US politics only is in the community rules.
US politics only is in the community rules.
The latter. Rule 2 of the community is “Must be articles relevant to US political news.”
I tried to give this video a real chance, but it’s just… really bad.
Their first main point, as best as I can tell through the fluff, is that choice is actually bad because choices have pros and cons - their example being desktop environments. I don’t think I need to explain why this is a bizarre take; that’s the point of choice. It’s like saying the whole concept of choosing an ice cream flavor is a joke because you don’t like chocolate ice cream.
Then they start talking about using outdated packages in Linux. Which, as should be clear to everyone after a few seconds of thought, isn’t an inherently bad thing in all situations, despite their anecdote about having to use an outdated version of software with a memory leak. Amusingly they say you should keep everything 100% updated all the time because breakage basically never happens (and that updates breaking things is a myth perpetuated by Microsoft) then say Arch Linux is prone to breakage. The real kicker is that this whole point of theirs not only has nothing to do with ‘choice on Linux being a joke’, choice is actually the solution to this problem - being able to choose stability vs cutting edge is a core part of Linux. They actually say if you want stability you should choose a distro focused on stability.
Then they talk about how proprietary software often doesn’t support Linux. Which sucks and is a valid reason not to use Linux, but has little to do with the central thesis of the video (as much as it has one) and is just a pointless snipe at low-hanging fruit.
The video is generic pop clickbait composed from a mix of tired criticisms and complete nonsense. It’s a meaningless collection of ideas and gripes that neither contribute to the larger conversation nor serve to educate people.
Oh you’re right, no wonder this looked kinda weird but kinda normal.
ngl I actually really like that. the start button popping out over the taskbar is a nice touch. what’s the setup?
I picked Rammy for the name and the sidebar:
Just another Lemmy instance. We’ve got a cool mascott though! Open to everyone.
Why trust some Big Tech corporation to host your data when some random geek can do it? All thanks to the power of the Fediverse!
I believe it is, yeah. I hear kbin.social’s servers are absolutely swamped right now and having lots of issues, so I don’t want to contribute to that, but I’m probably going to make a kbin instance my home soon. Does anyone know where to find a list of instances kbin.social has defederated?
Well if it’s a machine that’s 100% correct in its predictions obviously I’d take box B since that’d be a guaranteed billion - but assuming it’s fallible, I’d go with A+B. A million dollars is plenty of money, I don’t even know what I’d do with a billion.
It’s the actions that Reddit took that were the problem, not admins taking action in general. As long as there are alternatives from federation I don’t see an issue with admins doing something about this (whether or not I agree with it).