(unless any human creativity is involved then that has copyright )
This is the part people usually forget when they spout “it can’t be copyrighted.” If a human edits the output in some capacity then that is still copyrighted. It’s not really the gotcha a lot of people seem to think it is.
Usually being “lazy” is also the result of some kind of untreated medical issue or disorder like ADHD, autism, sleep apnea, etc. or any combination of those. Almost no healthy person would make the choice to sit around doing nothing for years at a time. Treating it like it’s some kind of lack of will or moral failing only makes it worse.
For me on Arch, Flatpaks are kinda useless. I can maybe see the appeal for other distros but Arch already has up-to-date versions of everything and anything that’s missing from the main repos is in the AUR.
I also don’t like how it’s a separate package manager, they take up more space, and to run things from the CLI it’s flatpak run com.website.Something instead of just something. It’s super cumbersome compared to using normal packages.
I don’t understand. What is the problem with what I said? I am genuinely confused by your response.
How is it off-putting that you can install a package with the exact version you want instead of doing it yourself. What you said puts more people off of Arch, not me. What you said makes Arch sound more complicated than it is.
In Arch there are AUR packages for specific versions so you don’t have to do it yourself. Arch is about picking and choosing your packages, but not really about actually building/patching things on your own like LFS or Gentoo.
Although picking a rolling-release distro and then using an outdated kernel does seem counter-intuitive.
Watch hbomberguy’s Fallout 3 video and see if you feel the same way afterwards.
I like lemdro.id because they haven’t really defederated from anyone except for spam instances
I chose them for the same reason, they actually aren’t defederated from any instances as far as I can tell. I would rather choose which content I want to see for myself than have someone else do it for me. Plus there is old.lemdro.id which makes me feel right at home.
Wow, that is incredibly unfortunate timing.
As long as you still have access to the cli it should be fixable. If you want to still try to get to plasma 6 make sure you also enabled the core-testing and extra-testing repos in addition to kde-unstable as per the wiki
If you enable any other testing repository listed in the following subsections, you must also enable both core-testing and extra-testing
I missed that little snippet when I first swapped over.
If you do yay kf6 you can install all of the framework-related packages which might also help fill out some missing dependencies. For me it’s 1-71. You can do the same with yay plasma and then choose the ones from kde-unstable (122-194 for me) but you will have to manually avoid the ones with conflicts like plasma-framework.
But if you want to try and revert theoretically simply removing the testing and unstable repos and doing another sudo pacman -Syu should get you back onto the older versions.
You can do sudo pacman -Syudd where the dd is for ignoring dependencies to force it through. But be aware this is basically asking for things to break. Some packages haven’t been updated to the latest versions yet. For example dolphin wouldn’t launch so I had to switch to dolphin-git from the AUR.
Same here. Been going on 8 years with the same install and it has never let me down. The only time something “breaks” is when I’m the one who caused it, and it’s always been easily fixable with arch-chroot from the iso. Although I haven’t even had to resort to that in 3 or 4 years now.
The fact that they did SECRET crypto shit should be 100% nuclear.
It wasn’t a secret. By the nature of being open source, it is in the open. They literally can’t do anything secret which is what makes trusting the company a non-factor. You just have to trust that the community stays on top of things which is the same amount of trust required for any other open source project. Think about what happened with Audacity, they tried adding telemetry and was immediately called out for it.
And nuclear? They added a variable in a URL. As far as I know it was only for Binance. It’s not like that’s a privacy concern because all that tells Binance is the user came from Brave… which they could already get from the user agent when you visit.
And you know who else adds variables in URLs? Firefox. Type something in the address bar and hit enter (with default settings). You’ll see ?client=firefox-b-1-d in your Google search. Should they have added the referral code? Absolutely not. But it’s not that heinous.
You mean the crypto shit you can disable in a couple of clicks and completely ignore? Firefox doesn’t have that good of defaults either. You also have disable things like Pocket and change some settings to make it good. It’s why Hardened Firefox and Librewolf exist.
And where did I say that open source = good? I just said it being open source makes it easily to see if they are doing something shady. It’s how they were caught changing the referral URLs a few years ago. If they try to pull anything they would be caught the same way they were before.
If you think the company isn’t trustworthy that’s completely understandable by why does that affect the browser? It’s fully open source. If they’re doing something shady with it people would instantly become aware of it.
Sure, but pricing was the main driver. There doesn’t seem to be readily available historical pricing data but even as late as 2018 the price of SMS in Europe seemed to be €0.07-0.11 per message. Which means it was even more expensive back in the early 2010s when WhatsApp and others were beginning to take off. For the US the price per message is and has been $0. I think the extra features were ultimately just a bonus when compared to being able to send messages for free. The fact the US still hasn’t switched is proof enough that it being a better experience is not enough to compel people to change off of the default. Money is a huge motivator.
Those kinds of apps took off in other places because SMS was expensive, but in the US there has been cheap and/or unlimited SMS for a couple of decades now. So people had no reason to use anything else. That means when iMessage came along and transparently covered up SMS it became the standard.
It is especially bad for teenagers where the iPhone has almost 90% market share. If you are a teen using Android with 9 friends, chances are literally all of them are on iMessage. Good luck trying to convince all 9 of them to install another app just for you. Apple’s indoctrination marketing is so powerful that kids are actually bullied for not having an iPhone.
There are at least 20 different options to choose from, surely one of them has what you want. And that number is only going to rise. Saying it never will is extremely short-sighted.
When was the last time you tried it? Up until recently I have had issues but I’ve been using it for the last few days and it feels good now. All of the problems I had with it the last few times I’ve tried it (drag and drop not working, copy-paste being weird, fractional scaling) have seemingly been fixed.
Similar story here. Asperger’s runs on both of my parents’ sides of the family. In addition Dad has ADHD and mom has BPD. I ended up with the Autism+ADHD combo with sprinkling of CPTSD on top. I don’t even know where the neurological problems end and the psychological problems begin.
Have not talked to either in well over a decade.