I disagree. On stock Ubuntu, there is no normal situation you'll run into where you must use a terminal. If you decide to do something that requires a terminal, that's a different story. But basically every normal operation you'd do on windows GUI (and more...), you have a GUI option available on Ubuntu; it is the Windows of the Linux world, and it behaves as such.
That's quite strange. What distro? For a while I was managing several hundred Linux devices remotely, so I've done thousands of updates with no issues. Linux has been my daily driver for 15 years, and never had an update issue there (that I didn't create myself). Specifically the thing I've NEVER had an issue with was a standard system update. Apt upgrade, pacman or yay -SYU, things of that nature. Had plenty of problems when trying to do weird shit, but I've also learned how to solve those problems. I've never borked an important system so bad it became unrecoverable. Some distros are prone to update failure because they always give you bleeding edge releases. I'd suggest running Debian, a ridiculously stable "fire and forget" system. Many rolling distros, like Arch, I'd say to update every couple of days to avoid dependency chain problems. But again, none of this is difficult beyond having to read some documentation, and none of this should even be able to cause system loss. Did you do something else weird that you forgot to mention?
Yes, and some people just want to take their car to the mechanic, while other people want to fix theirs. It's a classic struggle in any area. The big difference though, is if I use my car in a professional capacity, I want to know how to change my own oil, because I'm not an idiot. I want to be able to fix simple issues, because that's just being professionally responsible.
Windows discourages this kind of professional responsibility, hides everything it can that would give you an inkling of what's going on under the hood. Microsoft wants you to be dependent on them for doing ANYTHING out of the ordinary. And of course, when anything out of the ordinary occurs, there is wailing and gnashing of teeth from millions of windows users, billions of dollars lost by their employers, and all the Linux users just stare in disbelief that y'all don't know how to change your own oil. If you use a computer for work, should probably know how it works. Microsoft has intentionally made it difficult, so... Have you tried Linux, the backbone of modern computing, installed on more devices than Windows by at least a factor of two?
I've never had an update issue on a Linux device. I update whenever I like, and have never been forced to. Occasionally some items fail due to dependency issues, the error messages are very descriptive, I handle the dependencies and move on with the update. Failed updates are a uniquely Windows issue in my experience, had something like 10-15 of them in my lifetime.
The more I re-read the comments, the more ludicrous it seems for you to target your comment at me. The parent poster I understand, but you... Why exactly did you think I was making universal claims for all developers, especially given the parent comment? I cannot find an interpretation of my comment that even suggests that is the case. What were you thinking?
You and I are in agreement, that no one's experience is universal. That is why I was compelled to respond to aerzen, who was very much claiming that his experiences and viewpoints are universal across all developers.
Odd that you responded to me saying this, as I made no claims about my experience being universal, I was quite obviously just speaking for myself as an exception to their universal claims. Go read the parent comment again, you still have time to edit yours and point it in the right direction.
Interesting choice of gatekeeping you do here. Complain that it's a "web application" instead of a website, then claim that web applications cannot be built for developers. And to round it all off, whine about scrolling latency, that it has a spinner, and that it "doesn't respect navigation controls", whatever that means. Did I miss anything, or does this sum the contents of your post?
The funny thing, is that it is a website, web applications can be built for developers, the scrolling doesn't lag on my device, the spinner doesn't bother me, and it completely respects my navigation controls. I think you have a "you" problem, and enjoy projecting it at anything that doesn't fit into your mental model of how the world "should be". Go solve that, and you can come back and be a productive participant in these conversations.
Well, it's a bad thing for 90% of American households no matter how you look at it. Additionally, based on the comment from dwallin, it's likely a bad thing for 99.9% of American households. This is an odd state of being for a democracy, you'd think that we'd support laws that benefit the majority, since the idea of democracy is that the majority sets policy.
I'm with pixl97 on this one, but I think you are both in agreement, just focused on different parts. They are focused on the cause, you are focused on the effect. The two are causally linked.
I cannot for the life of me think of a way this policy would be enacted without a strong religious based push. I understand you think that it is unfair to claim that this is caused by religious based policy-making, but how can you claim that "you could easily substitute items from the other side and end up in the same place". What other side? Atheism? Can't see an atheist caring about this subject enough to create privacy invading laws. Religion always seems to be focused on what people do in the bedroom more than any other subject. Absolutely sex-obsessed.
Well, currently ads can be targeted using user agents. This is analogous to that sort of attack, although less malicious. There are bad people who would target children if they could, so it does seem to fit with what you're asking. We create the means, and they will exploit it.
Something to keep in mind about all this (and something that my wife reminds me of when I get annoyed trying to write product descriptions) is that the description and the product are separate. In that, if I struggle to write a description that is attractive to everyone, it doesn't necessarily mean that the unattracted ones won't like the product. And some that are attracted to the description will dislike the product.
