jtrek

joined 3 weeks ago
[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 49 minutes ago

People assume it's all terminal all the time. I haven't needed to open the terminal for months. It starts up. With the GUI I open the browser. Maybe steam, too. Do stuff. Shut down.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago

How did this get normalized?

The average user doesn't know or understand technical details, and don't believe they have any power to change anything

Also capitalism means a small number of assholes make most of the decisions for reasons that benefit them

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 29 points 3 days ago

I just use my phone to look stuff up if I'm on my steam deck.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't understand why you'd want an AI browser to begin with. Most web tasks aren't hard.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

I don't think I've ever gone much out of my way for achievements for their own sake. Games where they also unlock stuff (eg: binding of isaac), sure, but that's for the unlock.

I may have done some challenge stuff that I learned about for the achievement, but only because it seemed fun. I wouldn't go very far into anti-fun just for an digital badge on my profile.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 31 points 1 week ago

All tools are not equally safe nor should they all be publicly available.

A chainsaw is a tool that you might cause harm with if you use it in stupid ways. We don't give chainsaws out to children. We don't use chainsaws for cutting dinner.

There are human elements to the problem but that's not a big reveal.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago

Seems fair. Was a pretty big fuck up. Might deter others from making similar fuck ups.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

That was always a bad idea and feeds my mild Cassandra complex.

No government should be relying on private platforms like that.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago

The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds.

Yes. They are stupid and don't deserve their huge paychecks.

They could've done basically nothing. Maybe security updates. And they would've had a decent brand that kept bringing in money. Their leadership is worse than doing nothing. A dog would make a better ceo.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago

I like the idea. I don't want to use facebook or similar, but that's where stuff like "BuyNothing" is most active.

Unfortunately, I don't know much about self hosting (beyond what I've picked up working in software development) so I don't see myself running one of these myself. I'd probably use it if it came to my neck of the woods (NYC)

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 23 points 2 weeks ago

This experience helps users quickly understand content

They really think we're stupid. Unfortunately, they may be mostly right.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 8 points 3 weeks ago

Platforms could moderate their content. They choose not to.

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