wesley

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[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 1 points 1 month ago

Even then sometimes manufacturers will still use Amazon for fulfillment and shipping. I agree though, the shopping experience is pretty awful and I try to avoid it

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 3 points 2 months ago

Yea that seems pretty high. I have a solo pixelfed server that runs around $5 / month. It doesn't get a lot of use though

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah it's like if you had a calculator and 10% of the time it gave you the wrong answer. Would that be a good tool for learning? We should be careful when using these tools and understand their limitations. Gen AI may give you an answer that happens to be correct some of the time (maybe even most of the time!) but they do not have the ability to actually reason. This is why they give back answers that we understand intuitively are incorrect (like putting glue on pizza), but sometimes the mistakes can be less intuitive or subtle which is worse in my opinion.

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And it's also a way for topic focused servers to filter out signups as well. There are general purpose instances with open sign ups that don't do that.

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah if the settings panel had feature parity with control panel but with a better user experience nobody would mind but it's less features AND a worse experience.

I remember trying to change some mouse settings on windows 10 but they removed the ability to get to the old mouse options from the desktop. I drilled down through the settings app and eventually buried deep I found where it would let me open up that same old mouse settings modal to get to what I wanted to change. More clicks, more searching, and less features = poor user experience

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 4 points 3 months ago

Yup, I like Lemmy but there are still those subreddits that Lemmy can't fully replace for certain sports teams I follow.

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure you can install Firefox on those too can't you?

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 1 points 4 months ago

Wish is okay. It's nowhere near as good as Frozen, Moana, or Encanto though

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

For starters doesn't it only run apps from the Google play store?

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks, sounds like it's probably not worth it.

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah that's what I'm worried about. I just want an open source version of my smart TV that doesn't have stupid ads on the home screen and trackers and works near flawlessly without all the fuss

 

I'm interested in trying out OSMC because I'm really tired of my smart TV being well...not that smart. It crashes a lot of we have to reboot it manually because one of the apps isn't working.

How is it? Is it still pretty easy to use streaming apps? We mostly use Netflix, Disney+, and Apple TV. Occasionally some others as well

Does it work well with Chromecast?

[–] wesley@yall.theatl.social 5 points 5 months ago

Okay, makes sense

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Linux for Kids? (yall.theatl.social)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by wesley@yall.theatl.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I'm thinking about building a desktop with one of my kids and I would really prefer to put Linux on it. My wife is not a fan of the idea, however.

I'm wondering are there any good Linux distros/utilities for children that include parental control features and things like that? And that are easy to use for a child who has only used basic Chromebooks in the past?

For reference the child is under 12.

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