I love how higher IP rating is always the argument, it looks like everybody in this planet is doing daily deep diving and needs its smartphone to do that 😅

I would have loved attending the meeting where they decided which were the most ugly icons possible.

It's impressive how little self-respect they must have to block their own branding behind a paywall. I don't even get how it could be a good business strategy, I feel like it would very badly affect the perception of quality for a new adopter.

I'm surprised to see arch on your list, I know everything runs in containers now but arch seems way too unstable O_o

By unstable I don't mean "buggy", but "you will have to adapt to new major version of package XXX or you can't fetch updates anymore, so no security patches anymore".

Same after Windows 8.1 ! 🥳

I've had to use Windows 11 a tiny bit for work and it was the most painful experience I had for a while. Most apps I used on there had obvious bugs, like the VPN chosen by my company requiring me to reboot every time it goes to sleep ...

Well, I'd consider agreeing if the LLMs were considered as a generic knowledge database. However I had the impression that the whole response from OpenAI & cie. to this copyright issue is "they build original content", both for LLMs and stable diffusion models. Now that they started this line of defence I think that they are stuck with proving that their "original content" is not derivated from copyrighted content 🤷

I've manually removed all my posts before deleting the account and they are still available ... This is total bullshit but I still I will never have second thought.

Although there are personal information on some of these posts (eg. link to Github with my first/last name in it), so maybe I can press charge or something ...

Well that's a topic that intrigued me recently.

Here in France there was already some debates about how worth it was, mostly because it takes a few years to compensate the cost of production of the battery. But in France we think of the electricity as basically carbon-free (our energetic mix is something like 70% nuclear, 7% gas+coal, then "clean" energy)

However, in the world I think something like 70% of electricity production is fossil (with ~40% of coal), I don't get how electric cars are even a thing, say in the US?

The wiki is what makes it really hard for me to move out. This masterpiece is where I learned 70% of what I know about linux systems 🤷

Well, let's be polite and say it's not for everyone. TCB13 isn't the only person to really love this DE 😛

I don't get the enthousiasm either, there is always to much information for me on the screen and inconsistent UI all over the place 🤷

That's the best compromise for me but it still have some quirks too : the search function is still limited, gesture-only interactions is weird and a few features are missing like deleting posts, jumping to a comment from your notifications, ...

"Phone calls home" ? O_o

I really enjoy using systemd and wasn't an aware linux user before it started getting adopted, but you message really reads like a bad commercial 😅 "begin today your journey through..."

Most books are actually locked behind paywalls and not free to use? Or maybe I don't understand what you meant?

My experience with Linux is something like 4 years of Ubuntu then 8 years of Arch. What kept me in was stability (in the sense that I don't need to clean install every 6 months) and the wiki which allowed me to learn, a lot.

Although what I sometime don't enjoy, is the random maintenance burden : every now and then some package you rely on may change how it works (config format, cli interface). You can fix this later by keeping an outdated version but it will eventually need a bit of work. That's something I don't mind on my work computer, but on my personal one ... I just don't want more work coming at me when I get home and want to play games.

I'd say the best contribution is they managed to build a mainstream commercial service on top of all of this!

I love the direction this is going, I've been using i3/sway for years and gnome apps recently became awesome in tiling mode because of their responsiveness. If this is implemented this could definitely get me back on gnome 👍

The issue for me is that coming from pirating as a teen (no way my parents were paying for any digital entertainment), I got used to "choose what I want to watch" first and then finding a solution on how to watch it.

Streaming platforms don't solve this problem at all, and even when you subscribe to everything some must-watch movies are not on any platforms.

I'll add that NewPipe is a great app, has a fork to support sponsorblock and can mix your YouTube subscription with other sources (eg. PeerTube), which could allow for a smooth transition.

You have to be willing to loose your personalized suggestions page, but when it comes to me it helped a lot to get less addicted.

Nan mais justement mon commentaire c'est qu'il y avait un problème d'ordre de grandeur, je voulais vérifier si pour atteindre ce chiffre il fallait pas être 24h/24 dans 1000 jets privés en même temps.

Le jet privé de Bernard Arnault en mai 2022 c'est 174 tonnes d'équivalent CO2, soit l'équivalent de 261 français. Donc avec le jet on aurait trouvé 1/666-ième des émissions, j'aimerai bien comprendre c'est quoi les 665 parts manquantes.

I can think of worse, "Finally a proof that AI reached singularity" for example