hendrik

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[–] hendrik@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That would explain it. I mean if your provider provides you with a proper certificate, you can also use that. But often times it's just a temporary self-signed placeholder that's only good for development and not valid.

[–] hendrik@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Where did you get your certificates from and what's the exact error message? Maybe you're using self-signed certificates. Those don't get accepted by anyone else. Your path doesn't look like the default letsencrypt/acme path...

[–] hendrik@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

and RMS. And we need a third person to get to the holy trinity. Greg Kroah-Hartman? Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie? Bjarne Stroustrup? We could choose Lennart Poettering, that'd certainly annoy a few people. Maybe we need some more apostles and additional people since all of that is based on the work of so many different people.

[–] hendrik@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Mmh, everyone is allowed to make stupid choices. I've told multiple people that drawers in the kitchen and in your wardrobe are awesome. That you don't need the Adobe suite to cut your 1.5 travel videos a year, let alone a $1200 phone... Stop using software when we have way better alternatives that are also easier to use. Many people don't listen. And they're entitled not to listen to me, it's their money, life and choices.

[–] hendrik@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (14 children)

If I might ask: Who is leaving and what for? Mac? I've seen some developers buy the newer M2/M3 Macbooks. I think they're nice. But not nice enough to pay the price for one with a decent amount of RAM and storage myself.

[–] hendrik@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No it doesn't. If you don't care and just want anything that runs Steam, don't bother. Just pick anything, it runs fine on most Linux distributions, Windows and probably Mac. You're fine with tossing a coin. I'd choose Linux in that case since it's cheaper.

A proper conversation would be like this:

What shall I use?

Depends... What do you want to do with your computer?

Play games with Steam.

Alright, then use XY. Wanna know more?

No.

Fine.

[–] hendrik@lemmy.ml 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And I think there isn't a good solution to this. Ideally you would enable people to make good choices for themselves, know how to handle the tools they use...

Interesingly enough they come to me to fix their printer and antivirus anyways, and I have no idea of what I'm doing since I haven't used Windows in like 15 years, except for updating my GPS and filling out time-sheets for work and stuff like that. And in the meantime Microsoft switches things around every few years and bolts on a new interface onto their office suite and then moves it to the cloud. I don't think it would make any difference if my relatives were using Linux in the first place. They would still need to ask someone to fix their printer drivers and handle big version upgrades. And if it was me at the other end, it would be way more convenient to me to help them.

I stopped advertising Linux to people who didn't ask me to... I'll tell them I use different things on my computer and why this software is way better. If they pick up on that and want to try out of their own motivation, I'll gladly help.

[–] hendrik@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hehe, I think it's more the Windows people who spread that urban legend. While I completely agree with you, I didn't learn anything new here 😉

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