[-] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago

I am glad I had the advanced wisdom and intellect to recognize and correct for the error.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 14 points 1 day ago

The LinkedIn-styled writing here is hard for me to get through, but I think the general gist is that for profit platforms are easier to onboard which I agree with. This line stands out:

And what do we get in return? A worse experience than cloud-based services.

I have to disagree somewhat, it's a different experience that is absolutely more difficult in many ways, but for those of us who value privacy, control over our data, and don't like ads, the trade-off is worth it. Also it goes without saying that the usability of selfhosted apps has exploded in the past few years and it will likely become less and less of an issue.

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[-] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I love the idea of an instance for a whole metro area, then each neighborhood could have it's own community.

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[-] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 2 days ago

Always preferred Mason/Ball to Weck because the Weck rubber rims can be finicky and little metal clips tend to go missing.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 11 points 3 days ago

That's great! I have been using ClearURLs with varied success. Nice to see it built in .

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago

Paper is always preferred but as others have said, ebooks don't take up any space so I end up owning a lot more of them.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago

Oh man I love this haha thanks for sharing. You should get a pixelfed account!

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 15 points 4 days ago

I also noticed that when Lemmy links do appear it's often to a random federated instance, not the original source.

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[-] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 4 days ago

Eh, I would have agreed a few years ago. But now default Ubuntu boots up basically looking like MacOS with the browser (firefox by default, not Chrome) right there in your face ready to launch. For someone truly not aware how to use a computer beyond a browser it couldn't be much easier (except booting directly into the browser). The only thing preventing that from catching on is that those people don't even know what an operating system is, let alone that it could be changed.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 30 points 4 days ago

The idea of ChromeOS is simple: it's just enough Linux to get you online. It turns a PC into something akin to a tablet, with a full-screen icon-based app launcher. The desktop is very simple and vaguely Windows-like: there's a taskbar at the bottom, a file manager, drivers enough common hardware that most things just work out of the box, including a bunch of common GPUs, networking including Wi-Fi. In terms of apps, there's a built-in Google Drive client, and of course the Chrome web browser.

This is more or less describing one of the many immutable distros that only run programs with flatpaks. It's entirely feasible if someone wanted to make a distro with even less functionality, but why?

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