I see. I thought you meant "under Trump the US is not a democracy". Which I think is a pretty common opinion. But now I understand you meant "the US has never been a democracy".
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Since when? You probably think that it has been a democracy at some point. And I'm sure the US did use torture at the time you deemed it a democracy.
Hence I don't get your point.
I still don't think most people would call Excel or Photoshop "apps", but I'm absorbing the points of view expressed in the replies to my comment.
I think you should call it "application" to avoid confusion. Windows application would be even clearer.
Or maybe that it doesn't make that much sense to look for a most important program.
You need experience to see the shorcomings of spreadsheets. No version control. No tests. In general it's good for things that don't need to evolve, but stay the same (most likely because they're short lived).
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33611431
[EDIT] An example of a comment from that thread pointing in this direction:
> In general, you adapt to the excel owner's quirks, not vice versa. If you don't like it you should create an excel sheet of your own and copy/paste, which people also do.
> I knew a project manager who's job seemed to be reconciling multiple versions of a spreadsheet with different authors.
I haven't observed it, and I'd be curious to understand if I've missed it, or if me and you evaluate things differently.
Wait, can you? In the US and EU, physical copies are for personal use only. Where are you that this would be legal?
It works great.
I might misunderstand, but to me it looks like the solution in this post might be better than my setup because if that single node is down I won't be able to reach the fenced router.
BUT in my opinion the reason for this is not inherent in Linux or Windows.
It's the myth around them. The myth around windows is that it works. If it didn't, it would not be installed on most PCs on the planet, after all...
The myth around Linux is that it's difficult to use. Only expert people choose it, after all...
If a windows PC has a problem, the fact that it's Windows is last in the list of things to blame. If a Linux PC has a problem, it's he other way round.
...and don't get me started on the myth that Apple computers "just work". Sometimes they don't, just as everything that's not been engineered with NASA style of rigorous testing. And when they don't work, sure as hell you can't fix it yourself.
I've been told from a "Genius" in an Apple store that I should reboot my iPad once a week. I commented the OS was quite bad if it requires that. I'm used to be proud of my server uptime... (I know about kernel security updates, and I'm making a different point, that the kernel should not require you to reboot regularly). The "Genius" talking to me completely failed to understand my point, and insisted I "need to take care of it".
To summarize, I'm 99% with you, but that 1% of my opinion is that we need to dismantle a false myth. One bit at a time. Whenever we can.
I'm talking about choices that disrupt user productivity on their computers. Not choices that might annoy users who read each and every line in a 40 lines CLI output.
I have decades of experience in being "the computer guy" with some friends and family. My reality is different. My reality is that people find Linux easier to use than Windows. In my reality people are not happy to see the UI change radically across versions. With Linux I can always find a DE that is similar to what they used to have (see cynnamon, for example).
> The problem is that when things go wrong, problems rapidly begin to require levels of knowledge far outside what a layperson can reasonably acquire
I have the opposite experience: I had some acquintances go through forum posts and apply the solutions suggested there, all on their own, to my great surprise. Instead, when someone says to me they have a problem with their Windows computer, I answer that they're too complicated: I don't know how to put my hands on them. If I search online it's very hard to wade through the vague suggestions, the "reinstall", "reboot" that never give you any additional knowledge after you've solved the problem. In my reality your sentence applies to Windows, not to Linux.
> A missing driver, updates that need to be installed, configuration problems - these all run rampant on Linux to degrees far beyond what one experiences with a machine designed for Windows.
What are you comparing? "A machine designed for windows" vs what? I believe you meant "windows". New hardware on Linux is way easier than Windows. New printer? You connect it and it just works. Wifi dongle? Same. The way you talk about it sounds like 1999 Linux to me.
> There is no legal or ethical reason not to just run Windows 11 on technically unsupported hardware to keep it alive. I think that's the best way to go.
My main reason is this: GNU/Linux is built for the user. You as the user are the master. Windows is built to extract value from people using computers. Sometimes they (Microsoft) decide you're not in charge; for instance when you tell the computer to shut down, and the computer replies with "I'm installing updates, don't shut me down". And maybe it's a laptop. And maybe I'm off to take a train, and I'm about to be late.
I even read that windows embeds ads. In the OS. How is this remotely acceptable?
I recently went to an open event where researchers were showing their work to people/kids, and I noticed how they all use windows. That made me sad. I think misinformation is the main thing holding Linux back. I believe you're believing and spreading misinformation in good faith.
But unfortunately it's not very clear what shortcomings of Node-Red were a problem for you.
Could you rephrase your experience, focusing on what you believe Node-Red does wrong?
Did luddites ever have a chance of stopping the industrial revolution?
I can't run it on Linux since WebGPU is not working for me...
OTP stands for Open Telecom Platform, although it's not that much about telecom anymore (it's more about software that has the property of telecom applications, but yeah.) If half of Erlang's greatness comes from its concurrency and distribution and the other half comes from its error handling capabilities, then the OTP framework is the third half of it.
I heard about that paper through an "AI explained" video [0], so I might be biased, but I agree with that video that the Apple paper is "meh" at best: it points out LLM limitations that are hardly a surprise.
What do you mean with this? I'm a software engineer, and I use TDD quite often. Very often I write tests after coding features. But I see a huge value coming from tests.
Do you mean that they can't guarantee bug free code? I believe everyone knows that. Like washing your hands: it won't work, in the sense you will still get sick. But less. So I'd say it does work.
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In any case, nice job and thanks for sharing!