Let’s be honest, how many current Linux users can trust any code that they run? There’s so many guides and instructions where you essentially copy/paste commands to install or configure something that it would be difficult for your average user to verify everything.

Your response is an example of what frustrates me with Lemmy. Anyone with a different opinion must be a fascist. No nuance. Just instantly labelling people. No wonder the numbers are dropping and not attracting new users.

Guess what? We can have people who aren’t far left who aren’t fascists. I’d rather see healthy discussions and debates than everyone patting each other on the back for saying “DAE capitalism bad”.

What alternative terminology would you use to describe the fediverse and instances?

Gross.

How long do we reckon it’ll be before it’s re-branded back to “Office”?

This makes no sense to me what so ever. Why do any apps care about where the taskbar is? How’s it any different when a window isn’t maximised and the user resizes it? Either I’m seriously misunderstanding this or it’s a completely made up excuse.

I’d rather they just say “we completely rewrote the taskbar, but we know that less than 0.01% of users move their taskbar so we didn’t prioritize it”.

To me the bigger issue with the taskbar is that you can’t make it compact. Instead it has to be a big chunky mess.

Imagine the possibilities!

• Heated camping mattress
• Sausage roll warmer
• Car windscreen defroster

28 pounds = 12.7kg, for those wondering.

Agreed, but other cloud providers exist and it would be good if there was stronger competition in this space. But going back to self hosting is a huge step back and I think if a CTO said they were going to move from the cloud back to a self hosted solution, pretty much everyone would hate it.

Bit of an over-reaction to one incident. I’d be willing to bet the uptime, reliability and scalability of AWS is significantly better than what the vast majority of in-house solutions could do. It’s absolutely not worth going back.

Millions of customers using AWS also weren’t affected - the company I work for certainly wasn’t, although some of our tools like Jira were.

From a UK perspective:

The pensioners would never vote for party that would introduce something like this. They HATE the idea of younger generations getting “free money”. Honestly they’re the real problem. But they’re the demographic that vote the most and have a huge sway.

Just don’t point out to them how their triple locked pensions are probably the biggest financial cost to our [UK] country…

Technology has been replacing manual labour for a long time, this is hardly surprising. Some jobs will be created though as the robots need monitoring and maintenance.

“Yes, but I’ll be quick, I promise.”

Isn’t quick.

I bet this service would cost an arm and a leg though.

Same. It’s been a problems for way over 10 years now. I’ve upgraded to the pixel 9 pro and it’s just too big, even though it’s one of the smaller modern phones available. It’s actually smaller than my previous phone but it seems harder to hold one handed.

Not sure it’s really relevant how long someone spends on their phone. The only thing that matters to them are sales, and the simple matter is that larger screens sell better than their smaller counterparts.

Well you see he’s stopped using the internet for his university work. But he still uses the internet for research for his essays.

I’ve got images of the lecturer giving him death stares every time he starts typing, filling the room with the cliter-clatter of the keys.

There’s no way I’d recommend friends and family to the Fediverse, well, at least not Lemmy (can’t speak for the wider services).

They’re still using computers to do their university work and submit it though. It’s more about them not using a laptop in a lecture hall and using pen and paper instead. That’s not really a big deal considering that’s probably what most people were doing anyway up until relatively recently.

Title is misleading:

Nick, a philosophy student at the University of Cambridge, stopped using his laptop for university work in the last year of his undergraduate degree. He still types his essays, but lecture notes, revision, and essay planning are all done by hand.

The second sentence contradicts the first:

stopped using his laptop for university work

then

He still types his essays

So basically he’s not taking a laptop in to the lecture hall to take notes etc but is still using a computer to complete his work. Which makes sense as pen & paper in that environment is way more practical anyway.