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What's the point of doing anything on the internet if governments can come at any time and destroy everything with a single click?

I feel depressed.

Classes with one guy talking to a sitting audience should have been abolished with the rise of VHS, but now more than ever.

Big advertisers don't want to give money to indipendent content creators, because they are a lot of people and much more difficult to control since they own themselves and are not owned by corporations.

Think about the reaction pewdiepie had after being dropped by disney. If he was a tv star it would have meant the end of his career. Instead it was just a big "meh" and moving on.

Tv networks are easy to control. Networks are often owned indirectly/in part by the very same people who ask for the ad space.

It is not about the value of the ad, it's about not giving too much power to normal people and risk too much decentralization. Having so much voices it's bad, globalist billionaires and corporations risk losing an amount of control over population they don't want to lose, also because they often crave total domination, both in politics and in the markets.

I know this could be difficult to understand, because many of us are sane people and don't crave that kind of power. It's difficult to put ourselves in the shoes of the people with the very big money, but they really do think in term of having absolute power and control (in fact they did get there).

They think "okay, those people have an audience, they make people I can easily control lose the audience, I need a solution", and they do it immediately. Instead it's difficult to us to imagine being so big and rich, and yet feeling treatened by some kids on youtube. It looks crazy to us, but that's really how they think. Yet that's how corps and billionaires often thinks, because they have a complete different mindset from normal people.

Of course I could be completely wrong, it's just an opinion, no math involved so can't really prove it. Use your gut.

And why you should get something without work.

Also nobody forces me or you to use google. It is a free choice, if a better search engine comes up we can use it and nobody forbids you to use other search engine or any site.

With net neutrality you are free. Without net neutrality you are bound to the services of the friends of the ISP. You have cable tv 2.0

no more freedom

True, but they were in constant war with other tribes, animals, etc So, they were not better than today.

This is happening in all western countries, it's just a way to strip normal people of any kind of power.

1) Easy to install: I mean normal-human easy, not programmer-easy

2) Easy to use: I mean normal-human easy, no programmer-easy

3) Can handle thousands of visitors a day on basic hosting if configured decently

4) Updates rarely break stuff, great backwards compatibility

5) Once you understand how it works, for what stuff using it and the community/ecosystem (plugins, themes, how to develop, etc), it's really fast to go online and start your journey to success (or failure)

6) Proven success: unlike other idolized cms or frameworks, if you search for WordPress success stories you find thousands of sites, of all kind, that made millions. I won't name names, but there are many popular open source frameworks and cms that are all talk and no money. You have to show me the money if you want to be taken serious, show me people are making money with this software and they are not the creators themselves

As you can see there are some points, like 4 and 5, that are the completely opposite of what you usually hear about WordPress. The sad fact is that, despite its success, WordPress is considered "pleabian" or something like that by other programmers. It's like the PHP of cms, hated by people who don't understand that going and staying online comes before current month buzzwords or arcane computer science departments technology. I respect and I am fascinated by both buzzwords and arcane stuff, but I understand that serving the users, and achieving real world success, comes first.

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: GUI Everything (real control panel GUI)

- DESCRIPTION: command line is good to give commands sequences, like "do this and do that and also more", and it works only if you already know the commands. Command line is really bad to configure stuff, which is the act of telling the computer how to do stuff. It is also the worst thing ever when it comes to exploring and finding commands and configurations. Some people argue that the cli is faster but the saved time is not always worth the brain power or the pleasure to get stuff done "slower" but intuitively with a GUI. Also the time spent to learn a certain command rarely matches the time saved using it. It is much more difficult to screw stuff up using a GUI, because you can go back with a simple click, while a command to go back rarely matches the one that put you forward toward something you didn't want.

A general rule for good software is "don't hide functionality". If you are putting a lot of important stuff behind a command line, you are hiding stuff, even if you can ask for a command list.

Since Ubuntu, for what I understand, wants to be an OS for a wider audience, I hope you will consider doing putting a lot of effort in improving the UI and UX of the OS, and a good, complete GUI are a great way to start.

My hopes are that if a user searches "how to do X in ubuntu", he won't get just a list of commands, but also a step by step guide. Just like it happens on windows.

ROLE: software developer, former UX/UI designer

If a human were to do something like this he would get prison time. Instead since it has been done by "a company", nothing will be done. I wish we, the humanity, would start to treat limited liability only as a financial tool. If something like this is done, it's not the company that must be sued, but the people who made it.

Do solar panels produce more energy that the amount required to create and operate them? (including mining the materials)