.
ITT: a bunch of trolls baiting you
voting third party is taboo
being vegan is too radical
The whole Ed Sheeran thing with Israel. I completely agree that Israel is fucked up and such, but I think it’s bullshit everyone tries to destroy his career over his opinion, which isn’t even pro Israel, it’s neutral. He’s not funding Israel and he’s not killing anyone there. The reason he’s staying neutral is to avoid what happened to Macklemore by taking a position and being kicked off the tour by promoters and higher ups. Personally I don’t give a crap about Ed Sheeran, I wouldn’t go to his concert if it was free and across the street, but how everyone just hops on the same hatewagon just because is really sad.
Eh, don’t know if I quite agree with that one. In this case, silence is tacit approval. Saying you’re neutral when a country is committing genocide is the same as endorsing it, full stop. That’s where he tripped up and why the backlash.
Why wouldn’t he say he’s against it, unless he was worried about offending the people who are committing the atrocities, and people do not want to associate with someone like that.
Ok, who is this Lemmy culture?
Winders is shit, as are most Linux distros. MacOS has turned to piss.
Self driving cars can’t tell a harvest moon from a red light.
But there is no Lemmy culture. Do you really just need to fucking belong somewhere? Just be you.
It is a platform for expression, not a fucking fashion trend.
Reminds me of when kids would say dumb shit like, “that’s not punk!”
The Fediverse is more than just ActivityPub. If open, federated social media ever becomes mainstream it’s more likely to use AtProtocol.
Double posting but…
FOSS has problems too. Personality clashes can end or severely set back projects (MMDVM vs M17). If something isn’t fun *coughAccessibilitycough* it doesn’t get done. Projects get abandoned as devs loose interest because interest is the only motivator. Documentation usually sucks because the dev is the one doing the documenting and doesn’t understand that the end user doesn’t have their intuitive grasp of the software they themselves wrote. And 99% of the population doesn’t care a whit about code being open because surprise surprise they’re not software developers and won’t know the difference between = and ==. And no they’re not going to take night classes just to patch some program they use.
Posting found images without crediting the source,
Linux sucks
