[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Objectively, huh?

Yes huh

I can have a package installed by the terminal before Discover (the GUI for installing packages) even opens

Just lying again. You'd have to go and search what words to type in first.

And going to a website to download an executable to install a specific piece of software, which you need to give permission when executing to get through the firewall because (to your system) it's just some random executable, isn't?

I don't know what you aren't understanding about this. All 3 OSs have package managers that function similarly. What I'm talking about is when the software is not available in the package manager....

Then having that executable check for updates when launched and sending you to the website to download a new installer

You've really never used Windows before, have you? That's once again not how it works. Maybe give it a go and come back after you've got some experience.

Is Microsoft paying you?

You could make an argument for such a thing insofar as time is money. And like they say "Linux is free so long as your time is worth nothing."

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It does a lot more than it's told and you know that

All different tasks under the umbrella of "install this software". I don't understand the relevance.

Ideally, yes. Whatever you want. Not whatever bad actors want.

So Windows will install malicious software and Linux won't...? Even if you tell it to? No.

The answer is the file extension doesn't do anything

Again I don't understand the relevance.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 15 hours ago

I literally never use that and don't understand why anyone would want to. All of the filters I create are created manually (other than spam). When it comes to those, Proton is leaps and bounds better, mostly because Gmail filter creation is just shockingly awful.

It helps that I try to get away from email as much as is humanly possible, in general. Anything that would fall in a "social" category I would expect to get via browser or app notifications, if at all.

Anything "promotional" would never make it into my inbox in the first place. Blogs and similar publications are subscribed to and read via RSS.

If a person asks for my email address I ask them to text me.

I use Proton Mail purely as an act of malicious compliance.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 17 hours ago

Glad we sorted that out.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago

I think you misunderstood.

I didn't.

It will anything whether it should or not.

It does what it's told, which is the way an OS should work.

It can be made to execute a payload that shouldn't be run.

And Linux can't? Isn't that the whole thing about Linux and open software is that it can be made to do whatever you want?

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 11 points 19 hours ago

Yeah this is everything the Steam Deck is not:

  1. Crazy expensive
  2. Disposable/unrepairable
  3. Windows trash
  4. Chinese gobbledygook company that will disappear from existence in 6 months
[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 19 hours ago

Pixels have reached price parity with iPhones, which is wild to me considering the insane amount of additional value Google is getting out of you over Apple. You could even form an argument that they're far more expensive.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 8 points 19 hours ago

I mean they squeezed all the blood from that orange. Not that that ever stopped Ubisoft...

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 19 hours ago

This isn't the sea. There are no waves LOL

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 21 hours ago

The verification system is not remotely accurate. It probably does more harm than good. Valve should have made it crowdsourced like protondb because they're obviously unable to keep up, and I don't know why they thought they would be.

Further, they failed to establish any concrete guidelines on frame rate for their ratings.

Shit, they could have crowdsourced the data from user devices.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

But you can do all of that with an app on your local device.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 22 hours ago

I can't believe that a project hasn't previously heavily focused on becoming a fully feature complete Self-hosted Podcast platform

...y tho? What's the point?

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