It’s okay, so is your machine

Yeah I was thinking more of Khmer Rouge scenario. Technically, communist. But boy it was neither good nor progressive.

All for sustainable technology, though!

Any political and technological improvement that affects society at large.

Inventing a wheel? Progress. Forming tribes, kingdoms, republics? Progress.

But also improving the camera on your phone? Progress. Passing worker protection law in a city of 10000? Progress.

Small or big, both are examples of things, that are by themselves better. The only important caveat is when one contradicts the other.

Improved cameras being used to deport migrants? Not progress, as a technological improvement tramples political development. Emergence of an agrarian socialist state? Not progress, as political development is accompanied by the destruction of technology.

Each side to progress is only as useful and important as it is supported or at least not interfered by the other. Then it’s progress.

Libertarian my ass

Providing free reign to authoritarians

Might not have enough water for that

Take my angry upvote

Then you’d also be pressed to show the same for Linux.

The only two reasons Linux updates are represented as terminal commands are that:

• Most distros have several DEs that come with different app managing software, so you naturally don’t have a universal “update Linux” button
• Typing a command is simply faster

But in principle, app stores coming with most major Linux DEs can absolutely update your system at the push of a button.

Some distros, like Fedora, even allow you to update your UEFI straight from the app store. How’s that to you, Windows?

No, you misspelled zypper dup. But with enough time, you’ll get there.

Frens 'tis!

Nah, we’re good

keeps enjoying KDE

Just as you mentioned, GNOME is not very welcoming to deep customization. You either use it the dev-intended way, or you don’t use it at all.

If you like the default GNOME way of doing things, it’s alright. If you don’t - no amount of extensions will help.

And it all would be fine if GNOME wouldn’t be the default on quite a few distros, including, most importantly, Ubuntu. New users come from Windows, hear the old advice to just “go Ubuntu” and meet an absolutely horrible and unintuitive experience unlike everything they ever touched. This alone made Linux some bad rep.

Me too, I went through my bachelors with nothing but pen and paper. Yet, when I had a laptop during my masters, it helped a lot, not least because we were working with some software, and I’d rather have my machine for that. For postgraduate studies, a laptop is straight up a must, as it’s used pretty much everywhere for everything.

Also, modern laptops typically have their keyboards on a quieter side.

Yep, still that same article from 2024. Still cool, indeed!

Mostly still because it’s Apple, and in certain regions of the world, having that logo means a lot for some reason. I mean, I remember there was a heated debate over Apple using different color bubbles for messages coming from Android devices, with concerns that Android users, particularly youth, could be excluded from social life because they don’t have Apple products.

But also because Macs are lighter, have an exceptionally good battery life, and pair well with the rest of the ecosystem.

Me. I’m a scientist and need access to my tools wherever I am. I often move between two labs and keeping all my work with me is essential.

At home, I sync the data to my desktop, and work from there.

As per Mac Neo specifically, I believe students massively benefit from it. For starters, it’s likely their primary computer, as you wouldn’t normally carry an entire desktop PC to the dormitory (assuming you move to study somewhere). Then, a laptop is very useful during studies - making lecture notes, corrections, checking additional info, using computational software for advanced math, completing digital assignments, etc.

Seen such stickers for a decade at least

I see! Thanks for sharing, will try to raise a link. Will see what I can do about protecting the communications from seeds, though

Having trouble installing IPoAC stack, don’t want to manually copy from USB all the time. Did you find the solution?

There are games over 120GB!

Minecraft (Java Edition, the standard).

About 0,3 GB, and needs no introduction. Endless box of fun in a tiny cross-platform package.