john89

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[–] john89@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

I don't know if you'd call that skeuomorphism, and we have icons that are similar.

I'm not sure what you would call the opposite of 'flat' in terms of these designs, but I think that's what you're referring to.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Glad they have all this excess to use against the people that gave it to them.

Glad the people that gave it to them gave it to them instead of helping out those who actually need it.

Great world.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think Ubuntu made sense back in the day when Debian wasn't as user-friendly.

Now that Debian is, it looks like Ubuntu is trying really hard to just be as commercialized as possible.

I still don't understand the logic behind their paying for updates for certain programs when Debian doesn't require it.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Culture, which can change.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

I agree. It's great to have machines do the work we don't want to do so we can do other things with our lives.

We just need to get over this mentality that those who have more deserve more and those who have less deserve less.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

So... do nothing about it?

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago
[–] john89@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Personally, I've found AI is wrong about 80% of the time for questions I ask it.

It's essentially just a search engine with cleverbot. If the problem you're dealing with is esoteric and therefore not easily searchable, AI won't fare any better.

I think AI would be a lot more useful if it gave a percentage indicating how confident it is in its answers, too. It's very useless to have it constantly give wrong information as though it is correct.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I actually just use my phone for internet and haven't had a landline ISP for 2 years now.

Visible, $25/month has saved me so much money and they even sent me a free phone.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Everyone is different.

I personally think copyright and patent laws need to die. If you can't protect your own secrets, don't rely on taxpayer resources to do it for you.

White-collar workers were cool with machines and poorer nations taking blue-collar jobs. Now that it threatens them and their money, the hypocrisy is on full display.

 

I want to install Debian directly onto my USB drive. Is there an easy way to do this directly without having to reboot to run the installer?

 

The streaming sites listed on https://rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv#streaming have plenty of duplicates. Essentially, they're the same sites with different names/skins but the exact same content.

It would be beneficial to the community if we could consolidate these down into groups according to which ones are the same.

We can still list all of them, but perhaps do it together so people don't waste their time trying out the same site under a different name.

 

Isn't it enough to just enter your password once to login, then receive a warning whenever you're about to do something potentially dangerous?

If it's such a big security risk, how come the most popular and widely used operating systems in the world and their users seem to be unaffected by it?

I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

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