I see a web browser like a TV screen. An I need it to do is display the internet with nothing in the way. Any attempt to add built-in “smart” features to it will make it worse. If I want something else added to it, I’ll plug it in myself.
But Russia can target Kyiv anytime they want.
Read the whole post. I acknowledged them already and am expressing my doubts over the true motivations that drive Microsoft to force a tech like this upon all their users and express my concerns over the real use they will make of this technology.
Don’t you try to change the meaning of my post just so you can have a cause to white knight over. This isn’t Reddit.
An image is worth a thousand words. How is reading a text describing what is on the screen going to be better than just looking at the screen yourself, something you’ll need to do to read the description anyway? Aside from accessibility for the blind, the practicality such a technology is questionable.
The motivation behind this is obviously to facilitate the collection and reporting user profiling data. Accessibility for the blind is only a side effect. Tech companies have been doing it with automated audio transcriptions for years already, now they’re after what you look at on your screen.
Looks a lot like there was a past history between them and that the modes of transportation have nothing to do with it.
To be fair speed cameras are a terrible way to address the problem of speeding. The solution isn’t speed limit enforcement, it is road design. If you build a wide straight open road that feels like you’re driving on a highway, drivers will naturally tend to drive on it at highway speeds. Slapping a low speed limit on a road like that will make following said speed limit extremely uncomfortable and drivers will naturally tend to go too fast the moment they stop monitoring their speedometer. Hiding a speed camera on a road like that is essentially tricking people into paying an extra tax and speed cameras are often being blatantly used in that way.
The real solution to keeping speeds low is narrowing the street and also if possible making it windy. Use the space to add trees and protected bike lanes. Suddenly drivers will feel comfortable driving a slower speed without the need for a speeding camera. As a bonus it improves the safety for cyclists and pedestrians far more than a stupid speed camera ever would, and it makes the road far more enjoyable to use for everyone, including the car drivers.
I’m surprised it didn’t fall over when he opened the door
I recommend BTRFS with snapper for anyone who isn’t an expert, which includes myself.
With BTRFS with Snapper, should something break your install short of breaking your bootloader, it makes recovery completely idiot proof.
It is literally a matter of scrolling through a menu that appears for 3 seconds at startup to select an option in the lines of “boot from snapshot”, pick a snapshot in the list that is time stamped to a time/date when your install still worked, let it boot up, make sure it booted up fine, go in the console and type “sudo snapper rollback”, enter your password and then reboot. Bam, you’ve just rolled back your OS to before it got broken.
It saved my ass a few times and I don’t even know where to begin should I ever try to fix a broken kernel manually without that.
I think what matters more for a beginner is the desktop environment (DE). For someone coming from Windows I recommend using KDE Plasma for a DE. Ever since Plasma 6 it has become one of the best DE out there.
I’ve used:
Mint : Solid, easy, but runs Cinnamon as a DE, which is OK and looks nice but lacks functionality for multiple displays. You can switch it to KDE Plasma but it is unofficially supported and can only run Plasma 5 which is was not a mature version IMO. It is glitchy and lacks the functionalities that makes Plasma 6 complete. Ultimately if you are using a single monitor Mint is a great choice.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed : It runs Plasma 6 out of the box. It also allows you to easily set up BTRFS Snapshot (a solid and easy to use recovery mode should something break your install) and encryption right at the install setup. If I remember well, Mint also has that support. It was remarkably stable for a rolling release distribution but I did have to use the Snapshot rollback a few times, mostly because NVidia kept messing up its driver updates. It is also a slightly oddball distro so you might sometimes encounter something that needs a minor workaround or require slightly different commands to work, something I always found a solution to with a quick internet search. The rolling release also means there are tons of updates coming out almost every day, which gets annoying after a while. Their package manager (zypper) is also relatively slow, not supporting parallel downloads yet. They are currently testing a Slow Release version (as opposed to Tumbleweed which is the running release version) that would tame it down but it’s not officially released yet.
I’m now running Fedora KDE and I’m happy with it. It is easy to install and it just works. It is relatively mainstream so things work better. It is also very stable. The caveat being that the installation process doesn’t include any support for easily setting up BTRFS snapshots and encrypted home folder. There is however a very solid step by step instructions video on YouTube on how to set it up and explaining what and why you are doing at every step that I used to set it up for myself. It is quite the process however and the installer has changed slightly since the video was made so there was a bit of hunting around.
They all work relatively easily with their own pros and cons.
I haven’t tried it personally, but I think that Kububtu could also be an option for you . It is the KDE Plasma version of the most popular Linux distribution.
IMO as long as you don’t pick something like Arch and don’t mind doing a few quick web searches when you have questions it should be fine.
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Coming up next week: Captchas where you have to click on all the pictures containing non-white people
Or starts running over non-white pedestrians
While everyone is working tirelessly at trying to control a disaster that is being exacerbated by climate change, Karen demands to talk to the manager.
For those who don’t know: Edmonton is where the military prison is. Referred to as “Club Ed” by members and is known to be a living hell designed specifically to break you through non-stop work and makes regular civilian prison look like a vacation. You have to be an absolute piece of shit like these guys to end up in that correctional facility. They are guaranteed to not be the same when they get out of there.
The CAF doesn’t mess around with people like these so if you think they are representative of the CAF as a whole you are wrong.
You realize that what these shit pumps were doing wasn’t approved by the military and now that the forces know about it they will be dishonorably kicked out so hard they’ll have the taste of boot polish in their mouths, right?
Finally figured out that Putin lies to him. Probably the last person on the planet to do so.
They would have been decent EVs had they not put all that stupid proprietary tech in it. They essentially enshitified cars.
Insurance premiums for Teslas have been skyrocketing because of this.
Imagine buying a car and your car payments keep going up over time because the repair costs rack up faster than your payments.
That’s fine. Those are the plugins you chose to install for your particular tastes and these are very important options to have available to the user should he choose to use them. That’s not what I meant by “smart” features.
What I don’t want is my browser with built-in modern equivalents of Bonzi Buddy that you can’t remove.