This is just part of the difficulty of marketing; you can't please everyone. You have to figure out what problems the bulk of your possible user market are trying to solve that your app solves, and present that plainly and concisely. Flowery language tends to obfuscate; just plain simple "If you have problems XYZ, this will solve those", then link to greater detail about how each of X, Y, and Z, are solved.
It's hard to do this because we are so used to seeing mid level manager bullshit PR speak on every product page we look at; it seems like a requirement. I've had very refreshing experiences with product descriptions written by a technical writer who just did not give a fuck. Just wrote it up like he was sending an email about a bug report, published it, and it was fantastic.
Ya know, I've never had a Linux box that had any of the problems listed about modern windows. Also all the advantages listed about Windows XP are also present in Linux... But I've never paid Microsoft for an OS that showed me ads against my will in my Start Menu, so maybe I just don't know what I'm missing.
That freedom exists. Anyone who didn't want to work with this person was free to quit at any time.
We use a bit of asymmetrical freedom here in the US; we don't FORCE anyone to stay, but we don't allow you to bar people from being present without a good reason. And in general, "at will" employment is the norm and this is a special case; it's only when a company shows that it is incapable of being reasonable when stuff like this happens.
They forfeited the control over their employment by being irresponsible, by being incredibly unprofessional, by holding employees to personal standards outside of professional bounds. They stopped acting like an employer, so they lost the benefits that come with that status.
We've decided, collectively, that since work is a basic requirement in the US in order to fill the basic needs of housing and food, that we don't want employers to be able to arbitrarily damage people's lives. Employers already have a massive power imbalance with employees, so laws protecting employees from being fired for stupid personal reasons have been put in place. Company owners and CEOs still have all the same freedoms the employees have; they can rollerblade while eating ice cream, go fishing, or quit, so I'm not sure what you're on about with your freedom comment...
The question you asked was answered by the article. By asking it, you signal that you have not read the article, else you would know the answer to your question. Please RTFA.
To be fair on both your point and the parent comment, it is both a difficult problem, and one that engineers at Boeing are capable of solving (and likely already solved). The issue here isn't an engineering one, it's a management one.
I've been actively punishing companies that waste my time. Oh, two rounds of interviews only to learn it was an internal hire completed before I ever applied? Enjoy having every one of your listings have thousands of applications a day for the next six months, all just real enough to be plausible. The system is actively being weaponized against people looking for work to keep a power imbalance, might as well be a two way street.
Someone who was a genius wouldn't strangle their cash cow just to have a steak dinner. She's ruthless, conniving, and short sighted. Perhaps she knows she's incapable of improving the business, in which case stealing more money from it before it goes under makes sense.
No, I'm making the assertion that the analogy that most closely matches should be used, and that you picked one so poorly that it immediately smells of bad faith arguments and agendizement.
Your analogy is comparing media of a physical act to... A physical thing, candy. Why not compare media to media? It's the same abstraction. Pictures of food to pictures of sex, instead of actual food to pictures of sex?
You just keep making up more and more convoluted and inaccurate analogies specifically to back up whatever weird agenda you are vaguely trying to push. Please take the rhetorical tricks to another platform; reddit is a good place to start, they'll love this type of yelling match.
This audience is exactly the right one to start thinking about and developing strategies and opinions on this topic. The flame wars can go live on reddit, the developers here need to discuss future paths for AI licensing.
Porn isn't sex the same way pictures and videos of food is not food... You picked a very strange and convoluted analogy instead of the very simple and very straightforward one that is an accurate 1:1 analogy. Strange way to announce an agenda.
Ah yes, Prohibition, a classic American success story. The most freest we've ever been! I love how our culture, which is centered around the idea of freedom, would be protected by removing the choice to look at something that some people may find harmful! It's just such a beautiful irony.
Honestly, the "I have nothing to hide" line is flawed in itself, regardless of whether you actually do or not. With enough data about someone, a narrative can be built that they are guilty of something. And even if it is finally determined that they did nothing wrong, it is a massive waste of time and energy to prove that. See "railroading", the US Law Enforcement's greatest national past time.
This whole discussion seems to revolve around "Who will be the central authority, the permanent and unwaivering center of trust?". Really a good time to bring blockchain into the discussion, as this is actually something it's kind of designed to handle.
I think of a "sign up" button as something I click after I've chosen to use that product. The button click signals my intent to do so. Having to click it to see pricing is something that would just not happen for me, because I'd never intend to sign up without seeing pricing.
Oh interesting, my AMS has worked flawlessly. This is interesting because I've tried many multimaterial solutions, and other than a Voron with multiple hot ends, none of them worked well at all until the Bambu AMS. It was really wasteful at first, but that was the only negative thing I could say about it. Maybe Bambu Labs has more QC problems than I thought. My experiences were all so simply and directly positive (across 4 of their printers now), I kind of expected that to just be the norm.
No worries, the edit cutoff has bit me before as well. But just to clarify, you do mean that the hardware is closed source, and the firmware is not? I did see some licensing stuff on prusa's GitHub, looks like they have non-commercial licensing for their graphics package.