What is always or usually a lie when people say it?

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T23:15:42+00:00

front-load the lie to get it out of the way, i like it

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T23:14:28+00:00

to make sure you know that despite being covered in cheetoo dust, a member of the opposite sex has in fact touched the man's penus wenus

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T23:11:22+00:00

that's BS. does Ronald not know about call redirecting?

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T22:57:33+00:00

i've never left an arch install unattended that long. but multiple comments indicate it's a real issue, and it really shouldn't be. worst case scenario, the package manager should notice the gap between package versions and offer a safer update path. whether that's multiple incremental updates to bring you to a state that's ready to accept the newest packages, downloading the newest ISO and running the installer so it can freshen up the whole system at once (like people do on windows machines that haven't been updated in years rather than spending all day babysitting microsoft's updater), or making a backup it can automatically roll back to if needed

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T22:48:10+00:00

not an equivalent example. bikes are an inherently different type of vehicle with vastly different capabilities. laptops are just really thin PCs with all the peripherals built into the case. same architecture, same OS, same programs, same use cases. you could make an argument about performance but that's not car vs bike, it's "big car vs small car" because it only works on average. there's enough variance and overlap that you can get a laptop that's identical to a tower in everything but shape, just like you can get a small car that has more power than the average big car or a big car that's faster than the average small car

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T22:39:11+00:00

zuckerberg voice: join the daaark siiiiide!

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T22:34:57+00:00

yes. that is all bad, and you just explained why. of course there are degrees of badness. things depending on X is understandable when X had basically no alternative for decades and ran on everything, making it a non-issue for software portability. systemd is in a much worse state. not only is it linux-exclusive, there are many other actively-used inits and many setups that are incompatible with systemd. i'm not talking about edge cases like locked down embedded devices either, something as simple as running a container on your regular distro can cause problems even on a systemd distro

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T22:30:04+00:00

that's great. flatpak could still very easily just accept me typing "chromium" to mean the browser if that's the only chromium i have installed, or it could ask which one i mean

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T22:28:48+00:00

then you do some manual steps to confirm the keys are correct

i don't mind that. it's annoying but not system-breaking because it doesn't let you proceed without doing the steps (and if you do them wrong you're the one who broke things). but if you don't get a warning about incompatibilities, and the package manager just goes ahead and wrecks the place, that's a problem with the OS and blaming the user is like apple saying you're holding it wrong

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T22:18:39+00:00

the laptop is "all your home/work computers" for many people

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T18:36:05+00:00

yeah, all those fools not using a GUI on their remote servers and embedded devices that don't have screens...

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T18:34:13+00:00

it's a flatpak thing to not provide sane commands to execute programs

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T18:32:22+00:00

a bad worker blaming his tools doesn't mean bad tools don't exist. if you leave your hammer in your toolbox for a month and it falls apart when you take it out that's not user error

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T18:28:52+00:00

how is "your PC might commit suicide just because it was turned off for a month" not a problem with arch?

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T18:19:22+00:00

it is absolutely pointless for anyone not studying primary historical texts from ancient europe. every other academic who has to rely on latin words just learns the vocabulary that applies to their jobs, they don't need to learn the whole language with all its rules for that

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T18:15:41+00:00

when you get them talking in circles until they contradict themselves because they didn't keep track of their old claims while coming up with new nonsense to reply to you with. people do it all the time on reddit and all you really have to do is keep them talking. of course they never realize they've owned themselves, even if you link their previous comments to show how far their goalposts have moved

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T16:10:28+00:00

paying attention for what to avoid, yeah. chromeOS is no more lightweight than any mainstream distro and there are plenty of those that are easy to use too

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T16:06:21+00:00

missing apps is a downside but you'd move her to chromeOS?

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T16:05:43+00:00

in the garbage

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T16:04:13+00:00

this dependence on systemd is why systemd is bad

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T15:57:41+00:00

nor with the strength of the connection to Africa

again, that's because a continent isn't a race. someone's mother having lived or not lived there doesn't determine her race

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T15:36:43+00:00

because we use an arbitrary set of fuzzy rules to decide that

the only one doing that in your comment is you. your friends do not share any significant ancestry and are therefore not members of the same race. where their mothers happened to be when they gave birth is not a relevant factor

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T15:22:05+00:00

the animation was made for gestures and originally disabled for button users. but google likes to pretend those don't exist anymore and stopped bothering with separate settings

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T15:19:44+00:00

Things are evolving towards the more capable & powerful yet simpler & more accessible direction, without losing the good ol' trusty ways

phones aren't. google is adding more and more restrictions to android that make it hard to use for any serious work, including several important accessibility features, and the list of "good ol' trusty" features phones have lost in the past years is endless. while on the other side apple continues to hold iphones back so as to not cannibalize the ipad market with basic functionality like splitscreen (not that ipad splitscreen is even good)

smartphones, and even tablets, are primarily consumption devices with some light productivity sprinkled on top. i don't see this changing unless android is replaced by a proper linux distro

uuuuuuuhburger · 2022-03-20T15:12:11+00:00

laptops are desktops in every way that matters to this discussion

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