Most people I meet here seem to be generally resentful of immigration and turn a blind eye to the UCP’s blundering. It always comes back to “bUt ThE nDp” when pointing it out.
There is nothing too hard for people to ignore once they’ve picked their team, and frankly the cruelty is the point for a lot of them. Empathy is not a strong point for Albertans.
It specifies the European market, not sure how well it’ll play with Canadian service providers. I’ll have to wait and see before dropping $1000 (before shipping) on it. VoLTE is pretty much required here and last I heard that was tricky for Linux phones
For now I have GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8 Pro, but I’ll keep an eye on this one to see if it’ll be compatible in Canada
What a disgusting shit hole of a province I live in.
It’s like no one remembers all the policy decisions that the conservatives have made that lead us here, then they scapegoat immigrants so that no one looks too closely at the UCP’s decision making.
The comments keep mentioning Linux phones, have they managed to get Linux running on mobile hardware that I won’t have to go on an archaeological dig for?
If we want the year of the Linux desktop to actually happen we need to have good GUI tools for almost everything. The second you say “command line” most people’s eyes glaze over and they say they’ll stick with Windows. Believe it or not guys, most people just want something that functions out of the box and they don’t want to mess with it.
This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.
This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you’ll likely need it later.
It’s a region dependant luxury. Where I live, transit has tons of tweakers and unstable people. Especially during winter. The city doesn’t bother cleaning blood off the walls for weeks after a stabbing.
I’d love some proper investment into transit and security on said transit, but I’m not holding my breath
I might, it needs to be able to do SATA passthrough. Does Boxes allow that?
An update to CachyOS broke VirtualBox which is setting me back in some projects. All the help threads I’ve found don’t fix the issue, so I’m stuck waiting for another update to maybe fix it. Apparently the kernel driver isn’t installed anymore. The command VirtualBox suggests doesn’t exist, and the package all the advice online suggested did nothing. Guess I’m SOL for the time being.
VMs were my solution to some programs that simply don’t work on Linux, but if I can’t have it working reliably I have to keep a spare Windows SSD.
It’s always fun when there’s a GUI tool for something (in my case, trying to set up wireguard with gnome) that just doesn’t work, and all the posts online about it just say “yeah that’s literally never worked, here’s the cli command”
Or colour profiles for your monitor in Wayland, you can change them in the gui but nothing will ever apply.
I find myself having trust issues with Linux GUI tools as actually functioning seems to be optional. But the switches sure look pretty…
From my own experience with Lemmy, I can absolutely see why it’s declining.
Lemmy is packed full of miserable people constantly calling for violence. 90% of the feed is packed full of US politics, it doesn’t matter how many filters I use I still see that greasy orange cunt’s face every time I open Lemmy.
The amount of hostility towards outsiders just getting into Lemmy is astounding, and I’ve absolutely seen the whole “quality over quantity” crap that only drives people away from the platform. The IT tech snobbery is also incredibly offputting to people who aren’t tech enthusiests.
In short, Lemmy has a toxic shithead problem that a platform this small can’t afford if it wants to survive long term.
Revolt has apparently been renamed to Stoat after being sent a cease and desist for the name
So, your solution to “ease onboarding” is to give newcomers more work? For a platform with far less content that’s already confusing them with just signing up, let alone figuring out transfering or self hosting?
I think you VASTLY overestimate how many fucks people have to give, and also how tech literate the average person is. The average person can barely figure out how to change their web browser, and most really don’t care about the awful shit big companies do.
This idea of yours would drive engagement through the floor and a respectable distance into the Earth’s crust.
Ease of use should be the #1 consideration when it comes to onboarding people to something.
Because I’m not allowed in the morgue anymore.
Is it “working splendidly?” They’re getting almost everything they want, so clearly it’s working for them.
Been using the premium version of the launcher for years, absolutely love it. Won’t use anything else at this point, I’m even starting to make my own full tile images
It’s more fun than that, even if you get one there’s no guarantee they’ll be any good!
Gotta love doctors who ignore you and give you painkillers to make you go away, and can’t read the bold text on forms you pay them to fill out.
I prefer getting my news from cryptic symbolism in my dreams
Good plan, I already had investment in VR before I went to Linux so I’m not really wanting to scrap all of it, you know?
Meanwhile in Canada, if something falls into a niche good luck finding it in person. It’s getting beyond frustrating trying to buy in person to avoid Amazon, then finding out that nowhere carries it and having to order from Amazon anyway.
That’s what we get when Canada is a handful of monopolies in a trenchcoat instead of a country.