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[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I’m really glad this exists! Thanks for sharing it!

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Huh. That’s interesting. Are the MacOS coreutils incapable or not user-friendly in some way? Or is it more that they’re too different for people who know GNU and BSD coreutils?

I also wonder if their coreutils are open source. I quickly tried searching here but couldn’t find an answer https://opensource.apple.com/releases/

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Huh. Mid 20th century? But that’s when America transitioned to relatively high and progressive income taxes instead of relying on tariffs. It’s also when massive state spending on education lead to a large chunk of Americans being able to care about something other than themselves, a precursor to progressivism in America and the civil rights movement.

If anything, I think Americans appear to want to go back to the Gilded Age, known for its massive inequality, corruption, and excessive-wealth-flaunting.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Thanks for the response. I'm ignorant in this topic. How is MacOS horrific?

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This sounds terrifying! Could you point me to sources that touch upon this?

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Huh. I see the idea of divide and conquer. But I got a bit lost with "killing bazillions of people as some kind of a ‘market reset’ to drive up shareholder value". I'm thinking of the black plague, which killed millions, but that increased worker power because survivors had less competition and therefore could demand higher wages.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure. Please note that I am quite ignorant and unskilled when it comes to Linux. I will seem like someone who’s got shoes on but doesn’t know how to tie them. I’m sorry. I wish I was more skilled and knowledgeable.

ProtonVPN installed via YAST worked on OpenSuse Tumbleweed but didn’t work in OpenSuse Leap.

RStudio in NixOS was hard to update. For example, during the switch to Quarto instead of only Knittr, there was a period where I spent months without updates. I was using an old, old version.

With NixOS, Fedora, or OpenSuse, installing Signal from a program packaged by Signal itself was not possible. There was a Flatpack version run by a contributor, but nothing by an organization.

I totally recognize that I could learn more and become a better user. It’s just a bit frustrating that these weren’t problems for me over at the land of Surveillance Capitalism OSes. I hope these problems are solved with time.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I’ve had loads of problems installing software and making it work.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I bet soon you'll see massive consequential protests.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Same. I actually thought it was Bezos before I realized it couldn’t be.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It sounds like you really value skill, precision, and usefulness.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fair enough. Now that I think about it, maybe the developer experience in Apple products are not universally lauded.

For example, I remembered Pirate Software saying that he didn't develop for Mac because it was a pain, including having to pay Apple $100 yearly to distribute code without issues. Additionally, I remember my brother meeting a Spotify developer, and the Spotify developer said that Apple makes great hardware but lackluster software.

At the same time, it seems like Swift is not a hated language. The 2023 and 2024 Stack Overflow developer survey reports that, even though few people use Swift (~5% of developers), there's ~60% of admiration for the language.

 
 

No games that lead to players being pissed at other players, even outside of the confines of the game. I've had that happen with, for example, Secret Hitler, so no Secret Hitler.

The Mind seems to do that. Hanabi does it to an extent.

 

It seems like it can tick many of the boxes for effective long term learning if used properly (including not just surface learning but also deep conceptual understanding). However, my impression is that there is a learning curve and a cost associated to using it consistently, which leads to it not being used as much. Idk. What’s your experience?

 

Apparently, the researchers contacted some VPN providers. Perhaps Proton is one of them.

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