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My parents did fine with Linux. My mom still does; it's certainly less maintenance effort from me than Windows would require.

It was fine for non-technical users since at least early GNOME 2, if you're ready to help them set up and maintain. Semi-technical users (Windows power users, gamers, &c — people who like to install and configure things, but fear the deep dark abyss of the terminal) were and remain more problematic.

Unity days were the nadir of linux desktop ux — it was when Gnome 2 was gone, and 3 not yet there. Still better than contemporaneous Windows 8, though.

I use Linux on the desktop since 1997, and there was no point where Windows was even slightly more attractive.

I don't know what "prime time" means here.

edit: apart from, you know. Applications and drivers for random hardware.

At this point, it isn't clear why federation is in there at all. The "forums, bit twitter" concept does produce nice places, but federation seems like a net negative for that.

The one with the smaller cemetery.

Oh, and you don't hve to use cloud subscription services.

Obsidian is an itertion on text notes. Too many waves of this over the years.

There is indeed a lot of hardware progress, including 3D printing, but also a general shift to laptops, need to sync with phones, much better connectivity, sufficient performance for good video, and high-density screens. Looking at the software I use vs what I used ~2005, most positive changes are due to that.

It's in a stage of the hype cycle where asking that question is pointless.

Quoting the op:

> The Damage:

> I effectively have over $30,000 worth of previously-active “bricked" hardware. My iPhone, iPad, Watch, and Macs cannot sync, update, or function properly.

(I assume these can be re-sold? They do mention that they can't sign out)

> I have lost access to thousands of dollars in purchased software and media.

Should the "purchased" software and media be within the data export scope?

> I don’t have a 6TB device to sync them to, even if I could.

...yeah.

But let's say we limit ourselves to stored bits.

How should the service identify the person asking for data export? Does your regulation imply government id registration for all internet services? Is that what you actually want?

What if the service is e2ee? How do they deliver "human readable file formats"? Are we also banning e2ee?

What do compliance requirements imply for people's ability to start competing services?

You are proposing to replace a very tiny bit of personal responsibility (having backups) with a very intrusive, and highly consequential, legal mechanism.

EDIT: Though I would, of course, support a requirement for these services to properly warn users (on the registration page, not buried in TOS small print), and provide thorough instructions for making backups to external storage connected to any of the devices they support.

> That seems mich saner

Normal people just message themselves on tg or wherever you send and receive messages.

Geeks use KDE Connect.

Whatt you do is weird.

Some cultures stigmatize gifting money, yet gifting corporate scrip is fine.

What's your proposed regulation?

You are so smart.

I qualified with "technically-inclined". You can't avoid seeing stories like this (about Apple and Google) on a monthly basis if you read tech websites. It is a known risk, which needs to be managed. Failing to manage it to this extent, while also writing tech books, is just baffling.

Apple is clearly in the wrong, and I'm certain that there are thousands of similar cases that are less public. The author is one of the best-positioned people to know and understand that. I'm sure they'll also get their account back, unlike many others.

(I can empathize with the difficult decision they'll face after that: do they continue to promote Apple, or try to reinvent their career somehow?)

"Looking out for each other", in this case, implies telling the people you care about to have backups, and helping them set up. I do that, a lot. I'd try to also help with this plea, if I had any pull with Apple.

I don't understand the sections of your comment with the word "supposed" in them. Supposed by who, and on what basis? What paid-for service are Apple not delivering? I assume they don't charge the author anymore.

It's hard to empathize with a technically-inclined person who uses cloud services for life-critical things.

Let's just hope more people read the story.

You must be very tolerant to ads.

xterm foundation, the urxvt conglomerate, foot collective farm, the ministry of alacritty, the 9term imperium

st corporation when

I don't know. What are other terminal emulators doing?

Have you read the post you linked, and do you understand what it is about?

the edit is not true. footclient is, like, right there.

"Packing a powerbank" was more of a hypothetical, as I've never actually had to.

My point was that it's a tradeoff between software preference, tech politics, price, and hardware features. I think it's pretty easy to understand. It's not like Apple has an insurmountable lead; there are some benefits for some use cases.

Those may be nice for people who need them, and are ok with the software side.

for me, the screen on the framework is ok. I think there's little to gain with LCDs at this point. The trackpad on the framework is smaller, so it's better. A nicer camera requires a nicer piece of tape to cover it, I guess. Notification beeps do not require Atmos or whatever. I can pack a powerbank for trans-oceanic flights, but I'm usually at a desk if I work long stretches.

Having nicer stuff would be nice, but the value proposition does not work for me in light of the software situation.

That's the yardstick people use to measure Sweden, yes. Similarly applicable here.

when haptics

> Glad we sorted that out

I read your "People like you" comment and got angrier and nastier than I should have. I apologize.

I will not continue this discussion. You're arguing against things I don't represent, and have assigned a lot of opinions to me after reading a one-sentence comment.

The linked comment seems to imply that you have no kids of your own, and generally identify with a child still. That's fine, but not a good look for this kind of conversation.

Children should not have easy access to addictive drugs, digital or pharmaceutical. That exposure does not build agency, it does the opposite. You cannot expect a child to be able to resist the combined effort of a multi-trillion dollar industry toward building maximally addictive things.

Your kid has that private device because you gave it to them.

Or just enforce United States v. Paramount Pictures.

Have real ad blocking in the browser.

(which would mitigate a lot of security risks by itself. I also note that people seem to do fine with desktop OSes, despite their outdated security models)

Also, a working foss ecosystem.

Indents align perfectly in any font. Alignment in columns (like what go fmt likes) is problematic.

I have a 9-yo. We experimented with time limits &c, but that just leads to endless discussions on the size and applicability if thise limits.

Now he has a mostly-airgapped Thinkpad (with music, kiwix, music-experimantation stuff, programming things, and onlyoffice), and doesn't know the ipad's passcode.

The laptop has nftables set up so that only an ssh connection to my laptop works, which I use to update it, add content, and occasionally unblock it, when necessary.